Full Transcript for FIVEAA Afternoons with Leith Forrest - 16 September 2026

Speaker 1: To do so. 00:05:50 Speaker 6: Just say you closed the doors to that factory and now in 2026, you went back and opened them up and everything was the same as it was. You can't just simply say, oh, we're going to start building electric vehicles in there where we used to build Holden Commodores. It's a lot more complex than that. So I just think that the cost of doing it would be astronomical. What I would say... in response to what Kevin Rudd said, is that I've said from day one when electric vehicles became something that it looked like governments were going to push us toward whether we liked it or not, why wouldn't Australia opt to become a centre globally for battery manufacturing, electric motor manufacturing? some of the componentry that's required in these vehicles, like a lot of the stuff that goes into an electric vehicle battery, like lithium, cobalt, manganese, all those sorts of things, we dig that out of the ground in Australia. So why not build the batteries here and then ship them off to manufacturers around the world? 00:06:47 Speaker 1: Could you think about the jobs that we lost? Obviously, the industries we lost. So Ford in October of 2016, followed by Toyota Holdens, as we know, October of 2017. He said 3D printing tech could give us a second chance. Trent, the only thing I know about 3D tech is my kids can make key rings at school. Is it enough to be able to make components for electric vehicles or any vehicles? 00:07:10 Speaker 6: Not at the moment, mate. Not the way that we know it now. I mean, I follow a lot of guys in America that 3D print components for cars that they're building, sort of one-off stuff that they're building or restoring. And the 3D component is usually to make the prototype part. Then they have to send it off to somewhere to be milled out of steel or made from carbon fibre or whatever it might be. 00:07:30 Speaker 8: So. 00:07:31 Speaker 6: I think it's a little bit simplistic right now in 2026, as advanced as 3D printing is becoming, to suggest that that would be an easy way that you can build cars. But I certainly think if you broke it down into the components of the cars as opposed to the whole vehicle, I think that would be more realistic. 00:07:48 Speaker 1: So you would know this being in the industry. Our 5AA audience and myself may not know this. I read about PremCar, which is a Melbourne-based engineering group. They take factory vehicles from giants like Nissan and Mitzi's and they re-engineer them for Australian conditions. Does that show that there's a glimmer of hope? As you're suggesting, it may not be the whole vehicle, but we could get some sort of manufacturing back. 00:08:11 Speaker 9: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. 00:08:12 Speaker 6: There's a company in Geelong called Carbon Revolution that makes carbon fibre wheels that's gone to the likes of Ferrari and Chevrolet for Corvette and There's a company in Adelaide that makes gearbox casings for Nissan globally. They're a really high-end alloy manufacturer. So that's in Adelaide. Then Prem Cars in Victoria. You've got the Walkinshaw Group in Victoria as well. So Walkinshaw currently remanufacture the Chevy products from left to right-hand drive. So that's things like Silverado and Yukon. They also do the Toyota Tundra for Toyota and they do the Ram trucks for Ram. So that's That's in Victoria as well. A lot of that is leftover expertise from vehicle manufacturing. Some of it is new technology that's come in and new apprentices and tradesmen and women that have come into the job. But yeah, we've absolutely got still at this point in time the expertise in this country to do a lot of that work if we have the appetite to build the industry. 00:09:12 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the appetite, because that's something that was addressed with a former PM when he spoke at the press club. 00:09:17 Speaker 10: We can navigate these changes and challenges successfully, but it will require a radical change in our national psychology, a new sense of national urgency, combined with a new vital sense of shared national purpose. The alternative is to slide into becoming a second-rate country, because that requires no effort at all. We are more than capable of rising to this challenge. We have the talent, we have the resources, the only question is, do we have the national imagination? 00:09:50 Speaker 1: Do we have the national imagination, Trent, or is it because China does it all now we don't need to? 00:09:54 Speaker 6: We certainly don't have it at the moment, and I'd argue if you listen to the opinion of the Australian people at the moment, Leith, and I do a lot of talk back up here in Sydney, with the government that we've got and the complete lack of aspiration that we've got and the lack of productivity that the country has, I don't think we do at the moment, no. And I mean, you can look at motorcars because it's a big ticket item. And obviously I and you and a lot of your listeners love cars, but there's all manner of things now that we import that I would argue we should be looking at producing here. Like if we're going to push consumers towards green energy, why aren't we manufacturing solar panels here and wind turbines here and all of the componentry for both of those? If we want people to put battery packs on their houses, Why aren't we manufacturing those here? Smaller goods that we import from other parts of the world, we could look to manufacture them here. But I certainly think Australia has just continued down a path with successive governments of becoming a nation that just imports everything and doesn't make anything anymore. And I saw there that Kevin Rudd talked about a critical pinch point, effectively, in our independence from global supply with cars that we have to access from overseas. But we saw during COVID... When everything shut down, we had lack of supply of all manner of things, not just cars. And I'd argue that given we've got plenty of cars running

around in Australia, if we had a situation where they stopped importing them for six months, everybody would be pretty much fine. We could drive the cars we've got. But I think there's a lot of other critical product that we need in this country that I'd love to see us just even consider start manufacturing here again. 00:11:34 Speaker 1: It was interesting. He also went on to talk about the automotive industry. 00:11:37 Speaker 10: Sixth is the automotive sector. a sovereign capability we now sorely lack. Of all the short-sighted acts of economic vandalism in recent decades, the closure of our car industry by the Abbott Hockey Government stands apart. Australia under my government had one of the most modest industry subsidies in the auto world. But politics triumphed over reason, sacrificing tens of thousands of jobs, tearing the bleeding heart out of Australia's engineering and manufacturing base. and rendering us 100% dependent on auto imports. Now the 3D printing and EV revolutions mean we can rebuild an Australian auto sector and repair this vital vulnerability in our national security. 00:12:20 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a bit me, me, me, and it's all the political angle of it. I think when we find out now that China is this powerhouse because they've invested heavily in EVs, they've invested heavily in the tech of the battery. Are we picking a fight that we cannot win, Trent? 00:12:35 Speaker 6: I don't disagree with some of what Kevin Rudd said in principle. The problem is it's a little bit disingenuous the way that he's presented it, unsurprisingly, because it's become political. So it wouldn't have mattered whether we had a Labor, Liberal or Greens government. I think they would have shut down the subsidies. If you say to somebody like Kevin Rudd, why do we not manufacture televisions in Australia? Why do we not manufacture phones in Australia? His answer would be it's too expensive. China does it more competitively. That's the reason that car manufacturing stopped in Australia. There's all of this talk of subsidy and what we were subsidising them. Effectively, in the case of Holden and Ford, they were building cars that Australians weren't buying anymore. They were building large sedans. Australians had moved on to SUVs. So they weren't building cars that we wanted. Then the hourly rate and the wage of the average worker on the production line was astronomically higher than anywhere else in the world, even Europe. as an example, and it just simply wasn't a competitive way to go about building cars. However, my concern is now where we're at with China is that I think a lot of Australians may regret snickering a little bit at the legacy brands who've struggled to get on this electric vehicle bandwagon because if they leave Australia, if they pack up and leave because it's not competitive, because they can't compete with effectively subsidised Chinese electric vehicles... they won't come back. So if we were to lose a manufacturer, like I'm

just picking one out of thin air, like Mitsubishi, if it said too hard for us to do business in Australia, that's one that's got deep ties to South Australia. If they said it's too hard for us to do business, it's not competitive and they leave, they won't be back. And I think it's all well and good now to say, oh yeah, China's stolen a march and you've been asleep at the wheel if you want to criticise the legacy brands. But I think we've got to be careful what we wish for. And to your point, I don't see how you're watching manufacturers around the world struggling to compete with China. And these are brands that have been building cars for 100 years. I don't know how we would start doing it in Australia and be competitive with China. 00:14:38 Speaker 1: My dad used to say it when I played footy, Trent, know your limitations. Just know your limitations. Trent Nicklick is our guest, 5AA' s motoring expert. Conor, the tech said the difference too would be Asian wage levels versus Australian wage levels. That makes it tough. Graham said car manufacturing like AI centres need cheap, affordable power. Does Australia have it? No, we don't. Therefore, it's a pipe dream. 00:14:59 Speaker 6: Also true. 00:15:01 Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about Elon Musk moving on to another topic, Trent. I'm not a huge fan myself. I think when you're a trillionaire, you don't need to swan around with a chainsaw sort of getting glee from cutting people's welfare, but that's just me. However, he might win a couple of brownies in my book, Trent, if after decades of promises, he is able to bring us a car that we are led to believe... might soon be able to fly, just channeling Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Is there any truth to this, Trent Nikolic, at all? 00:15:33 Speaker 6: No, I don't think it's going to fly. I'm like you. I'm not the biggest Elon Musk fan, it has to be said. But a lot of people forget that Tesla's first car was actually a Roadster. So it was effectively a little Lotus sports car with an electric motor in it. And what they've talked about for a long time now is bringing back a version of the Tesla Roadster. 00:15:53 Speaker 5: This. 00:15:54 Speaker 6: talk of it flying comes from the fact that Elon Musk and people within Tesla have said it would have some kind of gas turbine assistance, which, rather than making it fly, is more likely to work like a turbo would and just give it a bit of boost of power when it comes in. But the technology is pretty cool, and it might actually lead to something further down the track. But no, thankfully, we're not going to be flying around in cars like Back to the Future or like the Jetsons any time soon. 00:16:19 Speaker 1: Oh, way to poo-poo my dream, Trenton. Cold gas thrusters is what I read. And we've already hooked up the appropriate audio ready to go. 00:16:29 Speaker 4: Hey, Doc, we've got to back up. 00:16:30 Speaker 3: We don't have enough road to get up to 88. 00:16:32 Speaker 4: Roads? 00:16:33 Speaker 11:

Well, we're going. 00:16:34 Speaker 5: We don't need roads. 00:16:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, Trent, I'm not going on this new South Road extension. I don't need to because I'm going to be driving this roadster and flying over everyone else. 00:16:42 Speaker 6: Mate, we've got enough problems keeping cars in line on streets. We don't want them flying around. 00:16:46 Speaker 12: Above us, do we? 00:16:47 Speaker 1: That is true. Imagine if you could do that, though. Gosh, that would be amazing. That would be a good way to get through. Ruddy's delusional says another living on another planet for the last 20 years. This is interesting. Trent, can you give us your thoughts, please, on powering cars by nuclear in the future? 00:17:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I don't know that that would happen. I think you're probably more likely to see hydrogen. You might, you know, if our government is willing to have the discussion, you could have small modular nuclear reactors all over the place that you could use as charging stations to pull in and quickly charge the car itself if it was. 00:17:17 Speaker 11: Still an electric vehicle. 00:17:18 Speaker 12: But You know what? 00:17:19 Speaker 6: Nuclear is one of those things, Lee, that I think because we've stifled the talk and the development of it for so long, that who knows where it could have been if they'd been allowed to keep developing it after the Cold War. You know, I'm not talking about it from a weaponry standpoint. I'm just talking about it from a power generation standpoint. It could be anywhere in 2026. 00:17:38 Speaker 1: Because he says the nuclear-powered subs, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, maybe you could get that in the 2030s and above, but. 00:17:47 Speaker 5: Possibly. 00:17:47 Speaker 6: I think the difference with those is they're much bigger vehicles that you're powering, right? So you've got more room for the nuclear power centre, whereas a car would have. 00:17:56 Speaker 5: To be a lot smaller. 00:17:57 Speaker 6: But as I said, who knows? It's like a massive big engine that powers a ship. You can scale it down and make an engine that powers a car. So, yeah, it's not as fanciful as it might sound. 00:18:07 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:18:07 Speaker 1: We're zero from two with you this afternoon. K-Rud, no good. Back to the future? No good. That's a bit disappointing, Trent. What a bummer. 00:18:15 Speaker 9: Sorry, mate. 00:18:15 Speaker 1: No, that's okay. This is why we get you on. We love your input. We love your experience and the reality. I think I've asked you this before, but just on the back of the DeLorean there, the possible DeLorean from Tesla, your all-time favourite pop car? Remind me again. Oh, gee. 00:18:32 Speaker 6: I was born in 76, so I was 10 or 11 years old in the mid-80s. So for me, it'd have to be Kit from Knight Rider, I reckon. 00:18:38 Speaker 9: Yes. 00:18:39 Speaker 12: It would have to be. 00:18:40 Speaker 1: What is that for the car nuffs at home? Give us the official. 00:18:43 Speaker 12: It's a Pontiac. 00:18:43 Speaker 6: It's actually a Pontiac. Yeah, yeah, Pontiac Trans Am, yeah. 00:18:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, because you and I, we were born the same year. See, for me, it's the A-Team GMC Vangio. 00:18:51 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, the van. 00:18:53 Speaker 1: Oh, man, I love that car. 00:18:55 Speaker 9: But. 00:18:55 Speaker 6: I love it when a plan comes together. 00:18:57 Speaker 1: Oh, have you watched the doco on Netflix about Mr. T? I have. Oh, how good is it? So good. But everyone had a great car. Like there was Hardcastle and McCormick had a great year. 00:19:07 Speaker 6: They had that little kit car. 00:19:08 Speaker 5: That's right. Yep. 00:19:09 Speaker 1: Magnum PI had a great car. 00:19:10 Speaker 12: Yeah, the Ferrari. 00:19:12 Speaker 1: There was a couple of those other, I think there was a bizarre movie called Condor Man that had like trans amps were big, weren't they? And the General Lee and all of those when cars were almost a character themselves. 00:19:22 Speaker 6: Well, Dukes of Hazzard, right? With the 68, 69, 70 Dodge Charger. That's another one. 00:19:26 Speaker 11: Yeah, it was an amazing car as well. 00:19:27 Speaker 1: So good. So good. And making something fly isn't the hurdle. It's being able to use the airspace that's already busy. 00:19:34 Speaker 3: Correct. 00:19:35 Speaker 6: Yeah, correct. 00:19:36 Speaker 1: We don't want sensibility, Andrew. 00:19:38 Speaker 6: Your listeners are way too smart down there, mate. 00:19:40 Speaker 2: Way too smart. 00:19:41 Speaker 1: Thank you, Trent. I appreciate that. Well, hopefully we'll get you on and you'll give us some good news at some stage. We're zero from two. No manufacturing for Adelaide. No back to the future for Adelaide. Thanks, Trent. Enjoy your week. 00:19:52 Speaker 9: Thank you, mate. 00:19:53 Speaker 1: All the best. 5AA' s motoring expert, Trent Nicolick. So, unfortunately, despite what Kevin Rudd had to say, and it was interesting, one of our text messages said, hey, linked on what Kay Rudd was saying, I actually listened to the press conference. Where is the text here? Here it is here from Jay. He said, I saw Kevin at the press club. Never been a fan, but I've got to say his speech was excellent. It was informative. It was intelligent. Sadly, it doesn't look like it's going to be the case, though, Jay. That's a little bit disappointing. And no back to the future for us. 00:20:22 Speaker 11: Now, in order to motivate it forward, I recognise the more rudimentary controls such as the accelerator, Devin. 00:20:30 Speaker 5: I do know how to drive. Yes. 00:20:37 Speaker 1: Maybe we can get Kit from Knight Rider instead. If we can't have ourselves a DeLorean, maybe we can get David Hasselhoff's car. 28 past one. 00:20:47 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Lee Forrest. 00:20:50 Speaker 1: 27 minutes to two. You can join us at any time. 00:20:52 Speaker 9: 8223 0000 044808 1395. 00:20:53 Speaker 1: I just said to Madeline in the break, we

might have to do a bracket online for the greatest... car slash vehicle in pop culture history. People are texting in already with some suggestions. Mike thinks the cars used in Quentin Tarantino's movie Death Proof, pure muscle car. What's your favorite vehicle or car in pop culture? Television, movies, 8223 0000. Madeline said, of course, for her generation, Herbie the Love Bug. Hard to go past that. Trent suggested for his. We've got the DeLorean. We've got the Knight Rider car from Kit. Mine would be the 1979 A-Team GMC Ventura. What's your favorite car in a movie or a film? 8223 0000. We'll bracket, see what people think is the all-time number one. My next guest might have a thought on this because he's a a movie expert himself, and there's been plenty of great movies featuring cars over the years. An exciting time for anyone associated with Adelaide and the Film Festival because they've launched their full program. It's on from the 14th of October until the 25th of October. Cinemas right across Adelaide. We're talking 27 Australian premieres, 10 world premieres, 122 films from more than 52 countries. The CEO and creative director, of the Adelaide Film Festival, is Matt Kesting. He joins me this afternoon. Lovely to have you on, Matt. Congratulations. 00:22:28 Speaker 11: Thanks so much, Lee. It's great to be with you. Yeah, there's a great vibe in our office today, having launched the program last night. 00:22:35 Speaker 1: Oh, I can imagine. I'm going to get into it in just one second. Let me ask you a question without notice. A car and a film that you've loved, any stand out to you where you just thought, are you a A motor vehicle kind of guy, are you thinking to yourself? 00:22:47 Speaker 11: Well, there's one film in our program this year that features some pretty cool 1970s cars, and that's a film called Paper Tiger, set in 1980s New York, starring Adam Driver. And it follows two brothers bidding for a major construction project, but then they experience the wrath of the Russian mob. So it's a bit of a thriller. 00:23:12 Speaker 1: Excellent. 00:23:15 Speaker 11: Flick with some great cars. 00:23:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw Scarlett Johansson's in that too, Miles Teller, so that's one definitely worth checking out, Paper Tiger. Now, there are so many films to choose from here, Matt. We probably won't do it justice in the time that we have, but people do need to check the website and the program because they'll find a film for them. Let's pick out a couple of the highlights that you have. I love your opening night gala film too. There is Oscar buzz about Wild Horse Nine. 00:23:41 Speaker 11: Yeah, look, direct from its, uh, world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Uh, we're thrilled to be presenting the Australian premiere of this film. And of course it's from the director of Banshees of Anishinaabemowin. Lots of people would remember that film, uh, Martin Madonna. And it's, it's set in the days leading up to the Chilean coup in the seventies. Uh, and it's starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, and even Tom Waits makes an appearance. But, uh, We'll be having that Australian premiere at the Capri in Goodwood, followed by a 70s cocktail party. But look, it's just one example of many films across the festival where we've got pink carpets. And, you know, that's a really great way to experience the buzz that comes when filmmakers and actors come to town. So fantastic. We've got other films like Pressure, starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, directed by Adelaide's own Anthony Maris. 00:24:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, can we talk about this? So I hosted the Q & A when he had his preview here at the East End on Prospect Road when he had Hotel Mumbai, which was so successful and so popular. People love that too. It's great to see Anthony doing incredible work. What is this about, Pressure? 00:25:01 Speaker 11: Yeah, and you might remember Hotel Mumbai opened the Adelaide Film Festival in 2018, I think it was. It was one of our investment fund films. But this one is based on a true story of the meteorologists who were critical to the success of D-Day in 1944. So it's really a dramatic retelling of that critical moment in history, and it's I mean, Anthony is such a great director. He's done a terrific job and he's really performing on the international stage. So we're showing that alongside of another film in our special presentations program called The Fox, directed by Adelaide's Dario Russo, starring Jai Courtney and Damon Herriman. And this is a laugh-out-loud comedy about the struggle between domestication and the wild and primal desire for freedom, novelty, and lust. 00:26:04 Speaker 1: So, do you know, Matt, it was funny. I showed my producer, Madeline, the trailer today for The Fox because I was looking at it myself, looking at the cast, thinking, right, we've got to talk about this. Adelaide Connection, terrific cast with, obviously, Olivia Colman as one of the voices in there and Jai Courtney and Emily Browning. And I saw that Colin from the comedy company, Kim Gingell, was in it too. Man, I've never heard more swear words, Matt, in a trailer. I just thought, I said to Madeline, I can't use 10 seconds of this trailer on air. We'd all be fired, but... It sounds like it's sort of laugh out loud, kind of raucous, bawdy comedy. 00:26:39 Speaker 11: Totally. Leith, look, I reckon it makes a really great date night film, as does Wicca, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård. 00:26:48 Speaker 4: Yes. 00:26:49 Speaker 11: And this really is about what makes an ideal relationship in unexpected circumstances. So kind of described as a bit of a romp in the woods. 00:26:59 Speaker 1: Yes. 00:27:01 Speaker 11: Again, it's a belly laugh comedy and directed by a director from Adelaide, Eleanor Wilson. 00:27:11 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of buzz about this film, Matt, where Wicca is where a fisherwoman, in this case Olivia Coleman, gets the local basket maker to weave her a

husband. And people are falling in love with the basket person, Matt. The internet's gone crazy with people sort of being attracted to the wigger, which is unusual. 00:27:30 Speaker 11: Yes, well, you know, he causes quite a ruckus in this community in the film. But there's a terrific twist at the end of the film, which I won't give away. But, you know, if you come out and see this film, you'll have a great experience and leave. 00:27:48 Speaker 5: On a high. 00:27:50 Speaker 11: But, you know, we're showing these films alongside of the very best world cinema from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin and Sundance, as well as some of the really most anticipated local productions. So I'm very proud to be supporting all of those films in the festival and, you know, really reinforcing South Australia as the festival state. And our film festival is internationally acclaimed and really something that all South Australians can. 00:28:22 Speaker 1: Be proud of, I think. Oh, I know. I think you and your team do an extraordinary job. There is literally a film for someone in your festival, be it if you're someone who loves a documentary, whether it's the environment, South Australian films, independent films, the hugely popular music on film series. And people love that too, don't they? Where they get to see behind the scenes of festivals or their favourite bands or or music types, so you've got all of those too there, Matt. 00:28:46 Speaker 11: There's a great line-up of music films in the program, and look, I should note that anyone with a student card or healthcare card can come to our weekday screenings before 5pm by donation or even free, so we're really just wanting to invite everyone to be a part of the festival and come and enjoy the art of cinema, so There's lots of free things in the program, including talks. We've got this year, the Don Dunstan Award recipient is Leah Purcell, who's the genius behind The Drover's Wife. And she'll be in conversation with Wesley Enoch. But there's all these screen conversations with filmmakers that are guests of the festival and so you can really we just invite everyone to come and make the most of the festival this October and come and be. 00:29:44 Speaker 2: A part of it. 00:29:45 Speaker 1: Matt Kesting is my guest, he's the Adelaide Film Festival CEO and Creative Director, the full program has now been released, put it in the diary, 14th until the 25th of October, you're cramming a lot in because there's so many terrific films in there. We are parochial, as you know, Matt, and we want to support you, the festival, anyone in the South Australian film industry. She's a friend of show Tilda Cobham-Hurvey. We get to see her directorial debut as well, all going well. 00:30:10 Speaker 11: Yes, that's right. Tilda's actually on our international competition jury this year alongside the director of the Toronto International Film Festival and Xavier Samuel and... Anna Vincent, a really highly acclaimed local producer. But Tilda's directorial debut is called It's All Going Very Well. And the Australian premiere, we're actually holding back until March next year and we'll present it. in partnership with the Adelaide Festival. 00:30:42 Speaker 9: Oh, nice. 00:30:43 Speaker 11: But you'll get to see Tilda around the festival and all the other competition judges in the competition screenings. They attend them with the audience. 00:30:55 Speaker 1: I want to make 5AA listeners feel old just for one second, Matt. It's 30 years since the great Scott Hicks released his Academy Award-winning film Shine. 30 years, and you've got a celebration of that too. 00:31:08 Speaker 11: That doesn't just make your listeners feel old. That makes me feel old because I remember seeing it in the cinema when I lived in London, actually, and it made me so homesick. It was so beautiful seeing Shine on the big screen in London. But there is a brand new 4K remastered version of the film, which we will be presenting the premiere of as part of the festival. And as part of that celebration, the 30th anniversary celebration, Simon Tedeschi will come and do a special performance as part of that. And then following the screening, director Scott Hicks will be in conversation with Russell Torrance as well. So this is one of the great films that has been made here in South Australia. And it would be well worth coming along to this special event. 00:32:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw Scott's also releasing a book because he's been doing a book for a few years, has he not, about the journey to get the film up and running and made? 00:32:12 Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right. His book is called Persistence of Vision and, you know, I think any creative really needs to have persistence of vision to see these projects realised. It's really hard to get a film made and it's a collaborative art form that involves a lot of people. So, you know, we... We really celebrate the courage of filmmakers to make their works. And, you know, alongside of Scott are many new voices in cinema and directorial debuts from South Australians, which... includes films like Lookrum, and this is directed by Johannes Line-Reed. This is the third project to come out of the Film Lab New Voices Lab, which is a collaboration with the South Australian Film Corporation and Screen Australia. The last two projects, Lesbian Space Princess and Monolith, were huge international successes. So very excited to be unveiling this third project in that lineup. 00:33:23 Speaker 1: Before I let you go, Matt, how important is it for not only for these films to be affordable for people, but also the fact that because it is Adelaide, it's not just one location, is it? I love how you've spread it around. There's a lot of love for a lot of people. So be it the Capri, be it the Palace Nova at East End. There's movies at Piccadilly there in O'Connell Street in North Adelaide with the Wallace Group. You've got various venues. I saw that the Star of the Odeon is getting

used as well. The Regal's getting some love. So lots of chances for people right around the Mercury's getting some love. Lots of chances for people right around the city to catch something as part of the festival. 00:33:59 Speaker 11: Yeah, look, it's a real celebration of all the screen temples around our city, and we've got wonderful cinemas and cultures around those cinemas. 00:34:10 Speaker 5: Think of the. 00:34:11 Speaker 11: Film festival like the Royal Show, but for cinema. This is the time to really come and embrace movies and the filmmakers that make them, who will be here in town tonight, I mean, there's so many great guests coming to town. Mia Wasikowska will be here to present Agatha the Writer. Bojana Novakovic will be here to present her directorial debut, The Forbidden Aunt. And Bojana, you'll probably know from various TV shows, including Love Me. But yeah, there's so many in the lineup and I really encourage people to go to adelaidefilmfestival.org and have a look at the lineup or download our app. It's actually the best way to sort of easily navigate the program because there is a lot in it. 00:35:06 Speaker 1: There is indeed. I'm going to be eating my weight in popcorn. Matt, lovely to have you on. Congratulations to you and your team. We look forward to October kicking off on the 14th. 00:35:15 Speaker 11: Oh, thanks so much, Les. Look forward to seeing you too at the festival. 00:35:18 Speaker 1: Great to catch up. Matt Kesting is the CEO and he is the creative director. The Adelaide Film Festival. Folks, there is a film for you. I can promise you, no matter what genre of film you enjoy, international, Australian, local, 27 Australian premieres, 10 world premieres, over 120 films from right across the globe. 52 countries are covered. There will be a film for you. Download the app or go to adelaidefilmfestival.org. 00:35:46 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest. 00:35:49 Speaker 1: Nine minutes to two. Shortly, Mel Usher with the latest 5AA news. Ian from One Tree Hill has a car for us on the back of the question. The most impressive car in pop culture history. Televisions? Yeah. Movies? What have you got for us? 00:36:03 Speaker 9: Ian? 00:36:04 Speaker 13: I have got a Keanu Reeves movie called John Wick, the original movie, the first one out of the four, and he was driving that unbelievable car Mustang. 00:36:17 Speaker 1: Do you remember that? 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429. Nice ride. Mustang. Boss 429. 00:36:29 Speaker 14: She's 70. 00:36:32 Speaker 3: 69. 00:36:33 Speaker 1: Beautiful car. Yeah, that is a beautiful car, isn't it, Ian? 00:36:38 Speaker 13: It's indelibly sketched in my mind that that car, he was going sideways through airport hangars and stuff. He was releasing a little bit of pressure that day. 00:36:48 Speaker 7: Remember that scene? 00:36:48 Speaker 1: Yes, yep. 00:36:50 Speaker 9: Unbelievable. 00:36:51 Speaker 4: And the sound, mate. 00:36:53 Speaker 13: The sound and the, oh, my God, what a machine. 00:36:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know a lot about cars, but I can appreciate that. I love the look and the sound, as you say. I was reading, because I could see it on my screen, what you were mentioning, that they had to use a Ford Mustang Mark I instead because the 429s or the 429s are expensive and rare. So rather than trash them on the set, they just modified it so it looked the same. But, yeah, beautiful car, huh? 00:37:16 Speaker 13: He drove that so well, too. 00:37:18 Speaker 1: That's so great. He loves it. Great suggestion, Ian. Thank you for that from One Tree Hill. Best car in pop culture, movies or TV. What have you got? John Traynor. 00:37:26 Speaker 12: G'day, John. 00:37:26 Speaker 2: How are you? 00:37:28 Speaker 9: Good. 00:37:29 Speaker 1: What have you got? 00:37:31 Speaker 2: Oh, I've got a few. I mean, one, for example, is the Alfa Romeo that Dustin Hoffman drove while he's pursuing Eleanor to try and get to her before she gets married. Another one was the Corvette in Route 66 on TV. Do you remember that? 00:37:45 Speaker 1: I don't. That's a bit before my time. I'd have to look it up. 00:37:49 Speaker 2: Oh, these are all 1960s stuff. It was just at the time when the Mustang was number one, and this really promoted the Chev Corvette as an alternative. 00:37:57 Speaker 12: Yeah, of course. 00:37:58 Speaker 2: But the two that really stand out, one, I think it was Steven Spielberg's first movie, and it was called Jewel. 00:38:04 Speaker 9: Oh, yeah. 00:38:05 Speaker 2: And it was about a road-raging encounter between a guy driving a Valiant And this great big semi-trailer. And you never see the driver of the semi-trailer. You just see his boots getting out of him and out again. 00:38:16 Speaker 1: That's right. 00:38:17 Speaker 2: And there's one horrifying scene where he's trying to push him into a moving train at a train crossing. And Dennis Weaver, I think, or Dennis Hopper, was the driver. And he's got the car in reverse, spinning the wheels and the blue smoke. streaming up and the car's inching forward then finally suddenly the boom gates go up and the train goes past such as he's pushed forward but he he wins the duel in in the end. 00:38:41 Speaker 1: Yeah that's great that you're right spielberg's first film and you never see the other driver do you but it's that it's almost like the jaws you just know it's there it's it's a it's a horror film kind of action thriller type film yeah we're. 00:38:55 Speaker 2: And another horror film was one called christine Which was the name of a car that this guy buys, and it's haunted. 00:39:03 Speaker 1: That's the Stephen King book slash film. 00:39:06 Speaker 15: Yes. 00:39:06 Speaker 1: Yes, Christine. 00:39:08 Speaker 2: The first thing you notice is odd is that no matter what button he pushes on the radio station, it always plays music from the same year. 00:39:16 Speaker 4: Right. 00:39:16 Speaker 1: 1958 Plymouth Fury, that was, that particular car. There you go.

Good. 00:39:22 Speaker 2: And then, of course, the car that I had for 30 years, my 1970 MGB, that was a car I was Really in love with. 00:39:29 Speaker 1: Well done. 00:39:31 Speaker 2: And I'm 83, and I finally had to part with it. 00:39:33 Speaker 1: Oh, heartbroken. 00:39:34 Speaker 2: I couldn't get into it, not in the sense of any arthritis, but when it was in the garage, the doors wouldn't open wide enough, so I'd have to reach in, take the handbrake off, push it, run alongside and then grab the handbrake just before it went out into a busy street. At 83, I thought, I can't do this any longer. 00:39:51 Speaker 1: That is hilarious. John, great story. Thank you for that. Lots of people jumping in. Julie said the favourite car is Coyote from Hardcastle and McCormick, which was a good show back in the 80s. Nathan said the sheepdog van from Dumb and Dumber. Michelle loves Kit from Knight Rider. I've got all the DVDs. Sean from Greenwich said, 1979 black Porsche 928, risky business driven by Tom Cruise. Andrew loves the Dukes of Hazzard car, the General Lee, which is the bright orange 69 Dodge Charger. Andrew said they wrecked around 30 of them in the making of the series. Gerry said, very tough call. I'll go the 60s Batmobile, the 60s Munsters car and the 2000s Batmobile. Something this century for the kids. Thank you, Gerry, for that. David also loves the original Batmobile from the series, the Model T Hot Rod from the Munsters. Thank you, Dave, from Happy Valley. Neil likes the 1940s Willie two-door coupe in the film Hot Rod, American film. And the second car was the 57 Chevy two-door 1982 film Running on Empty. Thank you, Neil. I don't think I've seen either of those two films. I'll have to look the cars up, though, in the break. Keep them coming through, 8223 0000 or 044808 1395. And just before we get to news, Leith, my husband was watching a program on SBS this morning where they put an electric motor and a battery in a DeLorean. It was much faster and it better handled the road. The original car had some understeer problems, but the heavy battery in the front cures that. The engine is always in the back and they replaced it with an electric motor. So you're telling me, gosh, maybe we'll see more DeLoreans on our streets. Let's hope so. Thank you for that. 00:41:44 Speaker 13: 8223 0000. 00:41:44 Speaker 1: You can join in the conversation. 044808 1395. After the news with Mellat 2, Bronte Manuel's here to talk real estate. 00:41:57 Speaker 5: Five double A afternoons with Leith Forrest. 00:42:01 Speaker 1: Six minutes after two. Thanks for joining us on this Wednesday. Bronte Manuel will join us in just one second from Toop and Toop to talk all things real estate. A reminder before we finish it for your chance to win a double pass to the Sample Grand Final. It's Nord and Sturt. You can be there. We'll give that away before four o'clock and Richard Pascoe will be here shortly to answer your tech questions. Just a couple of texts before we

get to Bronte. People chiming in with their favourite pop culture cars. Stallone's Cobra Car, black, low, very mean looking, says one of our text messages, which is the 1950 Mercury Monterey. What about the Dodge Challenger from Vanishing Point, says Kev. James Bond's Aston Martin, says Nadine. Herbie the Love Bug, says Andrea. Smokey and the Bandits Trans Am, says Brett. Jeff loved the Mustang in Bullet with Steve McQueen. Some good cars there. You can keep those coming in. 8223 0000. Let's find out if Bronte knows a bit about cars as well as real estate. 00:42:59 Speaker 5: 5AA Real Estate Radio. 00:43:01 Speaker 1: Brought to you by 2.2. 00:43:03 Speaker 5: Your trusted advisor in real estate since 1985. 00:43:06 Speaker 1: Are you into the motor vehicles? 00:43:10 Speaker 3: I was, but I'm not. Particularly. What was your question? What are people texting you about? 00:43:15 Speaker 1: So Elon Musk is creating a new car where he's supposedly putting in some things from SpaceX where the car could potentially fly a little bit. Oh, yeah. So they're saying it could be like the DeLorean from Back to the Future. Yeah, okay. So then we just ask the question, the greatest car or your favorite car from pop culture, TV or movie? Yeah, okay. And as you can see, a lot of people chiming in. 00:43:37 Speaker 3: Did anyone say Mad Max? I used to love the X. 00:43:38 Speaker 1: There you go. That was an XBXC, I reckon. Yeah, with the handcuffs on the back. Yeah, I don't remember the handcuffs. I just remember the black. 00:43:45 Speaker 3: And there's a Batmobile at the show, which is pretty cool. 00:43:47 Speaker 1: A lot of Batmobiles get a bit of love. The original 1960s and the 2000 version. See, I'm an A-team kid from the 80s. That black van, GMC, red stripe. Oh, so good. What? 00:43:59 Speaker 3: I'm talking about a Batmobile. 00:44:00 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:44:00 Speaker 9: Yeah. 00:44:01 Speaker 1: You don't know the A-Team van? Did you watch the A-Team? 00:44:03 Speaker 3: Batmobile has, like, wings. 00:44:04 Speaker 1: No, I'm saying that was yours. I'm saying the A-Team's got a lot of love. 00:44:08 Speaker 3: Oh, right. 00:44:09 Speaker 1: As did the A-Team van. Sorry, there was a comma and pause in between that. 00:44:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sorry. 00:44:13 Speaker 1: Okay. I'm unwell. I'm fighting through hay fever. Have you got hay fever? 00:44:17 Speaker 3: Hey, I don't yet. 00:44:18 Speaker 1: You're never sick. I don't think I've ever seen you take a sick day off. 00:44:21 Speaker 3: No, I don't think I'm ever healthy. I was just telling Christian, I lean forward, I feel like there's a tire around my rib. Something's happened to me. 00:44:28 Speaker 1: Oh, really? You've done a sprain? 00:44:30 Speaker 5: No. 00:44:30 Speaker 1: You've injured yourself. 00:44:31 Speaker 3: I think I've been in a good paddock, is what I'm saying. 00:44:34 Speaker 1: Stop it. 00:44:34 Speaker 3: No, with regards to hay fever, so when I was in the country, grew

up with citrus. 00:44:42 Speaker 6: Yes. 00:44:42 Speaker 3: So we had a lot of the blossoms there. So mum would crush up, she didn't like tablets, crush up the Telfast in honey. And I'd eat it off the spoon. 00:44:49 Speaker 16: Nice. 00:44:50 Speaker 3: But my eyes and sneezing would just be crazy and itchy throat. Move to the city and I'm going, you know the good thing about moving to the city, even though I loved my open space of the country, no hay fever. I then end up in St. 00:45:04 Speaker 1: Peter's. 00:45:05 Speaker 3: There are plane trees. 00:45:06 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:45:06 Speaker 3: There are balls on plane trees. 00:45:08 Speaker 1: Blossom Central. 00:45:08 Speaker 3: With like a fur on the balls. My eyes, fine. 00:45:13 Speaker 1: My nose, fine. Throat, fine. 00:45:15 Speaker 3: Actually have to take. steroids for my lungs. 00:45:19 Speaker 4: Really? 00:45:19 Speaker 3: My lungs were like closing. 00:45:20 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:45:21 Speaker 3: So now I've moved to the city, I'm on steroids this time of year for my lungs. But my eyes and nose are okay. 00:45:28 Speaker 12: It's weird. 00:45:29 Speaker 1: It is weird. But how fast can you run now? You're like Ben Johnson. Marion Jones. 00:45:33 Speaker 3: Did I not just tell you about the tyre before? 00:45:35 Speaker 1: No, you didn't. I don't think I've run it fast. That's muscle bursting out of the shirt, mate. You're like the Incredible Hulk. Now, high-end properties more vulnerable in a changing market. That is the headline. We are seeing premium end of Sydney and Melbourne struggle straight. Large falls there. Is it the same in Adelaide? 00:45:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bit of an interesting one. Definitely Sydney, the top end has taken a dive. and more so than the more affordables. The agents over there are basically saying they believe the top end's finished diving now, but the lower end may still going. So I think the top end started first and finished early, you know, that. 00:46:12 Speaker 1: Type of vibe. 00:46:14 Speaker 3: In Adelaide, I can't support this through data, but I'm probably finding, if anything, it feels like the top end is doing the better, you know, doing the best. And I've kind of gone, okay, it feels like a two-speed economy. The reason right now that I believe the property market's flattened and some people would suggest has slightly retracted, I think in Adelaide per million dollars, seven grand's come off of your capital value or something. So next to nothing. A lot of people say, oh, we think it was the budget or we think it's all to do with tax legislation. Investors have left the market. But really, when you look at all of it, Leith, it's affordability. Interest rates are the single biggest contributor here. in a number of ways. So what effectively I've been finding on the ground is that the more affordables in Adelaide, people sometimes buying the more affordable properties are more sensitive to interest rates for borrowing capacity and things

like that. And the top end in Adelaide, people are a little bit more, I don't know what you'd call it, like insured or they've got a little bit more liquidity where whether they're paying XYZ a week or X, you know, or 10% more, so be it. So we've found the top end's probably been a little bit more resilient, which is counterintuitive to, what they're definitely finding in Sydney and Melbourne. 00:47:38 Speaker 1: To be fair, though, Top End in Melbourne and Sydney is very different to Top End here, is it not? I mean, you've got friends in Sydney and Melbourne. What are the kind of prices they're selling? The places on the water at Sydney would be horrendous. 00:47:49 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:47:49 Speaker 3: Well, I think I'd have to have friends in general before I had some in Sydney and Melbourne. 00:47:53 Speaker 1: Stop it. 00:47:54 Speaker 3: But no, with regards to Sydney and Melbourne, I don't know people that live in big houses. I know agents that sell them. And there is some clients there. There was one in Sydney. I think it was... bought the property for 20, 20 or 21 million. I know the agent, not the owner. And the client and a lot of the feedback from the market was like 16 million. Now, whether the guy paid too much for it or not, who knows? And the agent actually said, now is a little window of time where I wouldn't sell. I would hold and sell later. And the person said, mate, I just want to get rid of it. So, You're also dealing with people where money is secondary to the headache of owning it or they want to go do something else with it. So I think the top end in those markets, that would then record a big drop in that suburb for that month because people don't really care about the money. They just care about. 00:48:54 Speaker 1: Selling it? Yeah. 00:48:56 Speaker 3: That sound weird? 00:48:57 Speaker 1: No, it makes sense. But I also find it hard to, oh, well, the top end's fallen away in Melbourne because the number one selling house in Melbourne last year was Macquarie Road in Turek, which went for 70 million. I'm guessing there's probably not a lot of buyers for that. I mean, maybe there are international. 00:49:12 Speaker 3: There's one guy, Marcus Ciminello, Marshall White. 00:49:15 Speaker 1: 70 mil. 00:49:15 Speaker 3: And he sells all those properties. And do you know what you'd love about him? I think he lives in Turack. Well, he owns the Turack market, basically. So he would have sold that property. He has a signboard out the front of his house that would be probably 10 foot wide by 12 to 14 foot tall. And it's a Colton symbol saying, go Blues. 00:49:39 Speaker 1: Good man. 00:49:39 Speaker 3: Like a mad, mad Colton supporter. And he's got his tail up this year. Obviously, I don't know what the signs still are now. But, yeah, he owns that market. And privacy is probably one of the biggest things he has to deal with. So when that price comes out for $ 70 million– he has to do a lot of work with clients to let them know that

he'll do everything he can to suppress it. 00:50:02 Speaker 9: Yes. 00:50:03 Speaker 3: Because there's a business owner or a CEO that has got that $ 70 million property or someone sold it that now their friends and family go, well, you can pay for everything because you just sold a $ 70 million asset. 00:50:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, you cashed out. 00:50:15 Speaker 3: And the buyer- all the people at the employment, you know, of the business they own, if that's what they're doing, or the CEO, they all want pay rises because you just paid $ 70 million for a house. 00:50:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow. 00:50:24 Speaker 3: So everyone wants privacy around it. 00:50:26 Speaker 1: So it's all relative. Like, you never know those places exist. But every time I pick up SA Life magazine and I see your front few pages, some of the houses you guys are selling, you don't realise they exist in Adelaide and South Australia and the rural properties. Like, beautiful homes. Hidden away, understandably. 00:50:43 Speaker 3: We've got, I believe we've got, the $ 70 million homes, but they're just 10 million. 00:50:49 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:50:50 Speaker 3: Just 10 million is a lot. But do you know what I'm saying? Like what that home is that you're talking about for 70, it might be 10 to 13 here in Adelaide. So we've got the same square metres, the same house. 00:51:03 Speaker 1: Is 10 to 13 land or is it the home or is it the location? Like are you seeing massive houses that like that's a $ 30 million Adelaide house or it's where it is and how much land you get? 00:51:14 Speaker 3: Okay, that's actually a fantastic question, a very topical question. I was in a property recently, last week, and I looked at all I could compare this property to was the most expensive houses that have transacted in Adelaide, right? 8s, 10s, 11s, 13s and a 15. That's pretty much, there's not many of them, right? So I then look at those properties and every one of those properties is has 2,300 square metres plus. And the home is all between 500 to 600 square metres plus. So I'm in a 1,000-square-metre home on a 1,500-square-metre block. So the home's bigger than all the other homes. And to replace it would cost an absolute arm and a fortune. But I was going, this would be the first one which would be sold on home rather than land. So I don't know the answer to your question until that property sells. At this point in time, history suggests in the big numbers, a big component of that is land. 00:52:25 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:52:25 Speaker 3: We're talking half an acre of land. 00:52:27 Speaker 1: Yeah. In the metro or in one of the blue ribbon suburbs. Yeah. 00:52:32 Speaker 3: In metro, in a blue ribbon suburb. 00:52:35 Speaker 1: Does a pool or a tennis court add to that or take it away? Do people want empty land. 00:52:39 Speaker 3: Or do they want- At that price point, that's ridiculous. I think they're just like, oh, yeah, there's a court back there somewhere. I'll take the 50-meter walk to the court.

It's nearly a given. If you had a property, yeah, I think it's a given. And to be honest, a court, and once again, I use the words only, not property. No reflection upon my financial position, clearly, but just based upon these properties. If it doesn't have a court, they're like, you know what? It's $ 160, 000 for a court with lights. We just spent $ 10 million, so who cares if it doesn't have one included. 00:53:16 Speaker 1: That's true. 00:53:16 Speaker 3: At $ 10 million, they're probably $ 600, 000 in stamp duty, Leith. You need $ 600, 000 cash to pay the stamp. Then you've got to pay your $ 2 million deposit, and then you've got your $ 8 million loan. 00:53:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not worrying about lights, courts. 00:53:32 Speaker 3: Well, it was funny. I was talking to a guy about my power usage, which is not great. Because with us, it's not a matter of when do you turn the air conditioner on. It's when does Jen turn the air conditioner off. Every couple of months. 00:53:46 Speaker 1: So is she a hot frog or she's cold all the time? 00:53:49 Speaker 3: Depends on the season. 00:53:50 Speaker 1: Okay. 00:53:51 Speaker 3: Obviously, if it's winter, she's cold, so needs a heater on. If it's summer, hot, needs the air conditioner on. 00:53:56 Speaker 1: So you need blankets in summer. Once a year she goes from hot to cold and that's it. 00:54:00 Speaker 3: So blankets in summer and then you need shorts and singlet in winter. 00:54:06 Speaker 1: Gotcha. 00:54:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, you kind of just got to go reverse to whatever's happening outside because it's economical. But basically looking at kilowatts and he was telling me about the power usage of some of these big houses. Like it's insane. Like it is absolutely insane. We're talking 20K a year in power. We're talking $ 15, 000 a year in water. We're talking $ 30, 000 a year in gardeners. Like, if you won CrossFlight or got given the home, you still need to make a lot of money to run it. 00:54:39 Speaker 1: That's right. You've got to work to pay the gardener. That's crazy, isn't it? See, people think you're probably a data centre, you guys, but it's just Jen using all your power and electricity for heating and cooling. 00:54:48 Speaker 3: You reckon she's mining Bitcoin? 00:54:50 Speaker 1: Does the performance of premium markets here in Adelaide differ between the suburbs or is it the individual properties themselves, do you think? Is it individualised or is it more sort of across the board? 00:55:02 Speaker 3: I think when we're talking top-end, Leith, There's so many factors that can't be quantified. So hand on heart, there's some properties where you walk in and you go, Leith, your property's either around, it's either, it's going to be somewhere around four or five. And they're like, okay, well, that's a 25% variance. Like, I thought you'd be a little bit more skilled to give us a bigger than a million dollar variance. You're like, yeah, but if someone loves to park across the road, they could pay five. If people don't like the floor plan, they might be closer to four. 00:55:32 Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. 00:55:33 Speaker 3: They're like, well, what, what, what? It's emotion. 00:55:35 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:55:35 Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? Like it sounds ridiculous, but it's emotion. So there's massive swings where, you know, there could be a really, really good street and the house is a bit average and people pay this emotional price because they want to be part of the street or part of the location. There'll be another time where it might not be the best street and it might not be the best suburb, but the most phenomenal home, someone falls in love, they forget about all of that and they pay a premium for that. 00:56:00 Speaker 16: Yeah. 00:56:01 Speaker 3: You've got to, I guess, when you're presenting a property, lean in to wherever you think that emotion lies. And if it's an amazing home on an amazing street, well, then you're guaranteed to get a big upswing. 00:56:11 Speaker 1: It's funny. So people like me who don't have the money, we all have those conversations if we did have the money. So just to give you an example, around the corner from us on the Esplanade at West Beach, extraordinary homes, beautiful homes. Direct. Literally one minute walk out, you're on sand. Yes. Sand's blowing into your whatever. 00:56:30 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:56:31 Speaker 1: And then there are some homes that are like that, and they're right on the outlet at West Beach. And people go, couldn't live near an outlet. I'm going, look at this house. You're on the beach. This is like God's country here. So I guess it depends on the buyer. Busy road. Do I want to be on Military Road? Probably not. 00:56:49 Speaker 3: Everyone's got a different opinion, right? So a property that the back fence backs onto a park. 00:56:55 Speaker 16: Yep. 00:56:56 Speaker 1: To me... Golf course seems to be the one too. Yeah, golf course. 00:56:59 Speaker 3: But if you go onto a park, to me, that is just insanely awesome. 00:57:04 Speaker 14: Yeah. 00:57:04 Speaker 3: So what you're telling me, I open the gate and I've got another 4,000, 8,000, 10,000, 15,000 square meters that I can play on, but I don't actually have to water it or guard, you know, like it's there. And people come along and go, oh, it backs onto the park, security risk. 00:57:19 Speaker 1: Go, pardon? 00:57:20 Speaker 3: Oh, people jump over the fence. Well, Well, okay. At least when there's a house there, only the neighbor can do it. I'm like, really? 00:57:26 Speaker 1: I can't. 00:57:28 Speaker 3: Relay and access? Massive. Like the usability of the front of your property, the usability of the site through the roof. Some people come along, oh, let's go relay and access. Security risk. 00:57:39 Speaker 15: What? 00:57:40 Speaker 1: Really? 00:57:40 Speaker 3: But different opinions. 00:57:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's got a filter. Does some people like living near schools and others may not?

Yeah. Because you get the 40 and the kids and noise and all the rest of it. 00:57:48 Speaker 3: I had a real interesting one back in the day. And I have said this before, but hopefully it was long enough that no one remembers. It was in Wakery. And what we had was two blocks of land. So two blocks of land side by side. And on the right-hand side block of land was next to Yamaha Marine, like the Wakery Marine. 00:58:07 Speaker 9: Yep. 00:58:07 Speaker 3: So we auctioned the one that wasn't next to the business. So the one on the far left was next to an established home and it was next to this other vacant block. So it was going to be next to two residential properties. So we sell the property to this person and then the next bidder buys the second block and the second block is alongside the Yamaha shop, right? And they pay more for the one next to the Yamaha shop. Then the two buyers don't. come together and they go, oh, we both bought the block that we didn't want. And I said, well, how did that happen? The first person said, well, I just didn't want to be left empty handed. So I didn't want to leave all to chance to bid on the last block next to the Yamaha shop. And then a person that didn't bid, they said, well, we couldn't go any further on the first one. So that's why we bought the second. They swapped. And the reason they swapped, the person that had the house next to the Yamaha shop didn't want to be next to a business because because they thought businesses are noisy, they're not residential, they're not warm and fuzzy. The person that bought not next to it said, I love that because I work nine to five and the business is nine to five. So whenever I'm home, I don't have a neighbor on one side. And we swapped the blocks. 00:59:20 Speaker 17: Really? 00:59:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, we just swapped it. In hindsight, neither of them would have legally been bound on that basis because we didn't redo the auction. Probably not the best thing. Yeah, but we swapped the blocks. 00:59:30 Speaker 12: Wow. 00:59:31 Speaker 3: But two people wanted different things. And I always thought like next to a school, next to a business, back in the day, I probably thought, no, I would prefer not. But now I go, you know what? That is so true. When I'm home, there'll be no one there. 00:59:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. 00:59:45 Speaker 3: And when I'm not home, there's activity, but who cares? 00:59:48 Speaker 1: That's interesting how it works out. Bronte Manuel's here from Toop and Toop. Can we talk about the hills? You've got your big night coming up soon where people get to talk to you about the hills and the properties. What's that look like? Is it? Still attracting strong interest, the hills. People want to get away. What did Sam Hayes call it once, I think, a tree change? Tree change. 01:00:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's on 6 p.m. Wednesday, the 23rd of September. So we've got some local people there. We've got Josh Teague coming. He's the local member. We've

got Alicia Brunolli. From Domain, they've got really good data and stats, and it's going to be very specific to the hills, not what's going on in Melbourne, Sydney, or even in Norwood, West Beach, or Fulham Gardens, God's country. And Ross Securo, he's the director of Moore, which do accounting. So there'll probably be a few topics and questions for him around what do the tax changes mean? So we'll have a panel. We'll talk about what's happening up there, what it's trending like for capital growth, et cetera. But the hills, I think it's just going to keep getting more and more desirable. I mean, the fact that it's just right there. I was in Melbourne last week at an REA leadership forum, and the way that some people commute, there's a guy that lives in Torquay, and he commutes to work. 01:01:10 Speaker 1: Yeah. three days a week. 01:01:12 Speaker 3: Pete Dangerfield. 01:01:13 Speaker 8: Hey? 01:01:13 Speaker 1: Pete Dangerfield, Moggs Creek. They all live at Geelong and then drive in the city when they need to and then stay at home when they don't. 01:01:19 Speaker 16: Wow. 01:01:20 Speaker 3: Well, it's an hour and a half, I think it. 01:01:21 Speaker 1: Is, to commute? Yep, a bit over an hour, just past Geelong. 01:01:24 Speaker 12: Each way. 01:01:24 Speaker 3: You know, like, it's absolutely, but that's what they do. So here we are. You can travel half an hour and be on, you know, a couple acres, 10 acres or 50 acres staring at a cow instead of a neighbour. That's pretty cool, right? And it's right there on the doorstep. 01:01:40 Speaker 15: Yep. 01:01:41 Speaker 3: I feel like it takes courage to move to the hills. I don't know why. Like, for Jen and I, it was a real kind of courageous thing to sell up and move there. Maybe for Jen. For me, I was all in, right? So, yeah, it'd be good to look at the trends. I also really did believe that there was a lot of weekend warriors through COVID that were like, yeah, I want acreage. And I, in my heart, thought that they would have got sick of it by now because people that didn't know what a lawnmower was or didn't know how to manage fencing or I thought, you know, that's only going to be temporary and there'll be a big sell-up, but that never happened, right? Like people that move there have learned and they've adapted, they've got onto YouTube to work out how to fix irrigation. So, yeah, it'd be good to talk about what is actually happening. And then also just a bit about Mount Barker, you know, like, That's like a whole new city that's being established. 01:02:35 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. 01:02:35 Speaker 3: That's sandwiching and it's just property after property going up through there. 01:02:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to an event and I had to come through Mount Barker. I don't get to Mount Barker a lot. Normally, you just bypass as you go through. Couldn't believe it. Like what's going on? Blink and you miss it over a couple of years and you're right on the doorstep of the city. So no wonder people– so this kind of night, are you talking about buyer activity, pricing, all that kind of stuff too? You're getting the nuts and bolts. 01:02:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, we talk. So last year, I think people said to us, hey– what do you think about a proposal of having apartments in Stirling, like an apartment tower? And I could tell by the tone, it was like a town hall meeting. It was nearly like, you're an agent, tell me that you hate them because I know that you're going to like them and I don't like you sort of thing. And I was like, well, mate, like I think apartments in Stirling, it's completely, you know, political, but there's people that get to an age that can't, keep a big garden anymore that can't, you know, maintain. So other than to tell them you need to move away from Stirling, we give them an opportunity to stay and to be part of this community. And it was interesting because he just kind of put his sword down immediately because he's kind of mature age and was like, oh, I never thought it like that. So we just discuss topics in that regard. One thing we looked at last year was with the freeway. the more properties that get built in Mount Barker, does that mean the freeway is going to get slower? 01:03:58 Speaker 9: Yep. 01:03:59 Speaker 3: Or does it mean that it's going to get faster because more people aren't going to commute now? You've got your standalone city there. So we talk about, you know, like, so there's just, I think it was, hey, I'm a lot biased, but I think it was a really good night. We got good feedback. There's some food and drink there. 01:04:14 Speaker 1: Perfect. So this time next week, 23rd of September, 6 p.m., So Sterling Hotel, just quickly, who do you want there? Who goes? Is it people genuinely in the market? Is it people that are curious about it? They're sort of tempted? Do you want the locals to come and have a chat as well? 01:04:30 Speaker 3: Oh, we'd love the locals. 01:04:31 Speaker 1: We've invited. 01:04:31 Speaker 3: If you've got any sort of remote interest in the hills, no matter what that interest is, whether you're looking for the tree change, whether you live there at the moment, whether you've got an investment property there, a relative there, you know what? If you're just interested in the hills, be there. And if you're not interested in the hills, you'll hate it. 01:04:50 Speaker 9: No. 01:04:51 Speaker 12: Do you know what I mean? 01:04:52 Speaker 3: If you're not interested in the hills, don't come. But if you are, it'll be great. 01:04:55 Speaker 1: I think people will still be interested. I like the idea, like you as a country kid, I like the idea of knowing people in a town. 01:05:02 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:05:02 Speaker 1: That appeals to me. It doesn't for others. I like the idea of walking down the main street and knowing everyone. So if you go back to- Millicent. 01:05:10 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:05:10 Speaker 3: I was going to think toilet paper, yeah? 01:05:12 Speaker 1: God's country.

01:05:12 Speaker 6: Thank you. 01:05:12 Speaker 3: If you go back to Millicent- Yes. How long does it take you to get a carton of milk? Or is a lot of the relationships that you've had kind of thinned out? 01:05:19 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. So this is not big noting, but this is what happens because I get home maybe once or twice a year. I think my daughter counted once. We went to the show before we got on one ride- I think I'd chatted to 22 people. 01:05:32 Speaker 3: And your daughter really disliked it. 01:05:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like, can we just get on the ride? Yeah, chit-chat. We'll get to there in a second because it's everyone I went to school with. 01:05:38 Speaker 8: Yeah. 01:05:38 Speaker 1: And then it's their parents and it might be people from business and stuff. Now, that's someone who goes home not that often, but I still like to walk down and go, that's Bronte's mum. She runs that. That's Bronte's sister. She works. I love that. 01:05:51 Speaker 3: My mum will call me and go, now, do you remember this person you went to school with? 01:05:55 Speaker 16: Yes. 01:05:55 Speaker 3: Well, his aunt, his cousin's uncle's sister's mother's brother. 01:05:59 Speaker 15: Yeah. 01:05:59 Speaker 3: Oh, they're a little bit sick. Isn't that sad? I'm like, yeah, it's sad, but they're 32 stages away from who I actually know. 01:06:06 Speaker 1: I'm telling you too much. Do you know what I've done now? I've started to follow Waddle Range Funeral Parlours. 01:06:12 Speaker 14: No. 01:06:13 Speaker 1: Yes, because it's now my friend's parents and their grandparents who are passing. 01:06:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, someone's told me to do that. 01:06:18 Speaker 1: I like to know what's going on and I'd reach out and condole it. Because it might be, for example, we had one man in our town who taught everyone how to drive. He passed, Mr. Sampson. So I shot a message to his daughter to say, I'm really sorry. Because the guy was a legend. 01:06:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nice. 01:06:33 Speaker 1: So it's, you know, a little bit Mrs. Mangle. 01:06:36 Speaker 3: So when I go back, I get the questions, the communication, the chit-chat. When you go back, you probably want one in four on a signature. 01:06:42 Speaker 1: Is that right? That's it. This is our radio man. Where are you putting the statue? 01:06:46 Speaker 8: No. 01:06:46 Speaker 1: Bronte Emanuel is about to go into the Real Estate Radio Lounge. Take your question. A lot of on-text as well. I might get Madeline to ring those people back for you because I've texted you in questions, but you're about to go in. Oh, yeah, cool. 8223 0055 if you've got a question for Bronte from Toop and Toop. 01:07:02 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest. 01:07:05 Speaker 1: Richard Pascoe is here to answer any of your tech questions. 8223 0055. And before he leaves, Bronte Manuel from Toop and Toop. Got a question about real estate? Just change the last bit of that number to 0055. He will answer your questions in the Real Estate Lounge, 8223 0055. Sue said, Richard, do you know the way to Tanunda? 01:07:25 Speaker 12: Well done, Sue. You roll that gag out every year. Well, I'm back on weekends. We'll do it one more time. 01:07:30 Speaker 1: Excellent. Shane has an Apple iPhone XR. Wants to upgrade very soon. Doesn't want to get the latest one. What is the next model, please, Richard? 01:07:39 Speaker 12: Well, they've announced all the new ones that are coming out, and it's whether you want to progress that far So the 17s, wonderful phone. And this is where we get a bit confused here, Leith, because iOS 27, have you pressed the upgrade. 01:07:56 Speaker 1: Button yet on your phone? Mine does it automatically. 01:07:59 Speaker 16: Good. 01:07:59 Speaker 12: So you're on all the new features with Siri and everything on there. He's looking furiously at his phone at the moment. So, Shane, if you want the full Siri experience, you want the iPhone 17 Pro or 17 Pro Max on there. Unless you want to go on and splash out Leith in October for the iPhone Duo. 01:08:19 Speaker 1: At $ 3, 500. $ 3, 500. It does look good, though, the foldable phone. 01:08:23 Speaker 12: It looks good. 01:08:24 Speaker 1: You can't see, like, the little mark. 01:08:26 Speaker 12: No, you've got to look very, very hard. It will probably become more. I don't know. But we've got to wait for some proper hands-on reviews. 01:08:34 Speaker 1: Do you know what's interesting? I've got the automatic updates on, and yet I still don't have it, the 26.7 404 gigabytes. I'll do that tonight. 01:08:38 Speaker 9: Yes. 01:08:42 Speaker 12: It's not like you not to do an update, Lee. Good heavens. 01:08:45 Speaker 1: Well, do you know what? I didn't get that little red dot, so I'm okay there. 01:08:50 Speaker 12: He's done that now. 01:08:51 Speaker 1: I'll do it. Look how clean that phone is, Richard. You could eat off it. Keith from Golden Grove. Question for Adelaide Tech Guy. 01:08:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, hi, Leith and Richard. 01:09:00 Speaker 1: Hi, Keith. 01:09:01 Speaker 4: Richard, I've got a Dell rugged laptop that I use for work. I'm trying to put the taskbar. It's got Windows 11 Pro on it. I'm trying to put the taskbar at the top. 01:09:19 Speaker 12: Good luck, Keith, at the moment. It is coming up. So if you right-click on the taskbar, it should come up with taskbar settings on there. 01:09:30 Speaker 9: Yep. 01:09:31 Speaker 5: All right. 01:09:32 Speaker 12: Now, depending on what version of Windows you're on, I'm about– sorry– I'm about three versions in front of you. But there should be halfway down when you do personalisation, there is a new part coming where you can put on the top, the left, the right or the bottom. That is coming for you. 01:09:52 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I've got two other computers and I've got the taskbar at the top and they've got Windows 11 Home. 01:10:00 Speaker 12: Yes. 01:10:02 Speaker 4: And it's got the. 01:10:02 Speaker 7: Little four little sort of

TV sort of looking sets in personalisation as to left, right, top, bottom. 01:10:13 Speaker 4: But I can't get it on the Dell for the life of me. 01:10:18 Speaker 12: Sorry, is it running home? 01:10:20 Speaker 4: It's not running home, it's running pro. 01:10:27 Speaker 12: Let me take that on notice because I think on pro it's a bit different. 01:10:33 Speaker 1: All right? 01:10:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I try to change it in the registry. 01:10:37 Speaker 12: Oh, don't do that. 01:10:40 Speaker 4: Well, I tried quite a few times and then sort of gave up after a few times. And it just, it changes it, but then it changes it back. 01:10:51 Speaker 12: Changes it back. And that's part of the thing being on pro. It's a tiny bit different to Windows Home. 01:10:57 Speaker 1: All right. Do some research for us. 01:10:59 Speaker 12: Do some research. I'll do some research for you, Keith. 01:11:02 Speaker 9: All right. 01:11:02 Speaker 1: Good on you, Keith. Thank you for that. And people like to have their things in order. Oh, they do. 01:11:08 Speaker 12: People on the left or the right, you can have it wherever you want it. 01:11:10 Speaker 9: Yes. 01:11:11 Speaker 1: I know someone that changes all the font sizes in the 5AA studios because he has poor sight and people don't like it. 01:11:17 Speaker 12: No, they don't. 01:11:18 Speaker 1: They change it to the 150 magnification and then doesn't change it back. Don't know who that would be. Hello, Quentin from Old Rinelli. You're speaking to Richard Pascoe. 01:11:28 Speaker 14: Hi, Richard. Hi, Lee. How are you going? Good. Fantastic. Hey, I've got an iPhone 12. My Bluetooth doesn't work anymore. I go into settings. I turn on Bluetooth. It won't stay on Bluetooth or hotspot. 01:11:43 Speaker 2: What am I doing wrong? 01:11:45 Speaker 12: Might be an issue with it, Quinton. What I'd do is I'd reset the phone, back everything up and reset it. 01:11:51 Speaker 9: Yep. 01:11:52 Speaker 12: And if that doesn't work, it might be time to shop around. 01:11:55 Speaker 1: Oh, dear. 01:11:58 Speaker 9: Oh, no. 01:11:59 Speaker 2: Can you come up with a different answer? 01:12:01 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:12:01 Speaker 1: Go see your bank manager. Buy a new phone. 01:12:04 Speaker 14: Hey, just a question on that. What are phones like buying in Japan? 01:12:08 Speaker 12: Don't. 01:12:10 Speaker 1: Okay. I won't. 01:12:11 Speaker 12: Because a lot of the phones that you buy overseas are not compliant with Australian rules, and that's one of the things we have with the triple O calls. Because people have bought them overseas, and the telco goes, Quinton bought this phone in Japan. He can't really make triple O calls on there. 01:12:27 Speaker 7: Right. 01:12:28 Speaker 1: Right. Even Apple, where it's uniformed? 01:12:31 Speaker 12: Yeah. 01:12:32 Speaker 1: Really? Well, I guess you've got different PowerPoints, too. 01:12:35 Speaker 12: It's not just a PowerPoint, but it's the way the– I think Apple might be all right. 01:12:40 Speaker 1: Okay. 01:12:41 Speaker 12: On the Android side, it's a bit touch of the Wild West. 01:12:43 Speaker 1: Good luck, Q. All right. So I would back up, reboot. 01:12:47 Speaker 12: Reset. 01:12:48 Speaker 1: Reset, sorry. 01:12:48 Speaker 12: Back it all up. 01:12:49 Speaker 1: Try again. 01:12:49 Speaker 12: Reset and reload everything. 01:12:51 Speaker 1: All right? Before we let you out of here, should we spend eight hours a day with our laptop resting on us? People are guilty of this. I'm semi-guilty of this. I'll sometimes put a pillow between my lap and myself and type on the couch. 01:13:03 Speaker 12: It's not a bad idea, Leith, but there was a. 01:13:06 Speaker 12: I'll say this dopey kid in the United Kingdom who developed a skin syndrome called toasted skin syndrome. 01:13:15 Speaker 1: Oh, they get warm. 01:13:16 Speaker 12: Because he sat on his lap all the time and they took him to the doctors and the doctor had no idea, thought he had a condition on there. But the medical name is called erythema ab igni. And it's repeated exposure to relatively low levels of heat on there. It won't burn him, but they investigated him for a, I've got to say, a liver problem on there, and the rash kept getting worse. So if you've got kids out there, don't let them rest. 01:13:43 Speaker 1: It on their stomach all the time. Well, it's bad for your posture anyway. You're bending over. Exactly right. So put a couple of pillows between them, and then you'll go okay. Or put a shirt on. That's right. Who's on their computers naked? Karen says, Richard, iPhone. Are they bringing out a normal phone on the 17th? Or just the pro model? 01:14:00 Speaker 12: The normal one will be out early next year. It's the only time they've ever split these up. 01:14:05 Speaker 1: And is next year the anniversary one or that's the year after? 01:14:08 Speaker 12: No, then we will go then to October next year, which will be the 20th anniversary. And so they will release the new pro ones all come out like we saw the other week, last week. 01:14:23 Speaker 8: Right. 01:14:23 Speaker 12: On there with the new fold. 01:14:25 Speaker 1: Where do we find you if you're an individual or a business? 01:14:28 Speaker 12: Then over to adelaidetechguy.com.au. All the contact details are on there or give me a ring 0419 829 145. 01:14:37 Speaker 1: What were you doing in 1960? 01:14:38 Speaker 12: Yeah, not much, Leith. 01:14:42 Speaker 1: No, you weren't born, were you? Of course not. 01:14:44 Speaker 12: Maybe. 01:14:45 Speaker 6: Really? 01:14:46 Speaker 12: Never know. 01:14:46 Speaker 1: Were you listening to this? The great Lonnie Lee. 01:14:51 Speaker 9: You might have been. 01:14:53 Speaker 1: You might have been in the cot. The lovely man, Lonnie Lee. He's going to join us on the other side. You might like this. Victor Harbour. Rock and roll festival this weekend. Very good. You can go and do that. Adelaide Tech guy, Richard Pascoe. Thank you. Lonnie Lee

next. 01:15:07 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leigh Forrest. 01:15:10 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning in to The Last Hour on this Wednesday afternoon, seven minutes after three. Big show on the way. Lonnie Lee's going to join us in just one second. The legend, Katrina Roundtree, is dropping by. We'll speak to Katrina about tonight's show on Channel 9 as they celebrate 70 years of television. And Randy Feltface will join us. Well, we're checking out the live stream for that from 3.30pm This is the comedic puppet that can sell out arenas, including our own Thebby Theatre, which will be the case, I'm sure, again, with tickets on sale. Now we'll speak to Randy about his new show, Gimmick, before the afternoon is out. I want to thank both Bronte Manuel and Richard Pascoe as well for being with us. Richard, of course, thanks to Harvey Norman Computers, your technology specialists, and Bronte from Toop & Toop. answering all of those questions. Let's speak to a legend because this weekend, big weekend in Victor Harbor, it's the Rock and Roll Festival from the 18th until the 20th of September. It's a seaside celebration. Everything you know and love from the 50s, classic cars, live rock and roll, dancing, nostalgia. What a weekend it will be. And Sunday night, the big star to close it all out. He is a legend. The great Lonnie Lee joins me. Lovely to have you on, Lonnie. Welcome. 01:16:22 Speaker 9: Thank you so much. Lovely to talk with you again. 01:16:24 Speaker 1: You know, you too. You know, I'm a kid of the 80s, Lonnie, so for me, I'm very sentimental about, you know, the 1980s into the early 90s. But for you, when you were a superstar through the late 50s, right through the 60s as well, a weekend like this must bring you great nostalgia. 01:16:41 Speaker 9: Absolutely wonderful. There's no doubt in the world about it. Well, you know, just like you said, you're a kid of the 80s, love the 80s every time. You see all that stuff comes up. It just takes you right back there. So it is the same for me in the 50s and the 60s. Mind you, I do also like the latter stuff as well, the 70s, the 80s and 90s. Not so much now, but all the stuff before. But rock and roll, to me, is the top of the heap. 01:17:07 Speaker 1: You know the only difference between us, Lonnie? You haven't aged since the 50s, and I have very well truly aged since the 80s. You look amazing. 01:17:15 Speaker 9: Oh, bless you. Bless your cotton-picking heart. I'm sure you've just matured like a good wine. 01:17:20 Speaker 1: I think the wine's off. I would take the cork out of this one. Let's talk about what people can enjoy. So, I mean, you've been performing for so long, you would know how to get people up on a dance floor, and that's what it's all about, isn't it? To enjoy the cars during the day, to socialise and mix with people, and then to just have some fun with golden music of a golden era. 01:17:41 Speaker 7: That's it. 01:17:41 Speaker 9: That's exactly what it is. Just everyone of like mind getting together and not just talking about today and all what's going on today, but going back with memories. Oh, remember this? We did this and we did that. And I wore this with this frock or this shirt or whatever. It's just a wonderful time. And of course, the music is what it's about because rock and roll started with dancing. That's the main thing that started rock and roll, the rock and roll dancing. And then, of course, the music supplied that. And a lot of the people today uh, fortunately there's a lot of the young that still love the rockabilly music and the rockabilly dancing. And, uh, and that makes it just all fun. It's, uh, it's a beautiful, beautiful time and not just a time of, of, uh, wonderful music, but of the memories, as I said, you can think about all the stuff that happens. And with me now, me up on stage, I'm down there looking at the audience and most of the audience are quite older. And, uh, And yet, in my eyes, I can still see them as teenagers and free tea planners sitting there because we've lived our life together, me and my fans. So we've lived our whole lives together virtually. It's amazing, really. 01:18:47 Speaker 1: Oh, it is amazing. 69 years. Time flies when you're having fun, Lonnie. 1957, you win the competition to find Australia's Elvis. You win that. You then get signed to the label by Lee Gordon. You co-write the debut hit, Ain't It So? Johnny O'Keefe, 1959. And then what a career you have, Lonnie. I can't believe it's like that many decades on, though. 01:19:09 Speaker 9: Well, I can't either. It's just really amazing. I stop and think about it. No, is that really me that did all those things? Because I'm just a regular guy. I'm not precious as far as I'm concerned. I'm just a guy that happens to be doing something and being reasonably successful, just like a plumber or the electrician or whoever. So we're all the same, just doing different jobs. But I've been very blessed, absolutely wonderfully blessed. There's no doubt about that. 01:19:37 Speaker 1: Incredible hits through the 50s and the 60s, five gold records, multiple music awards. You spend years living in the States and Nashville and Vegas, and you record and write with all the greats, including Roy Orbison and Cher and Glen Campbell. Tell me, though, of all the music you've ever done, Lonnie, have you ever done a version of Starlight Starbright like you did when Graham Corns joined you here at 5AA many years ago? I'm not sure we've heard something like it, to be honest. 01:20:05 Speaker 9: Oh, goodness me. Well, I don't know. I must say that there's not one show that I can remember that I've gone out there and performed without doing Starlight, Starbright. And I feel even now today, if I went down there to Victor Harbor to the wonderful festival and I didn't do it, I reckon they'd stone me. They'd hang me up by my toes if I didn't do it. 01:20:26 Speaker 1: Isn't it great to have one of the great Australian songs of all

time, though? Like we've been playing it all afternoon, teasing that you were coming on the show today. And for so many people, it brings back so many great memories, and it means something to them. 01:20:38 Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely. And do you know, I didn't write that song. I wish I did. It was my version that I did. They're all my ideas, the way it was presented. But the song itself was written by an Italian-American called Johnny Mariscalco, and he happened to write some of the greatest rock and roll songs in the world, Rip It Up. Ready, Teddy, Good Golly, Miss Molly, all those wonderful songs. So the same guy who wrote Starlight Star Bright wrote all those beautiful songs. So no wonder it's good and it has the same life as those other songs. You know, it's still alive. It still sounds beautiful. 01:21:11 Speaker 1: Yes, and your voice is exceptional. Your playing's exceptional too. It must make you feel young and just alive to be able to get on the stage at events like the Victor Harbour Rock and Roll Festival this weekend to be able to share that gift with people. 01:21:24 Speaker 9: Yes, it does. And sadly, a lot of the festivals are closing down, not just the rock and roll festivals of the country and whatever. They're closing down because, I guess, of the economy and all that stuff. So it's wonderful to think that Victor Harbor is still rocking along and still doing absolutely beautiful. I'm just really looking forward to going down there and doing it. It is a thrill, a great thrill to be there, and not just to sing and do my stuff, but also to mingle with everybody and... And, you know, a lot of them come up to me after the show where we have a little meet and greet after the show. A lot of them come up and they say, you know, tell me the stories. Oh, you know, I remember you, my big sister. I was only 10 and my big sister introduced me and we used to watch you on TV. It's just lovely. They're lovely stories, you know. 01:22:06 Speaker 1: Are you a car person yourself, Lonnie? Because, again, you'll get all these classic cars in the show and shine too. You'll be able to walk past and have a look. 01:22:13 Speaker 9: I just love them. My God, I love them. If I was a zillionaire... like a Musk. I think I'd buy every 50s car that ever was. I just loved them. Back in the day, I had a 1957 Belvedere. It was just beautiful. It was my pride and joy for years, but unfortunately, it was so low down to the ground that I took it out on tour. It was a silly thing I did, but I took it out on tour in the back blocks And unfortunately, that had monstrous rainstorms, and all the mud roads, because they're all dirt roads, all the mud roads set like concrete in the sun. And it ripped all the guts out from underneath it, all the power steering, and it cost me a fortune. 01:23:00 Speaker 4: Oh, dear. 01:23:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, so in the end, I had to sell it. And then I also bought, later on, I bought a Ford Mustang. an ex-police Mustang. And that was, that was a beautiful car. So I, I just love all these cars. I wrote a song recently, or maybe what, four or five years ago, um, called my limousine. And it's about someone who's, who's got a fifties or sixties, early sixties car and just loves it. And, and, and it treats it like he, he treats it like his girlfriend, you know? So it's, uh, It's great. No, I do love all those cars. Do you too? 01:23:31 Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. We've been talking about it today on the show. I think the whole weekend just encompasses that, doesn't it? Those of us who didn't live in those generations, we get such great joy because that's when cars and music and fashion had character to it. And those who got to live it, it'll be very nostalgic for them. It's a big weekend with live music stages, outdoor dance floors, classic and vintage car displays. There's market stalls. There's food trucks everywhere. There's a kid's zone as well. Free local buses. The Steam Ranger you can get on for $ 10 discounted between Gore and Victor right across the weekend. Lonnie is on Sunday night from 7.30 until 9pm. It's always lovely to have you on, Lonnie. Thank you for putting Adelaide and Victor Harbour back on the map and coming to visit us this weekend. 01:24:13 Speaker 9: Beautiful. Bless you. Lovely talking to you again. Say hi to Quincy. 01:24:17 Speaker 1: I certainly will. Well done. Great chat. The great Lonnie Lee, part of the Victor Harbour Rock and Roll Festival this weekend. You can find out all the details at rockandrollfestival.com.au. That's rock in the letter, roll festival, rock and roll festival. And why not see a legend in action? An hour and a half of Lonnie, all of those hits from the late 50s through to the 60s. It sounds like a fun weekend. 17 minutes after three, very short break. On the other side, we'll continue to get nostalgic. Katrina Rountree is going to join us today, 70 years ago, TV for the first time. 01:24:52 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leigh Forrest. 01:24:55 Speaker 1: Thank you, Maxine, for the text. Mum and I saw Lonnie Lee, Long Way to the Top Concerts. Fantastic. Thank you, Lonnie, for the wonderful music. And all the memories. Thank you, Maxine. Before we speak to Katrina, traffic update. Thank you, Shane from Northgate. The roundabout at Northgate through to North East Road is packed. People cannot move. So avoid the area if you can. The Northgate roundabout through to North East Road. Traffic is congested. So avoid the area if you can. Thank you, Shane from Northgate for that one. So let's go back. On this day 70 years ago, TCN 9 Sydney began regular transmissions. It was the 16th of September 1956. 01:25:37 Speaker 5: Good evening and welcome to television. 01:25:39 Speaker 1: The great Bruce Gingell. Well, tonight, Channel 9 continues the celebration across two nights. The first was on Wednesday, the 9th of September last week, and tonight it is part two, 8.45 here on Channel 9. You can see the celebration of 70 years of Australian

television and a lady who has been on the TV for many of those. But as looking as fresh and as lovely as ever, Katrina Roundtree, lovely to have you on, Katrina. 01:26:04 Speaker 9: Oh, hello. Hi, everyone. 01:26:06 Speaker 16: Lovely to chat to you. I'm not sure if I am quite as big, but. 01:26:09 Speaker 17: I'll take it. 01:26:11 Speaker 1: I said this to Lonnie Lee before, Katrina. You haven't aged either. What's going on? What am I doing wrong? How long have you been on our TVs, first and foremost? 01:26:19 Speaker 16: Only 35 years. 01:26:20 Speaker 1: Wow. 01:26:21 Speaker 16: So I know that we're talking about and celebrating 70 years, but for me, yeah, I've only been there for 35 years. the first day I walked past security and into that Channel 9 car park because, honestly, I never thought a girl like me could get a gig like this. I just, like you, just talked my head off and loved chatting and sharing stories. 01:26:48 Speaker 1: Well, congratulations. You must have been six, Katrina, when you started. That's remarkable. 01:26:51 Speaker 9: I was a child prodigy. 01:26:53 Speaker 1: Wonder World? What's up, Doc? They were the first two from memory? 01:26:58 Speaker 16: That's right. That's right. I hope that when I share my story that... Someone out there listening goes, well, if she can do it, then I can do it. Because honestly, I was such a stuff up at school. And when I told my career counselor that I wanted to be the next Deanna Venn, she laughed in my face and said, you're never going to get the mark to study communication. You're not pretty enough to be a model. Try something else. And so you can always find a backdoor. If it's what you really want to do, you can always find a pathway through. And so for me, I did start out, I did community radio. and eventually I auditioned with 12,000 for a gig on Wonderworld. They didn't pick me, but I begged the executive producer. I begged, let me do anything. And eventually they gave me the phone book, a telephone, and said, right, you can be the researcher. And that's how I got my footing. And you just never know who's watching, who's listening. 01:27:59 Speaker 9: Always be at your best. 01:28:00 Speaker 1: And now look at you. You've been a star for decades, Katrina. Have you been on Getaway for 30 years? 01:28:07 Speaker 16: Can you believe that? 01:28:08 Speaker 15: No way. 01:28:10 Speaker 12: Really? 01:28:11 Speaker 1: You're Australia's most travelled TV person I read online, ever. More than the Leyland Brothers, more than Albie May. Everyone, you've been to more places than anyone, Katrina. 01:28:23 Speaker 16: Yeah, I really love it. Actually, I do just have to say I just wrapped up. in Adelaide a journey on the GAN and I just want to give a shout out to all the staff based in Adelaide who work on that. 01:28:36 Speaker 9: They're amazing. 01:28:38 Speaker 16: I'm just really grateful. and for me, certainly, maybe because it was really difficult to get in, I just think, just don't

waste a day. And I remember when I first started, I worked with a fellow called Lockie Datto. Everybody knows the Datto brothers. 01:28:53 Speaker 9: There's one everywhere. 01:28:54 Speaker 16: And he was on his way out and he whispered to me, Don't ever leave. This is the best gig. 01:29:01 Speaker 9: And I listened. 01:29:03 Speaker 16: I took that to heart. And I really thought marrying a farmer, moving away from head office, you mentioned TCN, Sydney, I thought I've blown it. I've blown it. But, you know, life shifts and technology shifts and you just have to embrace what's in front of you. And thankfully, I had a really cool boss who said, as long as you can get to the airport, I don't care where you live. And of course... life caught up with that forward-thinking boss. And here we are. Here we are, still travelling, still sharing stories. 01:29:34 Speaker 1: And so that'll be fun tonight, watching this show, Katrina, because as we celebrate the 70 years, you've been part of half of those on our TV screens, but also now you're in regional Victoria. Those of us who grew up in the country, we lived, we had two channels, so we were watching everything. And we would watch them collectively as a family. So All of the things we'll see tonight from the archival footage, from the great sporting events, from the great television shows, many of those we got to share and have a bond with with our families, which is special. 01:30:03 Speaker 16: That's true. You say the word we watch collectively, and it makes me think it's also a connector. And it'll just be a lovely moment just to sit down and and watch with your loved ones or on your own this evening and just have that deja vu and think about that moment where we've come together and be reminded of bad hairstyles, big moments, lots of laughter, and maybe remember the people that you initially watched it with. It's really lovely. It's lovely to reminisce. I don't know what your favorite shows were growing up, but I know that for me, When I was growing up, we had a TV room and Nan ruled the roost in the TV room and we would all sit around and we'd watch everything from the Royal Wedding to Countdown, Get Away, of course. And it's just beautiful. It's just beautiful to think of how TV has brought us together and has provided so many memories. And I did see Sandra Sully on the 11th, of course. talk about what that was like going through the Twin Towers and being that voice to guide people through, to connect people through. There's so much that we have to be grateful for that even if you look at something like Getaway where for a lot of people they don't have the opportunity to travel. Or maybe I can take them to places they've fallen in love with many years ago or they want to pop it on their bucket list. 01:31:33 Speaker 9: Yes. 01:31:33 Speaker 16: How beautiful to be that conduit. 01:31:35 Speaker 1: It's a great gift, isn't it? I think of the ones not only that sort of captivate the lounge room, Katrina, but also the ones that captivate the whole city, the whole state, the whole country. And you mentioned like Princess Diana and Charles' wedding was something that everyone watched. I know tonight on the special we'll see Cathy Freeman, September of 2000. you know, running her race. That was something that stopped the nation. Molly's death on a country practice, it was something that everyone was talking about, whether it was in lounge rooms or workplaces right across the country. 01:32:05 Speaker 16: And we still cry over it. 01:32:06 Speaker 1: Oh, I had Antony on the other week talking about it. Yeah, still, even when you watch it now, you hear Shane yelling out and the music and Molly's just closing the eyes. It's, oh, man. 01:32:17 Speaker 9: You know, the. 01:32:18 Speaker 16: Moment that you say the Royal Wedding, I'm taken straight back to that TV room and we had chicken sandwiches, and the adults were allowed champagne, and we were allowed to stay up late. I remember we had the Women's Weekly Anniversary Edition. That was like a collector's item. And we watched it as a family. And it's funny how you mention all those names, and you could just immediately visualize if you take them back to where you were when you watched it. And I also hope, I suppose, that TV. 01:32:51 Speaker 16: The media still has a place in people's lives and people's hearts to be that, I mentioned the term, conduit. I kind of like the fact that with Getaway, you still know those faces. A lot of people have that lovely touchstone, and that's important. It's really important to get to know people. And equally, I think it's really nice that your authentic voice can shine through. I mean, you would be able to understand this in radio. It's a real roll of the dice when you choose to be yourself and use your unique personality and beautiful tone and your authentic voice. It's hard for a lot. 01:33:33 Speaker 9: Of people to do. 01:33:34 Speaker 16: But if you roll that dice, a lot of people will love you for it. And hopefully for you and I staying in the media for so long, it works. It really works. 01:33:45 Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you on the TV tonight celebrating 70 years of television. Think of all the archival footage, the seven decades of screen history that we'll be able to see tonight. I love in their colleagues of yours and friend of yours. But anytime I see Ray Martin on my TV, Katrina, I'm happy with that. We love Patty Newton as well. 01:34:02 Speaker 16: Oh, he's a good man. He is a good man. I idolize him too. 01:34:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. We will be watching tonight, 8.45, Channel 9 and 9 Now. It is the second part of the 70 years of television. Congratulations, Katrina, 30-plus years yourself. 01:34:18 Speaker 16: Thank you. 01:34:18 Speaker 1: Extraordinary. 01:34:19 Speaker 16: Thank you so much to everyone. Thank you for supporting it. It'll be a beautiful little pocket of TV to watch tonight, and thanks for letting me chat about it.

01:34:26 Speaker 1: Come back and visit us next time you're in Adelaide. We'd love to say hello. 01:34:29 Speaker 16: You're on, buddy. 01:34:30 Speaker 1: Excellent. Good on you, Katrina. Thank you for that. Katrina Roundtree, television legend for Channel 9. 30 years on Getaway. Extraordinary, huh? 70 years of TV tonight, 8.45 on Channel 9. Imagine how heartbreaking it is to go and cover a tragic story and you become the story. 01:34:51 Speaker 3: I know. 01:34:52 Speaker 15: I was just reading up about this reporter. I think she was in her 30s, Eliana Moreno and her pilot. Video of her just taken a few weeks ago showing what she does. She's up in the chopper taking aerial photographs, covering car chases, all sorts of things in Los Angeles. Just went out to a routine job a couple of hours ago and something happened with the chopper and it went down and that's it. And her colleagues had to– were on air at the time. They saw the crash, didn't know it was their own chopper. Absolutely horrific. 01:35:23 Speaker 13: Oh, terrible. 01:35:24 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:35:25 Speaker 1: That is a terrible story. It is. On a happier note– if I can do possibly the worst radio segue of all time. Celebrating... You're a TV baby, are you not? 01:35:36 Speaker 15: I am a TV baby. 01:35:37 Speaker 1: Your folks were in TV? 01:35:39 Speaker 15: Yes, my mum and my dad worked at Channel 7 on Strangways Terrace at North Adelaide in the 1960s, and that's where they met. My dad was in telecine and my mum was in traffic, as in scheduling commercials and advertisements, primos, that kind of thing. And that's where they got together. And I came along after my mum had left Australia channel 7 but uh yes i do have a little bit of see this is why. 01:36:02 Speaker 1: You love it it's the dna of the it's in it's in there. 01:36:06 Speaker 15: It is and uh and also my uncle worked in media and my godmother worked at channel 7 and yeah so of course tv didn't quite start at the same date in south australia as it did interstate but uh still an amazing milestone. 01:36:20 Speaker 1: When was ours that must be coming up soon 1959. 01:36:22 Speaker 15: I think we were So we're a little bit behind. 01:36:25 Speaker 1: All right. We'll speak to Katrina in three years' time, which is– I can't believe she's been on Getaway for 30 years. I know. 01:36:31 Speaker 3: That makes me feel so old. I know. 01:36:33 Speaker 15: And Katrina has been a real idol of mine, I must say, over the years because she's really gone out there and– She's been on the radio. She's done the travel. She's done everything I'd love to do. You know, I think she's fantastic. Good on her. 01:36:46 Speaker 1: And not just, I mean, not just pumping her tyres. She's beautiful. She hasn't changed. She hasn't aged. 01:36:52 Speaker 15: She hasn't aged at all. And she's so down to earth and is a great chat and she's great to listen to. She's interesting. Yeah, I think she's a real TV treasure in Australia. 01:37:02 Speaker 1:

Oh, my word. Those lucky people that have genetics. 01:37:06 Speaker 15: And get paid to travel around the world. 01:37:08 Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Could you imagine? Although I wonder, you know, how long does she get to stay? You know, does she get a little bit of downtime? If you didn't like to fly, you'd be like, although I'm sure she's setting up the good end of the plane. But still, imagine seeing all that with your eyes. That's what I say to the kids. We ever win Lotto, we're out. 01:37:26 Speaker 15: And 30 years, you think, oh, well, you must have seen everything. But the world is such a big place. There'd always be more places you wanted to go. 01:37:32 Speaker 1: We'll go back again. 01:37:34 Speaker 9: Yeah. 01:37:35 Speaker 1: Mel, thank you. We'll see you at four o'clock. Have you ever been to a Thebby Theatre show with a puppet? 01:37:40 Speaker 15: Not that I'm– no. 01:37:41 Speaker 1: No, I haven't. Well, you're in luck. Randy Feltface is going to– I beg your pardon? Exactly. Joining us next. 01:37:49 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leigh Forrest. 01:37:53 Speaker 1: Critically acclaimed comedian Randy Feltface is bringing his new show, Gimmick, to Adelaide to the Much Loved Febby Theatre on Monday, the 15th of February next year. But you've got to get your tickets now because this will sell out. TEGDainty.com is where you go. He joins me from Los Angeles. Randy, lovely to have you on. 01:38:15 Speaker 17: Leif, it's an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for having me on today for a little chat. 01:38:19 Speaker 1: What are you doing in the City of Angels? 01:38:22 Speaker 17: I'm about to start three months of nonstop US touring. This will be the last leg of the US tour before I bring the gimmick. world tour home to Australia to wrap this tour up. Saving the best till last, my friend. 01:38:35 Speaker 1: Well done. Tell us about gimmick because that's the commentary, hasn't it, for your career. There are some who think you are just a gimmick. 01:38:43 Speaker 5: Look, you know what? 01:38:44 Speaker 17: I've been accused of that many times. And I've decided at this point in my career to lean into it. So literally everything in this show is a gimmick. Last time I brought a show to Adelaide, I think, and I don't want to speak out of turn, but I think it was my favorite show of the tour. 01:39:01 Speaker 8: The crowd were unbelievable. 01:39:02 Speaker 17: And I think this show might be my favorite ever show that I've made. 01:39:08 Speaker 8: So I think that people of Adelaide are going to love it. 01:39:10 Speaker 17: It's a hark back to the old days of me schlepping around the garden of unearthly delights with muddy feet and a dream in my heart. 01:39:24 Speaker 1: You know, the audiences of Adelaide, you know what Fringe Time is like. We never, ever thought you were a gimmick. Was it industry people? Was it people not believing in you? Was it people who were sort of maybe cautious as audience members who thought, well, this is just a gimmick? 01:39:38 Speaker 17: I mean, I look at my face, you know, have a good hard look at my face. I'm a unique looking figure on the stand-up comedy circuit. And to be honest, everybody needs a gimmick. I'm not saying gimmicks are bad. 01:39:52 Speaker 8: I love a gimmick. 01:39:53 Speaker 17: But the thing that I am, the little bee in my bonnet is the modern day gimmick. I love an old school gimmick. Give me a trapeze artist juggling a chainsaw any day of the week. Modern-day gimmicks, these reality television programs, you know what I mean? 01:40:11 Speaker 1: Yep. 01:40:11 Speaker 17: Celebrities constantly doing game shows. Had enough of that business. Had enough of that business. Get back on the trapeze, learn how to juggle a chainsaw, and stop wasting my time. 01:40:25 Speaker 1: Do you know what we had here recently, Randy, at the Adelaide show? We had a human cannonball. Now, that's a gimmick. That's what you're after. 01:40:32 Speaker 9: Every day. 01:40:33 Speaker 8: Love a human cannonball. 01:40:34 Speaker 17: Anybody who's willing to be shot out of a cannon or anyone who's willing to be shot with a cannonball. 01:40:39 Speaker 8: Classic sideshow act. Love that. 01:40:42 Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how worked up people get, how triggered people get, whether you're a gimmick, whether they think you're a novelty? What about just enjoying it, Randy? Where have those people gone? 01:40:54 Speaker 17: I think they're there. I think, and they are ready. They are ready to re-embrace the classic old school gimmick. The people who enjoy the gimmicks, the guilty pleasure, the sit back. My favorite shows are watching people do stuff and making it look effortless, but then realizing it took them an entire lifetime to develop a single act. 01:41:16 Speaker 8: That's my jam. I love that. And I think audiences love that too. That's why I'm doing this show. This show is like... Everything in this show is there's visuals. 01:41:28 Speaker 17: There's dancing, there's my face, et cetera. 01:41:34 Speaker 1: Tick, tick. So rather than fight it, you've embraced it, Randy, is what you're telling me. 01:41:39 Speaker 8: That is correct. I'm leaning into it. 01:41:40 Speaker 17: I've got nothing against the gimmick. I think it's time we all just admit that that's where entertainment is going. 01:41:46 Speaker 8: Get rid of the AI. Get old school about it. 01:41:49 Speaker 1: Are you someone who's reflective? Like you're 21 years in the industry now. You're a veteran. You've won majority of people over. There might be one or two tools in the audience, but that's common. 21 years, Randy. 01:42:01 Speaker 8: I'm not for everyone. I've accepted that. I've managed to find my niche. Persistence. Leif, it's all about persistence. I've just managed to stick around for long enough. I'm not dead. 01:42:12 Speaker 17: I think that's the best thing you can say about me at this point in my career is not dead yet. 01:42:18 Speaker 1: Which is terrific. 01:42:18

Speaker 8: That's really it. It's staying power. 01:42:21 Speaker 1: Let's talk about your career because it's quite the journey, right? From stand-up to sold-out theatres, independent releases to Netflix, BBC Radio to YouTube specials. I mean, what on earth, Randy? What a trajectory. 01:42:37 Speaker 8: Thank you. Yes, it has just been, it's really just been my career. 01:42:41 Speaker 17: I mean, I once described it as falling down a set of stairs without managing, without spilling my beer. That's really my career, just going, oh, meant that. That's kind of what it's been like. But it's actually all about, for me, just doing the. 01:42:57 Speaker 8: Next fun thing. 01:42:58 Speaker 17: So this show, when I sat down to write this show, because believe it or not, I write things down. When I sat down to write this show, I was like, what? do I want to get the maximum amount of joy out of every night on stage? And it's not always been the case. I mean, you list off the career. A lot of that has just been, well, my God, I've got to do another thing. I can't stop ever working ever. Whereas now I'm at a point in my career where if there's any reflectiveness, it's going, if I'm going to do this, I want to absolutely love every second of it. 01:43:31 Speaker 8: So that's what this show is. 01:43:34 Speaker 1: Do you see yourself as a puppet artist? Were there puppets that you grew up, Randy, looking towards and looking up to? 01:43:42 Speaker 8: Absolutely. 01:43:43 Speaker 17: I wouldn't call myself a pioneer by any stretch. I mean, I was a big fan, obviously, of the Muppets growing up and in Australian stuff. The shadow puppetry work of Mr. Richard Bradshaw. There's a deep cut for you, Lee. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, so probably best known from his work on Play School. They used to use these shadow puppets with an elephant and a hippopotamus walking a tightrope. 01:44:09 Speaker 8: Richard Bradshaw. 01:44:10 Speaker 9: Yes. 01:44:11 Speaker 8: Google him. He is my master. 01:44:14 Speaker 1: The streets will remember his name. What about when it comes to the humour? Have you found too, I love that you do regional as a kid from the country myself, not just regional but the metro audiences too. It's universal, right, across the country and international. 01:44:28 Speaker 17: Yeah, well, I've sort of schlepped my way around all of the different parts of the country over the last 20 years. So you have to kind of create stuff that works everywhere. And also country audiences are the best. You walk in and just make fun of the town closest to them and you got them in the palm of your hand. But they make you work for it. And I think it sharpens your comedy. I kind of would love to be the kind of comedian that can go into any room and win a crowd over. It's not always the case. But yeah, Australia has been the greatest sort of learning environment for me ever. And then coming over here to the States and going to the UK and Europe and all that sort

of stuff, it's just joyous because I've done the hard yards of staring down rooms full of unenthusiastic Queenslanders in an RSL in far north Queensland. So anything from there is just a cakewalk. 01:45:22 Speaker 1: Well, every time I've seen you here in Adelaide or if I've seen you online, you always kill. You're being very modest. The great Randy Feltface is my guest. I love how many friends you have in the industry too. Like everyone needs a good wingman, Randy, whether it's Sammy J who you do some work with here in Australia. I was reading about a star in the Netherlands who's sort of taken you under their wing like you're Mel Gibson to his Danny Glover. Like that's a great kind of combination, Randy. 01:45:50 Speaker 17: I wouldn't go that far. I assume you're talking about Arjen Lubach, the amazing. Yes, Arjen Lubach is an incredible man. He has his own chat show. And I think he is now the host of Taskmaster, the Netherlands Taskmaster. 01:46:06 Speaker 8: He's a great dude. 01:46:07 Speaker 17: And that was just one of those things where I just kept going back to the Netherlands and doing shows and eventually managed to get myself a spot on television. And now every time I go over there, I get to pop up on a Dutch television show. If I die never cracking any other market, the fact that I've been on Dutch television several times is enough. 01:46:26 Speaker 8: It's enough for me to be a happy little chappy. 01:46:29 Speaker 1: And that's the beauty. You always find that out. I watched the Farnham documentary and found out that there were places in Europe you had no idea that he was gigantic in. So we kind of live in our own world, which is a credit to you. Maybe I need to work on my sort of buddy sort of, Maybe I'll drop Mel Gibson. I'll find someone a little more appropriate. Randy, you're here in Adelaide with the new show gimmick, Adelaide Febby Theatre. 01:46:53 Speaker 2: What a venue that is. 01:46:55 Speaker 8: Love the Febby. 01:46:56 Speaker 1: For a couple of years, it's back. Bob Lott and the team got it bigger and better than ever. Monday, 15th of February. Tickets are on sale now, tegdainty.com. Randy, enjoy your time in the US, and we will see you in the new year. 01:47:10 Speaker 8: Thank you so much. Can't wait to see you in Adelaide. 01:47:14 Speaker 5: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest. 01:47:17 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if we've had someone in the history of 5AA before speak to a puppet, but there you are. We try to tick every box on 5AA Afternoons. I always have this thought when we put together the show and speak to various artists that we hopefully find something for you, whether it's literature or music, television, theatre, stand-up comedy or film. There you go. But 2,000, 2,500 people at Thebby Theatre. Randy Feltface, early next year. Be a lot of fun if you want a good night out. Ten minutes to four. We'll catch up with the sports show very soon. Stephen Rowe, Tim Jennifer are going to join us to tell us what's on the big show. We've taken a number of calls, a lot of text messages coming through too. We were discussing earlier with Trent Nicolick the idea about the favourite cars that you had In pop culture, be they movies or television, this is on the back of a story that's floating around where Elon Musk is releasing a new car for Tesla, where along the lines of they think it could possibly get to. a DeLorean much like we saw in Back to the Future so we thought well let's discuss that on the back of that is there any chance that that could happen could a car possibly fly because that's what the talking point was, that maybe you could. So on the back of that, we've asked you your favourite film and television cars. A lot of people are joining in. I think Graeme's on the Air Peninsula. G'day, Graeme. 01:48:45 Speaker 9: Hi, how you going, mate? 01:48:46 Speaker 3: How you going, Lee? 01:48:47 Speaker 1: Good, thank you. What's your car, Graeme? 01:48:49 Speaker 9: Good, I've got two. I've got the red Plymouth Christine, 57 Plymouth, the one that kept building itself when it got smashed. 01:48:57 Speaker 1: That's it. That's the Stephen King horror film, isn't it, that one? 01:49:01 Speaker 2: That's right, yeah. 01:49:03 Speaker 9: And the yellow Mustang, Eleanor, from Gone in 60 Seconds. 01:49:07 Speaker 1: Gone in 60 Seconds. 01:49:09 Speaker 9: The original one. The original one, I think it was a 68 Mustang or something like that. His name was Eleanor. 01:49:14 Speaker 1: Is that Nicolas Cage, that film, or am I thinking of a different film? Gone in 60 Seconds. 01:49:18 Speaker 9: No, this was about 1974, the very first one. 01:49:20 Speaker 5: Right. 01:49:21 Speaker 9: Okay. Nicolas Cage had the silver one, and this was like a canary yellow. 01:49:26 Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I'll have to check it out. That's the thing I love, Graeme. Everybody picks a car that they love. and that becomes their new favourite. 01:49:34 Speaker 9: There's been so many. It was a Shelby Mustang. There's been so many good movies with cars, and as you say, Back to the Future, so many of them. 01:49:43 Speaker 1: Yes, they become like characters themselves. Graeme, thank you for that. Appreciate it. Just quickly, if you're watching our live stream, Facebook and YouTube, Brooklyn, that was a good shot. Can we go back to that for a second for those who tune into the YouTube and Facebook? I think our... The camera was on the Fritz, and it was doing like a Danger Will Robinson spinning around in 360. It was like a show ride, Brooklyn. That was fun. Mike, you got a car for us, Mike? 01:50:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, Fred Flintstone's Rockmobile. 01:50:11 Speaker 1: Oh, the Rockmobile. Yes, powered by feet. 01:50:15 Speaker 2: Soft top, runs on the smell of a greasy hamburger. 01:50:19 Speaker 1: He must have had good core and good legs, mustn't he not, Mike, to get through? Yeah, that was fun, wasn't it? Did you enjoy that? That was a great show, wasn't it? The Flintstones? 01:50:29

Speaker 5: Yeah. 01:50:29 Speaker 11: Yeah, it was good. 01:50:31 Speaker 1: Well done. Soft top. Yeah, that's right. Concrete wheels, stone wheels. Was there any? Didn't have doors, did they? They just sort of... Did they actually sit on anything? It was air-conditioned. 01:50:39 Speaker 9: It was air-conditioned. 01:50:41 Speaker 1: It certainly was. Well done. My good humor. Thank you for that. All right. Let's get to our text messages. The Black Lambo. I think I mentioned that one, Brenton. Thank you. The Contache. Cannonball Run. That was a good film, wasn't it? And good series. Of course, you had Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise. Sammy Davis Jr. is in that. We used to love those as kids. The Oldsmobile Buckboard. said another, from the Beverly Hillbillies and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Now that could fly. Penelope Pink's car from the Wacky Races, getting some love from Danny. Tony also loved John Wick's 1969 Ford Mustang Boss, the 429, beautiful car. Darren from Glenelg, he also loved the Plymouth Fury in the film Christine. The Lincoln Continental 1968 in the opening of the film Bullet. They've got a couple of text messages. Mark from Largs Bay. The thing I love about this, I've got to not only Google the car, but also the movie sometimes or the television show. Mark said, what about the cherry red 68 Camaro in Aloha, Bobby and Rose? Right. Thank you, Mark. We'll do a little bit of Googling on that one. Dennis Weaver's Red Pontiac in Jewel, the Steven Spielberg film. Graeme, that's a great suggestion. Yes, it was hunted by a massive black petrol tanker and the vehicle was made for the original Mad Max movie too. Four-wheel drives were then heavily modified on the back of that. Fred Flintstone's car, Nadine, giving that some love too. Brent the Milky. He loved the black Porsche 911, the mirrored tinted windows from the film Condor Man. Michael Crawford, Brenton, thank you for mentioning that because that is one of our favourite films as a kid growing up. Very underrated. Maybe a lot of people haven't watched it. That's right. So Condor Man was like a, almost like a big RV where this sports car came out. He was like a superhero that wasn't quite that super, Michael Crawford. And yes, he was chased by the Porsches, the black Porsches. That was terrific. The Black 68 Camaro in the film My Science Project 2 from Brent getting a little bit of love. Sport show on the way very shortly. Chee is part of the show, Nick Chee-Gwiddon, which will be great, Charlie Edwards, Tony Burgess, and Justine Mules-Robinson. So big show coming up with the sport show from 4 o'clock. Marge from Hampstead, you can have the last word of the day, Marge. 01:53:16 Speaker 14: I don't know what the car was called, but Elliot Ness and Al Capone. 01:53:21 Speaker 4: Ooh. 01:53:22 Speaker 1: Elliot Ness's car. 01:53:24 Speaker 9: I don't know what their car... My brother had. 01:53:26 Speaker 16: One similar, not fancy like that, but with. 01:53:30 Speaker 8: A buckboard, you know? 01:53:31 Speaker 9: Yes. 01:53:32 Speaker 1: What were those cars called? 01:53:33 Speaker 5: Oh, I'm not sure. 01:53:35 Speaker 1: That's when cars had character, Marge, don't you think? It was a 1928 Cadillac Model 341A Town Sedan. 01:53:44 Speaker 9: He'd crank it. 01:53:46 Speaker 1: Yeah. 01:53:46 Speaker 9: Crank it with a thing. 01:53:47 Speaker 1: That's it. Crank start at the front. 01:53:50 Speaker 16: And swear when it didn't work and the neighbours didn't like it. 01:53:53 Speaker 1: But that's when cars had real colour and character as opposed to now they're a bit sort of boxy and a bit same, same. Lovely suggestion, Marge. Thank you for that. And thanks to all of our suggestions today. Good fun. Sports show is on the way next. Stephen Rowe, Tim Ginniver. After this, we'll see you tomorrow from one.