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Good morning, Welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. It's great to be with you on two GB in Sydney, four BC in Brisbane and via the two GB app and the four BC app to listeners all around Australia on Sunday, the eighth of June. Winter is in full force for
many parts of our great country today. There's been up to seven inches of snow and some of the key resorts in the last twenty four hours and we've got single digit tops I say single digit diet to tops, even in Canberra and for Sydney in the mid teens.
That's where we find ourselves today. There's a sheep gravti is warning for cold tempts, rain and showers westerly winds expected during today and tomorrow, with areas likely to be affected including large parts of New South Wales and the acteat even extends even extends to parts of the mid North Coast, the Hunter even the Illawarra and South Coast forecast districts. There is that risk of loss of lamb and sheep exposed to these conditions. It's it's winter in Australia.
Rug up in those areas, or get yourself to Queensland Brisbane today sunny and twenty three. Now allow me, if you will, to break with what is normal on this show by speaking to a distinguished guest on this King's Birthday long weekend in many states and territories, except notably Queensland and w Way. For my Sydney listeners and those visiting the Harbour City, a wonderful event that is a
must I reckon today. Everyone's invited to come to Government House as the Governor marks the King's Birthday at Sydney's Castle by the Harbor. The event is on from ten this morning until three this afternoon and importantly entry is free of charge. But as you'd understand, there's no parking
on site, so probably public transport is your friend here. Now, amongst other things, you can enjoy the music of the Australian Army Band, you can explore the spectacular state rooms, even see the dining table dressed for a vice regal occasion. And you can have a picnic in the gardens. How wonderful. So who best to talk about the King's birthday at the house. Let me say a very good morning to her excellency, the Honorable Margaret Beasley, Governor of New South Wales,
who is on the line. Governor. An honor to be speaking to you today. I hope you.
Will good morning, Luke, very well and really excited to see welcoming everybody who wants to become the Government House today because it'll be a beautiful day.
It will.
I've been out and I've looked at the harbor, the sun of sparkling of the waters. It is a little crisp. So the best advice is certainly to rug up, but can't have a picnic in the gardens. It's just a wonderful.
Day, a wonderful opportunity for people to see the castle by the harbor close up with their very whole knives, and the history is remarkable. This is your official residence and office. You're the twenty eighth governor to occupy this Government House. You've been governor I think since May and twenty nineteen in the sixties, you've been there. I'm sure you have a favorite place, do you in the house to unwind, or perhaps a view you never get tired of.
It's got to be the morning view, Luke. It's just beautiful. I'm very fortunate that the residents, which I have to assure people, does not look like the state rooms. So the staterooms are something else to be seen. But the residents still look out to the east and so every morning that's some comes up round about five five point thirty and it is spectacular.
Yeah, the history is fascinating. In seventeen eighty eight, the first Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Arthur philippilaid the foundations of the first government House. I think the building located then in Bridge Street. In eighteen thirty six, construction finally began on a new government house. The new building influenced in its location and architectural style by the existing Governor's stables. They were completed in eighteen twenty one.
Now the Conservatorium of Music, Locally quarried sandstone was used for the construction. It was designed by Edward Blow, architect to William the fourth and Queen Victoria. He'd recently built the British Houses of Parliament, so there's a kind of a unity in design there. And after years of delay, really in budget over runs, the house was completed in eighteen forty five and that's when Governor Sir George Gibbs, the ninth Governor of the state, and his wife took
up residents. Now, of course it's been extended, refurbished and the like. But today I'm right, Governor right, I'm saying it holds a significant collection of portraits and furniture and decorative arts and memorabilia as a result of the vice regal patronage. That's true, isn't it?
Certainly? And indeed the portraits are very interesting. They're big, and they're old, and they line the hallway. But we are the only government house in Australia that has a portrait of every governor since seventeen eighty eight, and that in itself is very interesting. But it also in many ways tells you part of the history of not only the House, but indeed of the of the State of New South Wales. Has it been developed and of course became part of the Commonwealth, so it is very interesting
and we use the portraits our guides here. I have to tell your listeners are just wonderful, and they're wonderful and they're friendly and they're inderformative and they often use the portraits to tell a particular part of the history, not only of the house but of New South Wales generally.
Yeah, you mentioned for listeners potentially going along to enjoy the gardens with a picnic. There'll be the Australian Army Band there. I'll played midday one and a two pm. State rooms will be open for expiration slash inspection and the dining table dressed for a vice regal occasion I can only imagine, but there will also be guide dog handlers and the like. There's a two meter kings Cipher.
People are encouraged to take a selfie there and the garden sculpture walk, so there's plenty of things for people to do and they're entitled to bring their telephones in which there'll be a camera, no doubt. Plenty of long lasting memories.
Absolutely, and that's the way we like to share the house with everybody. So these days are wonderful in any ways, an extension of our first Sunday of the month Jazz Days, when we have our various bands again playing sets from twelve, one and two and we invite people in and have a picnic. You don't have to book, you don't have to pay, obviously, but this is just a little more special today with particularly I think with the guide dogs.
I expect that we'll have today not guide dogs, but the companion dogs who are also trained by our guide Dogs Missus Wales. And it's just beautiful to see the way that the dogs are handled and to see that the benefit that they give to people in the community.
Yeah, you're right, Governor. Thank you for sharing Government House with the people and all the best for what lives ahead, and thanks for everything you do. And in order to talk to you, thank you.
But look, I need to know when you're coming back. You haven't been here since starting seventy seven.
Well, if I got if the Boss is listening, and you could give me a little early mark, I'd be delighted to come and see you today. But I'll make that a priority for later in the year, no doubt. Again, thank you for your time, so wonderful, Thank you, good on you. That's the honorable Margaret Beasley, her Excellency, Governor of New South Wales. I was there in nineteen seventy seven in my school pipe band. I was a drummer and the Queen was there with Prince Philip part of
a I'm sure it was seventy seven or thereabouts. Anyway, it was very exciting and the family, oh, lukey's going to play for the Queen, and it was a real thrill. And I was just too junior to get to meet the official party, you know. I could just tell the way that q E two was looking at the band that she picked out this six foot four side drummer and thought I should meet that young man. I was, I think fifteen or sixteen at the time. Through the maths. Yes, anyway,
that's the New South Wales. The Honorable Margaret Beasley, all right on with the show. The official weather in Sydney mostly sunny top tens in the city sixteen Penrith sixteen Paramatta fifteen bondying along the coast, it should get to about fifteen degrees in Brisbane you win sunny day tops in the city twenty three, twenty three at the Airport, Ipswich twenty three, Gold Coast twenty three and the Sunshine
Coast twenty three. Now let's get into it. Just a few police matters from overnight before I give you the latest on bro to Foe, the Trumpster, mask calamity. Let's call it cluster musk. I like that seriously. A man has died following a rollover involving a four wheel drive on a remote Queensland Island. Police say the nineteen year old was an occupant of the vehicle that was being driven on Beira Road on Mornington Island when the vehicle rolled.
The nineteen year old Wellesley Island's man was thrown from the vehicle and sadly died at the scene. A second man taken to hospital with minor injuries. In Sydney, please tell me a teenage boy will face court charged after a pedestrian was injured in a crash that's in Sydney Southwest overnight. Just before eleven pm yesterday, emergency services responded to the corner of Nelson and Sackville Street at Fairfield reports a vehicle had hit a pedestrian and a park car.
Officers attended, along with ambulance paramedics who treated the pedestrian. A sixty six year old man for serious injuries. He was off the hospital in a stable condition. The driver and passenger, both aged sixteen, located on Nelson Street A short time later. The driver arrested and charged with caused bodily harmed by misconduct in charge of motor vehicle, negligent driving, learner not a company there you go, failed to stop and assist after impact, and various other charges. He was
given conditional bail. Hill appeared before a children's court Monday, August fourth to waing his land. Detectives had charged a man with attempted murder following a shooting in Bethania last night. It'll be alleged at five point fifty five pm, an argument occurred in Clarendon Street between two men known to each other. A sixty two year old man allegedly shot a thirty five year old man twice, once in the shoulder, once in the chest. The thirty five year old Bathania
man was transported to Princess Alexandra Hospital. He remains in a stable condition. The sixty two year old has been charged with one count each of attempted murder, action intended to cause grievous bodily harm and failed to securely store a weapon. He'll appear at Beingley Magistrate's Court tomorrow. And on the Gold Coast, the Forensic crash Unit investigating after a man was struck by a vehicle in Hollywell. Initial investigations indicated one oh five am a man walking on
cattle Yard Street. It was struck by a Nissa Novara, which then fled the scene. Twenty year old hollyball Man was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital. He remains in a critical condition. The driver of the utility at twenty three year old Runaway bay Man, located by police a short time later and is assisting police in their inquiries. Now to Cluster Musk, President Trump says his relationship with Elon Musk was likely beyond repair after the two sparred publicly,
of course, on social media this week. We told you about that yesterday. He warned there would be quote serious consequences unquote if mister Musk financed candidates to run against Republicans who voted in favor of the President's domestic policy bill. Now to phone interview with the NBC journalist Kristen Welker, Trump said he had no plans to speak with Musk, calling the tech billionaire disrespectful to the office of president.
When asked whether he had any desire to repair the relationship, he said no. Trump's of at a range of views in his conversations over the past days. In some Trump has described Musk as somebody who's gone crazy. In others, he's expressed sympathy, as if mister Musk were a wayward sun. He's told associates that Musk is out of his mind on drugs, but at other times he said he wishes him well and has seemed to leave open the possibility
of reconciliation. He's also dangled the threat of canceling contracts that Musk's companies have with the federal government. Now, behind the scenes, people close to both men have tried to brocrade Detonte, and there have been some signs of a de escalation. Musk has deleted some of his most incendiary social media posts, and Trump has been more restrained by his standards. Advisers to Trump say they think the relationship
will never be the same again. Have to be too bright, do you to think that is a likely outcome?
Here?
To be Frank, what a cluster? Musk on the show today, what a treat Today on the Sunday Sweet leading child psychologist Claire Rowe will join me in the studio. There's lots to talk about. Australia's foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author of the nation's guidelines on gender affirming care, Michelle Telfer, was excoriated by a family called judge for giving this leading evidence in support of a mother who
wanted her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. Now that's Judge Andrew Strum, who stripped the mother of custody and effectively blocked the twelve year old from accessing treatment. Criticized the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne for failing to give the child a former gender dysphoria diagnosis until the court proceedings had commenced, despite having treated the child for six years. Hello.
Also of note, a Monrash University study has found that fewer than one in five students who experience in his family violence disclosed it to a teacher or school counsel law, with more skipping school or becoming fearful of authority figures with detrimental effects. Many of the more than sixteen hundred and fifty young people surveyed who'd experienced domestic and family violence said school was a place to avoid, with some dropping out entirely or regularly skipping class, reporting they would
stay home to protect their parents. Can you believe that feed someone noticing bruises were unable to concentrate due to being kept up by fighting or at lost friendships at school. That to me is so sad. I'll also ask Claire how a child psychologist might sort out and me call it again cluster Musk. Now, on Sundays we put these spotlight on an ordinary osti who's achieved extraordinary things. And today we have a ripper, well, look to be frank. Every week we have a ripper, but a blow called
Andy Sishn. Not a household name, but he's with plenty of them. He's a bass guitarist. He toured with some of the biggest names in music. We're talking the likes of Shania Twain, Billy Thorpe, Rose Tattoo Hello, currently playing his trade with the one and only Billy Joel Hello,
who we know hasn't been too well of late. We actually became aware of Andy after a listener a made of Andy's called in to tell us that Billy was not in a good way when we wondered how genuine the original story was, so we wanted to find out more about Andy's story. He's got plenty of stories, and he'll talk to me from New York City and tell me about life as Andy seeshon. We have been mentioning over the past few weeks these reports about people experiencing
side effects after taking this a zembic medication. It's a weight loss thing and Andy diabetes thing. I told you last week of the story that claimed o zembic when jarro We guvey they're all similar medications had caused drug induced teppatitis in some patients. Now, the link between ozenpic
and hepatitis isn't clearly established at this stage. However, some studies are suggesting it may cause potential liver stress or damage, and medical experts are saying some patients should get regular checkups. And this followed a story from a fortnight ago claiming a number of people on these medications were suffering from
my disorders. The TGAID received ten reports of sudden vision loss caused by this got to be confirmed, with eight suffering full or partial blindness, two experiencing vision loss in one eye. Now, as I've said about this on multiple occasions, I'm not giving you any sort of advice. I'm not a doctor, but you probably have a doctor or a pharmacist and that's a matter for you and him or her or them or of course it's twenty twenty five it I don't want to suggest he shouldn't take the medication.
Absolutely not. It's undeniably done a lot of good for many. But a show like this has a well I think of responsibility to discuss with experts whether potential users should see these reports and take them seriously. So the chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Specific Interests Diabetes Group, doctor Gary Dead, will walk us through all of this. Stephen Fennick will join me to talk about
tech in our second hour. He'll walk us through Tells to his new satellite messaging service, now available for tell Us to customers on a month to month's mobile plan. Initially, it will only work with a device from the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five series, but it's believed to also work with iPhone fourteen in the next few days. Stephen with all the details soon. Jim Haynes in our last hour reminiscing about old Australian movies. We are genuine trailblazers,
it must be said our quiz. All the breaking news and again plenty of time to talk to you. The open line one three one eight seven three, the text zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three and you can email me at TWOGB dot com, FOURBC dot com dot au. So that's what we have for you today. Thirteen degrees in Sydney right now, eighteen in Brisbane. This is weekends with Luke Grant on two GBN four BC. Alrighty, plenty of texts. Thank you for those who said global warming?
What are a load of hogwash? It's called living in Australia. Whatever. Thank you, Ronda, thanks very much for your note and another saying Luke it was March nineteen seventy seven. The Queen was here part of a silver jubilee. Amazing that she lived another forty five years to celebrate seventy years. She died on my seventieth birthday? Is that right? Ross? I will always remember that date, of course you will. Thank you Roz for getting in touch. Now. A housing
crisis update on the the Sabbath courtesy of the Telegraph. Today, they say the answer to Sydney's housing crisis could be found in divine intervention. Look this will be a punathon. Just stay with me here. With Premier Chris Mins urged to seek help from a higher power to build well located affordable homes. Now, with the Men's government scrambling for an alternative to build twenty five thousand homes at Rose Hill after that plan disintegrated, underused church land could be
the answer to mister Min's prayers, warned you. A group of faith based organizations now urging Planning Minister Paul Scully to change planning rules to let churches build tens of thousands of homes on their land. The Sunday Telegraph reveals that Premier Men's will look at letting churches build housing developments, with the Premier describing the pro proposal as a good idea.
Across New South Wales, Faith Housing Australia has found seven hundred and forty seven faith owned sites within ten minutes walk of a train station, which could be turned into twenty thousand affordable homes. The organization is calling for Planning Minister Paul Scully to allow churches to build homes on their land by relaxing zoning rules for places of worship.
Do you reckon this is a good idea. Currently, homes are prohibited from being built on land zoned SP two, which is a place of public worship Faith Housing Australia chair you'll know this name, Rob Stokes said that could be changed with the stroke of a pen. Well he knows a former minister. This would allow faith groups to build homes on land zone for places of worship. That could add twenty thousand homes in some of the best located sites in Sydney and other key sites around the state.
He said. Providing more opportunities for social and affordable housing consistent with the mission of faith groups will help address an acute community need. Well, I can tell you the premiere is well seemingly on board. And if it's a stroke of a pen, one might say to old mate Rob Stokes, well that you were there long enough, pal, why didn't you do it? Well, he's already provided that answer. Nobody asked, there you go. Nobody asked me, isn't it funny?
Everything's so reactionary. Could have gone on the front foot just saying Hey, you see that three acres at the back. Any chance, with a stroke of a pen, I can make that happen. Oh, he wouldn't knock on the way up, but you know what I mean. So as an alternative to rose Hill, maybe there's that you and I both know something has to happen. This may be it. Time will tell no Now.
On weekends the Sunday sweet.
Looking at the stories of the week.
Today a real tree joined in the studio by leading child psychologists, clear rogue, Good day, love to see you.
Thank you for having me. I love being in Well.
Look, we referred to you as a great friend of the program. I don't want to just claim that as a thing. Are you comfortable with us using that expression, because if.
You are, we can be friends.
Luke program. See I told you. Let's start here. This judge who's lambastterd Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines and the report goes Australia's foremost apparently gender medicine expert and lead author of the nation's guidelines on gender affirming care, Michelle Telfer came under the attention of a family called judge for giving misleading evidence in support of a mother who
wanted her child to be prescribed puberty blockers. This involves Judge Andrew Strum, and one of the aspects of this which I found concerning was that this child was under the treatment of the hospital for I think six years, and it was only until the court proceedings had commenced that there was some treatment and there was the diagnosis. Now, I'm sure these can happen in life, but it just doesn't appear to all match up. Tell us about the story and what concerns you most.
Yeah, this judgment that was handed down by Justice Strum in the Family Court in April of this year is hugely significant both in the family court circles, but also for us who have been There is a group of US clinicians who have been really trying to speak at against what is called gender affirming care and when it
is used blindly with children and so for listeners. Gender affirming care is the treatment that mental health professionals are told to use when a child of any age comes to us and says, I feel like I'm in the wrong body, I'm a boy who I want to be a girl. We are to absolutely affirm those thoughts and feelings. We are not to challenge them, and in fact we're
told to help them socially transition to the other gender. Now, that might be in the context look of a child having a background of significant developmental disorders like autism, mental health disorders like this child, and the family court high conflict,
parental divorce. And in fact, there are clinicians in this state, including myself, who, when we want to take a watch and wait approach and we want to say let's just park the gender issue and let's work on some of these other things going on in your life, we have been accused of being the ones doing conversion therapy. Funnily enough, I know, yeah.
Did I guess say this? I reckon. I know my audience pretty well over many decades. I reckon that they would sit with So hang on, you just want to part things and have a chat about the bigger issues. Gee, that makes sense. That's almost I don't know what's right or wrong, but it seems that that, in fact is right. It disturbs me to think that you can't even do that.
Yes, And I think the problem is a lot of parents think that they're going to get a very thorough and nuanced assessment when they go to these gender clinics that are in you know, the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Sydney Children's Hospital, and they don't. What they get is
a very fast, medicalized approach. The significance of this judgment in April and what happened this week is that Justice Strum has allowed for one of the first times experts giving evidence in the family court to be named publicly. Now that how the ever happens. There are very tight orders within family court circles, obviously to protect family's identities.
For those in the know, like myself, we knew it was Professor Michel Telfer when we read the judgment, but of course Justice Strum said though it was in the public's best interest this week to know the hospital, which is the Royal Children's in Melbourne, and Professor Michel Telfer is actually the one who has written the national guidelines on gender affirming care. Yeah, so she has been absolutely instrumental. And I actually have to say congratulations to the Australia newspaper.
They have been pushing this for six years on stories of this and they are the ones who have pushed now for the naming of Professor Telfer. So it's a watch and wait space. In regards to her position, I would argue that it's untenable now for her to continue as head of that gender clinic. The public has to know what's going on, and we have to return to
a science led argument. Okay, because gender dysphoria is the only condition whereby we are told to lean into the delusions and anxieties of a presentation and not challenge them. It is the only one that we are told to go along with. And if we don't wear the ones harming the.
Children, I'm mentioning you off there that And this goes back five years. A mother approached me privately wanting assistance to raise this issue because she had so I don't know about dead naming and what I can and can't say. It's such a complicated area. It don' would offend anyone. But she said to me, I'm not naming anyone. Her son had suffered extraordinary bullying and was then having some counseling, and the conclusion was that her son was in the
wrong body and was of the wrong gender. And this went on for a couple of years, and as a caring mother wanted to be involved and was completely locked out of the conversation and then of course you hit the magic auge and then you are locked out forever. And she said it felt to her like the bullying and everything else could not be properly treated, so it
had to be gender. And she thought, you know, what the hell are we doing, And once that became a thing, she was locked out and it was all you know, it must be gender.
And you're hearing this story from the thousands and thousands of detransitioners now, particularly coming out in America, who were saying, you know, the abuse that I was copying as a child at home was not investigated, the severe bullying was not investigated. My eating disorder that I had at the time was not investigated. And of course these are children at twelve thirteen years old who are looking for, you know, belonging an identity, and so they grasp onto this gender
idea through social media or whatever. And there is a contagion effect. No matter what people say, there absolutely is a contagion effect to this. And it is our role, as supposed to be scientifically led, evidence based professionals, to look at what's going on and hold a multitude of alternative hypotheses. And that's not being done. We're turning a blind eye to all that and pushing kids through a lifelong medical route, absolutely lifelong destroying people who are now
coming out. And of course, legislator, the litigation in the US has absolutely gone bananas, with detransitioners now suing and that will come here.
Yeah. Yeah. Another issue from the week. Monash University study has found that fewer than one in five students who experienced family violence disclosed it to a teacher or to a school counsel or, with more skipping school or becoming fearful of authority figures with detrimental effects. Does that surprise you.
No, it doesn't surprise me. And that's because some may think out there that if you're being abused at home, school would be the safe place and somewhere where children want to go. But let me be clear. A child does not thrive or is unable to learn if they are in a state of survival, and so what happens
is that they very quickly become disengaged from school. I say, you can't learn your timetables in a war zone, right, so you prioritize the body, prioritizes survival, and so what happens, of course is you slip behind academically very very quickly, and that's not been a nice place to go. You socially become isolated from friends and so yes, being in a school environment is very difficult. You also start displaying with so called mystery illnesses and excuses not to go.
You don't want to go if you have physical signs of abuse because you don't want to be questioned. Okay, And there is a lot of research that shows that children who are abused in a home environment with adults generalize that to becoming mistrusting with other adults. So it's incredibly sad. And of course during COVID times that's why this was amplified that not even the one in five were being picked up because they were locked inside at home and not able to be seen at school at all.
So it's incredibly sad. But when a child undergoes whether that's physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, essentially their nervous system is hijacked. They have no cognitive capacity to take on new information understandably, and they do in fact, as you rightly said earlier this morning, some children sadly want to stay at home to protect perhaps another parent.
That breaks your heart. Doesn't it.
Particularly early teenage years, you will get you know, fourteen year olds, fifteen year olds giving up school to stay home to protect you know, a parent who is a subject of abuse. Incredibly sad.
Yeah, it really is. Got that's instructive. You can't learn your times tables in a war zone, so if your home's a war zone, I mean, very simple words. But how wonderful is that? Or understanding gives its a great way to understand that. Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Claire Roll with Claire leading child psychologists perfect to deal with this issue, the cluster Musk. They'll never ever be friends again.
They can't, can they mean, he's mentioned Nepstein and we're now with that equals and Donald's got the He's got the the nuclear sized button and everything else at his disposal. So he probably wins on the power rankings. And they're done, aren't they.
They've got a big ton. I don't know whether I've reached my pay grade here because I mean, this is not just political performance. I mean this is absolutely a psychological spectacle from my, you know, my point of view of two power driven narcissists, you know, out for a dominance battle here who are just throwing grenades in the form of tweets and social media updates. And that's the thing.
We've got two men with extremely inflated self images with their own fan base who mirror that back to them their own sense of importance. And you know, I think Trump kind of sees Musk as a threat when he comes in with his kind of pseudo libertarian tech speak, and he sees that as a threat on his you know, political domain, and then of course he fires back with these threats of pulling contracts for him. And you know
that they've got very, very different agendas. Musk with a far more physical but globalist I think idea of how he's going to save humanity through space travel and AI and you know, the tech side of things, and Trump, you know, his focus is completely different on America first and you know, restoring American American dominance through the working class, and that's where his emphasis is. And so I think
this was always predicted. I'm not sure if it's I think it's come earlier, maybe abound six months post inauguration here, and it's blown up. It's a very i mean, the spectacle past, the popcorn of this is unbelievable if it wasn't for the fact that at the end of the day the public losers. We've got really important things going on. We've got tariff talks with China, We've got nuclear energy
talks with her. We've got Trump at the moment blocking immigration from most Muslim countries and being called racist by Iran. And we've got summits soon in Canada where hopefully our Prime minister maybe we'll get a chance to speak with Trump and that will be interesting on the back of all these defense spending tensions, all this stuff going on. But what do you think people are going to want to click on? This is unbelievable content and this is what the media will now focus on.
Yeah, yeah, which we are doing right now. Claire, love to see you, Thank you for coming in.
Thank you so much.
We talking again soon. Leading to our psychologist Claire Row doing great work at the IPA too, Institute of Public Affairs. Keep your eye out for that. Wonderful having Claire Row in the studio. I have to say, Jim on the email says, Luke, get that clear Row on every week. She's a bloody ripper. Well, she's got more enjoyable things to do in life, but it was great to have me here. You're right, thanks so much for getting in touch.
Violent protests erupted in our a after masked and armed federal agents carried out sweeping immigration rage rage rather enforceable, forceful, even displays President Donald Trump's crackdown on people without papers. In New York City, at least five people were arrested as a mob of nearly one hundred protesters tried to block federal authorities apparently conducting immigration raids in Lower Manhattan.
According to police and video from a chaotic scene, agents used extreme tactics, they say, conducting unprecedented raids on at least three areas of LA to detain dozens of people. That story continues. We'll keep an eye on it for you.
Cross Australia, it's back to weekends with Luke Grant.
Good morning, Thank you for having a so on. It's terrific to be with you here on Sunday, the eighth of June. For many listeners, it's the middle of the King's Birthday long weekend. Not so much in WA and QLD, where it's business as usual tomorrow. In the meantime, a cool start to a cold day, many parts of our
listening area. Thank you for getting in touch on the text zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three one three one eight seven three in the open line and via the website to two GB, and for BC to send me an email. Plenty of people have done that. We'll get to those in a moment. A taste and nutrition are on the chopping block as Australians have started sacrificing both in favor of price, with cost of living pressures hitting grocery bills hard. You see the
idea as just an election issue. The cost of livings on a thing, A couple of inchestright carts. Now it's all good. According to use called Lighthouse Consumer Tracker polling for April, fifty five percent of Australians prioritize price over all other factors when making food choices at the supermarket. Twenty nine percent consider nutrition and health, fifty one percent
prioritized flavor. AMA Association President doctor Daniel McMullin says achieving a healthy, balanced diet and a cost of living crisis could be difficult, but says it was vital to our long term physical and mental health. She says if people are really going without adequate nutrition. It'd be devastating to see the impacts of that in our society. So, you know, cost of living crisis anyone. It continues in all sorts
of different ways. In Queensland, Premier David Chris fullia Is slam schools for failing in their duty of care and social media giants for allowing porn and other offensive and
illegal material to remain on their plants. When Premier Christoph Foley was contacted about the Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Nuseville, which failed to report to police the distribution of pornography by students almost three months after being made aware of it, he said poor behavior needed to be dealt with immediately. No surprise is there, he says. We all have an obligation to call this a borring behavior out and take
action the second that we're aware of it. I mean, I know I refer to it well maybe occasionally, but it's the behavior you walk past that you mightn't directly, but indirectly. You know you're giving that a tick if that comes to your attention and you just okay, that's not unlike giving it a tick not good enough, He told the Career mail. These sickening videos must be taken down and it's not a joke or a laughing matter.
It's serious. He's also blasted social media company saying how on earth can social media companies allow this sickening content to remain on their platforms Now Last month, Brisbane Boys College students shared allegedly serious and potentially illegal nude content and a group chat on social media. That case remains under investigation and if it's there long enough, you know we kind of again the walking past and accepting it's oh yeah, that again. Well, it should never get to
that level, should it. It should never get to that level. Senior police a warning of simmering anger within their ranks over calls to enlist them in the state that is, New South Wales crackdown on the tobacco black market, saying it would divert at least five hundred officers from tracking
organized criminals and high risk domestic violence offenders. Premier Inns this week warned police could be forced to step up tobacco enforcement unless the Commonwealth government scaled back the tax on legal products that had seen the black market explode in New South Wales. It's exploded everywhere the idea was met with shock at all levels of the force, which is short staffed by about four thousand officers. And that's
another thing. Senior police told The Herald it would take five hundred officers full time to inspect, search and enforce the laws on an estimated eight thousand retailers. The true number of retailers could be much higher. Those officers would likely be sourced from proactive squads or general duties, they warned. A senior opposite, telling the Herald, we have twenty five hundred vacancies, sixteen hundred people of sick. We simply cannot
do it. Another says we've got an increasing responsibility for both domestic and sexual violence. We can't be kicking in smoke shops over a tax issue, not to mention the gang war. Now we've talked about this issue on this program, as you know, for some time, and it is no surprise to you, absolutely no surprise to me. This has been completely stuffed up. And whilst it will be nothing the government seeks to do, you've gone too far. You've made it and it was beautifully illustrated I think, by
my friend James Willison the Telegraph this week. You can buy the legal marlbro for fifty please don't smoke for fifty eight bucks, or you can get the illegal ones from fifteen. Which one would you buy? Now? I just told you about a story about buying a healthy food or that doesn't come into it. You buy the cheap food. So what would you do? And if it was a trickle, then maybe you might take a band aid and fix it. But it's not. It's everywhere. In fact, I know people
that smoke. They tell me they don't know anyone that buys the legal cigarettes in Australia. They don't. And it's simply a matter of fifteen dollars versus fifty eight dollars. I say again to you, what would you do? Whatever you do, don't smoke. But that's just the reality. So we'll take the police away from their duties of keeping women and others safe, investigating homicides and the like, and
get them a knock on the tobacconist. You've got any illegal smokes her power right, that'll be two under, don't do it again. Next. If it was a trickle, as I say, you could, you know, you might be able to deal with it. But it's out of control and this is purely of the government's making and their advice, as of bureaucrats who thought make them really expensive, that'll stop people smoking. Well, we'll have the wherewithal to say,
if smoking's going to kill you, it's illegal. And you can't do that with people who smoked for a thousand years or whatever it might be. Not that smoking would generally lead you to live a life of a thousand years, but you know what I mean, pick a date and it starts its day unless you are of whatever doctors
directions or something like that. You can't buy cigarettes unless you don't really think it's that bad, in which case let's get some heaps of tax and then we'll make it look like the oh you shouldn't smoke by making them really expensive, because then there won't be a black market. I mean, has that gone for you? And you worry have people like me hop on a medium like this and blow up about stuff like this because you've completely
screwed it up again. And then you wonder how people like me might say, oh, well, Trump is different, he might be odd, blah blah blah, but everything else they have done doesn't work, so give it a go. That's how we just want to see government do something that works. And in this area black market cigarettes, you've completely stuffed it up, as I said, probably unkindly. Again, well done, you quarter past.
Ten opinions that matter us you can trust and now look grant comments.
Yeah, although I seemingly was commenting then, I was quite taken by some work from the Institute of Public Affairs through the week. And this is something I've told you I'll spend time on because I reckon. I reckon that the subsidies have made net zero very attractive to people who might have Daddy's billions or other money sitting around.
And they say in the report they've done. As federal government spending on programs related to climate change and net zero have soared, rising fifteen fold over a decade and more than four hundred percent in the last term of Parliament alone, it's making Australians poorer. This according to the Institute of Public Affairs chief economist and friend of the
Program Adam Crichton. New research has aggregated the rising spending commitments of the federal government on programs related to or focused on climate change and net zero in each federal budget over the last decade, and he says while both Labor and the Coalition governments have supported policies to achieve net zero by twenty fifty, the analysis finds estimated annual funding accelerated under the Albanesi government from one point seven
billion in March twenty two. I just say that again, one point seven billion in March twenty twenty two to just over nine billion dollars in the most recent budget. If climate change spending was consolidated into a single program, it would be one of the twenty most expensive federal programs at a level currently attributed to air force capabilities.
The focus on climate change in federal budgets collapsed after the Rudd Gillard Rudd government before exploding once again with the election of the Albanesi government in twenty twenty two, but significantly it subsided before the twenty twenty five election. Adam Crichton says analysts have typically ignored the level of federal government spending on such programs because spending totals pale in comparison to multi trillion dollar cost households and businesses
face due to the impact of net zero. Yet, he says spending on climate change and net zero in the most recent federal budget has reached about nine billion dollars annually, up from around six hundred million a decade earlier, an unbelievable fifteenfold increase. You look at your power bills and you see what the government's spending on this, and you wonder where the money's coming from. Well, it's coming from you. I mean, it's amazing. You look at the way the
government's given you a hand with your power bills. They get to go to work, then collect the tax, then they give you some of that money back and say, how good. Anyone following this This isn't outrage, But to go back to where I started to think that there's been an increase to nine billion dollars in the most recent federal budget from one point seven in March twenty twenty two. And they tell you, and they tell me every day of the week, this is the cheapest form
of power. They're kidding, aren't they. Now I've got a ripper for you today, as we shine the spotlight on an ordinary do is he doing extraordinary things? A fellow called Andy Sashon, not a household name, but jeeves played with some He's a bass guitarist, toured with some of the biggest names in music. We're talking about here, Billy Thorpe, Rose Tattoo, amongst others, Shanai Twain, and his success is unsurprising when you hear some of his work like this.
I'm one of those people that could listen to someone play the bass guitar forever. I just it's wonderful. Currently playing his trade with the one and only Billy Joel, if you don't mind, Billy Joel. And we know we mentioned a few weeks ago Billy's not well, and that's how we became aware of Andy. After my listener Tom, and good on you Tom. He's a mate of Andy's. He called in to tell us that Billy wasn't well. So I wanted to find out more about the Andy
Sshon's story. Here's some of his tales playing in New York City and around the world. I'm delighted to say we find him in the Big Apple today and he's on the line. Andy. What a delight to meet you on the telephone. I hope things are good.
Look, it's great, nice to meet you, sir. How was my wonderful city? I flew into Sydney for the first time in ten years in December, and when you look out of that plane window and see the harbor, it just takes your breath away. I mean, I lived there from eighty four to ninety seven, and it's still just one of the goat I mean, top five great cities in the world, of the ones I've seen. But I'm good. I'm actually not in New York City, which is one
of my other favorite cities. I'm about one hundred and ten miles because I've been here too long now north of the city on a beautiful little thirty acre again, been here too long, thirty Acre Lake, and it's the sun is setting and it's gorgeous as the sun is well and truly up in Sydney beautiful.
Yeah, it's up at sixteen degrees. It's a cool day here, but it's pretty clear outside. I guess always we started at the beginning, and at some point you thought when you saw a bass guitar somewhere, or a guitar, see, I might give that a go ad. Did it start? Was it family that encouraged you or something you just wanted to do?
Yeah, Look, my dad was an amateur player, a trumpet player, played violin piano. He started me on piano when I was like six, and so I did classical piano until I was fifteen and sort of taught myself guitar and had actually had a gig with my dad where he asked me to read some Herb Albert tunes. I think I was thirteen, and so it's the same son as a guitar, just an octavelower. Read your way through it, you'll be fine. And that was it. That was the
beginning of the love affair. And so I played around Adelaide where I grew up, you know, sort of four or five nights a week from fourteen till I was eighteen. And then I went and got a real job for a while in marine biology at the University of Adelaide, until I sat my folks down, made them cry and told them I was off to Sydney to join Roase Tattoo.
Aha. If that's not the best story in the history of stories, I don't know what is. How did you get to Who did you know in Rose Tattoo? How did that happen?
I didn't know anybody. I didn't know anybody. I cold called every management company in Sydney and Melbourne, and I the tats I remember the first time I heard rock and Roll out Law. Oh yeah, on countdown. I ran down the hallway and turned the corner and saw the television. We're like, oh my god, they're animals, but man, can they rock. So that was that was twenty one, I guess I was nearly twenty two and I joined the Tats,
and you know, my father wept. He said, like, I never would have started you on piano if it means, you know, you're going to give up the marine biology job and it off of Sydney. But you know, first first time on countdown, he got over that pretty quickly and he was supportive, you know, his entire life of what I was doing. So yeah, that's how it started. And one thing led to another, and it was Rose tattooed to Swanny to James Rains, you know, my own thing, and on and on.
I think I've got Rock and Roll out Law on a forty five somewhere, but I've got just this image of your own man saying the kid's on countdown wonderful.
Exactly that you know he would be if we were playing an Adelaide whatever band I was in passing through Adelaide, you know, you go there for the weekend and play four or five nights, and on Sunday night there was one venue, the Tivoli Hotel, and I'd go home to mom and Dad's for dinner on the Sunday night, and on the way out, I'd always say, you know, my dad, do you want me to put your name on the door, And so no, I know, no, Sonny, I've got to work. I've got to work right now. As I walk out
and go, you know, just in case. Sure enough, you could see the front door from the stage and they were like, you know, nine hundred thousand crazy ROAs tattoo fans and my dad Max would walk in like, you know, three songs into the set in the stage. It's a great memory.
That's beautiful, mate, it really is. And you've got to be I mean, I don't know, but you must be to have been able to play for so long with that and those wonderful people in Australia. You must have really been at the forefront of bass playing in Australia. You must have been.
So here's the thing, you know, I've always been a guy that I didn't care about being a virtuoso. I cared about playing in a great band, and I've had that the joy of doing that my entire career, which is now forty years, you know, I mean from Rose Tattoo to then I was Sweany for a little while, and then James Ram when he first turned solo for those first two albums up until nineteen ninety. Then I went out of my own as a frontman singer in a band called Judge Mercy, which was kind of a
hard rock band. We opened for like Iron Maid and an Ac DC and.
Then hang on lit'sten it and brush this mate, that's enormous.
No, no, it was great. I gave it.
I gave it four or five years that we had an album and an EP and it didn't work in the end, but it was no regrets. And then back to base. It was back to like you know, Dragon Billy Thorpe. And then in ninety seven a buddy of mine and made of mine that I'd worked with in Australia, Noel Rush, said, look, you know, once you roll the dice over here, my couch is your couch, you know, come over and roll the dice. And I did, and you know it basically did what I when I left
Adelaide and moved to Sydney. I just I just called every management company in the United States from Ada Z and I got to l for John Landau, who managed Bruce Springsteen and Shania Twain. And the reception said, oh, we might be looking for someone for Shania Twain. I had no idea who that was. I looked because she wasn't she hadn't released the big, the big you know,
come on. And so I sent my stuff through and you know, because of because of the awareness of bands like Rose Tattoo and Ice House, who I'd recorded with, and and Billy Thorpe, you know, my stuff got listened to. And then I auditioned, you know with Mutt Lang, the great hard rocks, yeah who did a C d C. And Beth Leppard and shaniah and let me just you know, this is what sums up my my upbringing in Australia.
After I'd played the first you know, hour or so, he came up to me and said, youzes, you played different to any other musicians in the world. Why do you think that is? And I said, well, you know, I figure you worked with the best rock band from our country. You know, a c DC. You know, those guys played you know, ten twelve shows a week, doubles on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays. I got to play six nights a week, you know, pretty much my entire career,
and that makes you match fit. And you don't get that in a rehearsal room. And you couldn't do that in Los Angeles or New York or London. But in Australia you had our pub rock circuit and you went out and you played six nights a week, forty five weeks a year, and that's what made makes us play a little bit differently. I think the match fit well.
Mate. I'm loving talking to you. I've got to ask you some questions that are probably on the list I need to kick off. Tell me about the biggest show and biggest crowd you've played in front of.
In front of the coliseum in Rome with Billy Joel, I think it was two thousand and eight, two hundred and fifty thousand people in the crowd and live streamed live streams on Italian television. You can see it on YouTube. Funny because we were on a turntable with Brian Adams went on first and then the stage would turn around and then we were set up, so it was quick change. But during the begin our opening song or here's a bald eagle just swimming over the lake, I'm looking at it.
It's so gorgeous, and go and hit the.
Wrong button and we got halfway through the first song in the stage soted derotat again around the wrong way and all the microphone leads. But you can find that on YouTube, just look up Billy Joel Rohime. So that was the biggest one and a spectacular show.
Where How did you get to play with Billy?
I was. I was already in Chennaia. Twain's band had been for a year and a half and I was New York based and we had mutual friends. He'd actually tried to get me to fill in with him back in ninety three when he was in Australia on tour and his bass player had to go home because his parent had died, I think, and I missed the call. I didn't have a cell phone, did have a mobile, and so I missed four hours of messages on my answering machine when I got home to my place in Sydney.
And at that point they had to go with the guy from the opening band, so I had a chance in ninety three, so he was aware of me. He was aware that through to Friends, I was with Shanai, which in the late nineties was the biggest scene the album in the world. And so he just asked me to fill in and do a couple of songs in the studio with him that we use for Runaway Bride or something. And then his guy had to take two shows off. He had another opportunity. Billy was talking about
maybe winding it down, and I filled in. I cold filled in, like I finished the Shania Twain tour and a Sunday after two years of solid touring with her, learning Billy songs in the back of the tour bus and flew into Saint Louis and with no rehearsal and just went up and did it. You know, I did my homework. But at soundcheck Billy was like, what do you need to run? It's all about you, Tod. I thank you for helping out. I'm like, they haven't got it.
We're pretty much you know up, you know what creek without a paddle, And so we played cream most of soundcheck and halfway through the set, and I had a lot of helpful queuing from the other band members, and but halfway through the city just leaned at the guitar. I made two quick downstrokes with his hand and launched into Good Times Bad Times by led Zeppelin, which luckily I knew what he liked. I'd ask people, what else does he like? Kareem Hendrix and Zeppelin, So I touched
on that song. So in front of seventeen thousand people, we rocked Good Times Bad Times, And I swear that's why I got the gig, not because I knew how to play piano, man, because I knew how to play leads.
Oh that is amazing. Oh mate.
So I've been with him now for twenty twenty five years.
Ah, that's extraordinary. And when and when he I'm assuming he does the band intro? Does he have special words for you? Are you the are you the RC? Or how does he refer to you?
Now? Always?
You know, all the way from Adelaide, Australia, please work on the bass because I always mentions my hometown, always does in I think when we played the MCG back in twenty two, he launched into Waltzing Matilda, Oh no before Yeah, he does that from time to time as well. Yeah, he's He's just the best, the best guy in the world to work for. I love him so much.
Do you pinch yourself every day?
I know that I am so lucky that I've been doing this professionally now for forty years, and I just it's what I absolutely love doing. I do it that the joy of playing with those musicians, with his band, specifically. I know that this talk that things might be, you know,
with his health issues and stuff. I don't believe we're done done, but the biggest tragedy would be and I know he's going to be okay health wise, but if that band doesn't get to play together again, that will be a tragedy because it is to be a part of that collective, of that group of musicians where the sum of the past is way more than what we are as individual players. We're good musicians, We're a fantastic band, and I love playing in that band so much.
Mate, you are an inspiration. I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon on YouTube watching Billy Joel live as a result of this conversation, and I've got a listener who's a wiggle, Greg Page, who says, thanks so much for having Andy on what a great story. It's been great to hear how you got connected with him. Over the previous weeks. I've been following along. He sounds like such a great human being and you know what, mate,
without you know whatdding in your pocket. I've watched a few of your interviews on YouTube, and my executive producer Nelson, who had a chat with you, tell me what a great Australian story and just what a brilliant bloke you are. Continued, great success made and I hope we can keep in touch.
Thanks. Look, look, it's been a great journey. It's not over yet. I know my boss, the greatest boss I've ever had, is going to get well. I don't think he's prepared to hang it up yet. I think he's going to be fine eventually. I think what he wants is just a clean slate and to go like I feel great now, let's do some stuff again. I hope that's the case. But no matter what happens, I'm not done. I'm I'm just still just I can't believe I'm saying this.
Up the forty is I'm just getting started. I still love it so much.
Good been a pleasure to chat to you. You too, mate, and stay well. Let's keep in touch. Thanks Andy, Andy Sean. Wow. Well, you know sometimes we'd write in an introductory paragraph or two this is a ripper, I am. I'm not speechless, but some of those stories.
Wow.
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Stephen Fennick from tech guide dot com dot are you. If you've got a question about your technology, you need Steve's advice one three one eight seven three Hi mate, Good morning, Luke.
How are you doing.
I'm very well you are too.
I'll do my best, mate. I'm in the middle of an office renovation. Would you believe I'm taking everything out of my home office here where I run tech Guide from. Yeah, and yeah, it's been quite quite. I couldn't believe there was that much crap in there in that room. So it's going to be a cracker though.
When it's done, well, that's terrific. We need to say that before and after I will be sharing that good stuff. Now I'm intrigued by this. This is Telstra activating its text to satellite messaging service. So who should use this or who will use this?
Well, if you're a Telstra customer post paid customer, and if you own a Samsung Galaxy S twenty five series phone or an iPhone thirteen and later, you can when you see that if the Telstra network. Once you're outside the TELSTRAA network and you see that no service, it should kick over to give you the option of using satellite. So if you are out because a lot of people are unaware, you know, Telstra say covered ninety nine point ninety seven percent of the population. That's true, but we
only live in like thirty percent of the country. The actual land mass of Australia, there's more than sixty percent that has no cellular coverage whatsoever. So if you're out in the middle of nowhere, all you need is a clear view of the sky and you'll be able to send and receive text messages. You won't be able to send. You can't contact emergency services because you can't text triple zero right, so you can't do that. There are other I think Apple has emergency SOS, but that actually goes
through a third party emergency SOS by satellite. So if you are in trouble, you have a recent iPhone, I think even a recent Samsung that goes through a third relay party and then they contact the emergency services. But this is just a straight messaging service.
So if you, for example, on a cruise ship, would you be able to you know how it says if you're at sea and you use your mobile, it's really expanded.
Yeah, that's a good question. But I think you might be outside of the if your office off the maybe if you're near the coast of Australia, it may might work out. At sea it might not work right. But even I understand even if you're like, we hit a lot of people who contact us and say, oh they live in a black spot, they can't get any reception. So say you live in a Telstra black spot, or you go into a Telstra blackspot and you happen to be in the middle of the city, this will also
work then as well. So if you see no service or emergency emergency calls only, it will give you the option of sending it via satellite. So this is the first step of course, and Optus and Votaphone, by the way, just to be clear, are also following down this path. But it means within.
Perhaps a couple of years, will have calls via satellite and then eventually data via satellite, so you'll have your entire service all via satellite, no matter where you are in Australia.
Down down the track, we're probably looking at two, three to five years. When that's that's possible.
That means the end of the black spot, does it?
It does well if you're a Telstra customer. Does and when the other telcos get theirs online, it means black spots will then kick over to satellite also would give do you remember the massive optus outage? Remember are you about a.
Year and a half ago?
Yes, imagine now the telcos have the option of using the satellite as a backup, so the city cell towers are not working, they may be able to then opt for at least you about a center receive a text message via satellite. It's also going to serve as a good backup as well.
Yeah all right, good ay, Judy, how can we help you morning?
Looky boy, and Stephen, good luck with your renovation. Stephen sure. I recently had my hard drive fried by lightning, which also took out the NBN, so I had the brand new rebuilt computer. I turned on the computer the other day and the first thing that came up with the black screen with hey, you need to back up? Now do you want to lose all your pictures, your apps? And then down the bottom with a little Microsoft icon with let's get started. But there was no remind me later.
Okay, ca, Yeah, well you can easily do that later. This is giving you because because it hasn't sensed your your backup, So if it hasn't seen the disc, the mounted disc from your backup from before, it's assuming that you've either haven't connected it or you're going to do a new one, so you can easily do that later. A word of advice though, for I always connect my computer, and I always buy a surge protector for my for my computer, and you could even maybe put it on
a powerboard normally has a surge protector too. But I plugged my computer in the wall and I have a surge protector, so that your your your drives were connected separately, weren't they to the to the power. It's an idea to think about perhaps getting a powerboard that has that surge protection or buying individual surge protectors. If you're just plugging it straight into the wall.
Definitely not a scam.
No, no, no, you once it's encouraging you. It's not telling you to go anywhere. It's telling you that you need to back up your stuff, so which you need to do. You hope you can you get back your other stuff like it's fried, is it the other It's all there.
The computer guys came and set it all up for me. But I was just a bit worried when I saw this, and I thought, oh, you're kidding.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think you should be fine. Be a scam it was telling you to go to go on to a link or to go outside your computer, that'd be a scam.
Thank you, Judy, have a wonderful day. The point the duty is making there and I think you and I make it regularly. Is it? There's too much, isn't there? Email and other things pop ups you get that just look legitimate and you think, oh, well that must be tells through or vota fie whatever.
Although the common Health bay on that, mate, My policy assume everything is a scam yep, and then work backwards, don't go the other way and assuming it's real and then finding out too late it's a scam.
Yep.
Startup front, assuming it's a scam until it proves itself to be real.
Yeah, yeah, I agree, and I've you've said that, and I'll follow that, and largely our listeners are doing that as well. Or a mate to stay there a sec We'll take a break in the meantime. One three one eight seven three. If you want to run a problem or a question by Steve, you can do it on that number. Back in a second. It's twelve to eleven eight minutes to eleven o'clock. One three, one eight seven three is a number to speak to Stephen Finnick from
tech guide dot com dot you. And when Stephen's not here, you just go to tech guide dot com dot you and you click on the ask Stephen button. Simple as that, Robin, let's get to you online. Three how can we help you?
Yes, I've just got a new I phone. Sixteenth my intigt at home isn't working. Sperson to TTG about that, but no five G. It tells me like Facebook is off line. Everything is off line, and I can't get WhatsApp I can't.
You might have you might have your mobile data turned off. Just checking your settings, you're using mobile data, so it is that turned on and you're still not getting you're still not a right. Well have you have you power cycled your phone? Have you turned it off and on?
Yes?
Okay, it's still not connecting?
No?
For example, when I go to Facebook it's some off line.
Yes, because what happens? Do you have good reception where you where you live, like good, good focus? You don't have the Internet, so you're relying on the five G and four G connection? If you have, you got good reception usually.
Yes, no problem is all?
Okay, Well, just process of elimination here. So you've got your mobile data turned on and you've got decent reception and you so I'm just trying to think, well what else it might be? So and you you've restarted your phone as well?
Yes?
Okay, well I think you probably make sure to. And you've only just bought this iPhone, haven't you?
Yes?
Okay?
And did it did it require an update? Did you have a software update to do? When you did it? Go into your settings and you did the software update yes, okay.
I did it.
I did it before I actually transferred the data over.
One more thing, you can try. Go into your go into the settings and switch the phone to airplane mode, so you know, so turn off the radios. So leave that off for about thirty seconds, turn it back on again, and I think you'll find it'll work. It's just probably needs your radio in your phone needs to need to reboot or something. That's worked for me. I'm a TPG on Votaphone customer as well. And is that your Telco Votera phone or who you with?
No?
No, no, I'm now with AGL which up just right?
Okay, yeah, turn the radio off and back on again, so put it on flight mode and back on, and I think that'll kick the radios back and you should have you shall be able to their access everything.
Yeah, that certainly helped me. I did that once. Good luck with that, Robin Grant. So we've got to be quick. How can we help?
Yeah?
Good Steve good a luky I loved during interview with Andy. He's a mate of a mate of mine who used to be in the channel.
Have been with him.
Wow, Well there, it's a small world.
Isn't it.
What's what do they say seven degrees of separation and all of that.
Yeah, yeah, six or seven. Absolutely, what's your issue with you? You've got a problem with your age. Old HP computer is a grant.
Yeah.
Look now I've got to put my hand up here and say it's eleven years old, so it's had a pretty good run. Okay, but the computer, the hard drive may not be the issue up to about since about two or three started to becoming really slow and clunky.
Yeah, well that could be.
Well, first you've told us why it's really old computer. So today's applications are going to struggle. It's going to struggle to handle it. Do you have Internet security software on it or no?
Just the standard Microsoft? Yeah, it's probably got.
It's probably full of malware too. It's probably that's what's slowing it down as well. I think it's going to donate that to onto a museum. It's old enough enough that can save that one.
I'm sorry to say, it's terrible to think that, Grant. I'm with you, it's horrible. It's only eleven years old, but in computer years as a couple of hundred years, isn't it.
That's like doggiest it's like doggies.
Yeah, good luck with that, Grant. Sorry, I got to cut your short a time. It's got a Steven. Good luck with the reno's mate. In the meantime. If you missed Steve, you can get the tech guide dot com dot are you and click on the button look forward to your update next week, my friend. Will it be finished next week?
Oh no, only half so sort of half done. But I'll be in studio next week. Mate, I'll tell you all about it.
Beautiful see you. Then that's Stephen Stephen Fennick tech guide dot com dot are.
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It's back to weekends. We'll look Grant. Thank you for listening. Nice to be with you on this Sunday morning. It's the eighth of June. It's a cold day and lots of parts of Australia today, so that comes with winter, doesn't even though that's here it's going to be so warm. There's winter, and then you get a day like this one three one eight seveny three call it's a plenty. Look. I received a week or so back now from a
listener Robert. This text. In fact, it's an email, and I just thought it was worthy, very worthy of repeating here and it goes. Dear Luke. I'm seventy years old. For over four decades, I was a volunteer first responder in a very highly qualified group. I might still cry if I had to tell the story of my first patient to die. I was performing CPR, with his wife and daughters crying behind me until help arrived. He was
not old. I recall the senior Ambo's hand on my shoulder and his voice from behind perfect ecg trace son. But it's time to stop, he says. I'll never forget making myself stop when, because I was good at my craft, his eyes still looked alive to me. I was twenty eight. That was forty two years ago. I never drove past
an incident. I remember the dead faces of children. About a year ago, I was in a higher car and the driver told me of his grief for decades over the death of his sister in law, who died alone. I'm the cold bitchumen of a rainy winter night. I was able to tell him that I was there. She was cared for, her life was respected, and she was given every chance. I thought she would die, but I kept her alive until there was an ambo. This year, I found a birthday card in my letterbox from that driver.
I've never claimed compo. I was lucky, never suffered a mental health injury. I meant it when I say lucky. If we cannot afford to pay police, ambos and first responders, then frankly, we can't afford the people who help us. That's from a fellow called Robert. How about that? Eh, how about that? I had a look at that and I thought, oh, amazing, one three one, Thank you Robert for your servers. I have to say one three, one eight seven three is our number. Great Mark, there you go,
good Mark you? Yeah, good, good on you. Look.
I don't mean to be mean spirited in this, in this comment at all. Talking about illegal tobacco.
I remember growing up thirty years ago, forty years ago, and if you were importing.
Illegal tobacco into the country, there were big penalties.
Yeah.
I hear a lot of talk about how it's challenging to enforce.
Rules on the shops that are selling them.
Yep.
Surely if we were to increase the penalties onto the shops and make it something.
That was meaningful, then that might have an impact on them selling it. In the first place.
Yep, I agree, Mark. In fact, we were talking about it afair and I said, you know what if you if they were a little fairer with the excise and they said, now listen, if you've got a packet, we're going to take it from you. And if we sell a packet, the first one is going to cost you five grand, and if we find it again, then every time that's going to cost you fifty grand. Then it goes away, doesn't it.
Yeah?
Thanksfully, good on you, Thank you Mark. Seems like we agree and that's a good thing. Now. I mentioned when I spoke to Andy Sehon that we were tipped off about Andy by a listener called Tom who's on the line. Thank you jeez, that mate. What a human being he is.
He's a beauty mate, isn't he?
Isn't he?
What?
How do you know him?
From his band Judge Mercy in about ninety ninety two? Right, and then he went to play with Thorpy and Roast Tattoo and he's been around his bike. He's just look at him now. Base flavor for Billy.
Zoor, how about Billy Joel?
Yeah? Three quick stories.
Yes.
When McCartney came up on stage with Billy Jarles band. Billy said to Andy, just just step out of the limelight and go back a little bit, just in cases a bit of a bugger up right at the end of the show, and he said, McCartney's brilliant. The second story, and when they got Roger Dawtrey up from the who
yes to do a show. You remember the bass solo by John Entwhistle Yes, my generation, my generation, Yeah, yeah right, And he'd done the solo and Roger Daughtery just turned around and give him a bit of a nod in a week and said, well done, mate.
Well done son. Wow.
And the third story Ye, when the COVID thing hit, Billy decided that he wanted to keep his band together, even though they mightn't work for a couple of years or so, but he paid every member of his band a weekly wage. What they were doing when they were on the road, said go out and get your own gigs if you can. But mate, when I'm ready to rock, you blokes better be ready to Rarely kept the whole band together and played for wages.
Oh what about what about that? That's impressive? Well, Tom, can I just again thank you so much for firstly listening to us, and secondly for introducing us to Andy Sihon, Because as much as I think I know a lot about Australian music, particularly of the seventies and eighties, and probably either side of that a little bit I'd never
heard or I wasn't aware of Andy. And to think that we just spent twenty minutes or fifteen minutes with Billy Dole's bass player, who's an Aussie who's played with ac DC and started off with Rose Kattoo and it's been on stage with Paul McCartney. To think we did that in the Hamble Radio show this morning blows me away. Thank you again, Tom, and again lovely to talk to you,
and thank you for thinking of us. Andy Sishon. Now he mentioned to me when playing with Billy Joel at the Coliseum in Rome, the audience was two hundred and fifty thousand, and I think Brian Adams was on the show. They had a revolving stage and during the show the stage revolved when it shouldn't. But we do have some audio of Uptown Girl and you know what to listen for when the bass guitar is playing. This is the work of Andy shonn.
Work that she never had a street there.
It is Andy sa Sean and he's also doing backing vocals and you can look at that on on YouTube. I want you to keep listening to me if you don't mind. Pretty key to what we do, but at a convenient time for you and particularly for me, he's there singing backing vocals as well. Good a John, Look, how are you well? John?
You well?
I'll be better after I spit all this out.
Okay, go ahead.
I heard you this morning.
You were talking about climate change and elbow and billions of dollars and you know the pollution that Australia has gotten. It's one percent of the world anyway. Yeah, I've traveled overseas quite frequently and there's two places I've been, Malta and Cyprus. Right now, do you know what they use.
For their electricity? How they what do you call it?
How they produce? Well, now, I don't imagine they're doing anything that's particularly environmentally friendly, are they.
No, it's all been done by diesel.
Diesel. Hey, that's what the green state of South Australia had to regularly fall back on.
Recall that, yes, yes, and we're talking about all.
This climate change and all this other mumbo jumbo. Well, if the world is.
So polluted, why don't we go to places like I've just mentioned and stop it there.
If we stopped it there, the place had closed down.
Well here's an idea. Why don't we reduce our coal exports by whatever extra we burn here, so rather than being burnt overseas, we get burn it here and get busy building those clean and coal fire power stations. Problem solved.
But well, why don't you get elbow On and ask.
Him that he won't He won't talk to me. Bowen won't talk to me. They don't talk to me during the last campaign, Mate, I promise you we asked the question, we issued the invitation, but nothing comes of it. Now, I'm not saying for a moment, I'm not big nothing myself saying oh, they wouldn't mess with me. I'm not
saying that at all. But I think they understand that our intelligent audience, including very good people like you, John, are awake up to the spin and the other what I'd like to call crap that too often becomes part of this conversation. Thank you for raising the issue. John, You're a beauty, have a great weekend. Now someone's asking can you put up the Andy Sashon interview on the website. It's there now you can listen to it there right now.
And speaking of interviews and hopefully ones you enjoy in a moment or two, Chris Marshall, the British actor from Love Actually here's the young fella that was in the airport, yelled his name as he was saying goodbye to his mate and then said something else which is probably a little too riskay, but it began with big and ended with another word. And then he comes back later on the show with what I know to call a bevy
of beauties. I don't know exactly what is, but I've heard in the old days people used to say that a lot. He's in a show called Beyond Paradise. He plays Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman. Season three has just lobbed and the iconic British actor Chris Marshall will join me after this. Now, what to treat this is? We do speak to great people on this show, but not every day do we get to speak to an iconic British actor.
His name is Chris Marshall and you'd know him as a man who shot to start and playing Colin Frizzell in a little Christmas rom com Love Actually you know what I mean. Have a listen to this.
Oh wow, Failure America.
What's out?
It comes Colin Bristle and he's got top big.
Oh my god, are you from England?
Yes?
That is so cute. Since then, Chris has been starring in a string of classics, including Death at a Funeral, A Few Best Men. I love that movie, and even Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. He's no stranger to the silver screen as well. For the better part of a decade, he's played Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman, originally in Death in Paradise and in the spin off Beyond Paradise and in
Great News for crime fans. Chris is returning as Detective Inspector Goodman for season three of Beyond Paradise, which is streaming now on britt Box. And I am delighted to say that the great Man is on the line.
Good day, Chris, Hey Luke, thank you so much for the introduction.
Wow, no, my terrific speak to you. I loved your work and I've got to say and I don't know, you know why it hasn't been a thing but a few best men. I cacked brackets meaning laugh myself, silly, close brackets myself at your work in that with Olivia and Newton John and the rest of the cast. It was just a real gift. Thank you for that.
Oh, bless you, thank you. I had such a good time making that movie. And yeah, Fox Studios in Sydney and you know, and up in the Blue Mountains Neckertomber.
It's tough.
Yeah, yeah, it was such good fun. I'll ask you only briefly about love actually, because you're not here to talk about that, although it's such a big thing obviously, we have to touch on it. For those that haven't seen you play Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman. He's a distinctive character, isn't He's quirky, he's brilliant, but he's deeply human. Is that how you describe him?
Yeah, I think he's sort of I mean, to me, he's a sort of melaunge really, sort of a whole mix up of all my sort of favorite detectives growing up. You know, there's a bit of marble in there, there's a bit of Colombo. You know, there's a bit of but also there's a bit of Harold Lloyd and a bit of Jack Tatti in there as well. You know, he's sort of, you know, he's sort of he's very human,
but he's got a good moral compass. But he's also nobody's full, you know, and he's quite dispractic as well and clumsy and yeah, but he's you know, he's a brilliant detective and he's got a real good eye for a crime solving a crime.
Yeah, yeah, I wonder from your point of view, I mean, I mean, this is what you do, and you do it so well, but when you come back for another season, you've kind of, I guess, in a way, got to pick up from where you're left off. I've heard you talk about putting on the shoes and that gets you in the character. But is that a difficult thing to do?
You know, you do a series, you take a break, then you come back, and it is kind of like picking up where you left off, but so much time might have passed, you.
Know, in between the me leaving Death and Paradise and then reappraising the character sort of you know, the characters sort of rebirth and go on paradise. It was sort of like three or four years, so, I mean, yeah, that was quite difficult picking that up again. But you know, it's when you put the clothes on and you know, he's a he's a big linen wearer. I don't wear linen myself, but the big linen wearer, you know, and
you want to put the clothes on it. And this, like I said before, especially the shoes for me, the shoes is, I don't know. You get the gate back and you know, and I remember rifling through my pockets of an old jacket that I had on the original show and all my old notes were still in there.
Wow.
So after about four years so, I mean, it was just it was just like stepping back literally into another man's shoes, you know. And yeah, it's but from season to season it's not too hard.
Though, right, Are you too classic the way linen? Is that what you say to me?
No? No, I know I'm too I think I'm too tall to wear linen. I think you know what I mean? No, I do. If you're really tall, if you're a really tall bloke, yeah, linen can get a bit wishy washy on you. You know it can give. It's a bit flowy, a bit more cut, you know, a little bit more tie bit of on the clothes. Otherwise I look like a bit of a misshapen golf club.
You know what, mate. We had some photos done here at work a few weeks ago, and I'm a similar height to you, six three or six four or something, and I wore linen. Actually I brought in half a dozen shirts, and the wardrobe lady said, wear linen. And the photos came back and I said, I look so wishy washy. If only we'd spoken before, If only we'd spoken before. Am I right? Am I right? You were born on the first of April? And if that's true, is when you were younger, did you get pranked, probably
teased about your birthday on April Fool's Day? And you know you promised to bike. Can you end up with a matchbox car or something?
You know why?
It would be a great story, but it's that's just don't believe everything you read on the internet. My birthday is on the eleventh of April, so it's mister one off there.
One off.
It's a good story. So let's let's just pretend it is the first of April.
Yeah, it's okay, Well let's do that. Let's do that for people that haven't seen the show. What do you hope they take from it? Mate?
Do you know what? We live in quite weird times, and you know, I love all those really hard hitting, gritty cop dramas and you know, they're they're great, they're great to watch. But this is this is something that it's a bit of escapism. You know, it's sort of you know, like I mentioned Columbo and s Marple before, and another huge influence of mine was Jim Rockford James Gonner in The Rockford Files. You know, ah, you know, and it's all it's all a bit tongue in cheek.
It's all done a bit like hearted it and I think, you know, there's a bit of escapism and we need a bit of escapism. It's a puzzle to it. Sit down and it's cross demographic. You can sit down. You can watch it with your kids, your mum and your dog. You know, it's good. It's good formily viewing, but it's good fun. It's it's there's a puzzle you can work out, you know. It's yeah, you know, puts a smile on your face.
You know what I was about to say. You know what, Chris Will puts a smile on your face. That's exactly that's exactly right. And you know what, to a large point, I think that's what in entertainment we're supposed to do. Largely. I mean, you can sit down for as long as you need to and you don't feel bad about things, You feel like hey about stuff, and you might have been forced to think a bit and been forced to laugh a bit. And isn't that isn't that partly what
we're meant to do? Six episodes in this series? Tell me about the making of it. It's a it's a it's a Devon and Cornwell. Is that where you should it?
Yeah? So the last of two counties that stick out and sort of peninsula at the bottom in the southwest of the UK, Devon and Cornwall. There's a great rivalry between the two counties. I mean it's quite visceral actually, so we film in both counties, even though technically the show is set in Devon. And you know, there's a big argument about I believe you guys call it a Devonshire tea over here. Yes, yeah, Well, there's a big argument about how you have your jam and how you
have your cream? Yes, in Cornwall, Cornwall and Devon have it very differently. It's it's real, mate, it's real.
It's hang on, I've got I've got to ask you how differently.
I have it?
So let me get this right.
So Cornwall has it jam first, jam first, cream on top yep, and Devon Devonshire does the reverse.
Right you are you allowed to have a preferred option or they're going to spoil things?
Yeah?
I do have a preferred option, I have to say, and that is the jam first.
Yeah.
And they even.
Call each other jam first, jam first and cream first of Devonshire and Cornish they do. I mean, it's a it's a real thing.
Yeah.
So yeah, we we've thought done. That's very beautiful, you know. I mean, I don't know how many people are aware of Devon and Cornwall in OZ but or you know, or have visited. But we've we've got beautiful beaches down there. You know, we've got surf where we stick right around to the Atlantic down there. So it's you know, really lovely blue. It's cold, I'm going to say it's cold, but you know it's just about for about a week in the summer. You can get in with your board shorts.
Oh boys, it's not bad. And is it far from your home?
Yes, probably about three hour drive my home, so you can go home every weekend.
Oh wow, that's good.
Yeah, it's okay, it's not too bad. So it's it beats you know some of the locations I've filmed in.
Yeah, and go and see the.
Kids and I actually my kids are even in this series as well, so.
Oh, fantastic, fantastic. Isn't that wonderful? Actually I was reading about the some of the episodes, and until your time me that about Devon and Cornwall, I didn't realize. But a body's discovered in a river on the county border, so you've got to collaborate with with Cornish counterparts. So now knowing that, that makes life very interesting, I imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah, And also there's there's a there's a brilliant scene with the whole scone thing going on as well. So okay, so I hope your your listeners enjoy that when they see that. So yeah, it's all good. It's all going on.
We certainly will. I don't know why I'm reluctant to talk about love. Actually, partly mate, because you've done so much else but this has become just a big thing, I know, around Thanks and Christmas in America, but here in Australia we all watch it. I certainly do every every Christmas. And the big Knob line, which I don't know if it was scripted or if it was your work, but I mean it is one of those standouts, isn't it.
Yeah it is.
And it was kind of improvised on the day that one, you know, certainly the way I sang it as well, and yes, it just you know, one of those things that just came out really and yeah, and it amazes me that it's become such an iconic line. I mean, people shouted at me in the street, which is, you know, interesting when I'm with my kids showing big knob at me. But you know, it's what is that about that I
was exposed? Yeah, so yeah, so, but it's you know, it's I mean, we only did about thirteen fourteen days filming on it because everyone had such a different storyline. So yeah, to do thirteen fourteen days on something it's quite small in the grand scheme of things, and it's become such an iconic part.
Of the zeitgeist really part of.
The part of the sort of the firmament, you know, if that's the right word to use.
Yeah, yeah, well not, let's go with it. You let me away with a so let's go with that.
What they hell, I didn't say fundament. You know that.
You must love Australia. Look, I know you don't spend every waking moment here, but I talked about the Olivingot and John movie and you've been you've been here a bit. Do you think do you think Ossie's, even though we love to smash each other in cricket, but do you think Ozzie's and and Brits when it all boils down, are pretty close, aren't they?
Yeah?
You know I think that we're kindred. Really. I think we're like, you know, we're like cousins.
Really, And I love oz.
I mean I've used to live in down near Bondai when I was making the movie, as I've said to you before, and and then I did the sequel to a Few Best Men A Few less Men living out in Perth in w A.
And you know, I just.
It was you know, I love it over here. I just we've got the same set of human I know which Josh each or other about the curoque and the rugby and what have you. But I just think I'm always treated so well here, you know, Luke, And it's I'm always treated so well kindly by Australia and Australian people, and I just I love it here.
Yeah, yeah, well we love your work mate. Beyond Paradise season three, available to scream exclusively on a bigger and better brit Box. Love that it, Jack you, Chris, Save travels, mate, and thanks for all you've done.
Cheers, Luke, Take care mate.
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Yeah you too, Thanks me get back in a second, look just quickly. I'll have more on this a little later. But police in Queensland are telling me about an incident at Kumra this morning. Just before nine, a dark BMW was exiting a car meet at Betty Road and water Way Drive at Lots Control and struck a group who were sitting on a barrier. Teenage males sustained a leg injury and eighteen year old males. I've had a significant
leg injury. Officer spoke to the driver, a twenty year old man at the scene who continues to assist police with their inquiries. We'll get you further on that as soon as we can. I want to talk about a zempic here. Over the last weeks, we've seen and you've seen, doubt several stories about the side effects. And I'm not a doctor, but i know how to get in contact with doctors that know these things. And I've just a lot of people say this is a very good medication
that's helped them. I'm sure that's the case, but it's just important to you know, you see these stories and read these stories and you wonder just how serious is it. So let's get to someone at the top end of all of this, the chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Specific Interests diabet Group, doctor Gary dead who joins me on the line, Dodor Deed. Thank you so much for.
Your time, Thanks Luke, and happy on Sunday.
And to you, how significant are the reports around blindness around hepatitis? And we're not talking about significant numbers from the stories that we've shared with our listeners, but nonetheless there are reports. How significant are they in your.
Mind as a doctor and as a person treating people using these medications? Yet it is very concerning. You know, there's several hundred thousand people taking it. Only a handful of people have reported problems, but still there are reports to the call the therapeutic goods association of vision loss and partial blindness by some people, although we're still not absolutely clear it's linked entirely to the medication. Could be due to other conditions such as their diabetes, leak problems,
even high blood pressure. But I think it's a watching brief that we need to be careful.
Of now for those that don't know fully or don't understand fully what these medications can do, they seem to me to be widely lauded because they help people I think essentially with diabetes, don't they And they also assist in weight loss, is that right?
Yeah, there's two different types available, as you mentioned, a medication called ozempic, but the drone is called semiglue type. It comes in two forms, one for people with diabetes and another form called wajovi which is used for managing overweight, no obesity, and different dosages, so there are different types of people.
On them, right, And are they injected? Is it an oral medication? What is it?
Yeah?
Interesting you asked that it's once weekly injections, so yeah, people usually manage that themselves after instruction with a GP which is important. It should be done through a knowledge of GPR specialist of course.
And in relation to its use, is the weight loss aspect of the medication was it discovered primarily or was it the ability to assist with diabetes that was the initial motivator as to why this was such a good thing?
A really good question, Lok.
Way back when the studies were first done, of because timed and targeted at people with diabetes, but they found that people diabetes lost weight. But then they did further studies on people without diabetes and they also lost weight. So you know, there are key aspects they can lower blood gluecose levels and help weight with people diabetes, which is type two diabetes, which is good, but then also
people the abeste. Now they've been shown to not only lose weight, but also there are aspects where they might help people with heart disease and who are obese and help protect them as well. So amazing sort of development of these medicators.
Yeah, look, I've seen the and I don't know if this is a thing, but o zempic blindness and when you say something like that, it's you know, it's quite challenging if you're on that medication to actually hear that is, But am I able to make the point that this is in such a small number of cases. I mean as a matter of the patient and doctor, of course, but it's not something that is significant or shouldn't be significant in the mind of listeners. How do you respond to that, Luke?
I think if you're using any medication, you and I and your listeners, you know, keep in touch with your knowledgeable GP about you know what the medication can do, what are the potential side effects, and you've illustrated that these side effects that are being shown up are probably
very rare. So if you've got a good GP, there's no subjecute with you working with your GP talking about how I use this medication for the condition that I've been prescribed for, but also notify them if they've got problems. Are you concerned about your eyesight? Have you had your eyesight check for instance? That's that's the safe model of using these medications. And also with the hepatites called deliver inflammation, you've got excessive vomiting, you're not tolerating COUDE as well
as you should. Should you just talk to your knowledgeable GP, work with your GP and utilize the medication because they've got benefits as I mentioned, but also prevent yourself from getting any problems.
So I mean, that's that's just common sense, isn't a garry. It's okay, so that the doctor decides that this might be a good thing for you if you if you then have it and you feel that things aren't right, then you know, I just don't sit it out. Actually raise the issue with the GP. Is that what we're saying?
Yes, and you know, work with the GP, and are there some things that I need to do before I start the medication? Should I work with my GP to have a good comprehensive health check if I'm using it for diabetes or even weight loss, and notify of any change. A GP is able to support you all the way through, and you know, so that we don't get intobbles and also we can prevent further problems if anything arise.
Great doctor Gary Deed, Chair of the ra C GP Specific Interests Diabetes Group. I appreciate your time and enjoy the rest of the day. Thank you, Gary, Stay healthy, bye bye bye. Yeah you too. Well, well, I mean there you go. I actually said to my doctor. I said we were talking about this drug drug because we I don't pretend to be anything I'm not, but we you know, I say, oh, look I saw something on
this the other day. What do you reckon? And I said to him, hey, doctor, you reckon this osembic works? Do you think He said, maybe it's not what I think. I know the evidence is there, and I said, well, what about side effects and things? We said, well that's where you know you have to monitor. I know this is a really good medication. You get your own advice. I'm telling you what happened to me. But there will
be side effects. But you know, if you have it and it doesn't work, aap mate, then you can ring me. I don't use it. But we're just having a conversation. And when you see these reports, I think you're entitled to say, well hang on. Of course there's a lot of noise about it, and probably for good reason. It's coming up to Ford to midday. Jim Haines is here
after the news talking movies. I'm just aware that the Coalition has demanded Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke provide a detailed statement of reasons as to why Israelis speaker and technology expert HELLL Foold, born in New York, has had his visa revote. In a decision statement, Burke cited Islamophobia rehetoric which risked inciting accord against Australia's Muslim population. It was set to speak at fundraising events in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Grant, good day. Hope you will on this Sunday afternoon, the eighth day of June, the middle of the long weekend in New South Wales and the Act gad A Canbra. Thank you for joining us on two Double C for the first time today and it's back to work in Brisbane tomorrow for our four BC listeners wherever you are, I hope your Sunday is going well. Thanks for all the feedback today. I'll get to some of that in
a moment or two. But as I mentioned earlier, violent protests have erupted in Los Angeles over the immigration raids at the Trump government. If you will has set out in both LA and I think New York. Now the National Guard will be deployed to LA with California Governor Gavin Newsom confirming the Trump administrations deploying two thousand soldiers. I don't know if anyone should be necessarily surprised by this.
I mean, Donald Trump, in part in his election campaign made it clear that, you know, immigration and illegal immigration was a thing he was going to deal with. But these scenes are very, very concerning. Nine News Lauren to MARSI is in l Aine joins me on the line. Good day, Lauren, great to talk again. Thank you for your tome. What can you tell me?
Gee?
Look, these have been quite significant scenes across Los Angeles today.
I've been in the suburb of.
Paramount, which is right near Compston. People there have told me is the heart of la and that is where these protests have really been erupting today with these riot police. They've been clashing, they've been firing tear gas at those protesters. And just moments ago, we had, as you say, President Trump signed a memorandum to deploy two thousand National guardsmen into California. So that is quite an extraordinary move to has a military moved in on American soil.
So it is it's extraordinary. What about Trump and Newsom? Have they been speaking either together? Or publicly.
Well.
Gavin Newsom has taken to social media saying this isn't the move that he wanted. This is the Californian National Guard which Donald Trump is taking over here and to do that he had to sign in that presidential memorandum. Gavin Newsom says, that is a purposely inflammatory move that's only going to escalate tensions. And that's certainly something we have felt as we've been on the ground in Los Angeles today. The agents, the Border Force agents and LAPD
themselves who aren't actually part of these immigration raids. Just seeing those law enforcement on the ground is really inflaming the situation for these pro testers who are really upset and angry. What is happening in Los Angeles right.
Now and the same thing or something similar happening on the other side of the country in New York City? Is that right?
Yeah?
There have been scenes in New York City as well, similar protests at these immigration detention locations, the ICE headquarters ICE standing for Immigration Customs Enforcements. They have been quelled down by NYPD. Certainly that is not the case here in Los Angeles. As the sun begins to set here, it feels like the situation is just it is a tinder box waiting to erupt. Even worse than the tension and the emotions that we've seen on the ground is Look, it's not looking great into the evening.
No, no, I'm hearing aloud and fear. You can't say it ord settle down anytime soon, because obviously Trump's going to take a stand. But the people who who I mean, California is of the left. We know that, but they're not going to say, oh, well, Donald's angry, you better go away now. And then it becomes nighttime and then more people become involved. I mean, this has got hair written all over it, doesn't it.
Oh, it does. And I mean Los Angeles itself is a city of so many migrants. We know that about ten percent of the city here are undocumented migrants. They make up a huge portion of this city and work really well into the city. You can see at the Home Depots, which is one of the hardware stores here in the United States, there will often be migrants who go there looking for day work, and that has been
one of the target sites of these immigration raids. Donald Trump promised that he would crack down on illegal immigration, and that is what we are seeing in these surprise raids. They weren't expected here in Los Angeles, and I think that is what has really rattled a lot of Angelino's here. They didn't see them coming, and now these ice agents being met with a lot of anger and fury on the streets.
Yeah, Lauren, thanks for that. I know you've been going on this story well, it seems to be forever. I've seen you on the weekend today, and I'll no doubt see you on nine years tonight. Stay safe yourself, and thanks so much for updating us on the situation there.
Thanks so much, Luke.
Good on you, Lauren Tomarty in the US one three one eight seven three, just some feedback. Then I got a song to play. Look, the bloke who makes pens for Donald must be doing well with all the signing he's doing with tariffs and laws and all the other stuff. Rob is a very good point. They're a thick pen, aren't they. It's almost like they're almost like a texter. If that's still in the vocabulary, I assume it is. Thank you, Rob very much. Indeed, I can tell you,
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in touch. Appreciate that. Another listener, so Burke bands in Israeli but stays quiet over hate preachers here votes over values. But then again, this is the left. Thank you for that, Luke. Why is mediocre mens only using Christian church lands to solve the immigration housing crisis? Richard? Thank you, Luke. Please
don't use my name, you can call me Basil. I've been using Munjaro for three months, almost lost twenty kilos what I was reluctant to get into it, but I thought the medical implications of being forty five and one hundred and fifty are worse than side effects. I've had almost no side effects, eating healthy, going to the gym, sleeping better. Wow, that's amazing. Thank you, Basil. A lot of people have had great success. Again, I don't want to give you the idea that I'm saying oh you
need to be on this. I'm absolutely not. As I always say, it's a matter between you and your doctor. But as entitled as I am to tell you of the reported side effects, so am I entitled to say here are people claiming to have done well, Luke. The issue with oozempig is that it hasn't been used for long enough a time to provide a clear picture. And that's a very fair comment. Thank you for it this one. Why would you take a drug when everything it does
can be done naturally? Anyone can lose weight naturally. By the way, GPS are not knowledgeable. My wife has been offered ozeenpic since he's not overweight. Well, we don't know those circumstances, Neil, but we take you at your work mate, if it look things can be done naturally, but not everything's easy. And you know I was once of the mind, oh just get active and eat less. But if it was that easy, everyone would do it, as I say in the classics. So some occasionally, some people need help
and if that gives them help. Again, it's not a matter for me. It's a matter of between you and your doctor. You can sort that app between yourselves. But thank you for the feedback. A body's been located by police divers after a search operation for a missing man. About twenty to eight this morning, emergency services called to Bluefish Point at Manly following reports to thirty three or old man had fallen from rocks and into the water
while fishing with a group offers. Officers rather attended. An extensive search operation has been underway, marine rescue tole Ambulance rescue helicopter the police diving unit. About ten thirty this morning, police divers retrieved a body believed to be that of the missing man from water nearby. A report will be prepared for the coroner. That's terribly sad again. Police investigating
a traffic incident at Kuma this morning in Queensland. Initial investigations indicate shortly before nine am, a dark BMW exiting a calm meat at bet Road and Waterway Drive at lost control and struck a group sitting on a barrier. A teenage Mail sustained a leg injury, an eighteen year old Mail suffered a significant leg injury. That've been taken to Gold Coast Hospital. The driver, a twenty year old man, has been spoken to by police. Inquiries continue the Forensic
Crash Unit continued their investigations. We'll see if we can update that has I'm GOODAYI look yes, how are you? Little good?
Hell?
Are you?
It's pretty bizarre just hearing the report coming from the US about people who are protesting. First of all, I believe a lot of those protesters sponsored this man. Whatever you think of Donald Trump, this man went to the election and campaign he will deport illegal immigrants, forget about what they are called, or documented or not. And he's doing exactly what he's been voted to do. But then we've got some people who are protesting and who would
burn down their cities because he's doing that. Frankly speaking, I think that's pretty ludicrous.
And let me be say this.
I am an immigrant, yep.
I know what it took me to come to this country, and I know what it took people who I know am my friends to get to the US. As I speak to you, there are people who have been on the queue to go to the US for twelve years. Part of the people in families that I know, have died waiting on the queue. They've got families in the US waiting on the quito buy there on time.
And to go to the US.
But some people think that they can break the rules, bring the law of the country and just walk into those countries. What the bloody hell should they see?
Well, you know what, now I can hear the passion. It's Unfurstly, thank you for listening to our show, and secondly, thank you for ringing. And that's exactly the point I mean, you have, don't you. You have rules, you have laws, and they're there for good reasons, and partly to have order amongst the community, whether that be the laws of the land dealing with people's behavior, or the laws of a country which lay at How you if you want to go to that country and participate as a constituent,
how you follow that process? Now you can't just turn up, knock on the door, I'm here, and then someone says, hang on, there's a queue. There goes back about twelve years and see what we get has done. And this is what irritates you. You know what Adam me is people say, oh, there's no queue. There is a damn Q. It's full of people that want to do it properly. And you're right about Trump. I mean, no one should be surprised by all of this and let's hope people take the
appropriate degree of chill pills and get through it. Thank you for calling, mate, I appreciate it very much. Indeed, it's nineteen after midday on two GB, four BC and two double C. This is Weekends with Luke Grant and Rob Thomas. After I play you this, Jim Haynes will be here. We're talking about movies and movie theaters and we welcome your calls on all of that. Nineteen after midday. Now that's Rob Thomas. I don't know why, I just I really like that tune. Probably of course it's a
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Hey, Jim Haynes is here. Gooday, Hello, Luke. How you go?
Oh, I'm fine and it's lovely to be here.
Boy.
I've been doing some research onto the Australian history of movies and all sorts of aspects of it. And speaking of which, I'm doing a talk on that story of Sydney Harbor. It's geology, the rock carvings, the artists, and particularly a wonderful ship called the Sobrayan which became the EIGHTHHMS or the I think it was a training ship, might might not have been HMS. Ting geera and history, and I forgot to advertise. I usually advertised this for
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We're going to give them a capucina biscuit, biscuity what sort of a biscuit.
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Yeah, but make sure you just say you listen. If you say I listened to you and Luke and I love it, you'll give you two. Well, it is a double album. A double album you won't be getting to. You will be to that Wednesday, Wednesday, one pm, Ewing Avenue, Little Bay Afternoon Tea is including Costcenter dot org dot au.
Yeah, go to their website or my website Jim Hanes dot com. Dot are you all the infos Please come on out and give us a little crowd. At least it'll be an informal and intimate and gathering, good sort a good sort of gathering. Okay, so we're back on the movies. And last week what a what a wow of a program it was because we had Lorraine call in, whose parents actually owned the rialto in Brisbane, Brisbane. One
of our questions about all the Greek movies. But Lorraine didn't leave an address, So Lorraine, you know, and how typical is it? Luke I tried to put in a question for Brisbane listeners and Lorraine wins it. And she lives in Sydney. Lorraine, tell us your address.
Have we got questions today?
We have?
And this is the usual, the pack, the book, the CDs. Now this is for Brisbane listeners. Okay, Brisley listeners. I want you to name the two science fiction fantasy movies that were made in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. And one was about a superhero. And I'll tell you where it was filmed around Brisbane may have been an extra in this. It was filmed at the University of Technology,
the Queensland University, the William Jolly Bridge. It was filmed at a factory and pink and bar and at Churchy And for those who don't live in Brisbane, Churchy is a famous school of England Grammar School in Brisbane. And the second movie, which was also a fantasy movie, it was filmed at the Gold Coast and it's about The
movie starts off Luke with a painting. The kids are looking at a painting of a ship on the wall and suddenly it comes alive and they get flooded and they end up going through a magical portal to the Gold Coast. And who wouldn't want to do?
Who?
If you know the.
Two movies, both movies, you'll get the Jim Haynes package And for Sydney listeners, here we go. It's one of my favorite characters. Luke Colonel Barney, Barney the builder. He built just about everything in Sydney, built the semi circular Key, he built Victoria Barracks, he built all the gun in placements. But he built two useless fortresses in Sydney that cost an enormous amount of money and the British government went off there. They went bonkers because of the expense and
these two forts were never used. They were completely useless until two movies were made, one about one of them in nineteen fifty nine used one of them, and the other one was used in a movie in two thousand. So where are the forts and what are the movies? And that's for our Sydney listeners.
Right, three, one, eight seven three?
And if you were an extra in any of those movies, I want people to ring in and tell us what it was like being an extra in all of Because they're making so many movies.
Have you been in a movie?
No, I've been on TV quite a bit, but I don't think I've never No, I can't never in an actual movie. Right, Yeah, they missed out, didn't they?
They did miss that. They did miss out. I don't want to get carried away, but I am going to say this. I was thinking, don't say it. But I am a bloke many years ago said to me, he said, I got an idea for a comedy and it's it involves a couple of cops. I reckon, I reckon, you'd be perfect for them. You're interested, I said, damn right, I'm interested. Nothing until I saw it? What was it? I'm not going to say it?
Oh, Okay, Well I reckon you and I could do that. I could be the offsider and you could be the you know, the good cop.
No, I would be the bad. Well I wasn't a bad cop. I was. I was to be the simple, sarcastic old bloke. Wow, that's that's something of an acting Ah. Right, camn resources to Studio nine. Please, I can't work like this. Right, we're talking movies today. We've got movie theaters to talk about. We've got questions, You've got everything you need and we need to clear this break ob talking movies in Australia and Jim hayneses here of course, Good o Luke and Jim.
On the text, Wayne says, could you tell me the name of the movie with a motorbike theme that was filmed in North Bondai, probably back in the sixties.
Oh, it rings a bell. I'll do it. I'll do my homework.
I'll find it.
Right.
I do remember it, do you? But only vaguely? I remember most things vaguely.
Get a mark.
Yeah.
It was listed in Possible Too and filmed at their island, report at their island at La Parus.
It was what about the other one?
I don't know the other that I was working on the movie there as a rigat. We set up all the big reps for the motorbike jump and all that sort of stuff. Oh wow, I need to need to see.
Did you did you meet Tom?
We were just a peasant.
You know what, Mark, If you're a peasant, you're in great company with us too, my friend, we're peasants with you. Thanks Mark for calling. Good Ay, Rob, Hello a mat, Hello mate? Have you got an answer? Have you?
The Siege of Pinchgut Fort Dennison.
That's it And it was nineteen fifty nine, and it wasn't a very good movie. It was an entirely fictional movie about escaped prisoners on Pinchcut Island, which is Fort Dennison. And you're quite right. So those two they only got half of each, but you know I'll give I'll give them a package each. Okay for knowing it was a mission impossible. Bear Island which is in Botany Bay and
Pinchcut or Fort Dennison, which is in Sydney Harbor. They were both built an enormous expense to stop the Russians invading us in the eighteen fifties by Colonel Barney and They were completely useless until filmmakers decided to use them a long time after.
Someone suggesting the film was called Stone. It was from nineteen seventy four. A motorcycle gang cracks down the people, killing them off one by one after one of their members. Witnesses are political. That's an eath, yes, or at least June nineteen seventy four. I don't know if that's an ai on. Here we go. We've got Wikipedia, so now
we know everything. We know everything Outroll biker film written direct and produced by Sandy Harbut a low budget film by Head and Productions start Ken Shorter, Helen Moose, Hughes Keysburn, Sandy Harbut.
Wow, well I wondered if it was sort of on it would have been before Easy Rider, wouldn't it.
Yeah?
But it ran for two hours. Wow. Wow.
I'll tell you what movies made in the sixties which we all thought so groovy and wonderful. Don't watch them now.
It also features Rebecca Gilling, Bill Hunter and Helen Moore.
Wow.
They were soundtrack composed by Billy Green yep, makes sense. Yeah.
There were certain Australian actors who were in everything. Bill Hunter was one of them. Chips, Rafferty any moneysy movie.
They were in it right, okay, Barry good eight good boys.
I was in the ned Kelly was Mick Jagger?
Wow?
Where did you?
Where did you have to.
Go out to Braidwood? It was all done in Braidle, or just out of Brady where I was filmed, but main street of Braidwood in those days. The movie they covered it in soil. The whole main street yep was covered in soil, so they made it look like the old times, but were out on a property and I hired them a white bull, white erapant that was a
white as the snow. Anyhow, the story was that there was aly a young bull that wouldn't lead to well, and the stunt men that were riding it, not me riding the bull, and the bloke that was leading it couldn't lead it, and the ball kept breaking away. So the big Pommy at the Big Pummy director said to me, Barry, will you lead it? I said yes, mate, And within three minutes or two minutes probably, I had a mesh bed on a hat, backet of houses and boots, and I was in the nad Kelly film. He tried to
break away the ball. I kept turning him around. I have to say, Mick Jagger was one of the biggest pigs of a man I've ever met, and that no ball.
Now, listen what you should have done. You should have said something like well there or something, because if you have a speaking part, they have to pay you more.
Oh well, that's that's right. But I keep looking for the credits. But I don't get any credit in the movie on Barry.
I am never watching that film again. And when someone says, oh, do you want to watch Dad Kelly, I'll say, no, bloody way now made Barry a Cambra should have heard the way Jagger spoke to him, and he didn't get enough money.
As a joke, he used to He had marry and Faithful as his lovely lady, of course in those days. And they were riding in the seying cantering across the ridge, and she was getting hurt when she was riding behind the saddle, so they put a bit of phone between her and the saddle the stop it from being hurt. And when they came back to the tenth for morning tea, here he was snitching at the bit of phone.
Oh, for goodness, me okay mate, Wow, that's next level. Thank you for most of that.
It's amazing the cause we get it.
Really is the wow. The judge who sentenced ned. You know who played the judge?
I don't. His name was red Redmond, Judge Redmond Frank. Of course it would be anything serials and pontificating would have to be for ranthering.
Did you know him?
No, no, never never met the man. He played Julius Caesar and Nero and just about anyone who was you know, pompous Boa Herod. I think he played King Herod in one movie.
Dave Hi Boys.
So yeah, good mate, how are you.
Very well?
Thank you.
I had a cameo role as an investigative journalist in a Jacqueline Bessett movie called Crime Broker. Wow, we happened to film. We filmed the day I'd been up all night for the birth of my first child.
Well, did you have to play someone who looked tired and harassed?
I just had to tired pilosly harassed them. But when I turned up, they actually didn't have a script because they didn't know what investiative journalists who chase people down the street on TV did. Yeah, and so We sort of shot it and then they said, oh, do you reckon? You could do that again word for word.
I was like, what, so you had lived and then they asked you to repeat it word for word.
Yeah, And then we had to get someone in, so I had to write it all downside to remember exactly what I said. We did it about three times.
But it was a lot of fun.
How did you get this, mate? Did you? Were you on the lookout for shoe as acting professionally? Not at all? No, not all?
I no, no, it's just a fellow that I knew rang me up and he said would you like to do something? And I said sure, why not?
Yeah?
Absolutely, a bit a bit of fun. And I thought, jacquelinber said had always been a favorite of mine since that fantastic scene with Nick else in the seat. Yes, and I thought, oh, you know, to see her and the fleas would be something else.
Yeah, and let's not discount the fact that she might have seen you, And thought, jeez, there's a bit of nick nolty about Dave.
Yeah, shame, this bloke's just ADDIE's first child.
But now she wouldn't have done that because I guess I had your first time what was I'm thinking? Damn it, Sorry, Dave.
Dave, you should have had a writing credit. Yeah, you wrote half the script.
No, I'm not quite, not quite, but I for whatever reason, my cameo roll went from about three minutes to six minutes.
All right, now, well, I'm doing my best to find a crime broker. In nineteen ninety three, Australian Japanese television film starring Jacqueline Bessett as a judge who moonlight as a crime broker, was also known as Corrupt Justice and was made here in Australia. Thank you, Dave. One day if we meet, I'll ask you for your autograph and I hope you'll share it with me. Jason, could I Yeah? Good mate? What's your claim to fame? If I put it like that?
So I was a sixteen I think it might have been about eighty five. They felt two and go a goal down on surface. Yeah, I remember that, and I'd be interested if they still do this for crowds. But I'm on the cover of it because I was in the jett crew which they had the jet pots back behind the rescue paints.
And what they did.
What they did is they filmed when the Surf Life Saving Championships were on, so all the crowd was there, and then they had say Nick Tate and Grant Kenny that trying to meet us up and they'd throw fifty dollars notes up in the air to get the crowd to move over so they'd have a crowd to film.
You know, technically they should have got everybody's name and paid them an extras fee.
Yes, please please tell me Jason, you've got that picture involving yourself. You've had a blowing up and it's on the wall somewhere, is it?
I actually don't and your mate they might be able to help me where you can get like covers and move Just doole and try and get the movie cover. I saw it years ago and then and look it doesn't definderarily show me, but I was in that boat.
Well as long as you know, well, the Film and Sound Archive in Canberra will will have it if you want to go looking.
We've got a scudion calls here and we don't have a scoidion minutes when I start talking next week after midday, can you just tap on the glass and say listen, I mate, yep, we've got callers here.
I will do that because I want to talk about some cinemas, one that you went to and one that I went to.
Uh huh, And beginning with w ending with inter Garden.
Yes, what an amazing cinema that wasn't very it has a claim to fame in history. Come Torgarten and the cinemas in Mascot. There were three of them. They're all owned by the same family and they used to all show the same movie. Yeah, and a bloke on a bike used to take them around.
Ah, it's a fascinating about that. To our callers, Michael and Catherine in particular, we might keep you. Oh and Brian who was in rip type bloody hell, we'll come to you next week. Can we grab their numbers, Kitty and Nelson and make sure we talk the next.
Two of my great uncles were in forty thousand Horsemen, and they're very excited, according to my mother, because they thought they were going to be, you know, dressed up as soldiers in the White Horse. They had to be Arabs.
Oh. They weren't very happy, so they played horses. Goodness me more of this next week. Thank you, my friend, a pleasure. Jim Haynes don't forget Wednesday this week one pm the Coast Center, Ewing Avenue, Little Bait and Jim will give you.
Yes and I'll make a free cdh you say you listen to us and you know it's on my website or the Coast Center website, Beautiful Coast Center for Seniors.
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Hollo Wony, what's happening, Luke. We're here from a beautiful Combink stadium. Mate, beautiful day out here, little Chili. Yeah, but we're ready for the game between the Panthers and the Tigers.
Yes, he'll be there with the big Man, with Piggy and with breaking news. Breeny, does he have any breaking news? If he checked in yet he will, he does.
He's got a lot of breaking news. Big Man's actually on the headset here at the moment. He's listening into your microphone.
I don't know.
I've been listening since eleven o'clock. Been some good stuff. You notice you're doing a lot of good stuff. Why you're right so well? Yeah, Well, one of the reasons I do good stuff is that when I when I finish, I go into a little room on my own and listen to you and I just make notes, and then I come out back the next week at nine o'clock and I just put that into practice. Yeah, but you don't need to do that.
I'm happy to spend some time with you, half an hour.
I wouldn't think you give me the time of day. I mean you get to do with Gus and One Iron and Mark Levy and m jni Fergo.
Only I only look up with Brieenie because I don't want to be on his show.
Friday. Okay, Raiders and the Bunnies are too, and then you'll be calling the West Tigers and the Panthers. That'll be something. I wonder why why Oney big Man doesn't do the commentary? Do you reckon. You know, give Jamie the weekend, the afternoon off and one he can call it with you.
Well, I'll tell you why that can't happen.
I've got one word for you.
School right, that's what does brilliant stuff? Will he see your buddy?
Right? That was outstanding? Ah, that was so good. Quiz time? Hello Lynn?
Hello Lynn.
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