Weekends with Luke Grant - 15th June

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Good morning, Welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. Great to be with you on two GBAN Sydney, four b Scene Brisbane and via the two gb app GADATA listeners all around Australia. On Sunday, June fourteenth, fifty years ago, On this day, fifty years ago, our men's Australian cricket team achieved their highest Test innings total ever eight for seven

Obviously, there are issues that the US President is dealing with at the moment, but I expect that we will be able to have a constructive engagement as well, and I look forward to building on the very constructive phone conversations that we've had on the three occasions that we've had the opportunity to talk.

As I said, Michael Pecki's in Seattle, and I think Michael Free's time, MAYE have you seeing the protests where you are?

Yeah, look, look, I have seen the protests though where I am, and some of them are still going in various parts of the city. And it's just I suppose you just you're amazed by the amount of people that have turned out. And I know that in all parts of the United States, you've got these protests that are taking place, but there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people that have aligned these various streets of Seattle are just marching down and they've been doing that.

I suppose it's probably.

Would have been about ten o'clock this morning local time, been in another area of Seattle, we've been in a place called the Amazon Steers where essentially the Prime Minister was with the boss of Amazon, where they've made an announcement about Amazon spending another seven billion dollars in Australia to build data centers. So it's been this juxta decision where you've got protests happening at one end of the city.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what format that meeting takes. I imagine the last thing the Prime Minister wants to see is to have him sitting next to Donald Trump and cameras everywhere. We know how that's played down for many world leaders.

Yeah, look, I think you're right, it will be interesting how this does take place and from what we've just seen what we're being told at the moment, and obviously we're going to be leaving for Canada tomorrow for the G seven. But what we're being told from where we're staying at the hotel and where the actual G seven is taking place, it's quite a distance so will be interesting to see where the meeting takes place. Does it take place at the location of the G seven or

Yeah. Well, I mean he's got to do his best there because he's got a budget issue here as well. But I think the fact remains and Trump will, I guess, play this card that if someone that didn't like has turned up, it's circularly key with a couple of slingshots, we'll be calling for America for some help. But anyway,

Yeah.

Look, the only thing that he said about that is that that dead all the Department of Foreign Affairs is trying to work with the people that are there to try and get them out, but that it's a difficult situation. And obviously it's a war zone and it is a difficult situation to try and get them out. But I think that all that all that is possible is being done. But I think that when it comes to some of

So does when does Team Albo leave Seattle and head head to the G seven. Mate? What's ahead of you guys today?

So what happens is we're in Seattle for the rest of today. It's already four o'clock here in Seattle, so I know that in a little while the Prime Minister will be making a speech to a bunch of business leaders. They're mainly technology leaders where he'll be speaking and we will be talking about this announcement that's been made by

Yes, you'd think so, or I made Thank you so much for your Times day. Safe over there. We'll talk to you again soon. No problems, Get on your work, Good on your Michael Michael Packy, national political editor in Seattle. Now on with the show here on Sunday the fifteenth. I might have inadvertently said fourteenth. I certainly said it's still the fourteenth in the US, because it is, but it's fifteenth. If I didn't say the right thing, I

Looking at the stories.

Of the week. Yeah wow, what a week on planet Earth Day. Iran and Israel appear to be on the brink of a really large scale conflict, if that isn't already playing out. The Prime Minister set to meet with Donald Trump at the G seven in Canada this week. I imagine that Donald Trump will say, hey, we're happy to help, but any chance you could do your bit in terms of defense and of course, the Aucus, the alliance that underpins the future of our national security is

Yeah, Well, the Iranian nuclear program is decades old, so Israel has always wanted it to be ended, and the negotiations that the Americans were having whether RAM were clearly not going to do that.

And this same week.

That Israel began these attacks, the International Atomic Energy Agency formally declared Arama's in breach of all its reporting obligations and had enough nuclear material to make nine weapons. So I think the Israeli calculation was there was not going to be a better time to try and stop Iran, and that's why they've started. But it's still an incredibly hard problem.

Yeah. Now the US, as I understand it, providing some assistance to Israel, protecting them from the missiles and the like, And we've seen Israel get some success, certainly around the nuclear plant, and I think today we're being told that they've had a crack at some of their other fossil fuel stores. And I guess this goes on for a matter of days or weeks or months. I guess I'm trying to ask you, Michael, if you put the crystal ball into this, what you end up with, is there

Well, that is pretty hard to see. I would say you're right that this is not a matter of a war that's going to be over in a few days. It's going to go on at least for weeks. The prospect of regime change during the middle of a war, I think is very very low in history. When countries are at war, usually people sort of rally around the flag, and I think we'll probably see some of that. Even though the Iranian regime is deeply unpopular. It's different when

So what countries nearby are likely to assist Iran? I guess where I'm headed now is how far will this expand? Is there an obvious I mean, apart from the US trying to help Israel defend itself, who else gets involved?

Nobody? Because since the seventh of October Hamas terror attacks on Israel, Israel has dismantled the proxies, the armed proxies that Iran had built to threaten Israel for decades. Hamas and Hezbolla were its key weapons, and it had militias operating in Syria two that had Iranian missiles and rockets to specifically to attack Israel. That's all pretty much gone now.

I want to get to Orcus, and I guess we start by the obvious. How serious is the review by the US into Orcus? Should we be sitting here at home, knowing how reliant we are on the US saying oh, we've got a serious problem here.

It is a serious review. The fact it's meant to be only take thirty days means it's it's not a deep one. But the issues are pretty obvious and clear, and you've put your finger on one of them. Luke, it's very hard to say, Hey, we're one of your closest allies America, and we're so close on defense that we're spending two percent of GDP on defense while you're

Yeah, yeah, that beautifully put so at home because I want to how these plays out amongst Australian voters. If, of course, you could say, couldn't your Michael that we've I don't want to use the word bludging, but it seems like you know, we've we've we've ambled forward knowing that if things got really serious, America would come and give us assistance. But as Trump's made clear in his America First policies, if that's the right way to put it, you know, we'll give you a hand, but you've got

Well, I think this is all got bound up in a whole lot of Australians dislike of Donald Trump and a whole lot of the things he's doing. And you know, you look at America with the riots going on, the big military beat protest saying no King and the kind of aggression towards America's traditional friends and partners. And you can sort of see why a bunch of Australians are saying, yeah, I love it when mister Albanezi talks tough and says he decides things and he's not going to be pushed

No, that's excellent analysis. That's exactly right, because you're right to say that he got up to say, you know, we'll decide almost like John Howard talked when he talked about the boat paper, I will decide what we'll spend on defense. In other words, we'll do just a little bit here and you will come. And I mean, if you're an American looking on you be going, huh, that's

Yeah?

I think we are still the best country in the world. That's absolutely true. And we're lucky we live in a safe part of the world. But even our safe part of the world is more dangerous than I was. So if you read this government and the previous government's own documents, things like the National Defense Strategy, you will hear that China is building a massive military, building a large nuclear

No, is that something that might happen? Well? Is that a reality? Is that something we cannot dismiss? And is that far away from happening? I mean, you hear from time to time the suggestion that it's imminent. When will if it's inevitable, China try to retake back Taiwan, We'll take back Taiwan.

Well, this is interesting. I think the Chinese government, the Communist Party, wants to tell the world it's inevitable. But the reason they have to keep saying that is they know that's not true. So far, they've been deterred from doing it, and they've been deterred by American and allied military power and doubts that she Jinking has about his own military, and both those things are still powerful. But the problem is America and its allies look a bit

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I think the question in she's mind.

Yeah, okay, fascinating. You talked about drones. Actually had a drone manufacturer, the boss of a company from Victoria, I think, on a few weeks ago, and they're doing great stuff. And you hear about, as you mentioned, drones in Ukraine and elsewhere, and I end up saying this, why does it seem like we're spending all that we have on submarines on the never never when we could, like other

Well, I think what you're missing is our government and our defense departments complete this interest in equipping our military with these things. They spend all their time talking about why the time's not right. You know, anything I do now might be obsolete. Look, you know it's not proven how they'll be used best, We've got to develop concepts. But the actual problem is it messes with their plan. The defense plan that the government has endorsed and seems

Whereas, Wow, Michael, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it very much. Indeed, good on you. Good to talk with you, mate. Michael Schubridge, Founder and Director of Strategic Analysis Australia. See when you remove the politics from these discussions, and I know that's difficult to do. But when you do, when you talk about defense and you then you know, you get down deep into some

DA.

We'll do that as well. Plenty of texts, thank you for them, zero forurseing zero eight seven three eight seven three, Luke, Donald Trump is a shining example of what happens where the can stops being kicked down the road Ross, thanks so much for getting in touch. The news is.

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Hello there, thank you for tuning in to weekends on two GBN for BC Hope Sunday is splendid where you are on this fifteenth day of June. One three one eight seven three is the open line number. Look, I didn't make mention of this, and I should have because I've been a fan of this golfer for a long time, even though he's perhaps not as dominant as he once was, if even he was ever dominant. But Adam Scott, the AUSSI, Adam Scott has shot a three under round round three.

Get a Corey, Yeah, Luke, thanks for having us on.

Not at all, mate, nice to talk to you. It is disgusting. It's a horrible way to look at our society if we have put older Australians in the majority in a position where they believe if they call this stuff out, they'll either they'll either have to do with retaliation or they won't be believed. That's horrible.

Yeah, look, it really is, and it has some devastating consequences. Not only can they be physically harmed or that mental health can be affected, but it can even lead to premise your death and financial devastation.

Yeah. So when we define, if we even define elder abuse, it doesn't have to be physical ICM.

No, it doesn't.

It can.

Financial abuse would be coercive control. And then of course it can be that physical abuse, and unfortunately it often is at the hands of somebody close to them, a family member or a friend.

Now, I think many people might expect this is a sort of behavior you might see in a general accommodation setting. I don't want to say, but I will an age care facility or to like, but this could happen at home, surely, Yeah, and it.

Does happen too often at home. The New South Wales Aging Disability Commission today released there stat saying that thirty percent of the calls that they get are about elder abuse. That's quite a large amount that's coming through to them. And as you said before, one in six old Australians will experienced some form of elder abuse in their life.

What do you think government need to do? You're calling for them to do more. What do they need to do?

Well?

Look, the really important role that government can plays raise awareness and we've seen lots of state territory governments do that today as part of the Awareness Day.

But at the.

Central government, we need to make sure this new place and that's coming out to replace the current one, will fund the services on the front line, and especially for older women, because they're often invisible inside either domestic violence or age care systems when they are experiencing that later in life's domestic violence.

We've got this thing. I don't know how we got here, but this thing in Australia. I think the indigenous culture has great respect for elder or senior members of it. But I've called this out for a while. I just think it appears to me that ageism is aism that's okay. Now, this is a lot worse than just discriminating against someone in the workforce or whatever it might be. This is the abuse of older Australians. Have we missed the boat there?

Look, I think if we look at the journey of any of the isms racism, sexism, it always starts with raising this awareness. But then it's also about looking inwards.

Yeah, excellent, Good on you for calling this out and thanks so much for your time. Corey, good to chat. Thanks very much, all the best. Acting Chief Executive of the Council of Aging Australia, Corey Earlam. Well, I think you know my view and all of that, and I won't be quiet on it because, as I say each time we talk about it, it is disgusting. You have an older person in your life and you think, right, oh, their money is my money, or I'll do what I

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Imagine having a job where you know that each year you just turn up and you get an extra so we read through the week. Anthony Albanesi and other politicians are set for a plumped up pay packed in just weeks, with the Prime Minister's salary jumping from six hundred and seven thousand a year to six hundred and twenty two

It is. I'm very humbled, Luke, and I'm very grateful. I hope in some ways it's not just a recognition of me, cognission of all the communities, including my own out of the community, the Egyptian community, the copt the community that I'm not only a part of, but I've

Tell me about how Nick, born in Egypt ends up with the family in Australia.

My grade in nineteen sixty nine, and I always was a very cold July day where arrived in Sydney and we didn't know anyone or anything, which makes a little more remarkable. I look at where I've been, you know what I've done. I don't know how I've got it. We came and we settled in Maryville initially and then moved around to see me for a little while. I joined the police. And when I'm from there that I think.

Did you ays want to be a copper or was that something that you know, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Did you grow up wanting to be in the police force?

I did, actually very much so, and all my family expect that I'll do it sooner or later. It took me a little while, but I actually didn't seek I was tall enough, and in the late seventies and early eighties there were height requirements for new stuff. After weeks when I finally got up there got some went into Crease Headquarters that in what used to be the Avery building in College Street. I was tall enough. There was no problem. I was actually too skilled. You wouldn't believe that now.

Well, you know, you've you've got to you've got to be got to make yourself strong. That's what you've got to do. Your need food, don't you That's yeah.

Yeah now. And then one side flight obviously I'm in and the class that I went to, the class one set of nine. We're just fantastic and we're still in touch, most of us, and Jez renions.

Jeez, in all the work you've done, it's it's you know, it's a bit like talking to a footballer and asking them their favorite performance. But you've been you've worked in the homicide squad, obviously involved in some of the most complex, high profile murder investigations. Is there one that not necessarily sticks out because you know you've got the job done quickly, but was perhaps complicated and required excellent policing to get

That's a good question. I'm a bit loath to sort of seeing one out, but I guess the one that took the longest and was in many ways satisfying to resolve was the murder of John Human, the member of Parliament, which took seven or eight years for us to get a conviction, and then another seven or eight years where

I know this, it's probably a bit of a whole would thing. But Nick, how do you stop something like that, which I guess to some extent becomes an obsession? How do you stop it overtaking your life? Can you actually do that? Because you end up living and breathing this thing, don't you?

You do, and with the real danger of that. But I think I've had over a decade in the homicide squad, and you do learn to sort of not compartmentalize, but workers work on his own family's family, and you try and not let it intrude on your thoughts while you're with home and family and so on. I think most

You did.

It was quite tragical.

Yeah it was. Yeah, I'll ask you quickly. I'm kind of uncomfortable, but I want to I remember a number of colleagues, might even include me here at this radio station, thought that you were the perfect appointment as police commissioner. You decided to step away and pursue something different. Can you look back at that fondly? Do you look back at that with frustration? I probably shouldn't pry because I had great respect for you, but I want to ask you that, mate.

I appreciate that. You know. That's a good quesse. There's no no disrespect man, and I'm not offended in any way. Look up, only thirty five years commissioner at the time, ender scip you only got another four or five year contract. If community wasn't going anywhere and one was being offered all sorts of things, I've decided it was to go. I don't look back with any sense of frustration. I've

Wow, your work as the Royal Commissioner in the veteran suicide is Look again, it's a silly question, but I spoke to you during that process. I could just sense, and you don't need me to say this, but I could just sense how important you knew it was, and you work there is exemply. But I wonder if we've actually met your expectations in the way we've dealt with things.

I think it's too early to tell whether the Law Commision has had the impact that everyone wanted it to have. The government very quickly responded, in fact that you had record time because they're working. That's how important it was. Except one hundred and four one hundred and twenty two recommendations, including the main run of establishing the body that monitors welfare and reports publicly. We're working on all of that now,

Yeah, No, you were brilliant. Brilliant. You're the assistant Commander in chief of the Abu Dhabi Police Force. So what does work look like? How different is it to the days when you were operating in uniform in New South Wales.

It is very different obviously culturally and every other way. There's some really incredibly clever people here in the police, leaning government generally, and I think I'm beginning to recognize after only a couple of months that that actually much more advanced than Australia in many ways in terms of use of technology and other ways they're dealing with things, and they're very open minded, which is what attracted me to the role, and I'm very grateful and again humbled

Well, Denck, we side this partner sound out to talk to remarkable Australians and you're certainly one of those. Nick Calder's AO, congratulations and can I get to say Nick, thank you for everything you've done, not just here but all around the world. An exceptional human being and we value the opportunity to talk to you and I wish you well.

Thank you very much, Luc, and thank you for your continuing support of those in uniform make military and police and emergency services. It's been fantastic. I just I'm really grateful to you for thinking of Thanks.

Not at all, Nick Caldice outstanding, all the best mate, and plenty of feedback, just decoing everything that I've been saying. A bit of a fanboy moment for me, because I do you think he's remarkable And look on the back of that chat to Nick, New South Wales Police legacy and collaboration with seven Australian Police Legacies have launched National Police Legacy Day to celebrate the important work done by the nonprofit charities around the country to support police officers

Now on weekends talking technology with Stephen Finnick from tech guide dot Com. TODAYU now at Harvey Norman save up to thirty percent, plask ten percent in bonus gift cards on Windows eleven computers over five hundred dollars Buffer end Sunday. Yeah, if you've got a question for Stephen Fennick one three one eight seven three, call us now. We'll get you as quickly as we can. One three one eight seven three.

Now you know you can do that. But ring now so you can have a chat to the grade man. How are you good?

Luke?

Good?

Thank you? After the footy later on we'll be out there mate, cheering on the rabbit O.

So hopefully you win this today against the doggies. Yeah, well they're down some, but yeah you'll still yeah Latrell and Cammel Graham. I think it's still injured. So yeah, it's sort of we'll see how we go, mate, but I'm confident that good okay.

Good okay. Apple unveils a new design for all its software platforms and new features for the iPhone and the Apple Watch. So tell us what they've got in mind here. Well, this was earlier this week they had.

The Worldwide Developers Conference, which is all about the software, and the first thing they did was unify all the names of all the software and there's WOS, mac os, yeah, and they all had different numbers. Now it's all twenty six, which it reflects the upcoming year.

So they did that.

They also unveil the new design language across the all the platforms to do so this liquid glass sort of look and feel, so that the actual interface is that the menus and tabs and stuff are now going to be look like they're made of glass, still like transparent, still see content, but you can still access all the all the buttons and things. So it's they're going to adopt that as well for these new OS's. But the iPhone features, there's some new features coming up. One I

That's one.

The other one, this is a good one too. Call screening is another thing that they've been introduced, and this base like it says it's like having the secretary outside your door answering your calls right and if you don't know the number, you can sort of send it to

Trying to scam.

You could be a telemarketer. If you don't know the number, it's sort of got you back there. And the other one too is live translation. So if you're talking in another if you're talking to someone in another language, say you're in Paris and you want to book a restaurant and you can't speak French on the call or on a message or FaceTime, you're able to speak in English and then it'll translate to French for them, and then they'll speak their response and then translate English for you

Right when when we see this stuff? Mate, Well, there's going to be.

A public beta from July. So if you want to sign up early and be one of the first to try it, and then you can report any bugs, you can do that. But will sign up go to the website. You go to the website on your device, so if it's your iPhone, go to the website on your iPhone and it'll download this little piece of software. Then it'll restart your phone and then the new software will be there ready to load.

Right.

But it's what's called a public beach, public beta, yeah, which is something we used to do in the old days. I thought we'd moved on fair enough.

This is the beta program, yeah, okay, but it will be officially available around the time of the iPhone seventeen comes out, which is mid September.

Now I didn't get sixteen. I think I think fift. What have you got?

Show me your phone?

I'll tell you at a glance.

Have you got the dynamic island at the top of.

The little loop?

I think I think you got a fifteen.

I'm going to how long you had it for?

Well, tell me how long you had the phone?

No idea? Okay, I got no idea. Woll that was fire buck?

Unlock your phone and give me just give me a look at the home screen.

Yeah, that's the fifteen fifteen. Yeah, you've got what model it is?

That is the Pro?

Is it Pro?

Not the Pro Max? That's the Pro and I think it's a Prey. Yeah.

So yeah, the seventeen that we've already seen rumors of what it's going to look like. The rumor is that the camera bump on the right, So turn it over. Look at the camera bump, So where the three lenses are. That's going to go across the whole width of the back of the of the back of the fourteen Pro.

There you go.

Fourteen.

That's when they introduced the dynamic island, which is that little.

Hole at the top. Better be Pro. Yeah, you're due for an upgrade. I think this year then, mate, I am. Yeah.

If you're listing at home, it'll be the seventeen iPhone seventeen. Yeah, well there's there's going to be yes. So the new iOS twenty six will be on already preloaded on the seventeen.

Okay, you're beating callers, Paul, your first tack when you help you, Paul, Morning Morning.

So when I'm thinking of buying a new TV, and quite like the idea of olead, Yes, I haven't read a couple of things about them. One about this concern with burning, Yes, and there's also that they're particularly fragile.

Not really, No, the old I remember l G, and I've still got this TV. LG had an O lead that really showed off.

Hang on, did you get one hundred new TVs a year and you still got one?

No?

No, no, this is one that I paid for.

I bought this one.

Okay, But the the O lead screen is so it is so thin, and for a time it was a real talk. It was a sort of the point of difference, and LG really highlighted how like its aut as thick as a two dollar coin. It's just nothing and it is fragile, all right, But you know today's designs there over that there looks I think there are about ten eleven millimeters now and they're not.

As fragile at all.

To address your other thick concern of burning, now, burning is when you see O lead for a start to understand what it is. It's a self illuminating technology. There's no backlight. That's why they can be so thin. So when a chargers pass through, the pixel turns.

On or off.

That's why you get the really amazing black levels because the pixel turns off, there's no backlight to block. It's off. It's black on O lead is you can't beat it. So the burning issue is if there's an image that you say, when you watch a morning breakfast show and they've got the logo or the bottom or ticker on the bottom, that can if you're watching that all the time, it can burn in. In fact, the LGTV that I've got, it's like eight years old, it's burnt in.

I'm not going to actually trowl it away. It's burned in.

But the features now like Samsung cell Olead and so to LG and they've got a feature owl called pixel jogging, so that any static image actually slightly moved. So say you go to the home screen, the home screen actually jogs over a couple of pixels and up and down and left and right, so it's never stationary. There's no issue with an LED TV with a BACKLIGHTE right, but yeah,

They are thank you, Paul. I've got a Mini LED. They are they good?

Well?

Mini LED is the backlight, so you've got the LED lights a Q LEAD. You got a q LEAD Mini LED, so the backlights the size of a grain of rice. It's really small so that you get they can light up and dark and different even more precise parts of the screen to get you better black levels, better contrast, better color.

Right. Yeah, go meet Greg. How can we help you? Greg?

Yeah?

Hi, Tie Luke, great show.

Thanks asked Steve a question for.

Thank you? I Stephen, Look sorry mate, I recently purchased not quite a year, the Swan four K Max cameras and the look. I'll just be trying to be brief, but I have spent hours and hours with the tech support. First, I'll just be sure, but that wouldn't do. The solar weren't charging. So I bought plug in like the C type solar panel that that fixed that. The signal, the Wi Fi signal, some of them don't. When I look at me up, they're not on. They're not low, they're not high, they're not medium.

So what's your WiFi like? And have you got good Wi Fi already?

Yes?

Yes, it's an Archer something model.

But cameras within the range of the Wi Fi because I know you place your CA cameras outside. Cameras are literally on the outside of outside of your network, outside your house, so you need to have decent Wi Fi to reach.

Them for a start.

But if you've got that, then you can tick that off the off the problem list.

Yes, yes, well I've got them close to you so many files and I actually put them close and still no different, I mean right near them.

Was there any issue when you were connecting them, when you were connecting them for the first time, was there any issue? Did they connect easily?

Easily? Turn it on?

Usually usually you need to and this is getting a bit technical, usually you need to connect it to the two point four gigahertz part of your network. So every network is either dual band or tryband. Tryband. Try band is two point four five and six. Duel band is two point four and five. And there are some routers that actually specify which and which network is which, so it's easy to say I need to connect to that network, So that could be an issue too, unless it's a.

D like now nowadays.

A lot of the cameras now dual band, so connects to any band, so do there's no issue with it. Two point four is advantage because it's got longer range. That's why they choose the two point four because normally literally on the edge of your network is where you can pick up two point four mate, Have you ever thought of doing the big reset, reset it all, start it all again, connect everything from scratch and just sort of see if that fixes everything.

You've done that already?

Thank you? Take you mate, thee ah through the technicians and that they told me the last time I spoke to on Stephen, they said that you need a Wi Fi extended. Well, I looked at it, I went to where I bought it, and I asked him what's the best This is what I bought. What's the best extender for my archer? And he said, you don't need it because the NVR does not use Wi Fi. It's in the camera. So I've got no idea.

Yeah, I'll give you a tip, mate. I reckon your modem a range extender. You need a mesh network mesh system so like a netgear. All be the Amazon, Eero, Google, Nest, Wi Fi, TP Link have them as well. It's a system that one attaches to your modem. The others are around your house. And actually it's like an extension called for your WiFi consistently across your entire home that I think probably would fix your problem.

All right, give that a go, Greg. I did that in my place and it certainly fixed all my instantly. Was brilliant good advice from you. Break them back with more. Now, if you want to speak to Steve, you've got to call early, right, So let's say good ay to terrees, good toes. How can Steven help you today?

Hi?

That?

Oh Hi, thank you for talking to me. Look, I'll try and make it quick. A few months ago I bought an Apple Watch yep, and I'm wondering if you can just give me some advice. I've been around the world with Apple so to speak, and The thing is, I get Vertigo and I've been taking not I've been taking Niles for a couple of times, but I don't get it often. But I was told to get an

In store.

They told me that the fall detection in the Apple Watch is I got the upgraded one which was going to do all that, but in store they told me that the technology is not quite up there yet.

Really, well, look what we're going to run out of time?

Fall?

By the way, I picked accidentally the other day. My watch picked it up.

Yeah, me too.

I jumped off.

I jumped off a ladder the other day and my hand hit the desk and it said, oh, yeah, you've had a fall. I'd say, Well, for them to say that it's not quite there yet, is is wrong? Really accurate and they shouldn't be saying that about their own product for stuff. But I'd recommend just restoring the watch and comparing it to your phone again. And if it's not picking up your falls, then there must be something wrong with the device itself. So and you can try

Good luck to read. Lilyn wants to know quickly. I bought an iPhone sixteen. Well I get the new software update it's coming.

Yeah, Well the iPhone the new software will be compatible all the way back to iPhone eleven.

Wow. Yeah, so I can keep my forte of course you can.

Yeah, you can get the new phone.

Trying to spend money.

No, no, you don't have to get let's make exactly, you don't need to buy a new phone to get the new i iOS. It's compatible iPhone eleven on.

Yeah. Good to see you mate, good luck this afternoon. Thanks Luke. After the footy, mister Fennick with his mum will be there cheering on the Bunnies tech Guide dot com dot a U S seven All right back.

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Shortly? It's isn't it? Just clothing? Women's and men's clothing displayed with chicks or crosses on a loop? But there isn't much difference between the approved and unimproved women's shorts. This is a story in the Telegraph today. As well as short shorts, the gym has vanned crop tops, one shoulder, crop tops, and the aforementioned boob tubes. Hey tell you what I had the other day? You know those the tubes?

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He then addressed league ceremony, where he hate praise on the history and on the future the military.

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But at the same time, demonstrations organized by a group called No Kings, which kicked off ours beforehand in major cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and even Nashville. Demonstrators poured onto streets and parks to decry Donald Trump as a dictator or would be king, and to criticize his use of military force to curb protesters. It follows a week of increasingly violent clashes between protesters and authorities in LA

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Really? AI Tiedeman to wear a boob tube to the gym. Oh asking silly questions? Nice save. I don't know if you use AI, if you've had an experience, I imagine given its the beginning of the whole thing. It's just all very basic stuff that old make Google might have done in the old days, remember when Google was a thing back in the day. You type in best robot vacuum, I have one of them, hopeless. I'm sure there are good ones, and it gives you a list. The first

Oh good, here's it going?

Yeah good mate?

How are you?

Yeah?

Good?

Good good.

I just wanted to talk to a bit.

I've been using AI since probably for about a couple of years now, and so I'm a podiotist. I run a business for myself and I use AI quite heavily. And from what you said, you're saying it's you know, you can sort of use it here and there for some of the basic stuff, but some of the things that you can actually do with it, it is it

And AI is.

Incredibly good at knowing basically more than you do, and so it knows all the correct jargon to use that kind of thing, and so you set it up in the back end with the right prompts and the right everything in the back end, and basically I can go in and write and report and it basically will prompt me what information it needs. I feed at all the correct information and it can.

Write a very good report, very consistent among different types of reports, and follow a very specific pattern. And this is something that I use to help write my reports. And it's more consistent, more thorough and.

How much time does it save you?

Oh, look, doing a report like that if I was to do it myself. Now, admittedly I'm not very good at basically at writing right, so it never happening. So for me to do something like that it might take me about two hours to write a pretty decent report.

Yeah.

To use chat GPT, it took me a while to set up correctly, but once it's set up, I can do a report in about ten to fifteen minutes.

Wow.

Yeah. The part I was making stud was that I think people have not completely certainly not embraced it as much as you have. So for the majority of us who aren't writing these detailed reports, it's here's four pages, please make it two paragraphs. And I've tried that at work. I just think and I'm hopeless or I'm reluctant to cut too much stuff out. So when I get four pages into two paragraphs, there's too much missing. So I've

Oh.

Look absolutely, and I mean look, it goes further than that. So I use a practice management system, and if you understand what an API is. So most of your software that you use, they have an API which back ends into your practice management system. And I actually use TOPT with no coding knowledge to make custom programs that heavily

And something like that.

One particular bit of software that I needed and it was more database management. But if ilder to do it manually, it takes six or seven hours, and that can do it in about five minutes.

Wow, Well that's that's huge. That's huge, mate. I've got to go, but you I'm glad you rang and told me all that. That's remarkable. Nice to eat from Stewart, have a great day. On the other hand, Paul says Luke, I asked AI or Gemini for last night's a lot I number I got none. AI stuff you well, they last there poor but yeah, fair enough. It's eleven twenty nine. Some amendments made to the Family Law Act this week. They'll apply it to former couples who are about to

That's correct. Yeah, you know, previously animals were just treated as if they were the same as a as a bank account or a piece of furniture. Now there's been this change, you mean that pets are really recognized to the important role they now playing in families. What it will mean is that a court, a family court can make orders for one party or another to have the care of that pet moving cars.

Is is that something that's been long called for? I mean, you see this first star by don't so from you from more in form view. Is it something that comes up along?

Look what comes It comes up pretty often and I'd say it's coming up, you know, more and more. I think post COVID, I think, you know, rising in pets in our in our communities is yeah, court, that's come up more and more.

And I think that.

We do see circumstances where pets really ship. Custody of pets is shared, and they might move with with kids between two households. That's not something that the court can make an order about. Now they simply can consider, you know, which is the better home for that pet to live with?

Moving forward?

Goodness me, tell to me about the changes regarding property division outside of the pet obviously, are there are there wider changes.

Yeah, there are.

Wider changes and they really they are quite significant in terms of particularly in relation to family violence. So what what the Parliament has really recognized now, I guess is the impact of family the economic impact of family violence.

What about not paying child support? I think I read somewhere that might also count in all of this.

Yeah, yeah, it will, and certainly there is you know, that's a really significant problem that we find in family law all the time. So you know, the family violence now is seen to be you know, economic abuse, so you know, restricting access to one party's you know, access to income bank accounts.

Also their ability to work, their ability.

To you know, take promotions as you know, throughout their relationship.

Yeah, just general advice if I might on divorce, when should couples consult lawyers after separating. Is that is that when it's agreed that there should be a divorce, or prior to that, I imagine is better safer.

Look for a lot of people, a lot of clients, I see, they might come in and have just one initial discussion with a lawyer very early on, and then you know, we can provide them with the information they need to then go and negotiate with their spouse in a very amicable way. I'd say the sooner the better, get that advice. Understand the Family Law Act, Understand you know your rights, and you know, for most people you'll then only need a lawyer to help you document an agreement.

That's remarkable you're telling me, Just tell me that two percent figure.

Again, only about two percent of separating couple end up within the in the family court. So the vast majority of people can manage to work it out, you know, with themselves or with lawyers assisting or a mediate but obviously, the family court and the cases that end up there are the ones that get a lot of press. They're the ones that take up, you know, a lot of a lawyer's time, but most people don't.

Need to be there.

And Katie, your listen wants me to ask you, at what point does a de facto relationship become involved in these matters?

That's that's that's a tricky one. So well, these these these changes apply to the facto and married couples, so no difference there. So you know, if you're a victim of family violence in a de facto relationship, all these amendments are going to apply to you. The new changes around pets also apply.

Yeah, the practice director at Bruin Abraham's and Barrickette Family Lawyers. By the way, they're online at ba B Law BAB Law dot com dot au bab b A b bab Law dot com dot au. Katie, thank you so much for your time and your expertise. Appreciate it very much. Thank you, good bit chat, have a a terrific day twenty five to midday.

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I think it's certainly the case that some people are rethinking their plans if they haven't started that IVF journey, and I think part of that is they want to see the outcome of some of these reviews and investigations to have more confidence that their genetic material will be secure and that their treatment plans.

Will be followed.

For those who are already on the journey, of course, it's very discomforting because they're already in a situation where they might have a pregnancy or in fact a child, and they might be wondering, is this my genetic child?

Yeah, they're really difficult questions. And for anyone who, as you point out and thank you Abe for saying that, that it's on this journey or has been on this journey, you know, we understand that this might be difficult to

Well, at present, a lot of the regulation is at the state level, so we've got inconsistent regulation and legislation regarding IVS provision state by state, and I think a lot of people would rather see a federal regulator so that we have consistency and we have confidence that the protocols are correct and that they are being followed consistently. And I think for a lot of people who have children who are conceived through IVS, they're now faced with that decision of do they go for a DNA test?

Up to them.

Should they not be DNA testing as a result of each procedure?

Is that how we're doing things to be that could be overdoing things in general. But I think it's probably the case that quite a few couples and individuals who have used these services might be looking for that reassurance and some may feel that a DNA test is one method of achieving that, and keeping in mind that a lot of the chatter online has focused on it's not just genetics that makes a family, and of course that's true.

Gosh, that is such a good point. Tell me about embryologists. If I've pronounced that correctly, I'm told they're currently they're not registered. Is that right?

That is my understanding. Yes, So most people providing these kinds of services, like the health practitioners, doctors, et cetera, they are all registered that embryologists are not. There is a lot of talk about regarding whether we should change that situation at presence.

Yeah, and but again if you don't mammy asking an embryologist does in this whole process.

What role do they play, Well, that's a laboratory position, so essentially they're going to be responsible for handling some of these things, grading embryos, et cetera. And one of the problems that we have with the IVF sector is it does straddle a sort of scientific process that people can pay for and a healthcare practice. So we are dealing with people's bodies their health biological systems, but what we're actually buying and selling is the process and the expertise.

Doctor E. V. Kendall from Swinburne University, thank you for helping me understand all of this. I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

All right, four minutes to midday Cross Australia. It's back to weekends. We'll look grant gooday, thank you so much for tuning in. We've got there Sunday afternoon on the fifteenth of June. I had a very confronting experience during the news. Yeah. Look, I don't often just stay in the room. I actually leave the room and just well, to be honest with you, I see what the other broadcasters here have been sent for free through the week, and if there's something I like, I just take it.

We?

Just to be sure because this is going to get me into deep you know what I like to core. I'm not going to say that. Plenty of news about today, we'll get them. We get into Jim Haynes at a moment or two. Do people send me interesting texts? Not all of them? Well, I mean they're not they're not nasty towards me, but they are to other things that perhaps here from time to time. Luke, we went on. This is one of the nice ones from Mary. Hello Mary. We went on the gold Leaf Rocky Mountaineer trip a

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I love you. It gave me two thousand yay, I love TWGV and the winter will not on the weekend. Now I'm almost giving a reason not to listen. Please don't do that. I want to do this a bit longer. I know I'm getting on. But if I discourage you from listening because management is too tight to give you stuff for nothing, it's all about ratings for me, call me shallow. I don't even jack, and you don't have to anyway. That's it starts tomorrow, Winter will Let's give

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I am Australia. I'm silver stars on a flag that's true blue.

Yeah. But Sunday Avo, it's Jim Haynes's time. We've been talking about movies, it seems for quite some time. That's because, ah, well, we get carried away with people that want to ring and share their experiences and we love that. And we continue our chat on Australia going to the flicks because it's true. As I say, good afternoon, Jim, it's true. Isn't it to say that we are pioneers in this space?

We certainly were and still are a fantastic history of Australia in movies, but we also consumed the movies more than anybody else outside of the USA. We were great moviegoers and as you say, there were lots of movies made here and we're just looking for people with the experience of being an extra. I've got a friend who does a lot of extra work, and our friend Sindon too is another one who does a lot of extra work.

What's it like?

What about playing an inanimate object like in number ninety six being well, let's call it an ottoman. Yes, that wouldn't be easy. No, no, it wouldn't. Thanks for support there.

I'm not sure where you go.

I'm kind of glad now those that know where I was going. Thank you for move Did you right on?

Did you have to stand still with?

Sorry? How are you giving away your package.

Yes, yes, we've got Luke's Wheel.

No we din't.

We don't need a wheel, We don't need this show, just just ring in and with the answers too that weren't answered yesterday last week. And one was the science

This is or for anybody.

Alvin Purple was the highest grossing Australian movie ever when it came out in nineteen seventy three. It didn't get very good reviews, but everyone went to see it.

Was it rude? It was very rude.

It was rude.

That's why it was rude. And people were in the nude And.

We talked about the movie. But what record we broke the record of another movie from nineteen sixty six. What was the movie that held the record for an Australian made movie and the amount of money it had made and that record was broken by Album Purple. If you know the name of the other movie, let us know. And if you've been an extra in any of those movies or any any others at all, just to give us a call, give us your experience.

Nice. One one three, one eight seven three is the number? One three, one eight seven three. Please. That'll leave it to the end, because then we get a million callse we go, oh buddy, how we'll go? No time, which is my fault. But one three, one eight seven three hop on cinemas. Let's talk about some of those you and I discussed at one point. I think the Winter Garden, which is at Rose Bay. I'm sure that's where I went often as as a kid, certainly. And then there

But the wonderful old standalone cinemas in the suburbs, you know they Randwick, what is it at Randwick? The Ritz the Ritz yep and that's it. That and the Sydney Film Festival uses the Rits. It's they have viewings there. It's a great little spot. It's at a place called the Spot in Randwick. But there's another one which fascinates me. And we started to talk about this, but then, as you said, we had so many calls. There were three

Now.

They were all owned by the same family, and what they used to do was they'd show the same movie at the Ascot and the Marina, and they would switch the reels, so, you know, they'd say, they'd have Abbot and Costello on first, and at the other cinema they'd have you know, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on first, and then they'd switch them over on the same night. Because people were going to the cinema so often. These weren't really big cinemas like the Winter Garden held two.

Thousand, two thousand. I just can't remember being that bad. It was an amazing Why is it famous, the Windergarten.

It's famous for being the second, but the first in Sydney cinema to have sound showed the first sound it had. I've got the name here of the system that they used. It was of course something spectrographic. Here it is the first public screening of a talkie in Sydney was the Windgarden and it used the ray coophone sound system right, And it was the tenth of June nineteen twenty nine, and they didn't have the Australian record because the week before a cinema in rock Hampton had shown it, so

Right, Glenn's on the line from Brisbane.

Hello Glenn, Yeah, Hi Louk, how are you're going?

Good mate? Thank you for calling. You know the movie do you?

I think so? It was Fastscape, wasn't it?

And then it went broke here and then they took it to America and.

It took off or vice versa.

Oh okay, No, that wasn't the one I was thinking of. But did they make that around those locations?

Yeah?

Yeah, they made it in Brisbane.

Okay, great, well look we'll get your name. Yeah, and I've got lots of packages, so that's great info. But it's not the one. The one I'm looking for is sort of a comic superhero.

Okay, okay, okay, well all right, Next up, let's go to Kathy in Sydney.

Hi, Kathy, Hello, Now I've got it wrong. I thought you were after the best gracing movie. I was going to say, waiting, right, that's certainly not a comedy.

No, it wasn't a comedy, and I want you people to get give us. Somebody else said Wake in Friday. A very scary movie and interesting for me because I was living out there at the time where it was filmed. It was actually involved in the in the kangaroo hunt scene because I was an honorary ranger on Kinchig National

But anyway, thank you for calling Kathy pat High. Are you really well? What can you tell me?

Class? Well, when I was a girl, I lived at used to be Blara now it'swand Night Junction, and we were in Grafton Street, which was parallel to Oxford Street. At Oxford Street when I was young, had a pictures here to call the Regal, which became the Metro. Opposite that was the Coronet, and back and along Brontie Road on the way that BRONDI.

Was the start, isn't that?

And then there was the one that's still there. I think it's still there, upper wallar in Oxford Street. I don't know if that's still there enough.

It's certain it's a sign of how movie mad we were. You know that there were all those cinemas in that in that small area as well as the Winter Garden, which you know was huge. So yeah, we were great moviegoers. And if you had memories of cinemas that are still there or that aren't still there, just yeah, tell us your favorites.

Thank you, Pat very much indeed for calling Lourie.

Hey, yeah, was by Johnny the movie call They're a Weird Mob.

That certainly was. And it had an Italian movie star who came out to Walter Kiari Walter. Yeah, yeah, he was a big star in Italy. He came out here. Made the movie as you said, right rightly said. It was by John Ogrady and a very popular book at the time they made the movie. It was the biggest grossing Australian made movie until Alvin Purple.

There you are, Laurie, don't hang up, made travel safely. I can hear the road noise there and we'll make sure you get one of the packagers. Thanks a lot for calling the show. To all our other callers, don't go anywhere. We'll be back to talk to you in just a moment. Twenty eight to one o'clock. We're here with Jim Haynes. As we are on a Sunday afternoon talking movies and people who are in them and where you went to see them. Let me say good aid

Hi?

I believe the Inspector Gadget two movie was made in Brisbane with French Stewart.

You are spot on. It certainly was at all those locations I mentioned, and it had just a whole swag of Aussie actors and you know who were in work continually from movie making. So yeah, Inspector Gadget.

Well done, Well done, Ronda, don't hang up, the package is coming your way. Get a Keith.

Yes, good morning, Sorry, good afternoons, mate, Interesting things about animals and movies. I'm sitting in my land room with my little Mini's just now So Rennie Kirby, who happened to be in the Great Gatsby movie.

No, hang on, yeh, how did that happen?

Well?

I decided I needed to have a companion after my life passed, and my kids said, oh, what sort of dog did you get?

I said, I don't know.

I mean it's just now. Is probably because we've had big dogs. So I thought this little fellow. And the lady who had introduced me to them sent me an email saying, oh, look, I have a friend with an animal trainer and she's looking for a puppy dog to go into to be used in. She didn't say movie, she said in something. I can't remember the exact wording. Anyway, I said, oh, that would be nice. So about a week later I got a phone call from the trainer saying, look,

Yeah, and they did. They made a lot of that. That Jeane The Great Gatsby has been filmed about half a dozen times, but that Baz Luhrmann. They did a lot of the shooting out here in Australia. So your dog is a film Remy.

Hey, Keith, do you allow Remy a wardrobe allowance or anything like that?

Can I tell you that he was paid? And then when I say he and my understanding is that extras get paid a certain allowance every day. He was paid two hundred and fifty dollars a day. They had him for four They had him for four days. He costs me one thousand dollars back in twenty eleven, so he pays himself. Now I currently have done for the last

Wow, mate, that is such a that is such a wonderful story. And it turns out you become Remy's handbag almost yes. Wow.

And they also have food vans when they're on location shooting, so I assume they got special food in is that right?

I applied the food and the trainer I think actually had to have two pups because of their age. Because they were so young they couldn't well, he'd be picked up at sort of six thirty in the morning and wouldn't be returned home until maybe ten eleven o'clock at night.

Charlie.

Oh wow, that is so good.

You know, when when kids are in plays, Thanks Keith, A great story. Yeah, when kids are in plays, you know, they have to have two children, and they have to have one then the other because they can't miss too much school, all that sort of stuff. So every child who's in a live play, there are two of them and they have to alternate. But I had no idea. They extended that the canines that they have to have two puppies in case one misses out on school or something.

Yes, and just in case my dog existing at home. Henry, there's an opportunity for you and I. You want those nice things up by you want more of them, my friend, Hello, stop jumping up and barking, Tim good Et.

Well, Now, when the music was being filmed in Robertson, they you weren't allowed to go and take your car out of the Robertson area. There was enough party space for extra so they have four hundred extras to do the do the final scenes with the big over there. And when we arrived on the buses from Barrel, we all got off and the first thing they did at about six or seven in the morning was to feed his breakfast.

And what do we have, Baker, Well, Robertson, they could have given you plenty of potatoes, a great potato growing area down there. But yeah, pretty good for bacon as well.

Bacon in the making of Babe and did so wrong. It's so right.

Babe actually forced the supermarkets almost out of business because people stopped eating poor did those of the movie with ridiculous It was a great movie, the first one. The second one was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Babe in the City.

Let's go to Dennis Gooday, Dennis today a good mate?

You yeah fine, thank good on you over rother Maruvera and the Page actually, and they had a film studio out there. I think it's called trans of Film Studios.

Uh, yeah, no, the trans the Pack was up north, but that was a film studio. They made a lot of movies there, The Wake and so on.

Yeah, we got the nord that they were going to film the scene for Rica Stockade that night. So we all trudged out after dinner and went up there. And it was a scene where Chips Revenue played the part of Peter Lawler was in a pit and they had went and got him out after dark because he was in hiding after the army. He had defeated the people there and so were all the Chips popped down with his bead on hop down in the hole and camera's role and they dragged him out. It was all over in five minutes.

Oh that's great, Thank you Dennis very much. Indeed, Hi, Martin, tell us your story mate.

Yeah, I just wanted to say I grew up and could he in the fifteen sixties and we used to go to a theater called the Barrys Barri's Boomerang Theater. It was in an Art Deco style, very similar to the Ritz and it was pulled down the late fifties by the council to build a motel. But I remember going there and right near the surf club. It is down the south end and apparently budding Charles bud ting Will grew up in the area and he used to go there and he was a kid, and that's how

Jim remember them, do you?

I do remember the old the Castle Risian Club was there and that cinema had been there many years before. I think that's all gone now and prays a concrete canyon now a lot of.

That stuff with the.

Trams of the rail and just apartment buildings all the way down. Now it's it's changed so much. But the coronet and the Star were also BONDI way.

This one from Kristin who says I helped whire the quadrophonic sound at the Ritz Randwick when it was run by the Headley's many many years ago. Thank you, Christian. It's also sent me a link. I'll have a quick look at this, Jim, because there might be some gold in them there hills. And there's also five Ways picture Palace two two two Glenmore Road, Sydney. Well that be Pado, wouldn't it Paddington after the five Streets intersectionion It sits

A lot of those early in the silent days, they were family businesses, and you know dad would be the projectionist and the daughters would be the usherettes and Mum would play the piano because there was never a silent movie. Every movie had a music score and it sometimes played by an orchestra of forty people, if not then banged out by somebody in the old piano.

My mate's Indian Runner ducks were used in the film Babe Babe.

Yeah, I remember the ducks and the mice in Babe do you know?

Yeah?

Now, I wonder if you've got two hundred and fifty bucks per duck per day. Goodness me, you'd love to write her keep him away from the food van.

Anyway, home about the ducks who were on two hundred and fifty bucks? Now, where do we go next? Hello? John?

Oh, afternoon, gentlemen, afternoon. I'd just like to talk about the old Roxy Theater in Parramatta yep in the fifties. What was unique about it? Before the movie started. An organist used to come up like a spiral out of the stage and play them before the actual movie. And his name was Wilba Kentwell and he lived in Castle Hill and he's got a street named after him up there.

Wow geez.

Yeah, there were the cremorn orpheum I think had a Riser and some of the inner city theaters did too. Is it The band or the orchestra would get on the platform, you know, when the movie was coming near to its end, and when interboo came, the platform would rise up and they would be playing as they came up onto the stage. Wonderful stuff.

Good on you, Thank you John very much. Indeed, Joseph our final caller today today Joseph gooday, goody good, really good. You know a bit about the Rich Theater in Randwick, do you?

That's right.

I was involved in restore restoration on Parpenter and Joiner and I restored some of the ceilings which was part Deco, and I was on the stage there about I think it was six meters up in the air right well, and the ones and make a new panels to restore it as original.

Wow. When was that? When did that happen?

Joseph ninety It was ninety seven.

It's not that long ago. And a lot of those beautiful plaster ceilings that they don't have the molds anymore. You've got to go up and make one and then take it to the factory and recreate it.

So yeah, Jason, what was it like working in that space. I guess you're doing. It's not just you, but there's people everywhere. Are they working to restore the place?

What was it like?

It was?

It was quite a few people there. And I remember making one section of the ceiling which was finished with the I was making the panels on the ground and then we hoist them up and fix them. I was fixing them into position, and it was made out of kraftwood because the original ones were sort of like soundproofing material which was very sort of porous, you know, and with the age and water had got into certain parts

Yeah, this is this idea of worker safety is it has to be said it a recent it's.

A really modern concept.

Yeah, Joseph, thanks so much for getting in touch. One of our listeners, Debra, wants to put a shout out for the Roseville Cinema, a great place to see movies. I still remember the piano and organ being played there.

Yeah.

I can't remember the ones in the city that had the lift but I do know a very quick story about a lovely old man who I knew for a long time, Jack, And he was a trombonist and he used to do several cinemas and he was running late and he didn't have time to put on his fancy satin pants properly, and he jumped on. They said, quick, quick, and he jumped on. The thing was going up, and so he's on there, he's in his seat, but he hasn't done his pants up yet. And he was a

The trombone you have to move the contragulated, so.

It's a two hand instrument, so he couldn't hold on to it. He couldn't hold onto his jacks, and so he was risking his pants falling down on what.

Group of instruments. Does the trombone belong.

To it's a brass, yes, of course, but the or They had huge orchestras in those cinemas in the in the city, and quite often.

The organ keep his pants around his brass.

Well, well that's trying.

It was either the brass or he's something else.

Look, I'm going away the week, half the next for a few weeks. Are we going to do this again while we're done?

Do you know what? We haven't even talked about drive ins? Oh drive because someone made the point. Oh yes, somebody remember the name? He actually conceived it a driving Well, it's one of our on air personalities.

I know in a former Great Test State of Origin and Premiership winning rugular league player initials MG. You know im he was conceived of Blacktown driving.

Well, there was Chalora bass Hill, the matrival star, which I have memories of, you know, back in the days when that sort of thing happened. And of course the whole drive in history is interesting because the family could go out and eat and be entertained without having to get babysitters. It was a phenomenon.

Did they check the boot did?

Oh?

Yeah?

Trying to smuggle people you couldn't do you know? Oh well, I think lots of people did.

And is it a g app to think that people drove off with the speaker in the window.

I did it?

You?

Why?

Actually? How dare you?

It was so easy to do. And in certain cinemas, in the one in Inverarrell it was so cold.

Hang on, there was a driving and you're joking? Where was that?

There was.

Seventies seventies seven, nineteen seventies. I was even born then.

Not only did you get the speaker, but you've got a demistera and a heater. Oh my god, well so you had two things hanging off your window. All right, it wasn't great driving store. We're going to do drivings next week. Good to see Jim. You two, that's Kim Haynes. Hey, you don't hear this. Three Often there's been a zebra, a ped zebra, imagine having one of them. A ped zebra which escaped in Tennessee has been found. I wish

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