FIVEAA Afternoons with Stacey Lee - 26 May 2026

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Speaker 1: Five Double a Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you and Happy Tuesday. It's the twenty sixth of May and I'm Stacy with you through until four o'clock and I've got tickets to give away this afternoon, a double pass to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to see Casey Donovan on Friday, the nineteenth of June. So make sure you join the conversation and we'll be having quite a few of them this afternoon, including finding out some more about the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with artistic director Ruben k who knows how that conversation will go. It's always a fun chat with Ruben, so anything can happen. Make sure you're listening to State of the Arts after one pint thirty and then also Tim Campbell is going to join you as well. There is another show coming to Adelaide, The Electrifying Eighties. What's your favorite Eighties song? That'll be fair, featuring a whole lot of them in this show, which is on a national tour. It's with Paulini and Tim Campbell and it's coming here to Adelaide later in the year, well later next month. Friday, the fifth of June at the Norwood Concert Hall. Tickets are available now and I'm looking forward to talking to Tim about that. We're also going to be chatting to the team from phil Hoffman Travel today. There are some more flights, some more direct flights out of Adelaide Airport. You'll find out where you can go, because I think direct flights make a difference to the way people travel, particularly well for a lot of people. I've noticed it myself now with a young baby, I'm just thinking, I don't want to have to get out at an airport and do a stopover right now. Who knows how long Molly will last on the plane. Will she nap, will she eat? Will she cry? I don't want to be that person, So I'd rather avoid doing a stopover and having to get off the plane and get on another one. So yeah, it's this is a big consideration for lots of people when they're traveling. So we'll find out what is the newest direct route from Adelaide Airport. Plus, you heard a little bit about the organization Animals Asia last week. This is an initiative that the Phil Hoffman Travel team have joined with to save the bile bears in Vietnam, So we'll find out a little bit more about it, because Jillian Robinson is the founder of that charity and she heard the conversation last week about the bile bears and she got in touch and said, look, do you want to hear more about this program? And we said yes, absolutely we do, so we'll tell you a little bit more about that this afternoon as well. Plus we're talking about education and schools in South Australia. There are calls to change some of the writing tests that are part of naplan and potentially introduce some more AI learning skills. So this would be a move away from testing English a way of testing kids language and writing skills, and instead testing their use of artificial intelligence. What do you make of that? Eight double two to three double O is the number to call or you can send me a text zero double four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. But the big news this afternoon, and you've heard it in the news bulletins with Melussha. South Australia police are going to be returning to Junta in the search for gus Lamont after he vanished in September last year. Hannah Ford is a reporter with seven news, and she joins you this afternoon, Hi.
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Speaker 3: Hannah, good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: You're on the way there now, Yes, we are.
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Speaker 4: On our way at the moment. I have to say, when we first came up here eight months ago, now, I certainly didn't think we'd be returning eight months later to still find any sort of trace or any sign of this little boy. That's how long he's been missing for. I'm sure your listeners will remember. He was last seeing out the front, playing in a parliam of dirt at his family's homestead near Yanka September twenty seventh, Grand Final Night. And since then there have been so many searches around that property. I think at least nine, maybe ten searches. This time, we know that Star Group officers and police are returning for a foot search around that property and surrounding areas. And the reason they're going back now is there has been floodwaters in that area and now they have finally subsided, so it's hoped that some dirt or parts of creeks have moved and there might be I guess, unearthing of some sort of evidence that'll be looking around creek beds and that sort of thing where water has finally come down and they might have a better chance of seeing what might some sort of evidence might have been flushed out in these waters. That in all of these search they have not found one trace of this little boy Gustamon, not nothing, not a T shirt, not a hat. He was wearing sort of a gray brimed hash and his blue Minion T shirt and ray hands and that none of that has been found. There's been absolutely no trace. So they're hoping that. But it is a big property and they obviously still believe he is somewhere in that area. They haven't searched anywhere else apart from this homestead and surrounding areas of that land, so police and Task Force Horizon must believe that he is still somewhere there and they are not losing hope.
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Speaker 2: Well, I just can't believe it's still going, as you say, eight months later. It must just be absolutely heartbreaking for his parents. And we know it was just a few months ago they released a video of Gus on the property on the station. Have we heard anymore from his parent?
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Speaker 4: No, everyone's gone.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: Police has came out and declared this a major crime not long ago, and believe that he's he's definitely suspected of not being alive, and that the way he has died is definitely there's suspicious circumstances around what happened that his disappearance, and they do believe that they have a suspect that person being someone close to him who is not their parents. That is what police said a while back when they declared this a major crime. Since then, we understand that his grandparents, who live on that property, have stopped communicating with police, both of them, and have both hired high profile lawyers. So there hasn't been much change there. And we do know that last time I'm the grandparents put out a statement saying they just still very much hope that they can find their grandson and reunite him with his parents.
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Speaker 3: That has been the only.
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Speaker 4: Statement or the only comment we've had from the family.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, and we don't know if there's been an update on that situation the police. I remember when they said that there are other family members who were not cooperating doing off that's still the case, or have they started cooperating.
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Speaker 4: Unsure of other family members. I definitely know that the grandparents have stopped all communication and that happened a fair while back now a few months ago, so that hasn't changed. Obviously, there was a court case that was meant to be heard last month, which was Josie Murray, the grandmother who was arrested on charges unrelated to his disappear parents, charge with possessing a gun silencer. That case was supposed to be heard only a few weeks ago but was adjourned and that will be heard next month. So we were hoping we might hear a little bit more about their situation, family situation in that court case that might have come out as part of the details of her fighting those charges, which as I said before, are unrelated to the disappearance. But as far as we're aware, there hasn't been a change in that situation, and they're still not cooperating with Task Force to Rise and detectives who are going back today and they're going to be there for about three days. We understand, especially focusing on those creek deads around the area, they're certainly not giving up giving up hope, and if they can find one sign that he was in the area or got to a certain point, if he did wander off, then that will death certainly just be an absolute breakthrough for police who have been looking at this case for so long.
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Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, yeah, I know you've been. You've been up there near the station for quite a few of the searchers, Hannah. Can you remind us of the terrain. What's it like when you get there? I imagine being a station that's so remotely Junta. It's it's quite.
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Speaker 4: Vast, absolutely, it's it's so vast, it's undulating, it's rocky, it's it's hard terrain. You can see, like when you look out, it looks like you can see far, but it's yeah, it's it's kind of it's hard to explain, but when you get closer you can actually tell that there's a lot of hills in there. It's not as flat as as the optics make it look from far away. And you can see how doing all of these searches, while think that they've gone over every left, no stone unturned, and looked over every square inch of this property, you can see how things can be missed though, because it is so vast and so big, and there's so much scrubland, and certainly there's still a lot of mine shafts, a lot of a lot of areas. It's possible that these things have been missed.
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Speaker 3: And there's a lot.
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Speaker 4: Of holes in the ground too, so I can see how even though yeah, they've looked over at so many times, and they've had the drones with the special equipment and the helicopter and and planes, it's so vast and so big that there's certainly a possibility that aside may have been missed, which is why they're not giving up and why they're returning again for another three days of searching.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's hope we can get some answers, and particularly for Jessica and josh Lamont, little Guss's parents, hope that this search does bring up something for them at least. Hannah, thank you so much for your time today, and yeah, all the best. We'll keep checking in.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: It's Hannah Ford, reporter with seven News on her way up to Janta at the moment. And as I say, if there is any news on that, we will bring it to you throughout the afternoon and over the coming days as police continue that search in the far north of the state. It's seventeen minutes past one here on five double A up next our best of essay, and today we are featuring Hard courts Port, Adelaide and lugs Bay. So if you'd like your chance to win a one hundred dollars bottle of wine and two tickets to our Best of Essay dinner, which is on the twelfth of June. It's a Friday night at Adelaide Oval, and we're not just celebrating the Best of Essay this year, we're celebrating five Double A's fiftieth So I think it's going to be a real party. I think it's just going to be a great night out. So get on the phone now. Eight double two to three Double Oh is the number to call to be in it, to win.
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Speaker 2: That's Sue in Christie's Beach. How exciting. Make sure you're listening all week for your chance to head along. Well, it is the best of essay and today we are featuring hardcourts Port, Adelaide and Largs Bay, and I've got the owner, Callen Lister, in the studio with me Hi Callan.
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Speaker 11: Hi, Stacy here going yeah good, how are you good? Thank you, Thanks for having us, Thanks.
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Speaker 2: For being here and also joining us as sales partner. Gabe fred manas Hi Gabe, Hey, Stacey here going yeah good, thank you. This is really exciting because it's a newly opened office. You've only been open for a few months.
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Speaker 7: It is.
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Speaker 11: We're very excited. We just hit Port Adelaide Larks Bay region and we're excited to get started.
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Speaker 2: Why that region, Callen, I think at the.
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Speaker 11: Moment a lot of people are driven there. It's getting a lot of attention. It was supposed to sort of take off sort of ten years ago, but it's finally getting the attention it deserves. A lot of new buildings, new pubs, new businesses, renovations, new estates. Just the list goes on, which certainly drew us to starting an office and getting out getting stuck into that area.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're a local as well. I did.
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Speaker 11: I grew up in Woodville and went to the White Friars College, went White Friars Primary there, and yeah, it was very good area to live in. Back then, and it's certainly changed a lot since I've now come back to it, But yeah, I'm excited. I've still got the same sort of the Felips always had the West and I'm excited to be back.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Really nice community vibe it is.
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Speaker 12: It certainly is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And is that what you notice on the ground, Gave when you're talking to people who are looking at buying into the area or people who are selling their home, you notice that community vibe too.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, definitely. A lot of the owners that I talked to have been you know, either multi generation or living. They've passed it down from family members to family member. Even buyers that are looking to buy into the area, they're looking to share that similar aspect with people in their lives. They want to buy there to live there essentially forever and find their forever home to eventually pass down to their kids and so on and so forth. So yeah, pretty much similar.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the poort is it does seem to be having a real moment right now. I guess you've just touched on it, Gabe, But do you find most of the people wanting to buy in the area are owner occupiers? Do they want to move families or move into the area and have a family, or are you seeing it more as an investment opportunity with all the different industries growing in the area.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think at the moment, it's still very heavily owner occupied space. Like I was saying before, a lot of people want to move there and bring their families there because it's close to the beach and all that type of stuff and really have that coastal living. I think now with the sub basin and the new deals that we've got in the country, I think some investors will look to start buying in the area, But I think for a large majority of people buying it is going to still heavily be that owner occupier and bringing families and stuff like that into the area.
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Speaker 14: Which is good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And Callen, there's a lot of new builds going up, new developments and apartment blocks and stuff too, which is great for young families to be able to get into the area.
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Speaker 11: Oh, definitely. It certainly makes a bit more affordable as well. The Fort Lasso, Fort Lags, and Dock One developments have certainly taken off, which has driven a lot of new people to the area, which I think has helped drive business in the area as well, and I guess reopen all the pubs and all those fun sort of social aspects as well. And they've been done. The developments of it have been done with a level of really good care, forward thinking, I think, versus just subdivisions, you know, one into two or two one into three. It's been done with some future proofing in mind, which is really nice.
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Speaker 2: You touch on something really important there. I think when people are looking to buy into an area, you know, the community aspect, the pubs. I know it sounds silly, but the pubs, the cafes, the shopping centers, this is all stuff that people do consider when they're considering a place to live, and especially if it's people looking for their forever home. So that's really important.
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Speaker 11: I think it plays a major part. I think that's what's driven you know, people buy his eyes on now on that coast because it lacked a few things before. The Port Adelaide shopping center has certainly joined a lot of people. They've done that really well as well. And once again, I know we keep referring to pubs, but everyone loves a drink after work or anything like that. Obviously, the sporting sporting facilities there as well. It's all the eyes are now on the port for good reason as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, cool museums down there too. You've got the lighthouse.
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Speaker 12: It's rich with a lot of history.
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Speaker 11: I think that's what I like about it. When we started out we bought the building, it was this rundown sort of heritage overlay office and it needed some TLC let's call it. And I've taken a lot of care in sort of preserving that within the building on the outside and inside to to sort of take care and look after it. I think that's been done throughout the whole of the port. The Council's done a good job of making sure anything that they approve is still mindful of its rich history, which I think is important.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: When we love that here. That's why we're so proud to be in Adelaide and South Australia because we do have that history that we do treasure. Now, there's a lot of real estate agents out there, callen why should people come to you over other agents?
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Speaker 11: I think the big thing for us is we really trying to lign ourselves with our clients' goals. It's really important to us to get it right and guide you through this process, which you don't do every day. We do, but it sort of seems second nature to us. But for every client there's a different approach or a different need, and we really take care in making sure that we hit all the or take all the stress out of that process for them while delivering the best result. I think that's part of our point of difference. I don't want to say exactly, I just don't care what else not transaction. Oh and with those things in mind, we believe that it really isn't a transaction. It really isn't transactional. It's something where we can build a relationship with our clients and keep them sort of coming back and guide them through one of the most important or if not the most important decision that they'll ever make.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because for a lot of people it can be overwhelming. If you've lived in the same house for a long period of time, or like you mentioned, Gabe, if it's intergenerational and has been handed down, making that decision to sell can be more emotional than financial most of the time. So having someone to trust with that decision, I guess, means a lot.
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Speaker 11: I think that's one hundred percent. The fact that the client is trusting us with their biggest asset or something that means something to them and their entire family. As an agency, don't take that for granted in any way. We are grateful for the choice to go with us, and we try and deliver on that our day to day.
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Speaker 2: Some people get overwhelmed when they think about the selling process and they think, oh, I'll probably need to paint or do some work or do some renovations to get it up to scratch, and they think it can be just too much, so they might put it off. How do you go about advising clients when it comes to getting a house ready for sale?
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Speaker 11: I think that it all starts firstly with the appraisal from us to come out and see the home, give you some honest feedback. Should we do this or should we not. Sometimes it might be something really small that needs to be fixed and we can advise and get it done. It might be a bigger project that we can help finance, such as painting or landscaping hasn't been finished that prepares the home for sale. It's really important to get that preparation right, and we offer a range of waste in which we can do it. First starting off with a free appraisal, with some free advice, and then assisting you with even delivering on that using our trades people or even your own but we can finance that to get it ready and get it prepared for sale.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a real point of difference.
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Speaker 11: Well, we think it is. I think it's important when it comes to a vendor wanting to sell as is versus if they just spent five or six grand, they may not have to get landscaping done. If we can offer that and it gets some an extra ten to twenty on their sale price, then we've done our job and it's been it's a convenience for them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely So if there's someone listening and they want to get in touch, where can they find you.
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Speaker 11: They can find us in the newly renovated building at anyone Saint Vincent Street in Port Adelaide, and they can give our office a call on eight one zero two zero five six two and we look forward to hearing from them.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, cal Gabe, thank you so much for coming in, Thank you, thanks for having us and looking forward to seeing you at the best of essay. It's half past one here on five double A time for news headlines and after that it's State of the Arts and we are featuring the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Today. Artistic director Ruben Kay will join me in the studio. Who knows where this will go? Join in and see.
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Speaker 1: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Twenty six minutes to two. Here on five double A. Let's get artie five.
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Speaker 1: Double as State of the Arts.
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Speaker 2: And today we are featuring the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, which is on from the fourth to the twenty first of June. And the artistic director Reuben k joins me in the studio.
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Speaker 15: Hey, it is a pleasure to be of Finally someone in radio stands that one thirty five pm is the morning for me.
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Speaker 2: You are welcome, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 14: It is a pleasure.
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Speaker 15: I have just rolled out of bed, found my way home, had a shower, and now I'm here.
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Speaker 2: Well, we are so grateful that you've managed to roll out of bed to get here today, and we're so grateful that you have taken the time because the festival's coming up, so I know you're probably in last minute rehearsal.
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Speaker 15: I'm on the cusp, I'm on the edge I'm on, let's be honest, a lot of prescription meds and some ones that I just bought out the back of a car park in rondel Moore. It's going to be fantastic. We are rehearsing, getting the workout. We are rehearsing, people are putting things up, the sets are being built, the band are rehearsing. People are flying in from all over the world. It's really exciting to see the Festivals Center become this epicenter, this like running Nerve Center. It feels like it feels like the White House. Just everyone wants to be there.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully no active shooters.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good. That would be good.
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Speaker 16: For real.
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Speaker 1: Love that.
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Speaker 2: And when you say people are coming from all over the world, you really do mean that, because I was talking to Libby Donovan the other day and she was saying that people in the cabaret field know the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
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Speaker 15: This is the thing Adelaide. People hang crap on this city from all around this country. But what they don't realize is in the international arts scene, Adelaide is known because it is the city in Australia which prioritizes the arts in its economy and its psychology. That's super rare. You have so many amazing festivals and the cabaret Festal Cabaret is a small world. Globally, they know this festival. That's why we get rock stars who are coming from all over. Dylan Adler is coming from New York. David Mills is coming from New York. We your people coming from the UK. I was pulling in people from Germany and Paris is a gorgeous, wonderful thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's what I wanted to ask you, because sometimes when doing this job, I get to interview lots of important people. Sometimes when I talk to artistic directors or organizers of events, I get the feeling that maybe they haven't actually had too much of a hands on inputs.
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Speaker 15: I don't know what you're talking about, but with.
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Speaker 2: You, I get the vibe that that is not you. Have you actually curated this.
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Speaker 15: My fingers are in everything I will because I do this for a job. I'm a cabaret performer and I've toured through all of these places. When this job came up and the offer was made, well, it needs They're not just hiring someone corporate. They're hiring ruben k and the vessel has to have that vibe. So it was for me an opportunity to kind of bring my favorites, bring my friends, bring people I admire. So the program is really programmed by me. I went to Edinburgh, I went to Berlin. I wasn't allowed in the States, but I sent emails I wentwhere IM not going to get in there, not if they look at my social media, I don't even bother No, I couldn't even but luckily, through the power of the Internet, want to get two amazing acts from the States over. I really wanted to bring the best of the best to a city because especially this city, because I started my career here. It gave me so much. So this festival is a way for me to give back to this amazing town.
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Speaker 2: And you've been such a key part of the festival over the years. What was that like getting that call to say, oh, I can tell you now.
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Speaker 15: Like the intersection of terror and joy because it's a huge undertaking, it's a huge responsibility in my industry, but also in Adelaide. I think this festival is pretty iconic. It has a long history. I mean my twenty sixth year right now they are I'm not.
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Speaker 14: I am in my.
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Speaker 15: Early forties or very late thirties, and I wanted to I want to do a good job, you know, see feeling the pressure in the best possible way that a nice thumb can often just provide that right bit of is this the right Is that the right thing for this radio stile I'm covering over the Parma shaking her head right now.
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Speaker 2: You like to push boundaries, obviously that's what cabaret is.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, cabaret is pushing boundaries. The best art makes you feel something and makes you go, oh my god, did they say that? Can they say that? And that's what this lineup here is. I mean, we've got amazing Sarah McLeod. She's an Australian icon and but this is what I was.
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Speaker 2: Looking at the rundown and Sarah macloud and I thought, hold on and had to double check. Is this Sarah mcleoud of the Super Jesus sun Aria Award winning rock star Sarah maclotd. Last time I saw Sarah McLeod, she was in a moonboot at Adelaide Fringe as part of twenty seven Clubs. She was told by her doctor to be careful, and she was still jumping off speakers and singing and screaming into a microphone.
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Speaker 15: See for me, cabaret itself intersex with like punk and rock. It's total the interactive. It's always about the audience. It's got to have some sense of like social comedy. It has to be happening then now, spontaneous of the moment, and Sarah exemplifies that. And where else can you go and see Sarah McLoud while you're ordering your booze to your table and have her just blast you to the back of the room, Grab a couple of wines, sing along, cheer on, get on your feet, dance in a really intimate setting.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing about cabaret, because it feels really intimate.
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Speaker 15: It has to be in a basement with a lot of booze.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's about telling stories and hearing people's stories, right, because there are so many interesting people in this space.
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Speaker 15: In this space, in this festival, and the aim of it all is to kind of go, look all these people. We're also different, but once we get in a room and you turn the lights down, we really have a lot more in common than we'd ever think. And I think the best things do that music does, that comedy does that storytelling, theater, going to the movies. It's all that experience. But in cabaret, all of them dials, it just turned up to eleven and it's just so much more tangible, I.
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Speaker 2: Guess, and so do you. Because you're a part of the festival as well as well as being artistic director, you've got your own shows.
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Speaker 16: I am.
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Speaker 15: I'm performing in What's the Buzz because I was part of Jesus Christ Superstar and that show never came to Adelaide. It did everywhere and everywhere it sold out and people wanted extensions, but it never got to come here. So one of the first things I did was say, well, look, we've got to round up the cast of these superstars like Michael Paint, Mahala Barnes, Javon King, myself, Pete Murphy, and go, look, we're going to bring them all to Adelaide and we're going to give them Jesus Christ Superstar. Give the people of Adelaide something they missed because this city sometimes gets passed over in touring. Screw that, bring them there. Let's give them the full Jesus Christ Superstar experience. With a full band, but we're also going to be telling all the stories of what happened on tour. And trust me, there are some stories that the rights holders of Jesus Christ Superstar I do not want to know about.
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Speaker 14: But hey, it's cabaret.
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Speaker 15: We're going to do it.
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Speaker 2: This is the best. Oh, I'm excited for that.
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Speaker 15: Now, it's going to be great.
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Speaker 2: And so do you When you're doing a show like that, How scripted is it? Do you plant? You don't seem like the type of guy to plan your jokes.
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Speaker 15: Well, I like to have a script because I think it's like a trampoline, right. You've got to set up the springs. You got to set it all up and make sure it's all tight, because then you can bounce and then you can have fun and you can play around. But you can only really do that if you've done all your bits, if you've done all your prep. But then once you're in the room, you've got to acknowledge the room. Everyone comes to your show bringing something. You come to your show having had the day you've had, and the best part of it is it doesn't happen. The magic doesn't happen in the audience or on stage. It happens when the two meet, you know, make the night special and individual. That's the best part of it. I think of cabaret is you go there both as the former and as an audience member, and you leave having experienced something that no other audience will ever experience.
00:30:05
Speaker 2: Oh I love that. That sounds great, And you know what that is what cabaret is about. I think there's something for everyone. At the Adelaide Cabaret.
00:30:13
Speaker 15: Festival, everyone always asked me what's cabare? What's cabaret? And the fact is, no one knows. The audience doesn't know. Even cabaret performers will all have one hundred different definitions. No one knows. The best part is it can be anything, which means it's kind of everything, and everyone has their own individual take on it. It's really a magical art form. I'm lucky I get to do it. I'm lucky I get to do this festival in this town, and I'm lucky I've gotten to bring this amazing roster of talent over.
00:30:42
Speaker 2: Well, we're lucky to have you. Oh stop it, no, you stop it.
00:30:48
Speaker 12: Tell the lights off.
00:30:49
Speaker 2: Let's go make our own little cabaret show. And so well, I think there's something for everyone at cabaret. But do you do you have do you have shows for kids, for adults, for grandparents, for I.
00:31:02
Speaker 15: Think as long as you enjoy a drink, come to the festival. I'm not necessarily someone who likes kids or wants anything to do with kids. I think I get it from my mother. But I also think if you're a parent and you think your kid can deal with content, bring them along, educate them. All the shows are rated so you can see what's appropriate, you know what I mean. But at the end of the day, most kids know sometimes more than their parents. And the funny thing is, although as raunchy as my shows are, I tend to get sixteen year old bringing their parents, really and they sort of here, here's my experience, here's this education, or the parents bring their their kid. Who's you know, just experimenting with the world or finding the world. Oh well, let's find this out. And in a way, even though my shows are you know, whatever you want to call my shows, I found myself suddenly on like a family entertainer.
00:31:58
Speaker 2: Did you ever expect that?
00:31:59
Speaker 17: Not a bit?
00:32:01
Speaker 14: But it's a lovely thing.
00:32:02
Speaker 15: No, I don't know what kind of family, maybe the Manson family.
00:32:05
Speaker 4: I don't know.
00:32:08
Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds like a whole heap of fun. Before I let you go, can I ask do you have any top pics?
00:32:14
Speaker 15: My top picks?
00:32:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, go on.
00:32:16
Speaker 15: I think if you love The Rose, then the famous movie with Bette Midler based on the life of Janis Joplin. Then Mahalia Barnes is singing the soundtrack to The Rose. This incredible soundtrack of like rock, soul, gospel interspersed with songs of Bi Janice Joplin and other people of that time. It's a really iconic show. More specials her voice, she's rock royalty. And getting to work with her on Jesus Christ Superstar. We just found a friendship. And so I said, I really love this movie. I played it all these songs, these songs, I mean, that's where you get the songs like the Rose, Stay with Me, Baby Fire down below. There was really kind of standard songs now in our cerebral you know, artistic brain or whatever you want. Yeah, I think what's the buzz is going to be amazing. Sarah mclaud I would also say, if you love your comedy really dark, then David Mills might be a good shout for you.
00:33:11
Speaker 2: Okay, he's from New York.
00:33:12
Speaker 15: He's from New York. It's his first time in Australia. Then I think also, if you just want to laugh yourself silly, go and see Popo Mocho. I'm not going to tell you what it is. I'm not gonna say anything, but I will say your jaw will drop, you will not know what you have seen, and you will walk away a changed human. I recommend a to drink minimum.
00:33:37
Speaker 2: How's that for.
00:33:37
Speaker 15: A pitch Kanuba, don't drive home?
00:33:40
Speaker 2: Okay, deal Poko Moco, Popo Mocho, Popo Mocho. Got it. I'm writing it down, Ruben, I'm literally running it down.
00:33:48
Speaker 15: Po Po Mocho.
00:33:49
Speaker 2: Got it. Thank you so much for coming in, can't wait.
00:33:52
Speaker 15: It is an absolute joy.
00:33:54
Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. You now get back into rehearsal.
00:33:56
Speaker 12: Yes started ru pick up a tuba?
00:33:59
Speaker 2: Yes good Rubin Kay their artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival on from the fourth to the twenty first of June. Tickets are available now Adelaide Cabaret Festival dot com dot au and don't forget, I've got a double pass to giveaway to Casey Donovan's performance as part of the festival on the nineteenth of June, so make sure you join the conversation throughout the afternoon. Eight double two to three, double O, double oh is the number to call. And after this, there's another show coming to Adelaide very soon, Electrifying Eighties. It's having a national tour and Tim Campbell is up next.
00:34:32
Speaker 6: Five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
00:34:52
Speaker 2: Love Shack. That's got to be one of my favorite songs from the eighties and it will feature in Electrifying Eighties. They're having a lot I'm a national tour and it's going to be at Norwood Town Hall on Friday, the fifth of June. It's with Tim Campbell and Paulini. Tim Campbell joins you now.
00:35:09
Speaker 10: Hi, Tim Goodston, Stacy, how are you?
00:35:11
Speaker 2: I'm great. You can't help but bop along to that song.
00:35:16
Speaker 10: Look, any eighties song, and that one is definitely in the show, but it's kind of later in the show. Once you've had Mentori Splice or your Spatley's Lexi or your West Coast Coolers, then you'll really feel the love Shack even more. But that happens to so many eighties songs. As we know, you just hear the start of the song and it just takes you back to a time of innocent and fun. So I'll go to love Shack. Yeah, that was a definite.
00:35:37
Speaker 2: Oh I love that and just the memories of the Walkman's and the boom Box. It's it sounds just like a whole lot of fun.
00:35:45
Speaker 10: Well, that's what the show that was. Not only do we perform these great songs of Whitney Houston and Sydney Law for Collins and a line of Richie and all these amazing songs that take you back to the Blue Light disco, but also yeah, we celebrate a great decade that what was just fun is where you know, pop music really came alive with electronica and all the synth sounds and everything else. And but we talk about that. We talk about you know, jumping on the BMX bike with spoky Dokies and heading down to the corner store and grabbing twenty cent mixed lollies or you know. In fact, to be honest, I'll probably be a few confessions of this show because my parents obviously live in Adelaide, and so does my sister, so there could be a few things that come out from my past in the eighties while mum and dad are there. So it could be a bit of a strange confessional about what I did with my you know, the money that mum gave me, if I ordered big lunch from the canteen, what I wrote on the brown paper bag, you know, kissing my first girlfriend in primary school as well. So yeah, there could be There's a lot to celebrate and remedist of the eighties and it's all going to come out.
00:36:42
Speaker 2: God, we need to make sure your mum definitely has a Madori splice in hand for that.
00:36:47
Speaker 10: Still have three? Trust me.
00:36:50
Speaker 2: Now, I can picture you rocking out with a mullet on.
00:36:56
Speaker 10: Now. They do not look like an AFL player. But that's the thing that I mean. Fashion always goes in cycles. In the A I feel the soul of the eighties fashions. But yeah, look, look, anybody that wants to dress up eighties is more than welcome because it is it is. We are celebrating a great decade like you are black Back at the Blue Light Disco. But we've got the full band. We've got an incredible vocal in Paulini. Like I say, singing some credible Whitney hits and the Madonna Mendley and all these amazing songs. But oh yeah, like if anyone wants to dress up and or you know, I used to have a flat top in the eighties and then I used the new way of gel. It was either red or blue, and I used so much it would stay in the side of my head for the rest of the day at school. And so oh yeah, bring it all back, I say.
00:37:38
Speaker 2: And so do you encourage singing along and dancing.
00:37:41
Speaker 10: Well, I do, And look, Norwood Concert Hall is quite as a good reverb to it as well, so even if you're a bad singer, you can kind of be covered by that as well. So absolutely, I mean, I'm sure what happens in our show is that it ends up being people go to the side of you know, you don't have to dance. It's a concert of bourse, but people end up on the side. And it's almost like that out back at their Blue like disco, and especially certain parts of the show when you hear those great tunes kicking as well all night long, or get out of My Dreams to my Car and you know, give it up by Casey in the Sunshine vanas so many songs that people just get up and have a bookie. So I'd say we're comfortable shoes, but we're your worst and best eighties outfits for if you want the roller skates included, well yes, oh look, I don't know whether the insurances are these days, especially me now I'm fifty. I kind of would love to be able to do that, but the knees tell me else why.
00:38:34
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure about going up those stairs at the Norwood Concert Hall either.
00:38:40
Speaker 10: That's true. I mean, god, that was Saturday night for me. I don't know other people, but down at the Rollerena on Saturday nights and then your twenty cent pieces playing the Pinny Parlor as well. That that was my Saturday night. While you have your you know, get twenty cent mixed lollies or your cobbers or your wiz Fizz and then you call call mom on the telecom outdoor phone and come pick me up. It was a time to be I'm telling you, I.
00:39:02
Speaker 2: Feel like a better time to be out. No mobile phones around, No no one's posting videos of what you were doing back in the eighties.
00:39:10
Speaker 10: That's special And look, that's what the show is. It is a celebration of a decade that was fun and innocent. And I don't think anyone's going to disagree and say that twenty twenty six is a bit kind of nucky out there, let to be honest. So that's what these shows are. It's kind of an escape to a time of people who know and even if you weren't around in the eighties or we will take you to school, trust me, but it is. We just we've all come together on this tour and we're honestly loving it. And mean people follow our social medias just see we just have an awesome time with our audience, as we always do. I mean, look, honestly, I was there last year in Adelaide with my Ball and Chane Anthony Klea and our last tour and you know, we did the Elton John and George Michael tour and the show ended with a wham medley. So I've already snuck in the eighties into that show. And so this, this whole show is just is just getting together and celebrating a great time with music and movies and culture and just what we did as kids as well.
00:40:03
Speaker 2: We all need an escape at the moment, and I think, you know, for an hour or so coming along and rocking out hearing some tunes. You mentioned if you're not from the eighties, but I think even if you you're not, you know the music. I mean, you know Madonna, you know Whitney, you know bon Jovi, Prince or all of it.
00:40:20
Speaker 10: And that's a great thing about eighties music. It is timeless. I mean Paul Lennie for a start in kind of two thousand and five, I think whilst she was in a band called the Young Divers. So there was four great singers off Australian idol creditor band in early the mid two thousands, and ninety percent of their songs they had two platinum albums, ninety percent of those songs were eighties covers, just kind of proving that that really the eighties songs are just timeless, and they sold. They sold to a younger audience, they sold to an older audience, they kind of sold to everybody. And that's why our show has been like all different ages have come along. But you know, me being a gen XA, I meich means I don't shut up on stage. But it's just just yeah, we are just gonna celebrate. You're right, it is a night of escapism and just celebrating an incredible decade of live music with the band.
00:41:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the live band as well makes such a huge difference.
00:41:11
Speaker 10: One hundred percent. I look, you know, I would love to be a DJ because it needs it is me in a microphone and a USB stick or if they do it these days, But I'm so old school. Yeah, I can only ever do things with bands, and that's what works for me and has worked on our other tours and you know, and always honestly always works with an Adelaide audience. So this one I can't wait and look in a let me just say, I know ruvem was fantastic before, but just have a night off from the Cabaret Festival and come and celebrate the eighties.
00:41:38
Speaker 2: I hope he's not still listening. Yeah he will, he will, and you know he'll come and find you.
00:41:43
Speaker 13: Correct.
00:41:45
Speaker 2: So this is this is a national tour. You've already been to parts of Victoria and New South Wales and Queensland. How's the reception been.
00:41:53
Speaker 10: It's been brilliant. It's kind of been perfectly what we wanted it to be because we love I mean, Paul ENnie and I we did an eighty show a few years ago and just came together and said, but this can't be a one off. We need to take this from the country. So the whole band are loving it. The reception has been, like I say, perfectly as we expect it, which is every time you hear the riff of you know, against all odds, or the power of love, or you just tash you back to a time, and that's what we want to celebrate. This is a complete celebration of a great music. And yeah, audiences as they always do it out toos always come on boards and I know Adelaide, you know, I guess I've been there for me to many years. And Mom and Dad bring a big group as well, and I know they love a good night out. So I can't wait for this one in Adelaide.
00:42:34
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well we can't wait either. Tim. Thank you so much for coming on and telling us about it and looking forward to seeing you back home now.
00:42:41
Speaker 10: Awesome, Thanks Dose, I appreciate it.
00:42:43
Speaker 2: See you. It's Tim Campbell. Electrifying Eighties is coming to Adelaide at the Norwood Concert Town Hall on Friday, the fifth of June. And they'll be dancing and singing, Oh not long. He does it much better than I do. You can get your tickets now online electrifying eighties dot com. Make sure you do sounds like a great now. As I say of escapism, we all need to escape real life every now and then, and what better way to do it than with eighties music blaring in your ear for at least an hour? How good? All right, it's time for the two o'clock news now here on five, double A and after that. There are calls to change some of the Naplan writing tests. There's an argument that some of the exams that our students in our schools cover there it's years three, five, seven, and nine. Some of the exams have been described as flawed, and some argue that the literacy and language skills test aren't really up to scratch anymore and should be replaced with AI skills. What do you think about that? On eight double two three double O double Oh. We'll talk about it.
00:43:58
Speaker 1: Next Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
00:44:05
Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you, and welcome to the second hour of the afternoon's program. After two thirty, the team from Phil Hoffman Travel will be here for Travel Talk and there's some big news for travelers out of Adelaide. There is another direct flight that's going to be leaving Adelaide Airport. Where is it going? When can you access it? We'll find out all the details. And as always, your questions are welcome. If you've got an upcoming trip and you've got some questions, or maybe you looking at booking a trip, or you have some information. If you have a trip already you'd like some information. If you've got a trip already booked, you know the number eight double two three double O, double o, or you can send it through on the text line zero double four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. Well, if you've got kids or grandkids, you'll know that. At school there are these things called the Naplan Tech tests. They are for kids in different age groups years three, five, seven and nine and they test a whole range of different skill levels. There are calls to change some of them, particularly the writing test. And Pat Murphy is the president of the Australians Government's Primary Principals Association and he joins you now.
00:45:21
Speaker 18: Hello, Pat, good afternoon, Stacey Lee, good afternoon, our boat listeners.
00:45:26
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time today. Just give us a little bit of a little bit of detail about what the Naplan tests are for those who don't know.
00:45:36
Speaker 18: So, the napolane tis means is literacy and numeracy based level literacy and numeracy for our students in grade three, five, seven and nine across Australia.
00:45:48
Speaker 2: And it's sort of I don't want to say ranks, but it kind of it shows parents where their kids are at compared to other children in their grade.
00:45:58
Speaker 18: Is that right, Well, it's That's what the test was intended to do, was to show parents individual strengths of their children, but also areas of deficiencies where they could work on and then also for class teachers where they could work with those students on, you know. And it's not always around working with different deficiencies. It's about sometimes looking at student strengths and saying, how can we even take this further? This might be a real area of interest, a passion that they have. We can advance this through a little bit more work in that area. So that's one of the real strengths. Unfortunately, we do see it used inappropriately at various times by some media outlet to form it into league tables and then publish that, and we're actually seeing from parent groups that need has the little benefit to parents that's saying that they actually don't look at those league tables. In fact, when you're looking at academic results and where it's one of the lower factors around parent choice for schools, reputation of the school is so important for a pearance, but also the academic interests around what a school actually offers, what are they offering an extended curriculum is so important beyond just Napplan results.
00:47:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so do you think the Naplan tests are working as intended? And what would you like to see changed?
00:47:24
Speaker 18: So there is definitely elements of the Naplane test which we're happy to support continuing as it currently does. The issue with God is, for the last two years the Napoleon test has fallen over while students are actually mid tests. Now, you know, even if you stopped a game of football, if you stop something mid you know, a classical music performance, it's really hard to pick back up from those things. So in the writing test for the last two years, unfortunately it's been interrupted for students now, some of them before they started the test, some of the mid way, some of them actually finish the test, so the results Australia wide, we're not actually comparing apples with apples unfortunately, where it's a real mixed bag around how students experience those test conditions. So the issue we've got there is that we know that the platform that is run by Education Services Australia actually has collapsed the last two years. It needs to be modernized, and we're saying, instead of investing money into modernizing it that way, let's actually stop pause review because we've spent over two busion dollars as a country on this nap Plan test. Now to just put you on the picture that would provide every primary school in Australia, independent Catholic government school with an outstanding playground, and unfortunately in Australia we're not seeing that as a core amenity. But I think if you looked around the investment, parents would love to see a playground in their child school. But we've spent this money on a nap Plan tests and said, let's not spend any more money. Is what we're saying. Let's take stock and then let's actually if we need to come back with a test that's actually more fit for purpose, particularly in a world where it has changed dramatically, And I'm going to say, in the last eight months, with the advancement of AI, it has changed rapidly. Does the old NAP planned test take account of that? Certainly not?
00:49:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So if it was to be replaced with anything, what would you suggest it should be.
00:49:34
Speaker 18: Well, we aren't suggesting one path or the other, despite what was reported in today's media at different times. We're suggesting a review, but the review should be looking at attributes that students need to preserve possessed, such as creativity, such as critical thinking skills that you're actually needing in this new world at our student to entering into those things aren't actually being tested at all in the test.
00:50:05
Speaker 2: Okay. So, and you're so right about AI, particularly in the last eighteen months, even just in the last it developed so quickly. Even in the last month, I've noticed friends and colleagues it's no longer oh Google that, it's always ask AI that, and it's really just shifted. I've noticed it significantly in the last month. But how would you incorporate that into testing in schools? Because I guess some people would look at that suggestion of incorporating AI somehow and say, well, we do need to teach kids how to write, don't.
00:50:43
Speaker 18: We We're not saying that children don't need to write. They absolutely need to write, because even the prompts on AI need writing. So writing is still a fundamental point. It's a matter of what AI produces. Students are going to really need to critically evaluate whether that is, as one politician overseas says, you know, genuine, or is it fake news? Because we know that not everything that AI, unfortunately comes out is actually accurate. We also know that sometimes it can have bias. So we want our kids to be critically thinking, but also looking at a piece of work and saying, how can we actually not just have this and hand that straight in? How do we enhance it? How do we make sure that it fits the right style of writing which is appropriate for that setting. All of those things need to be considered, and we're not saying one way or the other. What we're saying is we need to take stock, have a review, consider all these options, and then go forward from there. And we've never really done that. So natplan has been going since two thousand and eight. As I said, we've spent an awful lot of money as a country on this test, and we've never reviewed what actually needs to be in the test going forward to make sure that our students are going to be taking advantage of an AI world.
00:52:08
Speaker 2: And you're right, I don't often use AI, so I'm still learning it and I probably use it once a week at the moment, and I'm always so cautious with what it comes out with in terms of what is it referencing. Are these facts that it's giving me actually facts? And where are they coming from? Because you know, is it using Australian sources? Is it using overseas sources? Is it using Australian data? Where is it getting this infant? There's there's so many questions And I'm, you know, a critically thinking journalist in my thirties. What of our kids in schools do they think as critically about it?
00:52:48
Speaker 18: That's certainly either could be brought into sort of some sort of regime of how do we actually work through what would you be looking for as a student going forward? Now that not a year three answer, that would certainly be but by year nine you'd be hoping that that would be incorporated somehow into some sort of testing.
00:53:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So have you heard back from the government or the education departments yet, do you think that they'll be taking on board your advice.
00:53:21
Speaker 18: Well, we haven't heard back from governments, but I've certainly spoken to the CEO of a car today, and you know, we'll obviously agree on certain things and we will disagree on other things. But I think what we're asking for is that this actually has generated from public discussion, which is great, and we're getting this message out into the public that we'd love to see this nap plan test. And we're not calling on the test to be dissolved or anything like that. We still know Naplan has its place, but we're just saying this element at the moment is not right. But it also for a parent's point of view, you actually delays the test results coming back to parents, but in particular delays of coming back to teachers in the student which means that we could be working on interventions eight to ten weeks earlier than we currently are. So when the results do not come back to sometimes almost September, we've only then got three months left of that year to actually change some ways that we're actually teaching that child. If we had the results back, we do the test in first term, if we had the results back before Easter, which is easily able to be done, we then have three terms to work with that child on that in that year level.
00:54:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that timeline does sound concerning, and it's something that David in Warredale has called in on. Hi David, how are you good yourself? Yeah? Good, thank you. You were wondering about the timelines of the testing as well.
00:54:55
Speaker 19: Yeah, because me and my wife both said, what's the point in this because we don't get the results back until term three and by then they're almost gone past where there what they were testing and we don't know what the deficiencies are at that point.
00:55:11
Speaker 20: Yeah.
00:55:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pat, do you know why they take so long to come back?
00:55:16
Speaker 18: It is the writing marking of the writing and it has to be validated. It has to be The writing marking is still done by hand, so it's not electronically done, and we applaud that. We actually don't want a computer marking the writing, but unfortunately it's just so slowly the process around marking by hand, then actually validating the results and then assimulating the results across and generally there's state based organizations that are marking the results. They're responsible for that. Even though AKA across Australia has overall license for it state based, still as state based curriculum authority is still actually mark the test.
00:56:02
Speaker 2: Gosh, there you go, David, that's why it takes so long.
00:56:06
Speaker 19: Yeah, it just sounds there. Sound sounds like a backward thing to me.
00:56:12
Speaker 16: Anyway.
00:56:13
Speaker 18: I think what I'm hearing from David is that he is supportive of getting the results back a lot quicker and which is what we're advocating for.
00:56:21
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:56:21
Speaker 2: Absolutely, well, thanks for the call, David, appreciate it. So without the writing test, pat would would the other results be able to come back sooner?
00:56:33
Speaker 18: We believe from what we've spoken to MACARA and they based organizations, there's what they call a nap plan testing period, which is a couple of weeks where you can do the test online. Because not every school has access. They don't have one to one programs for these students necessarily, so we're making sure it's really every student has the opportunity equal access to computers. It does take a period of time in the schools sometimes that we know about two weeks to do the testing. So once that's finished, we actually believe the test results could be back within two days at the work. Probably a week.
00:57:15
Speaker 2: Well that's a big difference between a week and multiple months. Yes hmm, all right, well it's an interesting conversation, Pat, and we appreciate your time this afternoon. Thank you so.
00:57:26
Speaker 18: Much, Thanks very much, Stacy Lee.
00:57:28
Speaker 2: See you. That's Pat Murphy, the president of the Australian Government Primary Principles Association. And maybe you've got kids or grandkids who have undertaken their napland exams already and are awaiting the results. Maybe you've got some thoughts on that suggestion of scrapping the writing test altogether. I'd love to hear them. Eight double two to three double oh is the number to call, and I'll take some calls.
00:57:50
Speaker 6: Next five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Your thoughts now on any of the topics we've been discussing here on the afternoon's program. Maybe you have a favorite eighty song, give us a call on eight double two three double OW, or maybe, like Karen on the text line, you've got some thoughts about the Naplan tests. And as you heard from Pat earlier, these were brought in in two thousand and eight, so I never did a Naplan test at school. I'm before their time, and I don't know how it would have sat with me knowing that once a year I was going to sit a test and everyone in my year level across the country would be sitting the same test, and then my parents would get the results, knowing I'd be ranked next to them. And I know Pat was saying that that wasn't the intention of the Naplan tests originally, you know, it was more to tell parents and teachers where that student might need a little bit more help, where they might be doing really well. But if the results aren't coming back for six months or so, what's the point in doing the testing apart from ranking students and schools. And Karen on the text line says, I think that nap Plan is unnecessary pressure placed on the kids. If a child is behind in a particular area, then that's up to the teacher to discuss that with the parents. This is just my opinion, and I think I agree with you, Karen. If back in my day, I know that makes us sound old, but if there was an issue, the teacher would talk to parents about it. They'd either call a meeting with the parents if it was a more urgent issue that needed attention, or if it was just a bit of run of the mill, your child could work on this and this, and maybe they're doing this and this well. That would happen at parent teacher interviews, So other naplan tests necessary? Eight double two three, double O, double oh is the number to call. Maybe you've got some thoughts. If you've got kids or grandkids in school at the moment, how does it weigh on them? Do they know that they're about to do a test and be sort of compared to other kids in their grade across the country. I can't imagine I will have coped well with it. I didn't do very well with any exams or assessments. I think I was always destined to be a journo because I would leave them till the very last minute. It was like, give me a deadline, and I will meet the deadline, but only just. There wasn't much pre planning or thought that went into my work. When it came to assessments or studying for exams. It was always the night before, a lot of red bullcans in my bedroom as I was studying. That's for sure, definitely not the healthiest way of doing it, and I will be encouraging Molly to be a little bit more organized than her mum. But yeah, the NAP plan testing, is it necessary? Eight double two three double O is the number to call to have your say. Maybe you've got some thoughts on Jane Lomack Smith, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide City Council, announcing that she will be running again when the local council elections are held later this year. She spoke to Graham Goodings on the Morning Program earlier and he asked her if she'd always planned to run again.
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Speaker 21: No, I was rather reluctant when I stood again in twenty two, but I have recognized that we've gone a long way to sort out the financial issues that the council had faced, and within two years we'd moved from a very difficult financial state to a more sustainable one. And I recognized that keeping everything on track is useful at a time when there's a massive change in the city occurring, and by that I mean doubling of the population, increased economic activity, and I suppose you might say a bit of pressure on the parkland. So all in all, there's more work to be done.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think is that a good enough reason that it's not a time for change. Eight double two to three double O double Oh's the number to call. She was also asked about the impact of the Moto GP track because we know that there are works that need to take place for that event to come to Adelaide.
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Speaker 21: But we do know that the roads that are required are quite wide. They're not little footpaths you can aim through the trees. They will require tree and removal. There'll also be substantial changes around the edges, which is where residents live and businesses operate, and around the edges, the exclusional zone is likely to go up to people's front fences. I'm also mindful of the fact that a lot of these activities require permanent buildings, and those permanent buildings maybe on Fullerton Road, they could be in the middle of the.
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Speaker 2: Park interesting permanent buildings there on the parkland. And the removal of trees, which we have known about for a while since the announcement was made that the event would be coming to Adelaide. I think it's around fifty trees. I'm happy to be corrected on that one, but I think it was around fifty trees was the original announcement. The original figure if that number changes as we get closer to construction happening. So it's not I wouldn't say it's hugely significant fifty trees. It's not like the six hundred at the North Adelaide golf Course. But for those people who don't agree with the six hundred or so trees being removed from the North Adelaide golf Course, they probably will have some very strong feelings about those trees at the Moto GP track needing to be removed. And it's just prompted me to think the legislation that was passed surrounding the state government taking control of the North Adelaide golf Course and the parklands there for the redevelopment, does that also apply to other parts of the parklands or how long does that legislation apply for? Is it forevermore? Does the government have control of the parklands and can they just remove what they want and build what they want on the parklands. I'll try and find out the answer to some of those questions. And as always your thought, it's a welcome to on eight double two to three double O double O. Keep that number handy because up next it's travel talk. We've got Darian Foot from Phil Hoffman Travel coming into the studio, so if you've got a question for him, you know what to do. He's also got some great news about more direct flights into Adelaide Airport, so we'll find out the detail of that.
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Speaker 1: Five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 6: Thanks to Phil Hoffman Travel for over thirty years creating moments you'll never forget. This is five double A Travel Talk, and we'll.
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Speaker 2: Get into travel talk in just a moment. If you've got a question, eight double two to three double O double O's the number to call, or if it's a more detailed travel question, if you'd like an itinery, or you've got questions about a trip that you've got booked. The Phil Hoffman Travel experts are now in the Travel Lounge on eight double two to three double oh double five to answer your question. If you think it's not something a question that you'd be comfortable asking on E they're there in the Phil Hoffman Travel Lounge eight double two three double oh double five. Is that number? First up? Duniel Hayes. Is it the Bureau of Meteorology? Hello, Daniel, Jay, Stacy, what can we expect for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 22: Look, come a few more showers around. They're still going to be with us into tomorrow, probably a bit of a reprieve on Thursday, but then we just see the next system moving through and bring some more showers through Friday and into at least the start of the weekend, maybe easing a bit towards the end, and then the next system comes through on Monday. So still quite a bit of our activity ahead over the course of the next week. But yeah, look it's it's been a little bit clearer at times today. There have been a few patches of blue peeking out here and there, so not quite the solid deck of cloud today, and that has pushed our temperatures up to in a at eighteen nineteen degrees today, so a couple of degrees warmer. Expected to stay around about that level now for the next few days. It will cool off again over the weekend as that next system comes through and a little bit of cooler air moves through with that. But around about this nineteen eighteen ninety degrees is what we'll see now for the next few days, and still the chance of showers, but generally fairly light ones over the next few days.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and I think you mentioned Thursday was the pick of the week. Is that still the case.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, it looks like it just a partly cloudy one forecast. It's only a twenty percent chance of seeing showers, so there might still be the odd one here or there, but yeah, it's definitely likely to be the least active of the days before things start to pick up from then on into the weekend.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the update, Daniel, You're welcome. That's Daniel Hayes at the Bureau of Meteorology. All right, let's get into travel talk now and Darian Foots in the studio today, regional sales manager at phil Hoffman Travel.
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Speaker 14: Hello, Dari afternoon, Stacy afternoon.
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Speaker 2: All good to see you again. Thank you, thanks having me and you come with good news today.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, we do. So We've got a United Airlines who have been flying out of Adelaide over our i guess our summer period, Adelaide to San Francisco. I've announced that they'll be coming back again for twenty six twenty seven, so starting in December through to March, three flights a week direct Adelaide to San Francisco, Adelaide to the state, so great for the Christmas holilays if you want to go to America or Canada, a direct service out of Adelaide to avoid having to go via the Eastern States of New Zealand. And it's also great timing. It's three o'clock in the afternoon from Adelaide. You arrive into San Francisco about eleven o'clock in the morning, so you've got connections from there on to the rest of the States, and the flight coming home is an overnight flight. They've also got economy, Premium economy, and business class offerings, so if looking for that middle ground in premium, you've got some about twenty one seats in premium economy. So it's the United Airlines directed out of Adelaide into San Francisco. And it was very popular just this time last year or over our last period in Christmas time. So it's great to have it back, and I guess just put the confidence back into the market and into the Adelaide market. We can fill these direct flights out of Adelaide.
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Speaker 2: For sure. I have family members or I have friends who have family members that live in the US and they were really taking advantage of it because that direct flight really makes a difference for some travelers. A lot of the time if there's a stopover, it's just that one hurdle that people don't need.
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Speaker 14: Correct it just takes away that one little bit of hassle. It's nice and easy. Adelaide Airport's a nice airport to navigate and get around, so batterfly direct from Adelaide is a definite bonus. And we're seeing more and more flights coming back into Adelaide coming into Adelaide, which is excellent for our economy, both inbound and outbound. So it brings people to our country in a great summer period, so you know, visiting the wineries, getting down to the McLaren Vale, just having a look at what we have to offer in Adelaide as well as a huge benefit. So it works both ways. It's what it's all about. So yeah, exciting times.
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Speaker 2: And then for those wanting to go and have a Christmas, all white Christmas, perfect connections.
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Speaker 14: San fran is a great city anyway, is a destination, so yeah, I've been a couple of times, so it's an awesome destination for a few days as a stopover on the way over to anywhere in America. You've got not not too far away, got the Napa Valley, which is only about an hour and a half out of San Francisco. It's a great wine area as well for the for the cabinet and the's infidels and those beautiful reds. And then not too far south, you've got that beautiful drive from San Francisco down to La Via Monterey. If you're into your golf, you've got Pebble Beach, beautiful Montre Peninsula, and a couple of hours south of San Francisco. There's so much to see him do in that area of California. So if you want to stop over on the way to New York or up to Canada, or to Chicago, wherever you may want to go to, you a few nights in that northern sort of central Californian area is well worth visiting.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, cool, I've always it. Does it snow not in San Francisco.
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Speaker 14: It's got an amazing climate. It's got that that fog, that sort of that comes into the bay. You've got the course of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's got a unique climate in that part of North America where it stays pretty temperate. It's they's get a bit cooler in winter. But it's a bit like I guess our Adelaide sort of whether it's it hasn't got that real, real low cool whether that sort of is like a snow weather And so those in parts of California you have to go into the the central parts, like far away from San Francisco. If you want to combine that with a ski Hodely in winter you can sort of definitely ski in California or flycross to Denver, or go up to Canada and get a bit of the white, white Christmas or a white snow experience as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on my bucket list. I've always wanted to do it. I've never seen snow, so you go and do a white Christmas to do it definitely. Yeah, hopefully there's some direct flights, Yes, that would be awesome. And what about the the people it's bringing in. I mean, you know, you mentioned the Napa Valley. I know there's a lot of people in the wine industry in America who see our South Australian wine industry love it. Yeah, they love it. There's you know, exchange programs and they speak in the nation and yeah.
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Speaker 14: We'll be lucky. We've been So I've been to the NAPA and Sonoma a couple of times, and as soon as you mention you're from Adelaide, they love to talk to you about wine. They know our area, they know our famous Brossas Serras and other areas of the Adelaide Hills for our lovely white. So you start talking to them, they open up the winery. Almost taken on it. We were there and took us on a guide to tour around Sonoma Winery. So they do they do no Adelaide and I think that name rings a bell with that part of the world. So certainly it will bring people into our lovely state and visit it at a great time you know, would be around about that sort of between December and March, so you know there's the fringe in February early early March, and so there's a great vibe happening here in Adelaide, as we know. So it's great to experience it with with others from all over the world.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what other destinations are you noticing at right now?
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Speaker 14: They look Japan, Japan. Everyone loves Japan and heading there and good numbers. There's lots of inquiries coming in for that destination a bit of close to home stuff as well, so the gang up to up to dar and I was lucky to be on that last week. Did a little experience from late to day on the Gaan this time last week, which is excellent. So that's sort of a popular spot as well, cruising around Australia and certainly seeing a bit of an uptick now back into Europe, so more people wanted to get back for the second half of this year, to get over there in sort of September October and experience a bit of the last bit of the European summer period. So they're the sort of destinations that are sort of coming in the door in a pretty irregular currency.
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Speaker 2: And how how far ahead would you recommend people plan and book trips?
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Speaker 14: Look earlier the better normally, but we have seen some good last minute deals available as well, so you know, it doesn't really matter. It's whenever you are able to decide you want to go on a holiday, come and have a chat. We can work out the different options that are there. We always sort of suggest if you can give yourself six to twelve months, that's great, but if you can't and you want to get away on a whim. We can make it work, so it won't be a problem finding a way of making it sort of happen for you at a last minute a notice. So we know that people have holiday sprung on them last minute, or situations that come up that you can just get a bit time off school, hottle ays or whatever it might be. So if you want to try and take advantage of your valuable time, we can try and sort of make it all happen for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Great, Well, you mentioned cruisings popular at the moment. Let's bring in Emma Newton now from Viking Cruises. Hello, Emma, Hi, thanks for having me Gay.
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Speaker 16: Yeah really, well, I'm excited to actually talk about you said some last minute deals as well, so we've definitely got that available twenty of our listeners today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so tell us about Viking Cruises. I know we've spoken before, but what just remind us what sort of destinations you sort of travel to.
01:13:35
Speaker 3: We're very spoiled at Viking.
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Speaker 16: We have over one hundred and fifty itineries across river, ocean and expeditions, so there's no shortage of optims when it comes to the itinery, the destination and the experience we can offer. That's a really nice, I guess conversation to have with our clients. And yeah, across seven continents at this stage and expanding rapidly. We've got a couple of expedition ships on back order and we've just hit our hundredth and first ship as a fleet size. Yeah, I mean sport for choice really, And are.
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Speaker 2: They all different sizes or what's your how many people do you usually take on a cruise?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, depending on what vertical they're traveling in, so on river. Yes, we have the long ships predominantly, they're in Europe, about seventy five of them at present, but we do have eighty five on the books at the moment across the Nile to Mecom. We've also got Mississippi. We've also got India coming on board as well. When you're talking about ocean, we are a small ship experience, so all of our ships are under a thousand passengers on board. We have actually just announced and launched out o the world's first hydrogen powered cruise ship as well in the ocean space. And then if you're talking about expedition, you're looking around three hundred and eighty passengers on board and they operate from Arctic in the north all the way down to Antarctica in the south.
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Speaker 3: So we've got all your bases covered.
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Speaker 2: Cool. First hydrogen powered cruise ship. How does that work?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 16: Very exciting. So they're six meters longer than our existing fleet to accommodate nine hundred and ninety eight passengers on board. Our older fleet are nine hundred and thirty eight and keeping in mind our older ones are still under about ten years of age as well. So not only that, but we have also announced we're going to be expanding our approaches in Europe that take you between your extension to the ship, and they will also be hydrogen powered. So yeah, making inroads in that green space as well, which is exciting and quite innovative for cruising.
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Speaker 14: Right.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is a silly question, but I don't I don't really know how regular ships are fuelled. Is it petrol?
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Speaker 9: It is?
01:15:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, bottle fields.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so hydrogen would be a cleaner option.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 14: It's becoming more and more I guess popular now with that with that sort of you're looking up the environment and sort of different ways of doing things. So it's great that Viking have always been a leader in all things cruising, and they're doing that in that space as well. So what's what's you mentioned? Last minute deal is anything that sort of strikes your fancy. What's out that's a great deal that maybe not strike the interests of a few.
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Speaker 16: Business Yeah, absolutely, So we don't usually have last minute deals available, but really happy to announce we've got some great availability if you're ever looking at going to somewhere like France, leonor Provence. At this stage is actually on sale for just twenty four hundred dollars, so that's a huge saving of about sixty four percent down on the going rate, and that's the sailings still in this year, So last minute deals between August and November. I'm just looking at availability now for this year and it's looking pretty good. So if anyone's out there and looking to really jet off to Europe and explore the south of France, that's a fabulous option. I've actually never seen prices around that mark, so yeah, good opportunity to snatch up a bug and enjoy our beautiful printing product as well in the river space.
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Speaker 2: There you go. Well, thanks for your time, Emma, really appreciate it.
01:16:37
Speaker 7: No problem.
01:16:38
Speaker 14: Thanks.
01:16:39
Speaker 2: That's Emma Newton from Viking Cruises. Have you ever been on a cruised that was a hydrogen powered I'm fascinated by.
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Speaker 14: I've been with Viking and Viking are amazing particular. But yeah, this is lots of new innovation happening in the world in general as we as we know, we can see it. It's moving at a very fast rate. But hydrogen is not unusual and you'll see a lot more of it moving forward as well. So yeah, cutting.
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Speaker 2: Edge is it. Could you get an.
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Speaker 14: Electric I don't thinking. I wonder whether you can get electric player. I don't think you better get electric plane. But you never say never. As as you say it never is too short. The future will hold. But we know that there's some very smart people out there that have got some great ideas and have got guess more power than we have. Some you never know where it might end up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a text here from Maria and she said I've just come back to Adelaide from San fran The flight was fifteen and a half hours into Melbourne. I found it was really tiring, especially in economy. I do agree. San Francisco is a great city and we saw the fog named Carl.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, that's his name. So there you go. But it is amazing. The fogg is spectacul It rolls in certain times of the day and it rolls out just the way the climate is and with the hot air from the Pacific and the coal from the mountains around there, it sort of just lingers around the bay. It's quite haunting, especially from Alcatraz. When you're on Alcatraz and the fog comes in, it's pretty spectacular. So it is a unique city for whole host of reasons in culture and just the way of life.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, and they named their fog I like that, there's the reason for it. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And Maria, well there you go. You found the flight into Melbourne was a bit tiring. Well, hopefully next time you.
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Speaker 14: Go, four or five hours out of it. Definitely. Yeah, right, when you consider the time we go spend the Melbourne and the flight for Melbourne, it normally is sort of four or five hours you can save by going direct, so yeah, it certainly benefits in there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully next time you go you can get that direct flight from Adelaide. Now, Darien I wanted to bring into the conversation today Gillian Robertson, the founder of Animals Asia, because last week during the segment we were talking about the bile bears in Vietnam and Phil Hoffman travel sponsor a bear, and Gillian and her team got in touch because they heard the conversation and she's here now. Hi, Jillian, Hello Stacey, it's Jill. Just thank you, Thanks for your time.
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Speaker 23: It's pleasure. It's lovely to be sorry. It's just not money. It's not Jillian, it's Jill.
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Speaker 2: That's all.
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Speaker 23: You're proper thinking it's like a short version, but it's not.
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Speaker 2: That's actually sorry, I've got the wrong thing on my notes here. No worries. Apologies to talk.
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Speaker 15: Yeah you too.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for getting in touch because we've sort of, like I said, we touched on it last week about about the bile bears in Vietnam and Phil Hoffman travels involvement and Darien.
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Speaker 14: You've been to visit, yes, about this time last year. It was March April. We're lucky. The senior managers got up to Vietnam North northern part of Vietnam and Jill and her team were there and it was around the amazing for Sidley that they've built up in the northern part of Vietnam, and it's just so special to see these bears living their life now and just having a great time. And everyone got quite emotional. We saw the bear that we sponsored Twilight. She came down towards where we were standing and she sort of have got a great setup and there was plenty of tears and tears in everybody's eyes and just it was a special moment that we remember quite fondly. So it is a what Juell and her team do up in not only Vietnam but all around the world is just phenomenal. So it's great to have you on on the on the air today, Jill.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So tell us about the bar bears, Jill, and what do they need to be I guess rescued.
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Speaker 23: From Well, yes, bear bar farming is a particularly vile industry actually, where bears are kept in tiny wire cages and they melt of their bile from their gore bladders for using traditional medicine, despite the fact that there are multiple hobal and alternative herbal and synthetic alternatives to take its place today, so you don't need bear bile at all, and these when you consider that these bears, like Twilight, like Darien and Phil Hoffman's spare was in a cage for over twenty years of their life with actually, you know, no stimulation at all, no access to sunlight or you know, the rain in their fur, or no free access to nutritional food or water, no medication for their pains over all that time. You know, the list just goes on and on and on, and I think when we rescue them, we're all just mightily surprised that they can even recover from such trauma. But bears are very stoic, and and you know, having rescued about seven hundred and fifteen now from bile farms in Vietnam and China, we can really attest to the fact that they go on to not only recover in many cases, but to forgive the very species that put them there in the first place. So it's a terrific campaign, Stacey, And we're looking at the last year now of ending bear bar farming and bringing the remaining one hundred and fifty a whole one hundred and forty two bears to our sanctuary in Vietnam and closing down the industry once and for all. With the Vietnam government.
01:21:32
Speaker 2: Oh, that would be great to see that happen.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, it's a pretty mighty campaign that we've taken on and it's been going. You know, we've been gosh working on this since the late nineteen nineties and we've got two award winning sanctuaries in Vietnam, one in the north in tam Dale that Darren and team came to, and we've got another one now in the middle of the country. So we are well equipped to rescue every single last bear in Vietnam gain us per our agreement with the Vietnam government to end bear farming this year. So we're really calling on everyone that's listening to you now please bob onto our website, you know, sign the petition letter to the Prime Minister that we've got now because we need as many hands on deck to convince the government to end this industry and confiscate all those remaining bears to our sanctuaries.
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Speaker 2: And so what's involved, what's involved with saving even just one of these bears? How does how does it work?
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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, that's a great question.
01:22:32
Speaker 2: See can you hear that in the back a little bit but it's not too loud.
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Speaker 23: This is the hotel I'm staying, and they've got a fire drill?
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Speaker 2: Nowat do you need to go? Is everything okay?
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Speaker 23: I might just ignore it for a minute. I don't think it's a real fire, so I'm so sorry. Yes see, so well, the bears, you know, they they have extraordinary physical and psychological trauma, as you can from just being on cage bars for twenty years of their life or more and not getting the proper nutrition and medication that they need. So it's quite something. But our team, our amazing VET teams both in China and in Vietnam, are so highly skilled and they know exactly what they're looking for. And so the first thing is obviously that the government allows us to go along to the farm and help confiscate the bears into recovery cages. They're on the road back to our sanctuary where we have them for thirty days in quarantine so that we can, oh, for goodness sake, such.
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Speaker 2: I'm a bit worried about you, So if you need to leave, you just tell us.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 23: I don't think so. I think it's just a drill, So I'm going, you know, I'm pretty sure I'm by the windows, so I don't think I can't see any you know, anything untowards. So we bring them back. Our team are looking out for issues. We'll put them into a into the quarantine for thirty days, but that time we're looking at them for physical and psychological signs of okay, that's it, they're finished. We're looking at what needs to be done. So it could mean that they need an urgent health check to, you know, with the use of ultrasound, hooking them up to heart monitors, checking their teeth, taking bloods, the whole thing to determine, you know, if there's anything going on there. Sometimes even on the surgery table, if something comes up on the ultrasound, the team could go straight into major abdominal surgery or any other you know, a dental or you know other factors where basically are removing pain and hopefully being able to recover those bears to the point that they go on to live with us for at least a few happy, good years. And you know, with choices being put in grassy enclosures with you know, with friends to play with, swimming pools, enclosure furniture, and toys. I mean it's strawk and cheese when you see them, so so compromised in a bare farm cage, and then suddenly they're in our enclosures, bouncing around, you know, with other bears and just having the time of their lives with choices and looking and looking and feeling much much better than they ever did in the past.
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Speaker 2: And Darren, you're nodding along. Is that something that stood out to you?
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Speaker 14: It's just so special. There's beautiful part of it, lush countryside. These enclosures are massive, there's lots of space. They're running around, they're swimming there, playing with their new friends, and then they've got their little sanctuary. They can come back to the little I guess, the beautiful enclosure which they can relax and chill out, sleep, And we saw a couple of bears holding hands in there in their enclosure. They make friends. It is special and considering a lot of them, all of them, we're in a very very different situation only a few years earlier. It is pretty eye opening. And we've had a couple of years working with Gill and Animals Asia. We've raised over twenty seven thousand for the help of our clients, so we have lots of events that clients can can put some money towards whether it be at our expos or every booking they can opt to donate towards the cause, and we've been matching money as well and putting money into the into it. So we've now got we have two sponsored bears currently. We had one that just recently passed away, but we've got We've got to continue to Guess relationship with dual and animal Asias, which we very proud of and we believe it's just a good force for good and people can go and visit the facility in Vietnam. There's certain days and times that that's open. We work closely with the venture world who are all about that Guess connection as well with with I guess travel and travel for good as well. So yeah, there's great ways you can sort of put back and put back into the world, I suppose.
01:26:46
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and Jill, how much does it cost to save one of these bears and to keep them in a safe environment.
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Speaker 23: Oh my gosh, it's about oh now, forgive me, because I'm talking I think about US dollars. I think it's about twelve thousand US dollars a year to actually, you know, because obviously they're older that they're getting. You know, the longer the time they've been on the farms, the older they are, the more compromise they are, and the most expensive.
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Speaker 3: The more expensive they.
01:27:14
Speaker 23: Are to care for, obviously, as we all are when we get into old age. So we're looking at arthriters, you know, we're looking at things like cancers. We're looking at you know, sort of eyes that need attention, teeth that need attention. I mean, their mobility problems have been off the chart, you know, so they need expensive, you know, medications, they need a lot of care from our wonderful, wonderfully skilled team in Vietnam and in China, and you know, just to sort of get them on the road to recovery. And I think that's why we're so we're so keen to get the last bears rescued this year because every month and other four bears on average are dying on these farms. So it's really really important, you know, to get these remaining one hundred and forty two bears back to our door so that we can not only close the industry for good, but we can keep our promise that we've rescued you know, every last bear in the country, so you know again it's you know, people like Phil Hoffman Adventure World are just incredible to get behind us and we need more, more and more of that to be able to close these farms down and ask people like your listeners bob onto the website, please join us, help us and sign that all important letter to the Prime Minister along with over thirty celebrities like you know, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Frye and Judy Dench and indeed our wonderful ambassadors here in Australia like celebrity Vekatorna Warren, celebrity chef Simon Bryant and Fantastic Museum. Another one of our ambassador's Peter Northcote. So yeah, sorry, I know that sounds like a plug, but by gosh.
01:28:46
Speaker 8: We need it this year.
01:28:47
Speaker 2: No, go for it, plug away, Gil, because it's such incredible work you're doing, and it's so incredible that there's a feature film in development about the work that you're doing.
01:29:00
Speaker 23: Well there is, and I'm not actually allowed to talk much about it because it's quite a biggie.
01:29:06
Speaker 2: We won't tell you, I know, right.
01:29:10
Speaker 23: The screenplay is just about done and and it involves some quite amazing people and also there's a there's a complimentary documentary at the same time, and a book. I'm publishing a book next year in June, so it's all seems to be happening at once at the moment, so it's very exciting.
01:29:30
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh, well, well done on the work and the partnership with the team at Phil Hoffman Travel. And thank you for coming and telling us a little bit about it. And we're glad it was just a drill in the background.
01:29:42
Speaker 3: Thank you.
01:29:44
Speaker 12: Well's on the sixth floor.
01:29:45
Speaker 8: I am too, so thank you for that.
01:29:47
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, we appreciate your time.
01:29:50
Speaker 6: Oh bless you.
01:29:51
Speaker 2: Thanks so much to see you. That's doctor Jill Robinson from Animals Asia. And yeah, Darien that that partnership over the years, it just sounds so important.
01:30:00
Speaker 14: Rewarding for both parties. It's just there. It's special. So it's very proud of it. And I guess that's what's what it's all about, is at giving back.
01:30:07
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, for sure. Now before I let you go, I know there's lots of events that are happening with the Phil Hoffman Travel team. There's always something going on, always something new to talk about.
01:30:18
Speaker 14: I think there's three events in the next sort of ten days, so we've got if you're looking for a closer home Australian rail holiday, there's an event on Tuesday, the second of June down at a Victor Harbor VIC the Harbor Bowling Club ten in the morning. And then Thursday the fourth of June if you want to get over to Europe and travel with Albatross, which is an Australian owned operated company that do great tours of Europe. Next Thursday the fourth of June. That'll be at at Glenelg branch and mentioned Japan being a popular hot destination at the moment, which it is. Tuesday, the ninth of June's that's a Tuesday for the long weekend at six pm. There's a session on discovering Japan also at a Glenelg branch as well, so head along to the website have a look register. They're always good information. There's wine and cannopey served. It's a nice informational, interactive kind of evening and you get to learn about some great destinations abroad and at home as well.
01:31:12
Speaker 2: So yeah, great, looking forward to it. Why not exactly, Thank you Darian, Thanks Stacey, really appreciate your time. That's Darien Foot, regional sales manager with phil Hoffman Travel, and just a reminder, for the next half hour, the experts will be taking your calls in the Phil Hoffman Travel Lounge. So if any of that appeals to you, or if you've had something bubbling away in the back of your mind, if you were thinking about a trip next year or even the year after, it's never too soon to book, So get on the phone. Eight double two to three, double O, double five is the number to get in touch with the experts in the Phil Hoffman Travel Lounge. It's time for the three o'clock news now and after that. Saw this news earlier today and thought, wow, we've got to talk about that. Cheezels. Cheesels. I'm sure they're a favorite of so many people that the classic chip, the round one. I can't even remember the number of times I was married as a four or five year old, six or seven year old with a cheesel on my finger. Some lots of fake weddings taking place. They're bringing out a new flavor. I would have thought the name cheesel would suggest there's only one iconic flavor they can be, But they're bringing out a new one, and I think it'll be a controversial one. We'll tell you what it is next and we'll talk about it with their say food identity Mandy Hall. And it's got me thinking about some interesting flavor combinations. This happens every year around Easter when all the hot Cross bun flavors come out, and you know, different chips and biscuits bring out their flavors.
01:32:43
Speaker 8: I don't know.
01:32:44
Speaker 2: I'm more of a traditionalist, but I'd love to hear from you on eight double two to three double O double Oh. Should we just stick to the traditional or do you like trying the new flavors? And don't forget, I've got tickets to give away to the Cabaret Festival for the best caller this afternoon, So get on the phone and join the conversation five.
01:33:00
Speaker 1: Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
01:33:07
Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you, and welcome to the third and final hour of the afternoon's program. Your calls are welcome. Eight double two to three double OW is the number to call, and in half an hour's time, it's Turkey Tuesday. So if you've got a Turkey to nominate, you know what to do. There's a case of Turkey Flat Vineyards wine in a can to give away to the best Turkey Flat nomination today. But don't forget, I still have a double pass to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. It is to go and see Casey Donovan's show on the nineteenth of June. So make sure you join the conversation. This half hour we are talking about interesting flavor combinations because Cheesels has just announced it's come out with a new flavor, a salt and vinegar flavor, which you know, I don't think Sultan vinegar is groundbreaking when it comes to chip flavors, but it's definitely new when it comes to Cheesels. Who better to talk about interesting flavor combinations with than South Australian food identity Mandy Hall. Hello, Mandy, Hello Stacey.
01:34:16
Speaker 20: How are you?
01:34:17
Speaker 2: I'm good, How are you?
01:34:19
Speaker 3: I'm very well, very excited to talk about weird flavors of chip.
01:34:24
Speaker 2: I've got to say I was a bit surprised by the Cheesels flavor of salt and vinegar. When I saw that they were bringing out a new flavor, I thought, oh, this is exciting. Thought they'd come up with something a bit inventive and a bit creative, but salt vinegar.
01:34:36
Speaker 16: It's been done well.
01:34:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's you know, it's up there with the oddie Big four, right, which is sualt and vinegar and original and chicken and barbecue. But I guess for cheesels, have they ever gone past the classic before? I don't think they have. It is big for them, I guess.
01:34:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's true. And when you're talking about flavor combinations cheese and something, you know, salty and vinegary, I could see how that would work.
01:35:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know how. I'm admitting something very weird here live on radio about how.
01:35:14
Speaker 7: You eat your cheesels.
01:35:15
Speaker 3: Right, So I stick a whole cheesel in my mouth, and then I have to suck all of the cheese off of it before I punched it.
01:35:25
Speaker 2: Oh, this is why I love talking to you. We get into the nitty gritty of it. Okay, So you you keep the cheesel in your mouth to suck off all the flavor, and then it sort of starts to disintegrate.
01:35:38
Speaker 3: Yes it does, and then you just have this savory round.
01:35:41
Speaker 15: Right.
01:35:42
Speaker 3: But now what's happening to me is I'm thinking about a salt and vinegar cheesel in my mouth. While I'm doing that, there's an over supply of salivation.
01:35:53
Speaker 2: Now, yes, I'm feeling that right now talking about it. See, I eat it differently. I think the only way to eat a cheesel, it should be illegal to eat them any other way, is to put them on your finger and crunch them off. You've got to You've got to eat them off your fingers. You have to put five on your fingers, or at least minimum four. Maybe you can leave the thumb out because you might need to leave that clean, but you've got to put them on your finger. They go and eat them off.
01:36:22
Speaker 3: You're just you're not up for the delayed gratification like I am. No, but I know people who put olive kalamata olives inside cheesels and then eat them.
01:36:33
Speaker 2: Really yes, oh I like that.
01:36:37
Speaker 8: Yeah, there you go.
01:36:38
Speaker 3: Well, cheese flavor.
01:36:40
Speaker 2: That's a that's a cheeseboard. It's a chakuderie board in your mouth, right there you are. Mike on the text line says Smith's Cheesy Mike chips the worst ones ever. I never tried them.
01:36:56
Speaker 3: I never tried cheese knt at all. No, I mean there's been some absolute shockers, like raspberry twisties, Mister the Lamington's chip. Did you ever get hold of that?
01:37:09
Speaker 13: No?
01:37:10
Speaker 2: But I do like salty and sweet, yes, But you know, I.
01:37:15
Speaker 3: Do think there are some lines that we should stay in. I mean there's been some beautiful mister the gravy potato chip, which was beautiful.
01:37:25
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I could get around that. They also did a chicken palmi flavor.
01:37:30
Speaker 3: Oh chicken PARMI yeah. But I think over the years too in Australia, you know, some of like the community cookbooks and some of the old Australian Women's Weekly recipes I guess really led into the old chip And there has been some incredible things like you're talking about a pame, but I've seen recipes where people have crumbed a chicken breast a snitzle, but using cheese twisties. What So they bashed the twisties so they become a crumb, and then they're crumbing their chicken sip same way that we would crumb sizzles. So you know, you have your flour and then your egg dip, but instead of bread crumbs, it's crushed up cheese twisties.
01:38:20
Speaker 2: Wow. Yes, I can't imagine that.
01:38:26
Speaker 3: It's a thing.
01:38:27
Speaker 2: It's a thing.
01:38:28
Speaker 7: It's a thing.
01:38:29
Speaker 3: You know, Chips on top of casseroles. That was a big thing for a while. Really, Yes, crushed up chips, crushed up potato on the old tune morn a bake, crushed up.
01:38:41
Speaker 2: Chips instead of bread crumbs, instead of break crumbs. I guess it gives you the crunch and it gives you the saltiness.
01:38:48
Speaker 12: But I don't know.
01:38:53
Speaker 2: Did you like it?
01:38:55
Speaker 6: No?
01:38:56
Speaker 7: Not.
01:38:57
Speaker 3: But I have seen a recipe for Twisty's Macaroni casserole, which was what from emrine had macaroni, condensed soup, chopped up ham and crushed twisties all baked together. That was from an Australian community newspaper, I think, recipe in the nineteen eighties. So I don't know that I would have loved that either, to be honest.
01:39:22
Speaker 2: The al right, I think we've we've hit something here. What's your favorite chip recipe? How do you eat your chips? Do you put them in a macaroni bake? Do you crush them up and crumb a schnitzel with them? How do you eat your chips? Darcy and Greenwi has called in on eight double two three double o double.
01:39:38
Speaker 20: Oh hello, Darcy Goody, smash up a handful of Doritos and then coke your chicken breads in it and try that.
01:39:49
Speaker 10: It's the crispiest chickenwing you'll get.
01:39:52
Speaker 17: Wow.
01:39:52
Speaker 2: I've never thought about doritos, so.
01:39:57
Speaker 10: Yeah, phenomenal.
01:39:59
Speaker 20: It's a game changer.
01:40:00
Speaker 2: A particular flavor, Darcy, or just the classic cheese Dorito. Just do the classic cheese. They go, I love that. Thanks for the call. What do you think, Mandy?
01:40:12
Speaker 3: Look, you know, it's not something that I would want to eat, but I get it. I completely get it, you know, the same as I would get it crushed up twisty. I mean, it's pretty, would be pretty epic on the flavor scale. I'd suggest. I don't know about the heart health rate, but.
01:40:30
Speaker 7: You know I can't.
01:40:31
Speaker 3: I can imagine that it would be very tasty, very tasty.
01:40:37
Speaker 2: Breton Kings Park has just sent a text. I tuned in and thought the topic of the afternoon was girl dinner. It could be.
01:40:46
Speaker 3: It could well, you know, there's also now we're seeing you know, we're talking about these crazy flavors, and you know, all sorts of things going on. But there's also that high end of chips which is having such a moment at the moment where people are doing extraordinary things in restaurants with chips with you know, potato chips. And I've just come off again where one of the most beautiful entrees or snacks that were served was little tin South Australian Company. There sardines, black sheep, South Australian Company, capers, native tata sauce on a potato chip and it was so it was a beautiful, elegant version of fish and chips, and that was we said that Mark Best did that on the Gang just recently and people just absolutely loved it. So, you know, we can talk about there's lots of crazy things going on, but there's also this you know, real we're seeing this real trend come through restaurants of chips with caviat and sour cream and all sorts of things going on.
01:41:49
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's exciting, I know.
01:41:53
Speaker 3: And then we've got a dorito snitter.
01:41:58
Speaker 2: Love it, you can't go past it. Wendy and Golden Groves called in as well with a chip recipe. Hello Wendy, Hello ladies, I've got the best thing ever.
01:42:07
Speaker 16: My partner's a massive keen fisherman, Sam, and he loves getting this fish. I can't remember the name.
01:42:13
Speaker 3: But what you do You put it in egg, You get salt and vinegar chips.
01:42:17
Speaker 16: You crush the chips in the bag.
01:42:19
Speaker 3: And once they're all crushed, chuck the chip the fish in and coat it and cook it in oil.
01:42:24
Speaker 16: It's the best tasting fish you'll ever eat because of the salt and the vinegar in the chip is wonderful.
01:42:30
Speaker 18: Oh look at that.
01:42:32
Speaker 16: Yes, the best thing, the best thing you'll eat.
01:42:34
Speaker 2: Promise, salt and vinegar chip fish.
01:42:39
Speaker 3: You know it's probably skipping a whole lot of steps and ending up with the same amazing flavor.
01:42:45
Speaker 2: Yes, Wendy, that is a great suggestion. I know my dad can't eat hot chips without vinegar on them. They have to have vinegar and lashings of it like it's dripping in vinegar. It's not for me, but I could get I could get around some salt and vinegar fish.
01:43:02
Speaker 3: Well maybe you'll have to send your days some saltan vinegar cheese.
01:43:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, Helen says, listening to both of you, the kilos are coming on me. No, no, I know it's making me so hungry Helen, as it always does. Talking to Mandy Brett on the text line, says the blueberry twisties were awful.
01:43:22
Speaker 3: Oh no, yuck, I know, I mean what you just there are times when we do wonder what people are thinking. I don't know where that was ever going to take off, but it was a thing. We had blueberries. We've had raspberry twisties quite incredible.
01:43:39
Speaker 2: No, the one twisty that has got quite a bit of support on the text line. And I did ask Darian Foot when he was on the way out if he's got a chip combination. He liked the dill pickle twisty. And that makes sense to me, Mandy, because again, a bit like a cheese board in your mouth, if you know, you get a bit of cheese, you get a bit of cracker, you get a little p or a little cornichon on your cheeseplate and delicious.
01:44:04
Speaker 3: It's all about convenience. You know, we're skipping as many as we possibly can.
01:44:10
Speaker 2: Hear, Yeah, they need to get the cheese board dirty. Just buy it back at a twisties, all right, this is fun. Give us a call your best chip recipe on eight double two three double oat double O. No one has said what I think is the best chip recipe at Mandy?
01:44:28
Speaker 7: Well? Please?
01:44:29
Speaker 3: Does it annoying you? Does it have anything to do with this barrogus?
01:44:35
Speaker 2: You're right, it usually does, but not this time. Just white bread buttered salty chips on it sandwich A Yeah.
01:44:45
Speaker 3: See when I was a kid, white bread buttered chicken chips in the school canteen. That was that was a list. That was an item on the canteen list.
01:44:54
Speaker 2: You could buy it from the canteen.
01:44:57
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I.
01:45:00
Speaker 3: Love that, and many many people did. There was nothing like the introduction of vultual process foods on the canteen list, but we absolutely people used to devour them in year eight at Norwood High. Anybody out there who remembers that was a staypul on the canteen list.
01:45:21
Speaker 6: I love that.
01:45:21
Speaker 2: And now they've got sushi and terry archy.
01:45:27
Speaker 3: I thought it would make the grade now, but you know it was and quite likely unfortunately it was probably margarine and not baster. But yeah, nonetheless they were devoured.
01:45:39
Speaker 2: I bet as they should be. As they should as they should all right, if you have a couple of minutes to hang around Mandy, do good. Thank you. It will come back in just a moment and we'll take your calls. What is your favorite chip recipe? Are you like me?
01:45:54
Speaker 14: Do you like some?
01:45:55
Speaker 2: And we're talking about chips, the crisps, not hot chips, but chips, the crisp. Do you like them on a sandwich? Do you are you like Wendy? Do you battery a fish in them? Or maybe like Darcy you use Dorito's to battery your chicken breast. Give us a call eight double two three, double O, double O best caller before three point thirty we'll win a double pass to go and see Casey Donovan at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival five.
01:46:19
Speaker 6: Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
01:46:24
Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes past three here on five double A and we're talking about chips. Yes, that's right, the crisps. What is your favorite flavor of chip? And do you have a chip recipe? Where we're inspired by Cheesels who have brought out a salt and vinegar flavor. And so far we've had quite a few chip recipes come through on the text line and the phone line eight double two three, double O, double OH is the number to give us your chip recipe and I've got a double pass to go and see Casey Donovan at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival for the best caller. Mandy Hall South Australian Food Identity is still with us. Hello Mandy Allow and can I tell you my phone has run hot?
01:47:04
Speaker 16: Oh no?
01:47:05
Speaker 3: Go on, Yeah, there's a there's quite a few very distancing with sweeves that have come through people who have said as a kid they remember this, or at their grandparents they remember some of their grandparents making some of these recipes and they're a little bit scary. Go on, I'm ready, okay, sausage mint with twisties crushed inside of the mix, then pastry over to make sausage roll. What right, that's the one I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna just gonna run through these really quickly. Lamb chops coloated with crushed barbecue chips and then cooked. We've got clean cheese with grated cheese in there, crushed pineapple and crushed up cheesels then rolled into balls put in the fridge. And there's some cheese ball delights to be served as orders at your neck in a party.
01:48:01
Speaker 2: That one I could maybe get around my mum. I don't know that I could when we were young, Mama and we were having guests over, my mum would make a pineapple and and was it cream cheese or was it sour cream dip? You know, and then there'd be the little pickled onions and the cube cheese is a.
01:48:22
Speaker 3: Long way from rolling up crush twisties in there. But the one that's kind of hit me the hardest is a chicken tonight and chip bake. So, go on, do you remember what chicken tonight?
01:48:37
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of?
01:48:38
Speaker 2: I still use chicken tonight, the honey mustard.
01:48:41
Speaker 3: Hello, I wouldn't have said that out now, But so it's making chicken tonight and then chip on the top, like chips on the top and baking it that way. Oh, I don't know, saying wads of ingredients with numbers and letters and yeah, but I'm amazed at some of these. I don't know if we've got any more callers that have got some wisdom to add to this, but they blowing my mind.
01:49:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get on the phone. Now, what's your favorite chip recipe?
01:49:13
Speaker 7: Eight?
01:49:13
Speaker 2: Double two three, double o, double o? Mandy? Is it questioning your friendship with some of these people?
01:49:21
Speaker 3: It explains a lot about them, I'm quite I just can't imagine, for example, taking a wonderful lamb chop and I mean, now, I'm not criticizing chips for all the chip makers out there, like chips are sometimes foods that have fun and all the rest of it. But taking a beautiful lamb chop and then crashing out barbecue chips and coating the lamb chop and then cooking it is just wild to me, absolutely wild.
01:49:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. Don't ask a Greek woman to change her lamb. The only way you can eat a lamb is with lemon, salt and pepper and oregano.
01:50:01
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
01:50:03
Speaker 2: Okay. Now this person says the only chip recipe required is chips in one hand and a cold beer in the other.
01:50:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:50:12
Speaker 2: Classic.
01:50:14
Speaker 3: I do think that's a classic and probably honoring chips in their best form as opposed to other forms that we've heard about today. But yes, I mean, yep as are sometimes saying how cool cold beer, good packet of fresh chips. Can't be stale, got to be crunchy, you know, sounds that sounds pretty good.
01:50:35
Speaker 2: We've inspired Graham, he said, not the most healthy segment i've ever heard on radio. But who cares. Boy, it's making me hungry. I'm off to the supermarket now for ingredients. There you go, Graham, don't I wouldn't be going for the sausage meat.
01:50:52
Speaker 3: You won't find them in a fresh food aisle. Nothing we've talked about today.
01:50:56
Speaker 2: No, no, eat some vegetables as well, please people. And this one from Brett Hi Stacy. I remember mum back in the good old mid eighties having a little pile of chips or crisps on top of her pie floater in the city at the pie cart on the way home just before midnight after her dark competition nights, and she used to smash those down like there was no tomorrow.
01:51:21
Speaker 3: Oh my god, how cool is that. That's a big trip down memory lane for South Australia. That's so quite amazing.
01:51:27
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the pie floater, in case you thought it couldn't get any better, check a few chips on top.
01:51:36
Speaker 3: That pie cart was quite you know, quite the thing too. So yes, there's a meeting of legends there.
01:51:42
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right, keep it coming. Eight double two three double ow double ow. What's your favorite chip recipe? Mandy? Thank you for your time today. It's always great to chat. You always make me hungry, even when you're giving me really horrible food combinations.
01:51:58
Speaker 3: Always lovely chat. Thanks Davy, Thank you.
01:52:01
Speaker 2: That's Mandy Hall, South Australian Food Identity. We really went with high highs there where she was talking about caveat and beautiful sardines on crisps to the low lows of sausage, meat and twisties. Quintin my chip recipe or should I say my son Harry's chip recipe? Oh, we love Harry's recipes. Quintin, thank you for this. Sweet potatoes boiled first, cut up into chips, then roasted, and on top of that you put bacon and cheese and whatever else you like. Delicious Yum, that sounds what do they make? I remember going to TGI Fridays at Marion a couple years ago and they had potato skins. Yeah, they had potato skins with cheese and bacon and sour cream on them and that were beautiful. Sounds a little bit like that, Quintin, Well done, Harry, delicious and Mike remember the old school days getting a fresh bread roll, eating out most of the bread and putting a packet of plane chips inside and biting into it. Nothing better. Oh, Mike, stop it. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Absolutely I remember that. Oh keep them coming? Eight double two three double o double. Oh what's your favorite chip recipe? And that's also the number to use for Turkey Tuesday, which is up next. Who's the turkey in your life at the moment? Who deserves to be nominated on the radio. Maybe it's a self nomination. Keep them coming. I've got a case of Turkey Flat Vineyard's wine in a can to give away. It's a mixed pack, so you'll get some rose Simpino gree and some sharazgrenash if you're the lucky winner today.
01:53:43
Speaker 1: Five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee, twenty five minutes to four Here on five double A.
01:53:51
Speaker 2: Taking your Turkey Tuesday calls in just a moment. Who's done something silly and deserves to be called out on the radio for it? Had a case of Turkey Flat Vineyard wines to give away to the best caller. Maybe someone forgot to take the bins out or left the back door open, lound room was filled with bugs. I don't know, whatever it is, call them out on the radio. Eight double two three double O double oh is the number to call, and Jane in Northfield has called in. Jane, you've got a tip for me?
01:54:22
Speaker 7: Yes, so, just got a hack for your waffles, Stacey.
01:54:26
Speaker 2: Yes, I was having trouble with my waffles.
01:54:29
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:54:33
Speaker 5: I usually do this.
01:54:35
Speaker 7: If you're using three cups of ordinary self raising flour, remove a third of a cup and replace it with a third of a cup of corn flour, and you will get crispy outside. But just you regular recipe, remove a third of a cup of your flower and replace it with th of a cup of corn flowers.
01:55:01
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Jane. That's a good tip because when you use cornflour in cooking, it kind of crispies up. If you're using it to coat your meat or something, it makes it a little bit crispy.
01:55:11
Speaker 7: Oh, that makes sense every time.
01:55:14
Speaker 2: There you go.
01:55:16
Speaker 15: Thank you.
01:55:17
Speaker 7: That's okay. I've been trying to bring you that info for a little while, but I haven't been able to.
01:55:22
Speaker 2: No, that's all right. Well, I appreciate it whenever it comes.
01:55:25
Speaker 7: Thanks Jane, enjoy enjoy your waffles.
01:55:28
Speaker 2: I will, don't worry. That's so nice. As Jane in northfielded a little waffle tip. Thank you eight double two three double o double Oh.
01:55:38
Speaker 6: Time to call in and nominate your Turkey of the Week for Stacey Lee's Turkey Tuesday.
01:55:47
Speaker 2: Who deserves to be Turkey of the Week this week? Gary and Gauler's got a suggestion?
01:55:51
Speaker 9: Hello Gary, Oh, it's Stacey So just ringing about. I've been many to call for a while but had to get my wife's approval, so she's fine, agreed. So when one of your adverts came out on the radio, just cool ken Hall gee asked me, what's the get cocin hoe? As far so, that's what she thought it sounded like. Now every time I hear the advert when you play it, that's what it sounds like.
01:56:19
Speaker 2: Cocain hoe.
01:56:21
Speaker 9: Cocaine hoe, rather than Ken Hall. You listen to the advert, you will hear the same thing.
01:56:25
Speaker 2: It's what This is one of those things Gary, that once I hear it, I won't be able to unhear it. It'll sound like that every time.
01:56:31
Speaker 9: Now, Yep, I've told a few other people may say the same thing.
01:56:34
Speaker 2: Just cocin hoe. Okay, I love it. I'm gonna have to listen out for it, Okay.
01:56:40
Speaker 14: There we go.
01:56:40
Speaker 2: Who's the turkey?
01:56:42
Speaker 12: Maybe?
01:56:43
Speaker 15: Okay?
01:56:44
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, wonder you had to get her permission. Very good call, Gary, Okay, thanks for the call.
01:56:51
Speaker 14: See you.
01:56:53
Speaker 2: Eight double two three double O double oh is the number to nominate a turkey this week. I don't know if I have a turkey this week. I've just had a pretty good week all round. Yeah, I don't know if I've got to check. I need your nominations. Don't forget. There's a mixed twenty four pack of the Turkey flat wine cans to give away. So they've got a Pinot gree, a Chiraz Grenash, and a rose, a white, a red, and a pink for you. And these are the ones. It's the same great Wine Award winning wines that you get in the bottle, but they come in a very conveniently sized can, which you know, on a cold night like tonight, maybe you just feel like one glass of wine, not an entire bottle, perfect for that. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number to call to have your say and nominate your turkey this week. And Nicholas in Morphet Vales called in. Hello Nicholas, Hello, say Lee, how are you.
01:57:51
Speaker 17: I am been Gablis. I believe you should dress up every Tuesday. It is jokey. Come into the low stream, I think both to blade your love stream.
01:58:06
Speaker 9: Yep, and you do that the full turkey drest.
01:58:14
Speaker 2: Nicholas, I can safely say you will never see me in a Turkey outfit on the live stream. Unfortunately I does.
01:58:27
Speaker 7: Yep.
01:58:27
Speaker 2: It was a good try. Thanks for the call. See you. That's Nicholas in morphett Vale. James and Norwoods called in with a Turkey nomination.
01:58:37
Speaker 5: Hello James, Yeah, high Stacey. Look, I feel very privileged. I live in a beautiful apartment building and there's lots of great things to love at sunsets sunrises on the northern balcony. But there are people in the community who just don't follow rules. So this is a Turkey call to the neighbors who dump the full foot on bed and palettes of timber in the rubbish wastepin, which costs everybody in the apartment a whole lot of money. Oh what, I just don't follow rules and I just don't understand it because we all live in the space. It's a communal space and there's so much to like about it. And it just really really irks me. And I know we can't pinpoint who which is the problem, because you know it's done in.
01:59:39
Speaker 8: The stealth of night.
01:59:41
Speaker 2: Oh. And you know what's so frustrating about that, James, is usually if you organize a free council pickup, I think they're free with all counsels, or most councils at least, you just need to put it on the street and they'll come and pick it up for you and take it away. There's no need to ruin everyone else's day by it.
02:00:00
Speaker 5: And that notice has been shared with the residents. And still you have a small like a small handful. Yeah, you got over a one hundred apartments, so the percentage is so small. But those turkeys who keep doing it.
02:00:19
Speaker 2: Oh, absolute turkeys, James, thank you for the call.
02:00:25
Speaker 1: See you.
02:00:26
Speaker 2: Oh, that would frustrate me as well, especially being in an apartment building you've got shared facilities that the whole basis on which a building like that operates is respect, just mutual respect for each other. You clean up after yourself, you leave the place as you found it, and have mutual respect for your other neighbors. But no, some people have to ruin it don't they. Tony and Royston Park has a Turkey nomination as well. Hi, Tony, here are.
02:00:55
Speaker 17: You going good?
02:00:55
Speaker 2: Thank you?
02:00:56
Speaker 16: Look.
02:00:57
Speaker 8: I went to see a performance of the play but Theater the other night. Richard Roxburgh and two others felt a fantastic show. But we were waiting to go in and it was due to start the play to make an announcement that says lake coomers will not be admitted to the theater, and I wondered who latecomer would be there to hear that announcement. The lake comers bop into the theater and hear that announcement and then go out again or what and then.
02:01:33
Speaker 2: Just oh, I've just heard the announcement.
02:01:35
Speaker 8: Must hurry up, that's right. It just occurred to me that it was one of those unnecessary extra things that we do.
02:01:45
Speaker 2: That's a good one, Tony, I like that.
02:01:48
Speaker 21: Thank you.
02:01:50
Speaker 2: An announcement for the lake comers who aren't here yet and can't hear it exactly makes total sense.
02:01:58
Speaker 8: For taking the call.
02:02:00
Speaker 2: See you. That's Tony and Roaston Park.
02:02:03
Speaker 8: I like that.
02:02:04
Speaker 2: Yep, very good. The late comers who aren't there to hear the announcement. Ah, some great nominations today, keep them coming eight double two three double O double OW. I also have some more chip recipes coming through on the text line Kerry in Westlakes. Back in the day, Pizza Hut served what was called a submarine meat cheese roll. They served it with a packet of plain Smith's chips. Yum, yum or even the name doesn't sound very healthy, Kerry, but sounds delicious. Sue in Christie's Beach, Hello again, Sue. My favor from school days was a sausage roll only Balfers will do, squashed into a buttered bread roll. It's a wonder. I'm not the size of the house. Yeah, absolutely well. And speaking of Balfers, how good is that news? You've been hearing it in the news with Malasia throughout the afternoon. Balfers South Australian Icon will return to say ownership after another great essay. Bakery company Unique Home Style Foods acquired it. This is such good news because remember a couple of years ago it was sold I think it was to a West Australian company and it felt like they changed the recipes on so many different items and they just lost their charm, They lost their flavor. It never is good. So hopefully now that they've gone come back into South Australian Hands, Unique home Style Foods, they do the best Kranski. Yeah, they do the best. What's it called. It's not battered, it's what's that bread? Bread sort of around you know what I'm talking about? The kransky with the bread on the outside, like a baked kransky. I don't know, I don't know how to discrobe anyways. Kransky, Yeah, yeah, you get it from the bakery. You like a pie and a sausage, role they do the best one of those, and the best donuts. For my husband's fortieth birthday party where he didn't want a cake, he just wanted a whole stack of the Unique Home Style Foods donuts. So I think we just bought fifty donuts and stacked them all up on top of each other, put a care until in the top. There we go. It was the best, and then everyone just went and grabbed a donut to eat it. So this is great news. Bufer's back in South Australian Hands. Rob and Victor Harber Is called in with a turkey nomination. Hi Rob, how are you good? Thank you?
02:04:17
Speaker 1: Yeah?
02:04:18
Speaker 19: The turkeys are the ones who are trying to get rid of the turkeys.
02:04:21
Speaker 5: Flat wine kings.
02:04:23
Speaker 2: Oh you'd rather what?
02:04:26
Speaker 20: Sorry, I'd rather be can be round rather flat?
02:04:33
Speaker 3: Oh?
02:04:35
Speaker 2: Rob, I see what. It took me a minute, but I see what you did there. The product is very good. It doesn't matter what shape the cans are. Thank you for the call.
02:04:53
Speaker 1: See you.
02:04:55
Speaker 2: That's a dad joke if I ever heard one? Can I nominate Rob for Turkey Tuesday?
02:05:02
Speaker 7: Is that?
02:05:03
Speaker 6: Is that?
02:05:03
Speaker 2: Allowed?
02:05:04
Speaker 7: No?
02:05:04
Speaker 2: That was great?
02:05:05
Speaker 14: That was really good.
02:05:06
Speaker 2: Gave me a giggle. All right, quick break here on five Double A. Maybe some time for more calls. If you've got another Turkey nomination, get on the phone.
02:05:14
Speaker 6: Now, five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
02:05:26
Speaker 2: Nine minutes to four here on five Double A and Rowe and Timmy g will be on with the sports show after the four o'clock news. Timmy's here with me now.
02:05:35
Speaker 12: Hello Timmy, Hello, Stacey. You're well. I'm doing good afternoon.
02:05:39
Speaker 2: In a great afternoon. I know I'm hungry.
02:05:42
Speaker 12: What makes you like that? Doesn't it's what's the best one you've heard so far this afternoon?
02:05:48
Speaker 2: Well, the most unusual one would have to be the Dorito's around the chicken breast. Hey, like a like a schnitty Yeah, wow, dorito flavored schnitty's like.
02:06:00
Speaker 12: A sort of Mexican dish. Yeah for heat chicken or something.
02:06:06
Speaker 2: Interesting.
02:06:07
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, I'm not knocking it because I haven't tried it.
02:06:10
Speaker 2: No, would you try it?
02:06:12
Speaker 12: Yeah, i'd have a gun, you'd have a go a bit like that.
02:06:14
Speaker 2: I'll try everything once.
02:06:15
Speaker 12: Yeah, I reckon a couple of pints.
02:06:21
Speaker 2: Skip lunch, have a couple of beers, and then you'll let you finish the whole thing.
02:06:26
Speaker 12: Very good.
02:06:28
Speaker 2: I do like though, I think my favorite chip it's not a recipe. It's more of a combination, just a plain salted chip with a bit of chocolate. What yep?
02:06:39
Speaker 12: No, you can't mix those two.
02:06:40
Speaker 7: Ye.
02:06:40
Speaker 12: You got to keep them away from one another.
02:06:42
Speaker 2: No, salty and sweet all the way.
02:06:43
Speaker 12: Those two should never be on the dance floor.
02:06:47
Speaker 1: Have you ever?
02:06:47
Speaker 2: Have you ever put malteesers in your popcorn at the cinema? Oh no, that's my favorite thing to do.
02:06:52
Speaker 12: What is going on here?
02:06:53
Speaker 6: What is going on?
02:06:56
Speaker 2: You don't have the salty and sweet?
02:06:57
Speaker 6: No?
02:06:59
Speaker 12: Must admit sold a caramel did catch my imagination and I got admit that was it? Surprised me. How good that was. Yeah, so again, I probably shouldn't knock that till I try it.
02:07:11
Speaker 2: Oh, one day, at the next Christmas party, I'll give you a chip and a bit of choky.
02:07:15
Speaker 12: You've obviously seen me at a Christmas I have heard.
02:07:19
Speaker 2: You at a Christmas party.
02:07:21
Speaker 17: You know that.
02:07:21
Speaker 14: I'll gladly accept. Oh that's good, that's good.
02:07:27
Speaker 2: Any turkeys, this happen, a lot of turkeys coming. Do you have a turkey? Yeah?
02:07:30
Speaker 17: I got one.
02:07:31
Speaker 12: Yeah, And it's been annoying me every evening for about three weeks. Oh you know what it is. You know when the roadwork signs slowing you down and then you know, setting another one where you can go back to sixty, when they just don't take them down and there's no roadworks, there's nothing happening. Ye, and I keep driving through it. It's only about fifty meters long, and everybody has just now given up and just go straight through, because what's the point. There is nothing happening there. Take the sign away, take it away?
02:08:03
Speaker 2: Why do they do that?
02:08:04
Speaker 12: Why do they do that?
02:08:06
Speaker 2: It's so frustrating because you think I can understand if it's just leaving it there overnight because they'll come back in the morning. I can get that. You don't want to take it down and put it back out. But if it's there for weeks without anyone working on it, do they forget it.
02:08:18
Speaker 12: I'm driving through at different times of the day. Nothing's happening.
02:08:21
Speaker 2: Never anyone there. Gobble gobble yeap. Oh, that's a bad one.
02:08:27
Speaker 12: We'll get a lot of talking turkey flat. Oh yeah, just put an order in, actually, did you Yeah, I'll get it twice a year. Yeah, so this is the winter one.
02:08:37
Speaker 2: And what did you get?
02:08:38
Speaker 12: The reds Butcher's block and.
02:08:42
Speaker 2: Work the Chaska and Ash.
02:08:44
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's not good.
02:08:45
Speaker 2: Do you get the cans or just the poddles?
02:08:46
Speaker 12: I've already got the can separately. Good good call good, Steven said, Man, I need some of those cans because, like you say, just sometimes I just.
02:08:54
Speaker 2: Want a can weeknight wine.
02:08:56
Speaker 12: Well it looks nice with that dish. Yeah, bang, happy.
02:09:00
Speaker 2: Days, Happy days. Don't need to open a whole bottle. Has been awesome, although I usually end up drinking four cans a week, in which I should have just opened the bottom got the bottle. But anyway, it's novel.
02:09:12
Speaker 14: It is fine.
02:09:13
Speaker 12: It's very impressive. People are quite surprised at how good they taste.
02:09:17
Speaker 2: I know, because when you think wine in a can, you don't think no quality life Turkey.
02:09:22
Speaker 12: I've found out why because I used to be in the packaging game, you know all life and back in the old days they talk about the aluminium sort of eking into the product. The cans are all really well done now on lined and the like, so there's no no osmosis going either way.
02:09:41
Speaker 2: No, when you feel the cans that the wine isn't there, it's not like your classic Coast Man. It's their their quality cans.
02:09:49
Speaker 12: So that's the lining that does that.
02:09:51
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
02:09:52
Speaker 8: I like you.
02:09:53
Speaker 12: Well, Yes, Sports Show, it's Tuesdays, so we get our regulars in Dean Brogan or do halftime assessment of port. Matt Crouch will do similar with the Adelaide Crows. We've got Eddie McGuire coming on about the big topics. Of course, we had Neil Danaher passing yesterday. We've got Brad Scott being removed as coach at the Bombers. They're in a real hole of bombers and I asked a good friend Essen supporter to give me his assessment. I'll be reading that out tonight because yeah, it's pretty heartfelt and frustration, a big frustration because this has had a few iterations of trying to improve itself as a club and it just has not been able to gain any traction. And Brad Scott I believed was a good appointment and here we are two and a half years later and it's farewell. So yeah, so we'll delve into all of that. Eddie McGuire course comes on and he'll be touching on a lot of those topics and more. And the America's Cup of course, we faastly won it in nineteen eighty three, one of the great sporting moments of our history. But we're going to have another crack here and one of the original members of the Tar two that one is going to be like the captain of the team Australia. Oh really yeah, and we're having another crack. We've got him on tonight. Oh that's exciting, that would be excellent.
02:11:10
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that big show, really big thinks. Thank you, Timmy Rowi and timmg coming up after for you do not want to miss it. Thank you everyone for your calls and your text messages. Today. I think the Cabaret Festival tickets have to go to Wendy in Golden Grove for her chip recipe. Her partner Sam catches the fish and then she coats it in sult and vinegar chips. Yummy, that sounds great. Congratulations to you, Wendy Adelaid Cabaret Festival on from the fourth to the twenty first of June. You can get your tickets online now. And Turkey Tuesday, Gary and Gawler rang up about the ken Hall plumbing ad and he had to get his wife's approval because he nominated her. So Gary, because you were so thoughtful in getting your wife's approval to nominate her for Turkey Tuesday, he said, It's taken him a few weeks. He's launched a whole campaign to get her to allow him to nominate her for Turkey Tuesday. So it's paid off. Gary, case of Turkey Flat Vineyard wines coming your way. Drink responsibly, I know you will. You sound like a responsible man. All right, I'm out of here now. I will talk to you at one o'clock tomorrow