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