Australia Overnight with Simon Owens - Fri 30 May, 2025

Hello world, and a song that was singing, come on, get happy.

A whole lot of love, and it's what we'll be bringing.

We make you happy.

We are the three we don't traveling to yellow, mus metal and love and then we'll keep moving.

On something it always happens where they are.

We win together and we get a happy feeling when.

We're singing a song traveling along.

There's a song that.

Was singing, come on, get happy, a whole lot of love, and it's what we'll be bringing. We'll make you happy, We'll make you happy, We'll make you happy.

Well, like I did warn you that this might happen, Tony mcmanuses off for another morning, and rightly so, like who calls in sick on a Thursday morning and then madly comes back to work on a Friday when you can have a long weekend to recover. So Tony's Tony's absolutely fine. Please don't panic. Anybody is just you know, we all get those little head golds and things occasionally, and these hours are shock at hours, let's be honest.

Yeah? Pretty good, pretty good, cruisy day. Yeah around the house. Yeah, just just enjoying not for tonight.

It's a bit. It's a bit sad, isn't it. People imagine that we leave that radio. People lead really glamorous lives and invariably what did you do today? Oh yeah, I went to the shops.

Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, need needed some salary. Yeah, we don't lead that exciting a lot, not that riveting. Well, somebody who's probably had a more exciting day than us is Caroly Kats and Barnes. And if you're watching the web feed, you've just got a great shot at the back of Caroly's.

Head from a beanie off the three aw Beanie Now hat hair?

Well the camera where is that camera?

We don't want to know where the camera is?

Look at this, here's you. I think that's that's my camera there that's doing that. I don't know.

Why, never mind?

How are you?

I am fine?

You make me laugh because when you said five and a half hours, First of all, your theme song, love it and get well wishes to the wonderful tournament manners. Sorry to hear that he's not well. But when you mentioned five and a half hours, I thought, well, one of the things I want to talk about tonight is I was on hold to Services Australia for five and a half hours.

On Tuesday, five and a half hours.

To three different departments.

So what time did you place the eleven o'clock eleven o'clock and.

I got off the phone at four twenty nine because they ended thirty.

But look, let me let me just explain to the listeners because it's a serious as well.

So for a lot of our listeners you might have something to do with Services Australia. We know that it combines everything together, Ato, medicare all those things as well, and it's your digital id online. And what happened was about a week ago. People might if if they read there was an article that somebody had had a tax refund that had been taken. They had two factor authentication.

Got to beef up your security.

So I got a little notice which was all official, you need to do this, that and what have you and instead of your username or whatever, have you considered.

A past key. So I thought that's okay, that sounds good. Past key. I've done news stories on them before. That's the way the utu I whack in a passkey?

Did it?

Did it?

Then a week later I thought I'd just go in and just check something because you get a little you know, notification in your normal email, go check in the mic of inbox. I got to put in the passkey, and of course it says, you know, got to open your Google password manager and an Android device or this or that, and I've got this past key and the passkey is not working, thinking what.

This is not? So I do a lot of shifts here, as you know.

So I came in spread some of the young ones in it, and one of them said that happened to me, and I went and and they said, you're going to need to ring up Services Australia and be warned. They will cancel you and they will issue you a new mic of ID.

Are you cute?

You know this is a young one saying.

And they said, and I'm thinking, well, these savvy tech people here at three I w so I said okay, and they said you'll need to set aside some time.

So I thought, well that's okay. You know, we know we have to wait on hold.

I'm thinking maybe allowed an hour or whatever day off one Tuesday, and so I rang and sure enough the lady said, yes, we've had lots of people ring about this pass key. She said, do you realize you didn't have to do it? And I said well, no what I read, because I'm firm, but I'm very polite. I spend half the day on the phone getting interviews. And I said, it does say to beef up security because of identity theft and things.

You do need it.

And she said yes, but when you use the Google plate, when you use the past key, you need all the devices hooked up. And she said, we're getting this an awful lot. And she said, unfortunately, I'm going to have to completely cancel you and then issue again again, start again. Well I said, okay, that's fine. I'm not an idiot when it comes to technology.

Do I lock technology? Not really, but I'm functional with it. And there we go. So anyway, so she deletes and she starts again. So that took me to about midday.

And let's just say it was two hours and a quarter on the phone trying to link to the taxation thing, and then onto the medicare that wasn't recognizing whatever, and then onto the other.

Another thing is.

I'm sitting there and when I said I'm not keen on technology, I'm not. But I do have the ability with my phone to put it on speaker and go and do some other errands.

So I did, you can multitier.

I can multitier right, because you don't want to lose your thing?

On?

Hold, did a load of washing? Did a basket of ironing? Made the bed? Did this? Did that?

Reading the newspapers online, which is what I always do, et cetera, reading and doing it on I'm just thinking to myself, how on earth do people would people that were older, how would you cope with it? Because along all the way and there are these lovely young people that end up answering the phone and as soon as one answered, I've said, if I get cut off, please bring me back. Oh, yes, yes, yes we will.

Now the moral of the story.

Is I have a lot of patience because it's no point yelling and screaming at people.

I have patients.

I'm a goal oriented person. My goal at the end is to get the new idea, get it.

All hooked up.

Yep. And they're working with you, and they're working within the system.

No, but they're not working they're not working off a script.

But they did say, we are getting so many of these and we understand why it is.

But you apparently are the passkey. I still don't understand.

You apparently need a pasky, but if you're not using paskis anywhere, you don't actually need it. So you know, five and a half hours later, everything is all done. But I just thought to myself, no wonder people get Well, you know, what's the word the verb is whelmed.

I don't quite know what whelmed is.

But I wasn't underwhelmed, but I wasn't a bit overwhelmed as well. And I'm just thinking, people try and help, but g whiz. And you know, I ended up with a tax office and I said to the fellow, you know, it's only the law abiding people that actually ring you, isn't it.

And it went oh, And I said, well, you know, it just takes so long.

And I just I deal with a lot of older people in my life as well, and I thought, this is a very difficult situation because through really no fould of my own, because I knew what my passkey was, it just wasn't recognizing it. I've had to start all over again. And as you and I would know that to set up something that you perhaps set up twenty odd years ago, to rego and relink things and the

I just thought, Gee, it's frustrating.

Did you are you caught up also in a couple of years ago.

No, I'm not, but I do feel for the people as part of the network that unfortunately can't So for everybody that knows there was a hack into the nine network Australia and there are certain people that are affected. You only get one taxation number for life. Yes, they can't do it. And these people in our organization that are affected. For them to get into their you know, ATO portal, you get a thirty minute window.

And it's very very difficult.

And whether you've got an accountant or you're doing it yourself, it's a nightmare.

So yeah, So for those who don't know you're one of those where nine copped the cybersecurity attack, people's tax file numbers were leaked or whatever. I don't know what information they got, but yeah, there has been a block put on my tax file number. So anytime I ever need to do anything tax related, it involves a call to the tax office, which you just don't want to have to do. You don't want to have to ring them and be on hold all that time.

You don't.

But this was the funniest thing is within that window of one of our holds on. I actually went and picked up the kids from school. I had the phone on speaker in the car naturally hands free, because I thought, and it did say your wait time is thirty eight minutes, but up and back to the school for court to do this is right sent to the kids when you get in the car and do this.

And it got home. But I just thought, it's just one of those things that you just it's frustrating.

Yeah, one double three six nine three one double three eight eighty two.

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We'd love it, We'd love your calls. It is seventeen after midnight, which is seventeen after ten in Perth and in Adelaide it's thirteen to midnight quick break. We'll come back with more of caroly Kats and Barnas and your calls. Caraly Kats and Barnas is here in the studio and we take your calls one double three eight eighty two or one double three six nine three text us as well. I haven't given that number out yet. Zero four double seven six nine three six ninety three, Curently. Carl rung

Get help, Thank you, Carl. That is the point.

So look, in a long winded way, I should have said in the beginning, these people have a very difficult job to do. But as I said, one has to be focused on the objective and things. I'm not someone that loses my temper on the phone or anything like that, but it is very difficult, and I actually thought, I'm I'm up with it as much as I possibly can be. But for older people to get help, because it's very difficult. But as I said, five and a half hours, I'm

You can't.

Don't give up because, as the lady said, you've got to reload all your information as well.

But yeah, a little bit difficult.

So if there's anybody out there that's had similar let us know. I mean, hats off. I got my I got my thing all solved and done. But again, you need a window of time. And if you're a mum with very young kids and things, or you've got caring duties that are on how on earth do you get it done?

Well, my accountant who does my tax return, because of the lock on the tax file number, he can't just log in at any time and do my tax return. He needs to ring me and say I'm going to do your tax return now. Can you ring the government now? And if I'm out and about doing something, then I've got to stop what I'm doing to ring.

But even you have what a fifteen to twenty minute wait to get through the normal number.

I know, and I don't know what the answer is. I mean, it was funny with one of the young people on the phone that was helping. I said, you know, another twenty or thirty years your job will be defunct because all of you people will be all of our ages and you'll know what to do. But it is you want to speak to someone to help, but it

Because I look at it, scroll through Instagram.

Video, you know this is what I'm doing now exactly.

Helen's called in from South Melbourne. Morning.

Helen, Hi, Simon, Hello, Curly, Hello Helen, Arlie. I find who's such an antidepressant?

Thank you very much.

She's always she sounds so cheerful.

Doesn't she have to be?

You have to be, Helen.

I think we share some sociological and moral philosophies. Oh anyway, I find look as an we'll not older old person with no family and very participation in the technological world because I can't afford it and be I would never understand it. But I'm outraged at the sheer lack of efficiency and systems and caring of the modern world. Ye for example, I don't even know what My goalt is.

Yeah, and that's a common thing. So Helen, what I'll say to you is been from good experience. My mum's ninety and my mother in law is eighty six, and they've both got some health issues, etc. It's very very difficult for older people of the generation, say in seventies and eighties. Not everybody, but let's just say that if you're not up with some of the technology or everything online, it's very difficult. And so I do a lot of

Doctor, when it works, it is.

Really and it is really good, and it's sort of think of it as a big folder that you can link up with.

Whatever it is.

How can it exist? And the government has never told me about it? Like a couple of months ago, I had an email saying, presumably from my GOV. Saying that there was a problem and I suspected it with spam and it involved my bank. That's right. It knew what bank I was with. So to notify the bank and to try and notify my GOV and say I don't know what this is all about, and I don't know

Look, Helen, I honestly I hear what you're saying, because there are so many levels of security as well, and you know there are lots of warnings about scams and things like that as well. The only thing is and look on I must say there are a lot of government departments now that do and I can say this because with mom and mother in law, there are a lot of government departments out that just say, or if there's somebody in your family that knows about.

Computers, just ask them.

It is very, very difficult and as we know there are a lot of spam emails around, Helen. I know that you said that you're on your own. You didn't didn't have family or anything. If you've got some friends and perhaps they've got children in their you know, late teens, early twenties or thirties, maybe they can help.

But there are.

Almost everybody I know has died or moved in the last four years. So I think it'd be really a good idea if horrible counsels actually had an offer specializing in I'll.

Tell you what he and I'll tell you where they are. We won't say on air the subburb that you're in, but in local government areas they do run computer courses online for people that have no expertise and no knowledge and they haven't used computers or anything at all. I know that in the area that we are they often run them every couple of months, just for people to do. Now that is scary, of course for people that have never done it, but.

What you will.

I can do all that, and I know they do that, but just to help you out when you have you know, as I said, I hear the term my gov being floated around, and I think, well, I guess I've been on the pension for some years. I guess if it was something I should know about, they would have told.

Me, well, you won't have my GOV account. We must move on.

Helen.

Thank you for the call, but if you haven't set up on my GOV account, effectively you don't have one. I would say anytime, anytime that the bank rings you, it's not the bank ringing you.

It's a scam.

Banks just don't be a scam.

It would be a scam.

So anytime the bank calls you, or the government calls you, hang up. Don't even bother talking to you. Hang up, look up the number for the bank or the government department that supposedly called you, and call them back, because then you know you're talking to the real people. Definitely, That's that's the one bit of advice I argue there.

It is you should be able to walk.

You should be able to walk into your local council offices and say, hey, I need help with something, I pay my rates, help me, and I reckon they should, Oh, there's probably some sort of service that they may offer that we don't know.

I mean, look that counsels do a lot of good things as well.

They always got a bad knock because they seemingly waste money quite often in projects that don't often need doing, such as sitting.

Amongst all that infrastructure, there probably are things.

And that they probably as well.

I know, I I do understand where Helen is coming from as well, and it is scary, but eats one of those things that are at some point they are going to force everybody online because.

That's the way that it's going unfortunately.

Yes, all right, thanks Helen, good luck with that. Greg's in Sheltenham.

I Greg, oh Simon. We haven't spoken for so long, and you take me on, Greg Cheltenham. No frills, no baggage, no nothing. You listen to what I say. I've only got two points. Yes, I love you both.

Oh, thank you, Greg.

Simon. If you'd like to hear something really hilarious and explanatory at the same time, go back to the old Monty Python. The worm has turned and that will explain everything.

Oh I don't think I know that sketch. I don't think I'm a bit of a Monty Python Aiernardo over my journey, but I don't think I know that one. So I am writing that down now. The worm has turned all right, I will check it out.

And by the ways to their Simon, Yeah, by g your Essen and boys gave it a red hot go to night mate.

Did they did Endon play today? Did they? How did we?

Did we win? No? But oh boy, character there are good.

I have faith in the old Dons. Embarrassing. I didn't know they played though.

That's the talk against Simon.

Greg.

Thank you.

Greg also reminded of people Citizens Advice Bureau. That's also very good, is it? Yes, it is, and they're still around. So Citizens Advice Bureau will be able to.

Help the Citizens Advice Bureau. Yes, okay, I've not heard of them.

Yeah, they can give free legal advice as well for a certain period of time and they will actually help you with issues that you might have.

Okay, yeah, well that's a good one.

That's all right?

Is that in like? Is that national? Is that all states?

All states?

I'm still a little bit of Google in the breaking and get the ones for here as well.

But it is good.

Margaret is in Perth time, Margaret.

Post time, and I have not spoken with you, and I don't know you particularly if you.

Know what I mean.

No, that's that's fair enough. Yes, I'm infrequently on, so it's it's a rare occasion. So you and I are both no worries.

And I know, Caroline, I am seventy four years old and I have had no problems at all with Centerally Medicare. I'm trying to think of all my gap. I have recently been in emergency at r pH and I wanted to look at my record health record, you know what I mean like that, because I wanted to know what the report of my ex trays were. And I just said, everything was fantastic.

Oh, yes, great, No, that's wonderful, Margaret, And there you go. Margaret seventy four, she's an advocate as well. Well, once you get the system, it's great. It works, and that's wonderful.

It was fantastic. It is no problems whatsoever.

Yeah, that's good.

That's a that's a good review, Margaret. They'll be happy with that.

I basically locked myself out by having invented a pass key and using it, but it wasn't recognizing what I was doing because I needed another bit that I didn't have on the phone.

So there we go. Such to be canceled and reborn.

Absolutely fantastic.

Well, good on your Margaret, thank you for that. Hopefully that gives other people inspiration to at least look into it if they haven't done so already. Appreciate the call Margaret, lovely to chat to you for the first time. Hope we get to do it again.

When you're right.

When I hear i'll probably ring beautiful.

I look forward to next time we meet. Thanks Margaret. We'll knock off another break here and back to your call. So one double three eighty two and one double three six nine three, keep them coming. Gabe from the newsroom has just dropped off a breaking story, as it were for Melbournians. If you're listening in South Australia or Western Australia, this won't be for you, but we need people out

And her image is on the Victoria Police website.

Yes Pole Vic yeap Vic Pole the website, there's a picture of her there. But if you're out and about, especially in the Cranburn area. We need your help. We want to we want to be able to let the family sleep peacefully tonight. One's there. We united with her, so if you're in that area, please look out for her and her name is Ivy. Keep an eye out please. Now you've got information currently.

What was that?

Oh yes, I was going to say so I mentioned Citizens Advice Bureau before a little bit, slipping back into into wa.

So Western Australians knows Citizens Advice Bureau in Victoria. It is the Community.

Information and Support Victoria cis VIC and it's the peak body representing local community information and support services. And you know it can help you with with lots of different things as well, So you know.

Things like that.

I mean, we I feel for anyone who's older that doesn't have a grasp of technology because it moves very very fast.

Yeah, but I also know.

The other side of having got two people that have no idea of the technology and one is trying to do it for them.

All the time, you can see.

Them being more and more marginalized. And you know the world isn't catered to that anymore. So it's a matter of trying to keep up and do it as well, and we hear every second day about scams and not doing this and not doing that, and yeah, it's just one of those things that happens, and.

There will be people listening who go, oh, I don't want to look stupid to I don't want to reach out. I feel like an idiot. I'm fifty three. I've always been very good with technology and stuff. My kids run rings around, of course, so I'm at an age in my fifties where I'm pretty good with most things. But there is stuff that my kids know that I will never know.

Because you've had to breach. You've had to bridge.

You've known the world pre computers and pre iPhones, because don't forget the iPhone's only been around sixteen years and the mobile has been around just over twenty two years. I think it is you've had to bridge. You've gone from that world to this world where we've got a couple of generations now that that's all they've known. That's all they've known is the technology. And the thing is

I got my thing done. It's more the waiting time and just the having to do it and having.

To reprove yourself from Relink. And then there was an error on the system as well that sort of got overridden as well. And you can always be funny on the phone, like I said, Look, you know, I'm not a complete clutch of technology, however, and then they'll ask you other questions and they gave a link in code on a couple of things. It's just two hours and fifteen minutes on hold to the ATO at the end to the follow it's only Laura binding people that are bringing.

You please help and they did.

Yeah, lovely. So CISVIC dot org dot au if you Victoria CABWA dot com do autea in South Austraia, South Australia. I've just googled Citizens Advice b your South Australia and it came up. In South Australia, free legal advice and assistants are primarily provided by the Legal Services Commission of South Australia. So that covers everyone, I think, and if you're in Sydney or Brisbane listening over the web, sorry, look it up yourself. We'll be busy. We've got too

Hi, Sean Olright, so it's been a while since I've talked to you and Caroline.

Hello, Hello Sean.

Yeah, I'll be back calling again quite often soon. I'm just having a few technical differties at the moment. But anyway, yeah, I was when you when you I have diffldy with government places and that sometimes do like I need to get some help from this place, and I need to prove that I've got a mental illness and to prove I've been diagnosed with a mental earners, I've got to get all letter and it's going to cost me ninety dollars to get the letter.

Would who do you have to get that letter from? I would have thought a doctor would provide that letter for nothing, that's.

Right, No, but Tasman, now there's not many medicare doctors what.

You mean, So you've got to pay for an appointment to go to the doctor to get them to do the letter. Yeah, that's annoying.

Don't you think a letter like that? You could just say can you write me a letter? And they write it out, there's twenty bucks.

Thank so you later, I would have thought that should be the way things goes.

Common sense doesn't. It doesn't apply.

It doesn't always work the way it should. But yeah, we agree with you Short, that should be the way it is.

And when you're working with tax departments and other places, sometimes auto voiceover things you get when when your first ring said the lincolor somewhere and they go do this and do that, and then they explain all the rules and every time you're ringing out to go through the same thing over and over and drives your batty.

I know, I must have met.

I would have loved Simon's theme song to beat Beyond whole Thing, because I think it would put everybody in.

A good movie.

But if you heard that on rotation for.

Two fifteen seconds, and I took a screenshot as well on my phone because I thought, you know, we'll just see, we'll just see how long the wait time is.

Well, good to hear from you, Sean, You're right it has been youngs since we've spoken, so good. Good to hear from you. Thanks for the call. David's in Israel. Hi, David.

Simon, Caro, Hi charently great to me from Sean the blast in the past. I'm sorry about his troubles, but I'm patty here from him and he's okay. Caroly, you should be PREMI Victoria Minister of Australia and probably Erica too.

No, but you know what I meant, but to give us. Yeah, I love my segment, love my stuff. I'm fraid I'm not in radio. But what I will say David is I did actually make a comment to my kids and I said, you know, if I had the opportunity to be whatever it is, a government minister for the day, I would just want to revolutionize the phone system for all these things. I would want to have a quicker service. I want to employ people to just pick up the

But to get I mean more, the more Jackson's in the world, the better, because he answers than he has a beautiful conversation see and sometimes it's the pleasure court government is terrible here. Also, that's the thing. They have this thing here it actually works very very well. That actually it's easy to get too and it works well. My problem is I keep getting spam ats from your government Australia. You are this EUR account is about to be deleted. I mean, what have I got to do

Yeah, And that's the thing, isn't it.

I mean, as I said, I will put money on this one day that there will be a court case where somebody evidently doesn't pay their tax and it goes right to write to the Supreme Court and they say, well, I didn't know that it was for real.

I could have been scammed.

I thought it was because you.

Just don't know that there's scams around all over the place. Now, David, thank you a lovely caller and we love hearing from you as well.

Stay safe, David, stay really safe.

Thank you. Mate. Adrian's and Mildura High Adrian.

Oh, good morning, Simon, Carol morning, good morning, and I just got a couple of issues. Well, this is my experiences with my guv. Firstly, when you're ringing up center link, unless you're really they terminated a court because you're abusive, but the call drops out because obviously you're lining up waiting for forty five minutes to out and normally getting through all these since lenk departments, they don't even apparently.

Yeah, and Adrian, you reminded me of something as well, because what I will say is that with all the departments that had to contact, there was an option to press hash.

To be on a callback.

But the reason why I didn't do it is and this is also a bugbear fly. I don't have many bug bears, but simon, you love technology, you love the iPhone, you'll know In the old days of a couple of years ago, if you were on the phone and someone was ringing through to you, it would actually come up and say so and so is ringing except or reject call.

But nowadays you.

Can be on the phone, you get off the phone call and suddenly there's a miscall from some or whatever. And I thought to myself, well, hang on a second. If I press the hash to be in the callback for them to ring me back, I can't then ring the next apartment because I'll go around. I've actually got to wait on hold and see this sh.

That makes sense, That makes sense.

Yeah, yeah, So the other thing too, if I can talk about your health issue. Now, when I went in to try and change some of my health dates, because I'm not the one putting him in, it's my GP or the the specialist that does this, it gets gets put through by somebody from center Link or my go onto your my health record, you know that section. Yes, Now, when I went in to try and change it, I'm not.

Yeah, that it is.

Yeah it is. So we've all got our little stories, haven't.

We exactly right? Good on you, Adrian, Thank you. I hope at least feels all be better getting it off your ches. We do need to break back in a second with more from Caroly, Kats and Barnas. It's eight minutes to news time. Jim is in warnable. Hi, Jim died Jim. Hello, Jim, Jim.

A pocket doll. Yeah, I think it is.

He's not paying attention whatever he's doing. Sounds like he's in a car. I never mind. We'll get to we'll get back to your gym. Leo's on the road and day Leo.

Okay, I am dysplexic, have been all my life, and my biggest horror is when I'm told you have to go to the app and I have so much trouble getting it, getting getting things done. I do have people that help, yeah, but it is one of those cases where I feel because I don't know, just scared to ask. But most people understand that it's just it's I have to ask and ask, and it's just it's so much. It's so you know, sort of I don't know, soul destroying in a lot of ways.

But Leo, aren't you an uber driver?

Yeah?

Yeah, well I can. I can run that appy because it runs else It basically runs itself. But to get onto it, I had to go through my job service provider. It took us about two three weeks to finish to get it done, which is apparently quite normal, but yeah, I had to go back over and over again and finally got it installed, finally got off all the information uploaded and got on the app. But again, the apport runs itself. I mean, it just tap it and then slide at the end.

Yeah, no, that's fair enough.

You have to get a three O W app make sure you download that crystal clear quality and sound.

Yeah, I'm pretty easy. It's very easy.

Easy, it's great. It's very very good for the nine network. I think Jim is back.

Sorry, just uploading I find very very hard.

Yeah, no, no, that's fair enough to Yeah, thanks thanks Leo. Jim is back from Warnable.

Hi Jim, good morning.

Sorry.

So, yeah, so you hopped out of the truck for men. I didn't think i'd be up so quick.

That's all right.

I signed the lad before it takes the calls Jackson. If you ever get to figure us off the pension offers, don't always take them for granted. Because when I when they took the part age pension off me because I was over the asset limit.

They told me.

I had forty six thousand dollars more than I actually did. Oh yeah, and when then the other then after I lost the pension signmon the money girl applied for her as soon as Australia health Care Card and you can have an income of ninety thousand dollars before that cuts out. Yeah, and she's I was talking to her when she was doing on the computer because she's in Bellavat, because she she does all that thing for me, because I can't do it.

And.

Because she won and want me tax details in the last financial year they were telling the machine was telling her from the from the pension office and the tax office on the pens office.

Sorry but.

Me and come was.

Eighty thousand and it was only fifty six working part time.

And I guess Jim, in that case, you do need to Yeah, that's what I mean. You do need to ring to try and get things sorted out. You can't always do everything online. You would to be able to speak to somebody as well. I'm glad I got sorted out, Jim.

Good advice from Jim. Don't always just trust the numbers. Always double check back in a sec. We got news in one minute. It's nearly eleven o'clock in Perth, nearly half past twelve in Adelaide and nearly one o'clock in Melbourne. Has been lovely.

It's been lovely to have you as well. So I get to see you all weekend though. Yes it's a bonus tape.

Yes for three aw listeners. I'll be on Saturday night. And Sunday night and Carol will be in the newsroom.

I'll be in the newsroom as well. Tiffy. Thank you for your messages. We'll get to them after the break.

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of text messages eron.

See you next week.

Thank you, Simon. I enjoyed the rest of the show. It's loorry to have you on air.

Good on your thanks Caroly, always a pleasure to work with you too. After the news. More of your calls one double three six nine three or one double three eight eighty two, keep them coming, whatever is on your mind.

Now, this is Australia Open Eyes with Simon Owens.

Our number two of Australia Overnight. Good to have your company and give us a call one double three eight eighty two or one double three six nine three whatever is on your mind. You're welcome to give us a buzz. Jackson and I are here taking your calls right through for the next four and a half hours. Thank you to Caraly, Kats and Barnas the Princess of all things common sense. Yeah, we've got to come. Is there a nickname for Caraly in that I think the common Sense

Len's in Melton, Hilen, hi'mon, good to speak to you again.

Thanks mate.

First before that me call greatly from Sean.

Yeah, good to hear his voice.

It was now getting on a technology things like computers and that I'm uh not really with it. Ah, but the what is she brilliant? She does everything?

Yeah, that's good.

Yeah, she does. She does all the banking and this, that and the other and buy stuff. And because she's in the arts and crafts and the issues place much she's got this big bruin there and it's for a craft.

How do you know she's not sticking a bit aside for a rainy day? No trust sorry is she trustworthy?

Uh?

Well, I don't know.

I'm still making your odd check because when time just a short forty five years.

But that's beautiful.

She's doing okay. But but I remember back in the day, so Simon, I was working in the IDEO and this would have been late sixties, early seventies, and they ruled they desarted the gay computer, right, Yeah, and as I heard the word computer. I said, that's it, We're done, you know. But they came up for these majing things saying, oh, but it's going to it's copy. It's going to reduce the amount of paperwork. Yes, yeah, which I think it's done. The opposite.

Actually, Well, that that's the thing, isn't it. Once upon a time, all of these things was. The idea was that everything was going to be excuse me, digital and we wouldn't need much paper. But the amount of stuff I have to print out now is ten times as much as Iver used to.

When one thing Simon, you know, he said, what would you have liked to have done for a living?

Yeah?

Right? And I always wanted to fly aeroplanes. I'm writing aeroplanes. Yeah, them the corners for twenty six years, and I said, I want to fly aeroplanes. And I flew a plane when I was twelve and a half years old. It was the Chipmunk. I was seeing in the front seat, the pilots in the back seat. And these planes were used as trainers for the guys during World War Two in Australia that were learning to fly spitfires. They are

Yeah, because you don't want to be flying at one thousand feet and then drop fifteen hundred feet. Do you know you don't want to get that math wrong.

Yeah, I get a couple of figures rowing. You're in all sorts exactly.

At least you got to fly it as a twelve year old. That's pretty impressive.

That's one mate where we did one turn in that chipmunk and I can always remember because I was sitting in the front umber see the wing behind me, and it was just vertually if you put your hand down, it was a versus spinning on the spot. So we're in about nine near grees.

Wow, that is that is amazing. Good on your lend. Thanks for the call. Fascinating as always, Thank you for that. Thank you John, who is doctor John? Who's just texted what most physical wallets now have RFID shielding to prevent skimming or not? My wallet? I think I've had my wallet for about fifteen years. It's a bit ratty and yeah, but I didn't know that. But that's andy to know. If you've got a new wallet, that's good. He says. The downside is you've always got to take out your

Sean Simon, Hey you going, yeah, good things.

I'm my first song called to you, but a long time long listener through our w and that last you know.

So this this operation will hopefully help with the with the injury and the ongoing pain.

Well I'll be I'll be braduating to my friend. I've had to play basketball down at your local basketball arena. I started radio with SO the FM I think when I was got ten. I can't remember there the band, but it was on a corner of South Road in the Pen Highway.

Just get all there nine.

Points something I think southern.

Isn't it?

Three?

I can't remember.

I'm forty four years old down Simon.

Yeah, yeah, quite.

I had a really good difference between a disc jockey a DJ and an elite pro DJ of the last one.

Oh you are.

Okay, you're more qualified than me.

No, I think you did quite a good job, sir.

Oh that's very kind.

Thank you, And I'll be bringing up lately having a bully up of a pall with Tony because who are not clear used to do night. It's nice to caught him up and was spared to speak about aviations and say probably in mine.

Also, you're probably one of those ones who would drive by anchor and woody nuts.

I love what if you're out there? Son? I love him, mate, Sean, you're a good bloke.

Mate.

You are the definition of a good Australia.

I love you.

For those listening through five Double A and six PERR, Sean's talking about when Tony Mocla used to host Australia Overnight for the three a W audience and.

He does a great job with the after the job and he's doing he's doing.

Very well there. But yes, I was just I was just explaining to those listening that Tony Mocla has an extraordinary recollection and knowledge of all things there a nautical and to the point where it drives people crazy. His incredible knowledge.

I love it, Yeah, I love it.

Knowledge is power. You might remember there was a song in the eighties foot the Bear, but It's ships to be a square and that. Yeah, it's definitely relevant in these days because I'm My drug of choice is learning and I've just with cigarettes, which I spoke as was

You're addictive.

And funnily enough, I had really bad asks for growing up. And the reason before that this is unfortunately I lost my mother at the tender age of five months old. She was killed in a fire in Cheue in nineteen eighty two. On February two nine, wrote a movie about screen Time productions, and unfortunately the movie is called Underbelly. File was a maount that got away and I'm a baby in the movie, but there may be a girl, so you have to pay me. That's a different story altogether.

Down my right leg.

So imagine when you're the ind the army right and you're left right left. For every third or fourth step, it's like, yeah, yeah, was all the way up the leg and my back the l five. It's just I would rather I don't want to be too blunt listened out there with Australia, but I served for my country in two thousand and three. Well no, that was four. I'd rather be stabbed in the stomach than this. Paanell I to help with a bit of pliers.

Well, I tell you, yeah, sure, I've got to get to a break. We're well over due. But lovely to hear from you, lovely to chat to you, and I hope we get to do it again. And good luck

Hi, Sandra, morning son.

How are you?

Yeah? Good? Thank you?

Would you hear your horse here?

That's very kind, thank you and yours?

Yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's not good news with it, but that girl.

Very sad.

M Yeah, so she what's the story She didn't make it to school or she was coming home.

Well, they haven't said, but it does say she was last seeing wearing a Navy school uniform and carrying a backpack and she was scene at eight twenty am. So it sounds to me like she's left home to go to school. But I'm filling in blanks there that I honestly don't know. But it's yeah, because it's not it's not in the report. It doesn't say, But my guess is that eight twenty am in a school uniform, she was on her way to school and never turned up.

Yeah, well, I just hope she's okay.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah. So you had a good weekend I have.

It was went out for dinner with the family last night because my son is now today now being in Melbourne and Adelaide time, it's now the thirtieth of May. It's my son's nineteenth birthday today, so we went out for family celebrations last night, which was which was lovely.

Yeah, it's my friend in it's her sixty ninth birthday today.

Which is a little older than my son.

Yeah, well we've been for instance, we were in primary school. It's in Sydney, and yeah, so it's a long friendship. I mean she's turned sixty nine and in October I'm going to turn one year older than that.

So so you're you're a Sydney girl originally Sandy. What caused Sandra to move from Sydney to Ringwood.

Well, it was some difficulties with my with my nuclear family and you know, someone needing to get away from an abusive situation.

So a bit of distance to.

Melbourne when I was forty years old and I've been here since and it was the best move I ever made. A Couple of years before I moved, in ninety ninety six, my grandmother unfortunately passed away, but she left me half a house in Sydney and it was enough to put a quite a good deposit on the unit down here. And then a couple of years after I moved down here, I was retrained from my job. But the payment I

That's good. Well, I'm glad that worked out for you, because not everybody can escape troublesome situations. I'm glad that worked out for you.

Yeah, but you know, I enjoyed my weekend and I enjoyed Wednesday night too, because like originally came from New South Wales. I'm a.

Oh, you're a State of Oranges fan.

Oh.

Yes, I enjoyed seeing the boys points Land.

It was great.

You know, it's something that most people in the southern parts of the country just don't quite get. Is that passion for the state of origin.

No, yes, well, I'm very passionate about it, you know, to the extent that I actually can't watch watch all of it, you know of it if I if I if it guests to the point where I know that New South Wales are going to win, then I'll that I'll switch it on and watch the end of it. But if it looks like the Queenslanders are going to win, then I'll switch it off. I say with my aofl to the Swans, but I'm not talking about them this

Yeah, it was a disappointment, wasn't it. Oh yeah, there's nothing worse than a big margin in a grand final. It just makes the whole year pointless, no it does.

I mean, you know, they were doing so well up to learn and I don't know, it was as if the switch went off in the Grand Final. They just and they weren't on the field, you know. And to lose tour queen playing team too, I mean that was that was a you know, the worst part, you know, you know, being in New South Wales person the originally you know.

But anyway, alrighty well, lovely to chat.

You do, have a good rest of your morning and I'll talk to you again when you're on.

Good on your Sandra. Thanks for wet time is really whipping through this morning. I don't know why. Twenty seven to midnight in Perth, just after one o'clock in Adelaide, and just after half past one in Melbourne, breaking back with more VI calls, Vern James, Greg Jim will be with you soon. Vern is intra relgan hi Vern.

Here going soon and.

Thank you very much for answering the call. And I feel sorry for that little girl wandering around, and I'm thinking, how comes she's here wandering around? But anyway, we don't know, but there's obviously something there. Now, so I want to ask you a question, and if you get this question right, you'll get five points on your leaderboard.

Yes, this is Vern's Quinns for those who want to aware.

Yep, that you're going pretty good at the moment. Now, a man walked into a shop and on the wall with a photograph in a frame, and he looked at the photograph and he said, brothers and sisters. I don't have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Now, I want you to have good think about it is fairly technical, but if you get the answer right, you'll get five points on your board. If you don't get

Brothers and sisters. Yeah, so he doesn't have any brothers and sisters. That instant, that instantly tells me that the person in the picture is himself. No, no, okay.

Brothers and sisters, for I have none. That that man's father is my father's son. Now, in the next two people that call in and reckon they've got it, I'll give it to you, but if they don't, I'll have to take some numbers off you.

Sorry, so well, so I actually lose points. I would have taken more time to work through the math of it. Oh well, it is what it is, all right. So we're going to see if callers can gets the answer. How will we know if they're right, because only you know the answer.

Because I know the answer, and if they get it right, I will say bingo, right, okay.

But but if I move on from you to the next caller, you're not going to be there to say bing go because I'll be talking to them.

No, I'll be here.

I'll be here, okay, So you'll hang on and if people want to have a guess at it, we can come back to you and see if.

There are But I feel sorry for that poor little girl walking around. She might be cold and everything. Goodness knows what's happened to her. But there's a lot of people out there, and uh, I feel sorry for the family.

Yes, well, we don't. We don't know what the what the story is. We just know that she's she's gone missing. We don't know that there was foul play. Hope. Hopefully she just jumped on the wrong bus or something and got herself lost. Hopefully it's as innocent as that, and we get her back Maggie and has texted through that the answer is that he's looking at a picture of his own son. Is Maggie correct? Vern?

Oh?

Sorry, is Meggie correct? There? Bingo, Well done, Maggie, Maggie, congratulations to you. So I don't get points, though, do I? For Meggie getting it right?

Yeah? Anyway, you're up on the lead the board at the moment, so you've got another five points.

Okay, So I do get points even though I got it wrong and Meggie got it right on my behalf.

Yeah exactly because if it was if an answer or a listener got it right within the two questions, he's got it right fair enough, Maggie. Yeah, welling ding.

Ding, Well, thank you for that and there we go. So that's worked out well for me. I appreciate the call as always, Van, thank you. James is in Adelaide, Hi, James.

Good morning, Simon, Simon. I I I just told the number right, the one one three, double three six no three right to get through it. It's not contact in my phone right today, it's got exact security comes up.

It was exact security.

Ye in couples, and then security in just one capital and before that I had daily ritual for about a year now I worked.

That one out mate, even though you've never put the number in their phone is.

A contact, yeah, never put it as a contact.

Never.

That is intriguing. I do know with my phone, if I get an email from somebody and they put their phone number in it and then they ring me, the phone will suggest this might be so and so, because because it reads your emails, which I'm not terribly happy with. But yeah, so it suggests names. But yeah, that's that's weird that it would suggest those.

And I know several businesses even though you haven't got them in the contact, their contact number will come up and the business the name will come up.

So yeah, I think that's going to happen more and more where it doesn't actually matter what you've got in your contacts. They're they're going to be able to I think artificial intelligence creeping into all these operating systems on phones and things is going to well, it's getting better and better obviously, but at the moment artificial intelligence is clever, but it makes a hell of a lot of mistakes.

Yep.

Now what I really rang up for, Simon is a couple of birthdays. Now that I've have a singer, country sting American singer w Chad.

I've heard the name, Yeah, I know the name.

A tragic story in her life. She her mother committed a die. She is a CRT and she's actually looking after her sister's daughter because her mother is in jail, in and out of jail. So yeah, he's had a bit of a bit of a rough life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And she said, she said, spending time with her granddaughter taught her there is a life after death, you know, which obviously she's referring to her mother. Yeah, and yeah, she's she does. She does a cover of I Want

Marie Fredrickson? Why am I thinking? Roish rock set?

The one?

Mate?

Yeah?

Mate, birthday today and she passed away.

Yeah, she sadly passed away. Way to you.

Yeah, I love that.

Song that must have been love the Look and Listen to Your Heart. Yeah, all very good song.

Rock Sett did a tour and I went and saw the concert twice. I enjoyed it the first night and I actually I bought a ticket for the first night, and then the second night a friend had a ticket and their partner was sick, so they said, would you like to go and see the concert? And I said, well, I went last night, but I really enjoyed it, so I did. I went and saw it the second night in the row.

That would have been good there and she she she suffered for seventeen years with cancer, so she passed away. Yeah, she had for seventeen years. Man, far Yeah, that's a long time.

Isn't it.

It's just that's cool, it's awful.

Yeah, that's right.

And then the last black past is well, it's only because he's passed away. Michael Summer from Calling the Gang passed away on the twenty nine.

Okay, yeah, you remember Calling Calling the Gang.

Yeah, yeah, well I do, but of a little probably just a smidge before my time for me to really know them, but certainly know of them. Yes, yes, I couldn't name yourself Aft the top of my head.

They're probably most well known hit will probably be Celebration, Yes, yeah, and I love Cherish and female friend of mine she loves Joanna because that's her name.

Obviously I thought Cherish was by the Association or is that a different song?

I'm not followed the same, but yeah, I didn't have those Let's sing Cherish.

Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, but no celebration. Celebration is a great song. I love that, but I also I love Dragon's version of that too.

Yeah they're good, mate.

Yeah, there you go, some interesting stats as always, not a problem, mate. Thanks for that, beautiful. I appreciate the call. Thanks Greg, take care of cheers. Was that Greg or James? Sorry, I'm just that was that was James, wasn't it? Yeah? Greg's up after the break. Sorry. If I actually just read what you had on the screen, Jackson, would I would have been right. I just threw myself for some reason. Thank you, James, very kind. All right, we do need to get a break out of the way though, and

Hi, Simon?

How you doing?

Oh good?

Yeah? Enjoying the show? Oh program?

Thank you?

What do you call it a program or a show?

Or well, technically, i'd say it's a program because a show to me indicates that it's got to be seen.

Now it's a program. Well, I'm joining the program.

Thank you. You can. You can watch the program online. But it's not really a visual medium radio. So yeah, so i'd call it a program, but it could be also a show.

Well, very good, very good. I'm an intentive listener. Been listening for you, isn't it? With Tony Moclair and all that. I want to get back. I'm going to get back to aircraft and all the airplane buffs. Yeah. Well, you know that some pilots can fly on instruments. Yeah, they don't really need to see out the window or anything. They just look at the instruments that are on cross

Wow, And do they actually obscure the you know, do they put like sunshades up on the windscreen so they can so.

I know there's no sancho. It's at night, it's nice night.

Oh okay, I would absolutely soil myself if that was me in the seat.

Well, they do they bring them back in?

Yeah, well we hope, yeah, well they do.

They do, and they get their license. And that's why it's so very nice to know that those boys up front know what they're doing, isn't it.

Yeah. Well, Nathan Kosher of course does the weekly spot her Pets and jets. He speaks about things like that, and yeah, it's amazing, just the incredible amount of knowledge you need to be a professional pilot. It's you know, there isn't a question I've ever asked that he hasn't been able to give me a very thorough answer to.

Right. Yeah, well, yeah, well, well I live very close to Maraban Airport and I just love seeing them go over and the helicopters and all the shoots, the twin engines and the single engines and the little Cestna one eighties when they take off, when there's a lot of wind going they sort of peg cake up over the air to get up.

Yeah, hey hey Greg, Now I've got to break in thirty seconds. But can I ask you I was once told that Merabin Airport is the busiest airport in the Southern Hemisphere. Is that true?

Yes?

Yes, what a fascinating stat the number of planes that must take off on land from there all you know, every day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And traffic controlled very important.

No, absolutely, there's now there's a high stress job that's traffic control at an airport. Oh god, I could never do it. I just couldn't do it. Greg, thank you for that. We've got to get our last breakaway before news radio. It's coming up to tomorrow in Perth, so it'll be good to have you on board. It's going to be one point thirty in Adelaide and in Melbourne two o'clock. We're here for another three and a half hours.

You're listening to Australia Overnight with Simon Owens.

Welcome back our number three of Australia. Overnight. Tony McManus just off for yesterday and today is feeling just a touch under the weather. He's put in a sterling performance. He hasn't chucked a SICKI in all this time. Last time I filled in for him was on January the fifteenth, So the Tower of Strength is just taking a day or two off to rebuild and he'll be back bigger and better than ever on Monday. You've got myself and Jackson here this morning taking your calls one double three

I reckon around twenty ten or so.

And how young were you, because you're.

About eleven or twelve, I reckon I was eleven or twelve.

In a mobile phone. Yeah, so I was twenty four when I got mine, right, because they just sort of weren't really a thing. They were around, but only for sort of rich people and professional.

I were quite expensive when they first come out.

They were yeah.

Yeah.

But I got mine on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety six. And the reason I can actually nominate the date is because my wife was pregnant with our first daughter, Shannon at the time, and I was working nights, and I was worried that I would get in the car to come to work and start driving into work, and

I knew people who were getting of it. Maybe eight. Yeah.

At school, Yeah, so mum could ring you, Mum could ring you and say I'm running late for.

School, strictly for talking to your parents. Yeah.

Yeah, And they did have for while. They probably still have them, but like kids safe mobiles where the kids can't make calls except for their pre programmed numbers. So you've got mum's number, dad's number, you know, the doctor's number or the police are all sort of locked into the phone.

Yes, I remember when sort of iPhones were starting, some parents would make it an effort to make sure they got the kids. You know, the Nokier thirty three ten. Yeah, those sort of old brick phones. Yeah, they couldn't play too many games or anything like that.

No, exactly, Now there you go. So when did you get your first mobile? And do you remember what model it was and all that sort of thing? One double three six no three or one double three eight eighty two? What did you want to do for a living? A caller mentioned that earlier, saying that it came up as a topic, And so I scribbled that down and thought, that's actually not a bad question to ask. What did you want to do for a living? And did you end up doing it? Same numbers? One double three eight

Get I Mark, Good morning there.

How are you going today?

Yeah?

Good, thanks, that's good turning.

Mobile phone.

When I first got my mobile phone, and also when I had a goal to start a job, I thought that, you know, my first mobile phone was a Nohier.

It was a Nockier. Was it the thirty three to ten?

There?

In fact, I believe it was the thirty three ten that the little square on the little baby phone?

It was so small.

It was so cool to have the small phone.

Oh okay, now was the thirty three ten? I think was a slightly larger one, But yeah, I had I had a really I had a really small Nokia one for a while. I can't remember the model number. It was like the fifties something, fifty three something. Yeah, but yeah, they were great little phones, those nonckiers.

It was understanding, a little part of the little little phone club there.

I had it also.

Murder Roller Phone two, which was a pretty good phone there too. And I used to work with Hanry Jack's in Oakley, and I used to think I was the coolest guy in the planet Understanding league. We were going down there to see what was the greatest phone. At nighttime. My friends and I would go down and compare our mobile phones after work. Yeah, we used to think we

Absolutely, yes, yes, or at least have them bluetoothed to your car stereo and use your voice commands, you know, tell your phone who you want to ring and stuff like that.

Then everybody is going out today to have a drink. I believe in the city, and I just wanted to wish everybody else happy day today.

Who's going out for a drink in the city.

The people that working at the place in the mobile phone place in the city there.

Oh okay.

I heard them on the other radio yesterday and they were saying they're going for a drink. And I'm not saying it's alcohol or anything like that, or water. I'm not too sure, but I do wish them a happy day. And anybody that wants to come over to my place out of my friends, I want to wish them a happy day too.

No, well, that's lovely, Get on your mark taste by thanks mate, cheers, Mark's away happy. Such a lovely call. Jim's in Westwoods. Great good a Jim.

Good morning, Simon and Jackson. Just a few very quick things for now, and I might call you Lado, but I don't fall asleep. First of all, if Tony's listening again, all the best to Tony and good morning to him. Second of all, Happy birthday for your son today. You said it was his birthday today.

Yeah, nineteen today.

So happy nineteenth.

What's his name? I forgot Ethan Ethan.

That's right. Also with Nathan Kosh if he's listening, good morning to him. And I heard him so many times that it was you that came up with the name pets and Jets for his slogan or whatever you.

Want to call it.

That is true. That's what I'll be remembered for coming up with the title of the segment for Nathan Golosh Pets and Jets.

No, but you've thought of many other things. You're you're great at putting those music montages together, which I love, and many other things. And the historian of Threa w and everything. You good of many things, Simon. I have been listening for years, as you know. And what else I wanted to say? One more thing than now I've forgotten. Okay, Simon, if I'm away clad I'll call you and Jackson later.

No worries, Yeah, because now now I want to know if there was something else but you've forgotten. I hate it when that happens. It might have been the most important thing.

Might have been. But I have once.

I used to have what people call an elephant memory. These days, because of sleep disorders, I have a lot of memory lapses a lot these days. But I struggled to remember things. But years ago everyone used to tell me I had an elephant memory because I used to remember everything.

Not so now I forget stuff all the time. Maybe I wonder if it is related to sleep, because I don't think I sleep as well as I used to. I wake up a couple of times during the night now, and I used to sleep. I used to be able to sleep until nine o'clock in the morning without a worry. Now I always wake up at like seven seven point thirty or son. It distresses me to wake up that early.

I've heard you say that, Simon, But it's not onlie me or you, it's anybody. If you don't if you don't sleep properly, you will have a memory lapses. That always affects your memory or your concentration if you don't get enough sleep, like you.

You'll know that anyway and people.

But there's another thing I wanted to mention that people will probably laugh at me. You know a lot of car accidents they go, they go, I mean not unnoticed that there's a lot of car accidents and they can't solve how they happen. I think in winter, I think in winter with people putting their heaters on, sometimes crashing

If it's a cold Dane, you've got the warm heater on in the car can make you a bit drowsy.

I think I believe a lot of unsolved car accidents have happened like like that about people falling to sleep that have crashed into trees, and yeah.

It's quite possible. I would think in some cases they would be able to forensically prove that that happened. Because if you drift off and the car just veers off the road and you slam into a tree and die, your body reacts differently than if it had if you were conscious and gripping the steering wheel in a panic, so your body different, bones grew someome thing to talk about. But if you're asleep when the impact happens, your body reacts differently than if it was rigid and solid in panicky.

Yeah, that's right. You now a lot of things like that too, because your probably your father would have told you about seeing things like that and forensics too.

Yeah, my dad, being a former police officer, had his fair share of dawn, of being on scene at crimes, at accident scenes where there were deceased people, and did his fair share of the door knocks, the having to knock on a family's door and say your kid's never coming home or your husband or your wife terribly, what a terrible thing to have to do.

Will be on the show next week, Simon, what was that?

Sorry?

Rod disable and who Tony has a guest quite often. He was a former policeman for forty years and he have my ship to be a shift to work.

Yes, yes, he was supposed to be on yesterday morning, but with Tony not being here, we didn't proceed with the segment because it's one of you. It's Tony's segment with Roger, so he'll he'll probably be back with him next week.

Okay, thank you, Simon, thank you.

Good on a gym, no worries, have a good one. We'll knock off a break here. Mary, Arthur and Sean with you all very soon. And there's room on the board for more. One double three six nine three or one double three eight eighty two. When did you get your first mobile? What did you want to do for? Excuse me? Well, I cough again. All right, back in a minute. Twenty three after two in Melbourne, twenty three after midnight in Perth, and in Adelaide, it's seven minutes to two. Mary's in Springvale?

Home, Mary, how are you this morning?

Yeah, I'm good, Thank you.

Oh well, I've just walken up when I've just listened into your thing about what you want to be and what you're turned out being. Yeah, well, I always wanted to be a school teacher and I ended up being a trained nurse. And talking about phones, I had the most incredible nock here, and I think Nokia's are one

Yes, that is always a problem with upgrading your phone if you haven't been backing them up to anywhere. Yeah, you've got to make sure you lift them because so much of your life is photos taken now on your phone.

What's amazing, isn't it. It's greatest. You've got the phone to take photos and the only puld of is off and they're not in your hands when you leave them.

Well, I've got I've got my phone set up that so I've got a there's a thing called drop Box, which is one of those cloud things, cloud based things where it's stores stuff, and I've got my phone set up so that every time i take a photo it also backs up to my drop Box account. So if I drop my phone in a bucket of water, I'm not going to lose anything.

Oh that's a good idea, isn't it.

Yeah, it's very handy.

I think it's amazing how many focus I think I've got two odd thousand photos on the phone anyway.

Yeah, and then there's cataloging them actually going through something we never had in the days of film was the problem. We've got now where if I go to take a photo of someone, if I get a group of people together and say right, i'll take a photo, I'll take a photos and then you've got to go through and find the best one to keep. And we never had to do that with a film camera. You just take the risk and if someone was blinking, bad luck. That was just the way it was.

I know.

Often you used to take some these photos to take the group photos. You never knew how they turned out, and often leave their head off, or you leave somebody else. No, it's pretty amazing now because you can always take three photos and pick the best one.

Yeah, exactly, yes, Yeah.

It's amazing. Technology has come so far, isn't it.

Imagine explaining explaining to kids how photos used to happen, that you couldn't see what the photo was that you actually took, until you'd have to finish a role of film and then take it to a chemist or to kmart or wherever, then drop it off there and then pay someone to print them out, print out the photos on bits of paper for you, and you go back and pick them up the next day.

That was exactly some old and my granddaughter took some of them, to somebody to try to get them developed, and they're so old you don't get them developed anymore.

Yeah, it's hard to find the places that do old film developing now.

Yeah, yeahl in my eighties now, some of them were really really old.

Yeah. I still remember the first digital photo I took. I bought a secondhand digital camera because they were so expensive, and it had a little memory card in it, and I think you could take about twenty photos and then you had to empty the memory card into your computer. And I remember getting that, getting that camera that day, putting batteries in it on and the batteries went flatten a heartbeat. But I remember taking a photo of my daughter Rachel, who was about two, sitting at a desk,

It was really exciting, wasn't it. It was so in the last twenty odd years to Simon, Yeah, everything is just so easy. And look, you've got a great program. I'm often still asleep at this time and I haven't caught up these pages, but I'm a regular three a W listener and you always said great, well.

You're very kind. That's that's lovely of you. Mary, thank you for that. We'll have a good morning, no take care. Cheers. Arthur's in with what's Greg did I? Arthur?

Good morning, Simon and Action Jackson. All the best to Tainey Mac to get better. All the best to your son Ethan for his birthday was nineteen lovely anyway with mobile phones, my first is probably mid ninety three because I was djaying and so on. It was a brick.

I still have it.

I still remember the number I won five was here on one five three, five six seven three zero. I to remember it and I kept it. I bought it off Crazy John, which unfortunately passed away. Also taekwon day instruck. Unfortunately he had a heart attack. You remember own't Crazy John's store in Soelth, Melbourne. I knew him very well John Yeah Yeah, and he had a store in Celth, Melbourne as well as well as Brunswick. He always looked

The hearder.

You press it arse and it brightens up. And I tripped people out by doing a source of experiments like I switched the turn on the radio. Yeah, you put the brake on and they'll touch the frame. And I made a break lay on the drags the pushbike.

Believe it or not?

Ye, how cool is that?

Yeah?

I would love to. I've got a maid named Aaron who who repairs old radios and things. And I look at the inside. I look at the guts inside electronic devices and things, and wouldn't know where to start, and to him, it's all logical and makes perfect sense. And I've always been very jealous of that. I would love to restore old radios. That'd be a great hobby for me.

Yeah, I was really interesting, man. I used to pull out the circuit board and I was learning from a friend that actually got in. He taught me quite a bit the resistance a capacitor, the diode, and I was always fascinated by it. But I'd really like to learn that as well. You know, I've collected antique radio. Some I get going, some I don't, but I've just got them from memories the way it was in the past, as you know. So I put him in the old

Yeah, they come up occasionally on on eBay. You'll find them for sure. Absolutely.

I remember your shaving one there. I was tripped out.

Yeah, I've got I've got one at home, and I've got one here at work too that I use.

Yeah, it was incredible to see that. We used to have one, but my auntie took it back off of unfortunately played really well. Was the one, but hopelly, I'll ring Rick and see if he can help me one of.

Them fair enough to Yeah, cool, all right.

Well, thanks Simon, Thanks.

Good on you, Arthur. Always a pleasure. Thank you mate. Sean's in Tazzida Sean.

The evening, Simon. Yeah, I wanted to mention too things about phone, something about our listener said earlier on on the phone. And my first phone was some cheap a brand, but it had all the bells and whistles and doudeads. I don't know what brand. It was some Chinese thing, and it didn't laugh very long. And then I got an erics in one of those little erics, and I got it to ring up the radio station when I was at work. When I was doing I was going

Yeah, and so you bought it so you could ring into the radio station.

Yeah.

I was listening to the radio while I was riding around from place to place in the van, and i'd ring them while I was in the van and talk to them and talk to the triple end while I was in the van. When I was going from different workplace to workplace.

Yeah, cool, that's that's that actually changed back radio the mobile phones. It's it's been a great addition for us in terms of what we can do with the radio stations crossing to people live on scene rather than having to because journos used to go out and cover a story and then have to find a phone booth or borrow someone's home line to actually ring in and file reports and stuff. So it's made a big difference.

Yeah, I reported on the big day out and all sorts of things so that the Triple Am I quite a few things for them. I was back in about two thousand. Yeah, they put me on air a lot. I had fun. And the other thing was a listener said he put the phone number to ring in another phone that the number wasn't stored in, and it came up as daily ritual. I was wondering, do you do you daily rituals there, because the same thing happened to me.

Now okay, yeah, well I have no idea what that would be I don't know what. I've never heard daily ritual used in relation to talk radio at all, or particularly to this this station or this network.

So maybe the station is subliminally trying to override everyone's mind and put that into pons their daily ritual during three aw that's what's going on.

I would love to say that that's the case, but sadly we're not that clever. We're just not that clever. We'd hope that it happens, but we would, you know, for us to actually go to that sort of effort. Nah, it couldn't happen. We just don't have We don't have the brains to get all that sort of stuff happening. Like there's subliminal advertising, you know, buy a hot dog, buy a hot dog. Yeah, we just don't have We just don't have all that. That's funny though, that's a

Oh thanks, so a good night.

No take ms. Maggie, David and Karen with you all. Very shortly. I found that article on Jimmy Barnes talking about his sister as well. I'll read that out in the next hour if I can. As well, but to keep the calls coming one double three eight eighty two or one double three six nine three. Maggie is in Adelaide. Morning Maggie, and good morning to Simon.

Now I have to start off with coughing. Yes, look I have quite a month now had a lot of coughing ding on, and in recent times I've noticed that it's also Yeah, it's happening to perhaps even medical practitioners, to whom might be speaking with the consult on the phone or you people and the likes of view on their you know, there's just so much coughing on not I wonder what that is all about?

Is that to do?

Do you think with the weather that we've had experience.

I think it could be. You know, the changes in weather always bring about illnesses. I reckon when you when you go from being hot all the time to suddenly being cold, I think, you know, the body maybe perhaps just a lowers its guard, a bitten and something sneaks in. So it could be the case.

Look at it's more and then they'll not not just ton illness.

I don't think it sit near cop.

As far as I can see that far. Anyway, I'll leave that one out there also. Now, would you prefer me to talk about the old days of driving down the freeway.

Or my.

In Adelaide from handoff to Adelaide where vehicles had no control.

On the road.

Or phones?

Not here but two in my case not here's currently the same sun.

Which one shall I go first?

Uh?

Yeah, let's go with the driving. I think you are.

Okay.

Now, I don't know how for me you are.

You are with.

Adelaide.

I've never had the pleasure of being of going to Adelaide. It is on my bucket list. I'm not one for traveling much, but I've said several times whilst doing this the occasional feelings I do want to go to Adelaide and check it out.

Yes, oh you must do, must, and just not Adelaide in and around two you know, suth Australia. Okay, So look, this was back, going back decades ago, the Southeastern Freeway as it's now known as, and notorious, particularly when it gets to the interpection of port cross roads, port ross road, crossroad or all that. You may have heard of some of that if you happened, I'll leave that to someone else.

But earlier on.

Decades ago, I was striving down that two way. It's only a narrow two way, let's call it a freeway seventies whatever.

It was.

From Harndorff to Aglas. I had a brand I was striping a brand.

New Corolla, right yeah, and all that, and all of.

A sudden coming down, I had absolutely no control over that car, and I just had to hang onto the steering wheel and steer it. And I didn't want to go down that side, so I steered it to the other side of the road. Fortunately there were there were no no upcoming traffic. Unfortunately, not a stopy pole or a big, big trees to crash into. And all I can think of, you know, I'm just.

To this day.

I've got no idea what coursed that I can only but big maybe I saw oil slickle something like that. But then, you know, having had that experience, I sometimes wonder when there's like innocent vehicles, drivers in cars who just veer off the side of a road into a gun tree or whatever. And sometimes it can be fatal.

Or otherwise, Yeah, it can be.

It can be just a laps in concentration or as callers earlier said, you're falling asleep at the wheel. You just never know when your time is up. Your time is up, I guess. But glad you survived your incident there, Maggie. But I must move on, so thank you for the call. I do appreciate it is a text here. Can you just highlight that third one, Jackson. I will read other text out as well. Lynette has said, speak for yourself when you say three AW. It doesn't have the brains

Simon, you are pure gentleman, the most respectful person on right. I'm an amazing person. You just made a cute little pipple was really funny. Well, it should be a daily ritual to call the station. But you're right, it should be a daily Richeal to call the station though. You do a good job something, you know.

I love you.

You're fantastic.

No, you're very kind.

You're on and you brought back Sean twice. And last night Marx FROs Slovakia called you brought back some of the old callers. It's been really nice.

Yeah, it's nice for me to catch up with people too. So yeah, I'm happy with you.

Yes, yeah, it's good. It's good some of the old sort of the old shames. I think there was a very inspiring comment about the photographs. I've got eighty thousand or something photographs on my iPhone iPhone twelve, so it's not not a super modern one, but it's really to be okay about what four five years old whatever. And the one clever thing about the iPhone is that you

I'm I'm not actually fond of it doing that, David. I must say, this is this is where the AI think you've got to ask it to do it.

I know.

But the point I'm making is your phone actually looks at what you've taken a photo of and examines it, understands it, and categorize it. So if you say, bitch, it'll find all the photos you've taken of the beach. I don't like the phone knowing what I've taken photos of. It's just it's a mechanical thing. I go snap, that's it. I don't. I don't want artificial intelligence examining what I'm taking photos of. So I actually find that that's a bit uncomfortable for me.

Yeah, but it can, it can be useful. I've got at home, I've got in albums. I must have thousands, thousands of thousands of pictures and albums. I used to love taking pictures and there was a thrill. You take it to be developed, and you get it developed, and you come back with twelve or twenty four or thirty six. However, old Mini was on the road and the first person who would always want to see my pictures was the developer, you know.

The oh yeah, get a chemist, or the person who knows.

That it was the children the chemist, Yeah, yeah, it was the children, not the grandchildren.

Yeah, you go and pick up your photos and the person on the counter would tell you what a wonderful set of photos you've taken. Yeah again, and now.

My grandkids come and they look at the pictures of you know, my kids when they were and.

That was my mother.

Yeahs an amazing, amazing sort of thing. So I found that conversation very inspiring. Actually it was good. And mine are all backed up to my iCloud. Yeah, my Apple ic cloud. You know, you pay a little bit every money every month and you like drop offs. I don't how to back it up to the drops The ar cloud works well too. Yeah, they're secure.

Yeah, yeah, great systems.

So in that respect it's Apple is a good ecosystem. I think it does a good job. I find it and an occasion that you know, in real time and take a picture of granted and then two minutes later it's on your phone.

Yeah, it's amazing to my mother.

I sent it to my brother and my sister in Melbourne and Sydney, or to my mother in Melbourne, and it's amazing. You can share the moment, you know, you become sort of like it's like being met up. Scottic from Star Check and you know the old series.

I remember that.

Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, it's amazing how the technology has changed. Thank you, David. I've got to get to a break, but it's amazing that techology that change. I remember having to book a call for my dad to wish his mum back in England a happy birthday. He had to actually book a call with OTC, the Overseas telecommunications company, to actually make a call. Now you just FaceTime someone on the other side of the world see them instantly. It is just it's remarkable how it's changed. Back in

Yeah, Hi Simon, and I agree with that previous call you got before. Was it day in Israel? Yeares yeah, Now I just think I agree with him one hundred percent. You're a lovely person and you're funny, you're professional and.

Yeah, oh that's very kind. That's lovely of you both. Thank you, Mick.

Have you been now currently?

I'm actually Dan in Albani. You're at the moment.

Yeah, okay, just for a week.

I come back on Saturday, back to Denmark.

So what's happening in Albania? Just a little break, is it?

Or yeah, it's just a little break. It's down in the southern there's a southern town down. Yeah, what's a good game, So Sardinia and it's no Serena. It's called Yes, they are in but it's down very close to the border with Greece. In flat. When I flew down last week, I flew into Corfu and then sailed across nice. Yeah, I've never been to Albania, so i' that's it's a lovely place. I mean, it's Puvis. It's a little where on the poor side, but but they're just very friendly

I think that's right.

Yeah, And if you remember, it was on New Year's Eve and I rang through to you had you said you had a little bit of space on the board, so I rang through and wished you and Fillip all the best and.

Yeah that's right. That that rings a bell now, yeah yeah, So.

And then after this song going on, would normally going to tennis camp in October and that's tam this year. We normally do it in Croatia, but this year we're going down to Turkey.

Now wonderful.

A little bit so on it and you know, well for you, I enjoy traveling them.

That a yeah, that's it's marvelous. I wish we had longer, mit because it's been young since we've spoken and had a good catch up. But I've got to get to news. We've got to get a breakout of the way here. If you do want to buzz us back a bit later on, we can have more of a chat about how Copenhagen's going, but I do have to break right own. News is coming up very very shortly. More calls after the news. Chicken Man as well and Rob Smith will join us for the US report ahead of the serial.

This he's Australia Overnight with Simon.

Owen's Hour number four. If you've just woken up, or if you're just heading to bed and you've popped the radio on and you're wondering, that's not Tony McManus. No, Tony's just off crook again this morning. He'll hopefully be Writer's Rain ready to go on Monday. He is a trooper. He rarely ever takes a time, takes a day off work. He's very devoted to the program, but occasionally you just need to. And his other half has been just a little unwell earlier in the week and it looks like

It wasn't those big trip things. I wasn't all that expensive. But it wasn't much good either. Yeah, and then I was converted to flip trops. Over the years, I lost a few. One went down the top. This is not good. And I hadn't think I had run style on and I went through it for a lot of time, and now it's the Apple, which is absolutely fantastic for the bit. Six years, yeah, eight and it just just do so

I play I play a game on mine called toy Blast, which I just I love that game. I've been playing it now for about sixty years. I've never been a candy crushed person, but to toy Blast, that's for me like that. Yeah. Yeah.

With cameras, I used to have the disposable cameras.

You can do.

Let me go on holidays to get a bit twenty shots. Yes, you should have to should take you to the chemist. And they used to kinder and a couple of those laddies. Good what I used to do. I've had so many photos it's unreal. And we kids go up and everything and any men have the photos of Caken and all in albums and some loose and they're the great things cameras.

I'm going through, Thank you, Karen. I'm going through Mum's and dad's early photo albums now, scanning all the photos from the sixties that Mum and Dad had in their albums so we can share it among the siblings and we could all have digital copies of it. It's it's a great process looking back over family photos. Thank you, Karen. Graham's in your kind. Hi Graham, how are you going?

I telling you you've got a voice very much like Steve Collins from Perth. It's on the six pound Perth. I'm very much like it.

There you go.

I share a lot of things with famous people. John Fogdi he's eighty, I'm eighty.

Stevie Nix and.

I shared a birthday on Monday's seventy seven. Everyone knows Stevens next. But Graham the painter in Perth and not a little people and made mag I'm still painting. Actually I'm doing the outside and thought the weather's going to be rotten. But Monday I've got to go into I've got trouble my lama, so I've got to go and look make zilanskill or Zemanski. She's got blood, janthalist what I've got. So I'm getting a minute the hospital on

That was very hot.

But mobile phone, It's funny. I started out with the Nokia and I remember I was doing a paint job up.

On the corner and trigged and I put it on the roof of the car and I drove.

Off and I went back three minutes later and the damn phe was gone. Somebody picked it up off the road. You know, I couldn't leave it.

Yeah.

And then painting, you know DEAs sbeen settler Saddler's.

Yeah, yeah, well I was.

I painted the house three Dance And when they were selling it, Willie Portius was the agent and he brought back from America a brand new Samsung that had never been into Australia and he gave it a death span, well death spin. Passed it on to me and I got home and I had it in my jeans and I took the jeans off, threw them in the wash, and about five minutes later, I thought we set phone and I could went to the washing machine. I I've still got the phone because I couldn't repair it, couldn't

Yeah, but if the phone was on when it was in the machine, then it would have shortened out. Anyway, it's yeah, the rise to game. He works. If the phone was off and hopefully no electronics shorted.

Out, it still looks in good condition. Forget that one.

Look at you, dumb bugger.

Yeah. Yeah, my wife dropped hers in the mop bucket once away. Yeah she did, but it was it was too late. It was before they were fully waterproof. You know, my wife was chatting on the phone with one hand and trying to squeeze the mop bucket. You know, it's the old ring bucket where you put your foot on it and lift the mop out. And she was trying to lift the mop out and bumped herself and drop the phones right into the bucket.

Well, I had another one. I was painting this house, and you know those washing machines with a dome sort of lid on them.

Yeah, and I stuck it on near while I.

Was playing the frame, and I forgot she'd turned the machine on. All of a sudden it started to the spin cycle next to you. I know, the iPhones on the ground with a smash wins. So I haven't had a lot of luck with phones, you know, but they look at their wonderful. I love technology. I just love it, and I wish i'd had it when I first started painting, because you don't have to drive anywhere. Now they're just send pictures in quota.

Ou of the phone.

You don't waste time going everywhere.

Yeah.

The reason the reason I'm still painting at eighty is because I'm a gambler and I better on horses that don't know how to run past the other horse.

B and fault.

Yeah, it's all good.

Well, as long as long as you're able to keep a roof over your head and keep a lid on it. That's the matters.

I brought up two boys, and I just you know, I lived by myself, and seventy nine is a I got divorced. I brought up with two boys. Well they're not boys. It's fifty six fifty.

Four now, you know.

But I still think they're boys, you know. But I wonder where because John Hugh is a friend of mine. I went over and John turns ninety in December, and I said, John, where did almost years a go? You know, how did we get to this? John's ninety? I think Jesus, it goes quick, doesn't It sure does, just disappears. I thought it was only an age, but young people reckon the years go quick.

Well yeah, look, thank you Graham. I've got to keep moving. But yeah. I opened the show yesterday morning again feeling in for Tony. I opened the show and I was chatting to Jay about the fact that here we are at the end of May, and I still struggle to comprehend the fact that it's twenty twenty five. I always go to write twenty twenty four when i'm writing a date down, so it just keeps on going. Thanks for that. Kenny's in Redcliffe before we get to Chicken Man. Good day, Kenny. Okay, Oh,

Rod get A Simon, looks like you're on deck this morning.

I am. Yes, Tony's just a little off color. He's partner's been. It was a little crooking earlier in the week, and it seems that Tony's caught it. So he's taking a couple of days off.

Well, you know, like, if he takes say, three more days, I'm sure you'll be happy.

Yes, I'll happily take them anytime.

Exactly.

How's things going in California? How's the weather last?

First off, I was going to say, hey, it's a little overcast today, currently eighteen, going for a tib of twenty two. Look, I'm sure it will progress pretty soon. I'm talking about till the warmer days, because last weekend it was the unofficial start of summer here in California and the United States.

And yeah, eighteen start of summer. That's not bad. That's well, I don't know. I'm not there to compare a year on year, but eighteen degrees not a bad start for the start of summer. I think.

Now that's on the coast. Now if you go inland, the temperature goes up another ten to fifteen degrees.

Oh does it.

Really very quickly, so you kind of go, hey, it's good to be on the coast.

Yeah, absolutely, craky. All right. Now, so weather aside, what's happening in California, well around the US at this time?

Well, gen z is now they're signing up for adult one oh one classes their assignment. Now gen Z is con code TikTok in their sleep, but can't really cook rice without looking at a YouTube tutorial. And gen z is they're flocking to this Adulting one oh one. It's a crash course of doing things, and they're desperate to learn what previous generations called common sense. How do you find that? Well, they're trying to, but look, how to do laundry, budgeting for rents, or navigating a grocery store

I was thinking exactly that. Hello to missus Tyrrell if she's listening my home economics teacher from school.

Yes, that's right.

We used to cook things. Yeah, and we had all these stoves in the classroom and you had to cook stuff.

Yeah. I remember it well. I was never good at it, but I remember it well.

And some kids used to catch things on fire.

Yes, yes, go to lift a saucepan off. You were just boiling some water on the stove and it was a gas stove, and you go to lift the saucepan off with a tea towel so you don't burn yourself, but you set fire to the tea towel. I think most students did that at some point.

Well, it was a learning curve, wasn't it, Simon jens Is They're looking to find those crucial lin lessons now. I hope at a one on one helps them.

Well, I think I'm surprised that they don't do more of that at school. Two of my kids are driving the other to a learning not one of them knows how to change a tire. I had to come and change a tire for my daughter the other day when she got a nail in it, and because I've said to it, do you know where the jack is? And she said, what's a jack? So these sorts of things I think could be useful to be taught in school.

What are they going to do ring up RACV or NRMA or all the other road organizations.

Well, what they generally do is ring their parents and say what do I do now? So yeah, but I just you know, so much of school is you know, it's your maths, your chemistry, your sciences, your economics, legal studies. All of those things that you do at school. They're all based around what career you might want to take. And if you don't do well in all of those subjects, school can be a hard thing for some people. I wasn't a great student. I just wasn't very good those

Weoll everyday things. They just need to learn them. Yeah, and they're just common sense.

Yep, absolutely yeah, yeah, Well good on them for signing up for those classes. I think it's wonderful. What else you got for us?

Now, Look, when you go to swim, you know your brain is going to thank you there, simon, because swimming isn't just for fun. Neuroscience shows it provides a uni brain benefit from just you know, kind of getting rid of stress to improving your memory. Look, last weekend, like I said, was the unofficial start to summer here in the US, and water based activities are really a great

Yes, that Carca de Owens. Yes, it's It's what I look forward to at the end of a long, hard shift after my massuse gives me a rubdown as well.

Yeah.

Now in seriousness, though, Rod, I've got a I've got a friend who's taken up windsurfing as a hobby, and in freezing temperatures she'll go out and windsurf and I look at her, go, you are insane. You could be sitting in front of a telly keeping warm, and yet you're plunging yourself into the ocean trying to cling onto a board and a sail. But she really gets something out of it, and I think that's exactly what you're talking about.

Well, if it's working for her, I'm sure it's going to work for other people to.

Yep, no good advice makes me want to join a gym Monday. Now you've got news on OnlyFans.

Look, a young woman called Marie Tamara earns millions each year for her six foot three inch stature. Now look she really she's got to just look after her legs.

That's right.

They're a great asset. And she makes five thousand dollars a month the assignment. Yeah, she will do whatever it takes. Well, not five thousand dollars a month. Should I say she spends five thousand dollars a month because she'll do whatever it takes to maintain her money making long legs. Like I said, she gets millions each year. I don't know as she does that. In the five thousand dollars, it

Well, if ever varicus vains come into fashion, you know, maybe there's my chance.

That doesn't sure you don't have any there, Simon.

I know I'm fit and healthy and trim, taut and ria, but that reminds me of Catherine back or Back who was Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazard. I remember reading once that during the filming of The Dukes of Hazard, her legs were ensured for a million dollars. I don't know whether that was fake news at the time, but I just remember that being a story.

I'm pretty sure that was on the money there, Simon.

Yeah, Rod, we've got a squeeze in a break here where time's really getting away from us. Back with more of Rod after this pleasure when I fell in for Tony to chat to Rod Smith in the US, and Rod, you've got a great story here about an anti aging cocktail.

Yeah. Look, we always look for that fountain of youth, don't we there to give Simon? But look, ciders have tested an any aging drug cocktail in mice and found it extends the animal's lifespan by around thirty percent. Now the mice stayed healthier for longer, with less chronic inflammation and delayed cancer onset. Now the two drugs are rapper micin and train medendib now both used to treat different

Well, it does if the average person's living to eighty or so, you know, an extra thirty percent gives you another twenty odd years there. That's that's quite remarkable. And if they're already available, I imagine it's going to be one of those things like o Zimpic where people just rush out and buy it without even reading the small print.

Yeah, and find out what the after effects are.

Yeah, exactly, yes, Yeah, you grow a second ed, but then at least you've got company while you age.

It's okay, exactly.

What have you got for us to leave us with? On This Day in music.

On This Day in Music, nineteen sixty nine, Crosby, Stills and Nash released their self titled album, spawning two top forty hits, Marracush Express and Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. Ninety sixty five, The Beach Boys started a two week run at number one in the US with Helped Me Ronda. Twenty fifteen, Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch went up for sale for.

One hundred million.

In nineteen seventy five, Sydney band Hush went and had a number one hit in Canada with Bernie Maroney. It was only a number nine hit in Australia and went to number two in the US, and two thousand and two, Natalie Imbruglia Ossie actress and singer. She was the new face of Laurel, signing up a deal worth one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. And here's his song that went to number one in the US and also Australia.

Tourn What a great song it is.

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It's always a pleasure to chat to you, Rod Smith with the US Report at this time each and every week, say.

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Lay well, we're about to hit the four o'clock news if you're listening in Melbourne, if you're in Adelaide, it's about to hit three point thirty. And in Perth, of course it's nearly two am after the news. More if your calls keep them coming one double three six nine three one double three eight eighty two zero four double seven six nine three six nine three if you want to shoot a text through like this one. My internet bill has gone up, My mobile phone bill has gone up.

There now, this is Australia Open Eyed with Simon Owens.

Yes, Simon Owen's in the chair for Tony McManus this morning. Tony's off crook but he will be back on Monday. Jackson's here as well, and he's ready to take your calls on one double three six nine three. But Gabriel Hodson's been doing news overnight. And Gabriel, I heard you do a story on John Foggerty which I found interesting.

He's eighty. Can you believe that?

Yeah? I know that ages us all makes me sad.

Well, he's going back on tour. He's releasing a new album. But listen, what are the songs that made him famous? He was from Creden's clear Water Revival. Name it couple?

Oh well you got proud Mary? Have you ever seen the Rain? Then the two Bad Moon Rising, Bad Moon Rizing? Of course?

Yeah, fortunate son. There's a whole, long, on long list of them. But these were hits over fifty years ago.

Yes, my parents used to listen to them. That makes me feel younger now, that's good.

I think mine did too. But listen, I didn't know this, but for most of his life and he's eighty, he hasn't owned the rights to his own songs, the songs that he wrote and made him famous, He doesn't have the rights to them. So he's got them back and he's re releasing them in the style that he wants to do it in. He's doing Taylor Swift swifty, So.

He's going to re record them. Is he doing like Taylor Swift when she did it? Did it really close to the originals? But they were new recordings. When he says he's doing them the way he wants them, does that mean it's going to be one of those slow ballad albums where he's going to slow them all down and just do it with a guitar.

Or he's eighty. Look he looks looking at this picture. He looks quite young.

Doesn't Heah, Yeah, well his head.

Well, his face doesn't, but the hair does.

Yeah, he's got a twenty year old head of hair an eighty year old face. If that's the best way I'm going to go, I don't mean to be rude, but it doesn't.

Well it's accurate, you know, but but yeah, I don't know. Look, technology is certainly changed. You might chuck a synthesizer in there or something.

You know, I just yeah, I just don't know if it's going to work for him to re record them because we've known those classics for so long, like style they are. Yeah, good on him. There's there's always that big debate with the record industry that the recording industry that you know that they sign young artists up who have got great talent, but they signed them into terrible contracts where the artist gets very few.

Rights here, so many horror stories.

Yeah, they don't get to keep their masters and all that sort of thing. But at the same time, record companies for everyone John Foggerty and Credence that they sign they would probably run through thirty acts that go nowhere that the record companies invest a lot of money into. So in order for the record companies to actually remain viable, they do need like watertight contracts and to just suck all the finance out of the bigger artists.

Yeah.

Look, I guess there's two sides to every story. But yeah, I just can't believe he didn't have the rights to his own songs and it's not like he performed and he wrote them as well, So yeah, good on him for grabbing them back. There'll be twenty songs on this album. He had a hit in the eighties, The Old Man down the Road? Was that the next Yeah, that was his. It was a solo hit, down that one. Yeah, I'm wondering if that'll be on there too, But yeah, I don't know for all the Credence fans out.

There, and the album's coming out in August or something.

Something like that, August September.

Yeah, Okay, Well, we await with interest to hear absolutely how it sounds. Yeah, I should throw open one double three, six nine. Three Artists who have re recorded their songs did it ever work? Leo Sayer, who has moved here from England quite a few years ago. Now, the thing with the wiggle, Yeah, he did the appeared with wiggles, but he did. He did a new album of his old material and it was all slowed down and ballads and it was lousy, I'm sorry to say.

Still always a disco star, disco legend. Yeah, yeah, disco that sort of thing, and he was great and.

Had some fantastic hits, but re recording them in the style he did when he he did an album about fifteen or so years ago, lowsy, sorry to say.

Some acoustic. If a band is very synthesized or has a lot of electronic, you know, instruments in it, I think it's good to do an acoustic version and you go, wow, that song sounds like that, but it's a bit similar, but just slowed down. It doesn't grab me at all.

Well, there was that MTV series of Unplugged acts. They got ram and some of those, Yeah, some of those were really really good. Aha, did take on Me, but a very slow love ballad version of take On and it's actually really it's a beautiful song.

I saw them just before the pandemic. They came, they did, They toured Australia and it was a bit will they won't they appear because it was a very you know, the pandemic was sort of getting worse. So I was pretty lucky to see them. But they in one concert they performed three versions of Takeoff Team on Me. Yeah because they had a demo version.

Yeah, because they really only had two hits.

So well. Unfortunately, the Powers of Bee didn't release a lot of their material in Australia. They had a lot of hits in Europe in the nineties, even in the early two thousands, none of them were released here as far.

As I know.

It's the same with Dave Dobbin, who had hit after hit in New Zealand. Yeah, we only know him really for Slice of Heaven.

He that's true. Yeah, I did not know he wrote he wrote a Stan Walker song, Welcome Home. I think it was cooled.

I love Welcome Home. Yeah, that's my favorite Dave Dobbin song. I thought I was the only person in the world who knew it.

No, will, I don't know it. I just heard that it was a Dave Dobbin song. The version I know is Stan Walkers.

Okay, No, I've got Dave Dobbins on my playlist. I love it.

Oh wow, must show me that sometime.

Yeah, we'll do all right. I should let you get back to the newsroom, but I should Thanks for dropping in with Thank you story, fascinating one double three six ninety three.

Give us a call.

We're here for another well another forty five minutes if you're listening through six pr for three aw and five double A listeners until we've got another hour and fifteen. Julian's in Armordale Morning, Julian.

Good morning, sirs. A lot of speaking of miming were bought out from England. In nineteen sixty two, the Black and White Minstrels show played twice at the long gone Tiberli Theater. A lot of that was mine too.

Oh yes, yes, it would have been as well. And yeah, you'll never see that again, will.

You, Julian.

That was George Mitchell. Minstrels came from the Victoria Palace Theater in London. They only played the Tibili twice. And I think it's been done on TV many giants too.

Oh yeah, lots of black and white minstrel gigs have been shown on Telly over the years. Graham Kennedy even did a version of.

With Black and White Minstrels. I m brought out by my mother's late employer, mister Boziak. My mother worked with Kenia did she is? And fixture in my friendship? Her standing behind Gene Grouper?

Is that right? How lovely is that?

Nineteen fifty three and now they were playing an interview with two classical classical people on the Classical Station about the tragedy of the passing of American pianist William Cappel. You know the story of William Capell, don't you?

I don't off the top of my head, remind me. I might, but I don't recall. Well.

He was toured Australia a number of times and he performed his last performance in nineteen fifty three on an Australian tour in Geelong. The next day he was dead.

Oh is that right?

Died of that? You've got his history on your on your front there. William Cappel died in air crash near San Francisco in nineteen fifteenth three and that was the last we ever heard of William Kappel.

At the age of thirty one. I've just looked up now, Yes, born in September twenty two and died in fifty.

Three, so he's three now. My neighbour, who was born in nineteen hundred and died in nineteen ninety six, remembers Ignus Young Pavdovski, the Polish pianist. This first time a Polish Prime minister had ever come to Melbourne and he played the piano in Colin three.

Is that right?

Yeah, Pavdevski? Could you find out when he died? I think it was the nineteen forties and he had a long hair.

What's what's the name? I'm trying. I don't know how to.

Smell its young Pavanevsky when he came to Australia, he was had been the prime mini for Poland. Pavanetsky, Pavadisky, pad e w s k I.

Oh, hang on p A t e w.

Ki Paradipsky. He's very Polish, the famous Polish pion r. So I've got a record of him from an op stop I got last week.

I'm just trying to find him. There's a few people, but here we go, Ignancy Padowiski. Yeah, oh, interestingly mustache beard. He had Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesperson for Polish independence in nineteen nineteen. He was the nation's prime minister.

Yes, and he died during the early War in America.

Didn't he died yet twenty ninth of June nineteen forty one. You've got a remarkable memory. I say it all the time.

You'll be miss Irene next door. She remembers the heyday of Melbourne theaters, like the late doggess Moncreek, who was born in Bundenberg and died in the Old Coat. She saw all the famous people she saw and a Pavlova who performed in the nineteen thirties. He didn't have belong to live, you know, didn't she plover?

Yeah she did. She die young too, did she?

Yes?

She died nine and twenty nine and she's only she wasn't even fifty.

Oh terrible, Julian. Fascinating stuff. As always, your incredible knowledge just never ceases to amaze me. It's always a pleasure to hear from you when I'm filling in for Tony, and look forward to it next time too. Thanks for the call. Mark is in Cabbage Tree Creek at a Mark.

Man.

It's going to be hard to follow that mate.

He's just got He's got an incredible brain, hasn't he? Mark?

Well, my thigh's going well. I'm up two hours early, and I've been a little swillow that lives in my roath and I'm just waiting till the sunshine so i can go and do some barrow work.

Beautiful, So what's on the agenda for today.

I've got to finish a bit of brick edging. I've got a paid for a water tank that I've fixed up. I've just got to put another meter and a half of sand into that and I have a couple of shots of golf and that'll be it, and and I'll go surfing. Is other identic cap Conran beautiful.

How often do you surf?

About? Once every about three times to work these days?

Keeps you young and fresh healthy?

Well, I'm lucky, simon. I'm down on the peninsula. I'm down at mornings in these days. I grew up in Blair Garry, so I still serve. I serve mainly Cape Shank and then when I come here, I just serve Conoran.

Now you have lucky, lucky to have. That's a great hobby. I've got two brothers who surf, and I was just never going to be any good at it. But my two brothers loved it and they're a lot fitter and healthier than I am.

Well, the main thing is it keeps your mind right. You're with nature. It's very spiritual, and you know it's sixty four. I need to just get wet sometimes.

Yeah, yeah, that's fair enough to it's good for you. I reckon sult waters is just a magical cure for a lot of things.

Well, it's good for my skin too.

Yeah, well maybe I need that too. I've got dry skin.

Yeah, well the hot cold treatment, you know, it's still like being slapped by you your wife. Just old treatment.

You know.

You just jump in the water and when you get out you're trying to find the zipper on your wet suits. So you just get out of the bloody thing and get in the car and go home and have a nice warm chail maybe, but that one. Actually, I don't have about a cabbage street. I don't have a share or a toilet yet. I must get around.

Right, Okay, so you're digging holes and hosing yourself, are you well, there's.

A bit of fertilization going on.

Ye.

Right, Well, enjoy your day, Mark, good to.

Chat, Yeah, good to see Bye.

Thanks mate, cheers. It's twenty after four in Victoria. In Western Australia it's twenty after two and in South Australia ten to four. Your calls continue after this. Just before we get back to calls, I just want to repeat this. We've mentioned it a couple of times over the course of the night, but as people are waking up this morning, this is for Victorian listeners just an appeal because there

Oh someone haven't spoken for all.

No, it's good to hear your voice.

Well, I didn't expect to be.

I got up early to go to flua Friday and in costs for suicide prevention mental health awareness. But then I rang up and spake to Jackson and then signs on it and it's all happening, and then you're talking about your two Brothers surfing and there's some things in costs are But this week we have the Newsale Worlds Surfing Championships, and we also have these Australian Touch forty Championships. And more importantly, we have a lady by the name of brook McIntosh running around Australia.

Leave E Jeff Purse.

She's been up through Melbourne, Victoria. She just comes with the floods of the Mid North Coast and she's part of the Blue Tree Project of National Charity, which is to raise money for mental health awareness. There's a lot of these dead trees across Australia which are painted as a metaphor for starting a conversation. Anyway, she's in cost for two days.

So how she is it like riding a unicycle walking at the legs.

It's running. She's running running, she'll be the fastest woman. She's having to be the fastest woman to circumnavigate Australia. She's left for four end thousand and eight, three hundred kilometers. She's doing like av a day and she was held back by the floods in Tari and everything on the Mid North coast.

But she's in cost.

She got the cost last I know when meta and then she and how long one hundred and eighty days, six months.

She would have legs like Arnold Schwartz nigger.

It's a weapon anyway, Pat p P had an interview with it today, the Great Pat Panetta.

Yeah.

Probably last night her brother Cam McIntosh played his tournament game for Richmond wee can before last so uh, he's probably not an AFL supported. But she sort of stopped the journey it and then she flew back to Olburn and she made a mistake and ended up in avalon no good book with booking, and she went to see her brother plays Chourn's game for Richmond. So yeah, but she's out there running the pavement every day, Ryan Haleer Shine,

Bones yeahful one guy.

Well, glad you called Glad you called Bright.

Her normal show as well.

I'll be doing a normal show so for Melbourne listeners of course. So five Double A and six PR don't take my weekend shows. But I'm on Saturday night on three a W from eight till midnight and Sunday night from nine till midnight.

You're saying your brothers are services. What's your sport of choice.

Radio?

Some twiddling sort. No, I'm not not terribly active. I must sadly admit. Tennis was my sport when I was young. Tennis was they?

So what happened I still playing it?

No?

Well, I I got too old or whatever. I don't know why I stopped. Actually I think I stopped when I got married and moved on to you know, to other activities.

I guess look at look at Sam. He's about ninety and he's still playing some sort of sport.

Yeah.

I would love to get back into tennis. And I talk about this from time to time, and then people say, oh, yeah, there's a tennis club here and a tennis club there. But I'm just I'm actually just too shy to actually ring one. And and of course I work night, so I'll be there during the day, and all of my friends work days. So it's not like I can buddy up with someone and we go and play tennis together.

So you can make the toughs of tea and the kid coom a sandwiches. Yeah, they do at a tennis club. It's what about croquet it might be good.

Oh yeah, no, I'm not that old yet. That'll that'll irritate some people.

What about what about Lord Bulls because some of the young guys are cleaning up in the titles. Not only like twenty.

Two friends of mine Speaking of Perth, two friends of mine in Perth or Lawn Bowls defictees in there, both in their fifties and they've won many tournaments over their journey together.

So on the greens.

Well they're in Perth. I'm in Melbourne, so there's a small problem there.

I just allege it or whatever.

Just take I'll just take the nine chopper, yeah, the macintos and run across there.

Yeah exactly, that'll. I'll be fit enough to play by the time I get there. Yeah, that'd work. To get on your bris and good to chat.

Thanks so and take care of mate.

Take care cheers. Mark's in Stall Morning, Mark.

The Morning. So you could always just jump on elboys new brass and take that for a spin.

The Perth.

Anyway. Yeah, I was talking to me far Capting yesterday about that bowl again, windmill burning them. I've heard the whole grids off or now, because I just run them in a series. I got from one to one to one to one to the next one and if one, if one's interrupted, the nopals out of about thirty of them.

So until that one's repaid the rest.

Power power.

Yeah, and the worst I have a foive million dollars to build. Wow, that's yeah, a good bit of money just sitting on them.

Yep, yep, it's not not it's certainly far from ideal. I think we could say.

Exactly and that very old taxpayers.

I thought, yes, the on the gym membership thing, Mark, because we were talking about exercise and stuff earlier and I thought, there's a gym, there's a gym near my place. It was with Rod Smith doing the US report. He said, swimming, you know, it releases good chemicals in your brain and all that stuff. Swimming is very good for you mentally as well as physically and I thought, Oh, there's a gym up the road for my place. Maybe I should look.

Oh, I thought you're talking about Jim's now.

One about what.

Well you wanted to go?

He wanted to go and see Jim. You can just ring him up, can't you.

Yes, No wrong, you know your mate, Take care Cheers twenty seven to five in Melbourne, twenty seven to three in Perth, and three after four in South Australia in Adelaide, keep the calls coming. We've got Arthur after the break,

Good morning again, Simon and Jackson, just for you and Bryce about the sports? Who listens to the radio that join the GYP. I'm being sarcastic anyway. You know you mentioned the phones. I've got my mate's mobile phone, the old analog and it still rings on triple zero.

Really yeah?

And I asked Marty Fields. He said some people still use them in the rural country areas as farmers on analog. But I said that kind of still works. He said, it's still connected to the tower. I quickly shut off and still I tried one one too, quickly switched off, just to see what happens. But something else I want to bring up. Seeing you're going to mention the story of Jimmy Barnes Tatam mcmahonus mentioned, you know the actor

Yeah, it's amazing that the stories that some people have aside from their careers, the other stories are amazing.

Yeah.

Sadly died seventh of June twenty fifteen at age ninety three, So yeah, if he was still alive, he'd be one hundred and three.

You find out a lot of things on three aw it's incredible, So I guess I'll leave it to many of them. Geen, Jimmy Barnes run. It's just what i'd mentioned that because you mentioned about possessed, but he was just for the movies. But I only found that out just last night. I had no idea. But it's just amazing what you find out.

Really, Yeah it is, isn't it. Yeah? Fascinating.

Well, I don't leave you get on with it because I know you've got quite a bit to do.

Thank you for that.

I have a great morning, no worries.

My pleasure. Thanks Arthur Bianco is in adelaide O Bianco.

Mate, Ye're good.

Just going back on the Jym story. Yeah, so you want to pay five dollars a week? Did you want a gym?

Well no, I was just throwing out a random figure. I was basically saying, if it's really cheap, I join, if it's really expensive, So I didn't actually mean five bucks. I think that would be well.

Under but yeah, yeah, you pay fifty bucks a week?

I know no way, know couldn't afford it?

Have I made the wages for the work training you Well, I.

Don't know, but that's like saying, you know, they should change fifty bucks for a cup of coffee so they can pay wages.

You know, that's bits out.

Of the path.

But now I'm not having a guy, you man, but you know that these guys are going to make wages too, like fifty bucks a week you work it out too, and half rand a year for membership and you can go any time, all day, all week, seven days a week.

Well, so that's that's the other thing that because I've never actually had a gym membership, so I don't know how these things work. So I was looking at what would it cost me to walk in and go for a swim each day, not really need to interact with anyone, not have a physical you know, not have somebody there overlooking me doing a routine. I don't need a personal trainer, So I understand if I wanted that, of course I would have to pay more, and definitely should pay more.

I don't know.

I'm old, who I'm fifty six years old. I've never been to a gym where there's a swimming pool.

Oh okay, well that probably answers that question.

Yeah, in Adelaide we don't have swim pools. Gyms just have weights in aerobic sist on that.

Yeah, YadA YadA.

Maybe you seek to get a member ship out of swimming pool mate.

Well, actually that's a good point there. There is a local swimming pool not far from me, but that's a bit further than the local gym. But the gym I was looking at has got a swimming pool. So yeah, so that's what I was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Adelaide. I don't know any gym. I may be wrong, but I don't know any gym in Adelaide they've got a swimming pool sauna far Yeah, no swimming pool.

No, fair enough. So if you don't mind me asking, So when you go to the gym, do you have like a personal trainer or do you go in classes or do you just wandering and pick up a few weights and do what do your own thing? Never been to a student, simon, Oh you haven't.

My lad's got to gym and work out, YadA YadA, two or three times a week. Yeah, they've never said there's a swimming pool. But yeah, that's when I have a laugh. Can I do it? I went for ig strying grain export my.

Doublin beautiful, excellent stuff. Get on your thanks, b A K. Take care of cheers Simon's and colic a Simon morning.

Yeah good yeah, but summing if you go again, he's got the pool. I could go to where sorry, in any pool we'll have a swim well yeah.

Yeah, well yeah, if it's a local council pool or whatever then yes, or private business or something, but yeah, but no, just just talking to Roden. He said that swimming is good for you mentally and physically, and I thought I should be doing some sort of exercise more. I do go for a walk. But I thought, maybe it's worth booking into a gym and you know, signing up so I can go for a swim each day.

Morgan wandering, jump in the pool.

And go Yeah.

Yeah, but I don't know what that costs to go to the local pool either. It's it's all stuff I can check out. It was just random thought I had.

That's all Yeah, Marke was from that Jim.

Was he? I thought he was talking about like Jim from West Footscray or something like that.

He laughed at their fish.

We got a press release from from Jim Penman, the man behind Jim's mowing. I've got a press release sent to me yesterday. He's suggested that they that the government should create another government department that monitors expenses by other government departments to make sure that government is actually run efficiently. So have a government department that looks over the bills of other government departments and tells him where they should be cutting corners and monitoring stuff.

And another revenue priz for.

No no, well, it's just a way of like he said himself, Jim Penman in his press really said many many years ago when he had a government job, he took over a job from a guy who had a government job, and he said the guy's job took him about half a day each week. He could do all the working that he needed to do, so he'd turn up for work five days a week, but if he actually just sat down and went bang plowed through the work, it would take him half a day a week. But

Could you do a.

Play any any excess song that you could?

Yeah, look, I generally don't play music overnight unless we know if there's no calls and it's a quiet spot in the show, we can always know a song on. But yeah, we've only got forty five minutes left and we've still got a heap of call, so I don't think we're going to get to play one this morning for you.

Though, well.

Perfectly one in the ordf.

We if we get a chance, we'll throw on some in excess for you, but we'll see. I go no promises, I'll have to throw that in. Good on your Simon, thanks for the call. A break back. In a second, Leanne has called from Minna Polia.

Good morning, Simon and Jackson. A couple of things. Addi Kabrati mentioned Christopher Lee. There's a few facts for you. Christopher Lee has the same birthday as Vincent Rice.

Okay, yeah, yep, and.

Also uh else what else?

There was another subject. Goodness, I'm just not long op enough. You can go to any pool I hated pool, municipal municipal pool and buy memberships to swim every day, and that might cost you more, I don't know, seventy bucks for a year.

Oh okay, well that's a lot cheaping.

The council run pools. They've got heated pools. That's your bishop. Don't go to a gym. I used to swim laps all the time, simon, and it was cheaper to do that unless you want to do the weights and the classes. Don't go to the gym with the pool.

Yeah, I can't.

The nearest municipal municipality pool and they usually got a head of one down there, wouldn't they.

Uh yeah, yeah, there was a local pool in my area.

Yeah.

Also, the gym would be a.

Couple of minutes drive, or like a five minute drive. The pool would be a ten minute drive. So mind I always say, arguably I should just if I just jog to the gym and back and not actually go in. I get fit.

Well, why don't you walk to the gym if it's only ten minutes away. Drive, that's not a bad walk.

Yeah, then I won't need to go in, won't custome a scene.

I know that feeling.

Also news in the lead singer of Cool in the Game was killed in the car cross yesterday today or yesterday in the state Michael Stummler.

Okay, I hadn't heard that.

Yeah, it is said, Yeah, not.

Not good at all.

What else was it? Pool covered, the pool covered the desk and Christopher Lee. Yeah, I saw a clip on Facebook or Google the other day that Christopher Lee and Benson prized both brilliant in the horror the same birthday.

I thought that was quite interesting.

Yeah, given they're both very similar in terms of both actors, both horror movie stars, and quite similar joint date of birth makes it even better.

Yeah, well famous genre to.

Yeah, not about it.

I think I'm going to go back to bed yesterday and we'll enjoy your day to day and I'll speak to your scene.

Yeah, Ok, thanks, take care, cheers.

Jim's in West Foots. Get a Jim, Good morning.

Simon and Jackson. Yeah cool and the Gang A great band. I love them. They also had a few other hits like Ladies Night and yeah of course you know, celebration and another song that mentions to get you back up against the wall. But that's not what it was called, but that's what they used to say, a very popular one. I've forgot them a proper name of it. But you're talking about your first mobile phone earlier, Yeah, Simon, I've had many mobile phones over the years, mock ears, flip

I found it.

It's had a portable charger which I found in the realm tube by Moto roller and that was called the black and white phone, but had had speaker phone, alarm clock. Yes, the mass ring tones way back then, from years ago.

Yeah, Yeah, it'll be in the bottom bottom of another drawer somewhere, probably with the wrong charger with it. That's what usually ends up happening.

I found the charger to this one is still in there, the portable one that you can charge and carry with you anywhere, and the instructions are in it, not the phone, so the phone must be somewhere else. I've had push buttons, I've had them, and the best one I ever had, I can't remember the brand. It was a flip phone.

I can't remember.

Probably Ericson. Ericson had really good little flip phones. I had a little blue one. It was a cute little thing. They're great. Good on your Jim. Thank you. I've got to squeeze another breaking before news, so appreciate the call. We will break and come back and a couple of text messages just ahead of news and then say goodbye

Tom you're listening To Australia overnight With Simon.

Owens, yes it's the last half hour of the program this. Morning jackson is here as. Well we're taking your calls on one double three six nine. Three tony mc will be back On. Monday he's just off because he's a little. Unwell little cold's going around and one of them's managed to tackle. Him, now just before we get back to. Calls in the papers this, morning in The addie and also in The Herald, sun there's a story On Jimmy

Simon just on the subject of accurate facts and. Housekeeping IF i, May i'll Make brisia from The Northern, climb sporadic caller and contributor to the. Program he's got to be kiddened himself when he said that Rak on tour, entertainer, singer, champion former, footballer three aw employee and visitor from time to time was about ninety years of. Age he's got to be kidding. Himself not even close, mate not even.

Close i'm.

LOST i must, Admit, kevin who was he talking?

About he told you That sam newmanan was about ninety years of?

Age all, Right, YEAH i don't.

Know and that went straight that went straight through to the studio. Keeper, Yeah i'm right through to the studio.

Keeper, WELL i must ADMIT i don't know how Old sam.

Is but, well do you want me to tell?

You if you've got the, knowledge, yeah share?

It, yeah, yeah because maybe it comes. Up i'll google from time to. Time Sam newman is seventy nine and a. Half, okay, yep so that's a long way off burned.

Ninety but What's kevin? Really you're nitpicking a, bit aren't. You what's the problem with?

It he's doing it all the. Time he's doing it all the.

Time so you're having to go With briza because he took a wild stab At Sam newman's.

Agent gone now was it was pre planned and?

Delivered oh so So bryce is Attacking? Sam is? Is oh you've hung, Up. KEVIN i always thought we had quite a good. Relationship we could have an adult discussion without having easy fit just because we, Disagree, kevin you don't need to hang up and go off. SOOKING i didn't Detect i'd like.

That, NO.

I just breezed through life without really caring much about. Anything BUT i didn't Think bryce's call was in any way degrading To. Sam if he listed all those things That sam, did you, know achievements in his, life well it's hardly an. Attack SO i really don't know what's up your, Ask. Kevin so, anyway have a, rest give me a call back another day when you're not going to have a hissy fit and run off just BECAUSE i disagree with. You mark has called From Cabbage Tree.

That.

Sorry So i'm not going to apologize for my behavior toward. You you hung, up you didn't continue the. Conversation that's your, choice not. Mine so you can ring back and Tell jackson THAT i can get. Stuffed well, fine it really doesn't upset me at, all and thank you for all the texts coming through as. Well very kind of. YOU i won't read them all, out THOUGH i will read a couple of. Others matilda's Versus argentina. Tonight according To,

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Reply but BEFORE i get to The KEVIN' i, reply just a bit bit of a guide to. ME i pay fifteen dollars a, week no, contract, unlimited twenty four to seven for a big gin in. Cost so that's a bit of a Stand for fifteen dollars.

A, week that's.

Good twenty four to seven access will give you it of a. Guide and they're all very competitive now about doing. Deals they're going off the contract way if you need. To so if you go three days a, week five dollars a, business, yeah that's pretty.

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Yeah back To, KEVIN i think maybe he's like the Other, kevin like no sense to. Humor Basically i'm not really. Random hang, on hang, on hang, on hang.

On just don't you have a crack At, kevin BECAUSE i just told him if having a crack at, You i'll crack it With kevin WHEN i think he's out of. Line but CAN i just ask, you did you did you mean to say something bad About? Sam just for, CLARIFICATION a jake like a.

But it's a human. Type but we all know That sam is like in the media all the time and he's not. Young BUT i just threw that up Ninety but maybe he's a sad human.

FAN i don't, know but, Well i'm A Sam newman. Fan i've Met sam many times over the years, Here we've cross bars in the. Building we've had him on the show quite a few. TIMES i think he's. Fabulous i'm a big fan OF.

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Kevin call?

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No, no all, good all, Good all, right good on your. Riser, thanks thanks for, that appreciate the, call and thank you for. Clarifying, yeah it was just a lighthearted. Things so there we. Go what have we? Got, Oh i've only got a. MINUTE i was going to read something else, out BUT i will just quickly recap. This police are appealing for a help to find a missing. Girl ivy has gone. Missing she's an eleven year old. Girl last scene in

Exactly So i'm going to read you something from The book Of. Wisdom it says here a wise man once said he that lives not well one year sorrows seven.

After or whatever that. MEANS i know exactly what's he talking.

About he's an, idiot.

Exactly please respect me in the.

Morning AM i reading for The book Of?

IDIOTS i don't know what's.

Happening don't tom be When i'm gone joining if you like, again, buddy you know the things you.

Say will be turned against yourself. Something don't talk about me When i'm. Gone, goodbye.

Goodbye Now i'm on my way.

AND i don't care what you say.

Here i'm going, Home.

So respect me.

More, joe discuss me.

Where i'm gone.

Here it's not, Nice chris OR i hate something down.

There joe talk.

Where i'm. Gone, WELL i don't know about, you But i've had fun the last two mornings filling in For tony. McManus he'll be back On, monday bright and shiny and wide eyed and ready for. Action thank You jackson for all you have done this. Morning it's been good to work with you.

Again pleasure working with you as, well and.

Thank you to everyone who, called texted and even just we also got a couple of EMAILS i didn't get to read as, well but thank you for. Those it's just lovely when you all take part in the program makes it a lot easier for. Me otherwise it had just been me prattling on and no one really wants to hear. That so good morning to you. All your breakfast shows are up. Next good morning to you, all and thank you for the pleasure of your.

Company were standing say.

That said?

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