FIVEAA Afternoons with Leith Forrest - 7 September 2026

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Speaker 1: Local, topical, fun.
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Speaker 2: This is Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Milasha. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome along to the show at the show. We are here, the 185th Royal Adelaide Show here in the Jubilee Pavilion, and we will be all week. So if you are coming to the show between Monday and Friday, come along and say hello. Graeme Goodings is here today, Wednesday and Friday. The sports show will be here on Tuesday and Thursday. We are here every day, so I hope you can come along and say hello between 1 and 4. If you're not able to make it to the show, we'll bring you all the colour and excitement. If you are coming, then we'll put you in the right direction, what you need to see and do and try and have a lot of fun. If you want to join us, 8223 0000 is my number. You can join in at any time, even though we're here at the show. We love your calls and your texts, so keep those coming through. Hope you had a terrific weekend. This is a great week weather-wise for the show, looking out here The sun is shining. It's going to be perfect all week. We'll speak to the Bureau. We'll get the seven-day forecast. But I do get a sense, no rain this week at the show, which will be very nice. Very shortly, we're going to speak to Jordan Philp here from the show, get an overview, what we can expect. We'll talk to compare the market. I saw an interesting stat regarding show bags. And what's the value of a show bag versus the supermarket? So we'll have a look at that. Dr. Derek will talk all things pets. Smitho's going to join us to talk state politics today. Frida Las Vegas will join us, which is one of the great stage name. She has a new book out about kitsch. It's called Australian Arama, which is a kitsch look at everything in this country, including a couple of South Australian classics like Larry the Lobster and the Omega Foods factory there in Highmarsh. So we'll talk about that. And on the back of Afternoon Delight, we might talk about the great photo stops of South Australia, like Larry the Lobster. Where do you need to stop and have a photo taken? Because I'm sure... There are places like that that you can think of. And Kev Mulcahy is going to join us too. We're going to double up with Kev. He's here in the Gorda Pavilion part of Ned Kelly Wine. So we'll talk to him about that. But also, he is a former breakfast host here at 5AA. So we'll sneak him into the category of our five double ages ago as well. But most importantly, you can join us at any stage, 8223 0000 or text me 044808 1395. First up, Let's speak to the Head of Partnerships and Marketing here at the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia. Jordan Philp is here. Jordan, lovely to see you. Thank you for coming across.
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Speaker 4: Hi, thanks for having me, Luke.
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Speaker 3: Happy show day or show week or how is it? Calm before the storm for you? Now it's arrived?
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it's incredible. So, I mean, the weather couldn't be any better today. It was a bit miserable on the first day, which always makes things really interesting.
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Speaker 4: But we've just been so, so happy with how it started.
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Speaker 3: Do you know, it's one of the great Adelaide traditions. It's like Anzac Day always rains in the morning just before, you know, the parade. Oktoberfest used to be about 1,000 degrees, so everyone drinking would get uber drunk. And at least one day of the show, you're going to have a bit of a downpour. So let's hope that's it.
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Speaker 4: That's it, yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, for the farmers' sake, we're hoping there's a bit more rain, maybe in seven days' time we'll take it.
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Speaker 4: But, no, all good here. And, yeah, just very excited for, what, is it seven more days?
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Speaker 2: I've lost track.
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Speaker 3: It's lovely to have you on. We're going to talk about this current show and this year, what that looks like in a second. But in your media guide, which is excellent for people to use, I love facts and figures. And I wonder if a lot of our audience would enjoy that too. I was saying to you off air, I read that it's the 249th show.
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Speaker 4: Correct, yep.
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Speaker 5: So 249th show this year, but 187 years of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society overall. So that could happen because there was a time maybe 80 years ago when we used to have two shows a year.
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Speaker 3: Could you imagine doing your dog twice in a year, Jordan?
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Speaker 4: Look, it'd be a lot of fun, but very, very busy.
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Speaker 2: You'd be exhausted.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, so there was a time. So we've clocked up a few more shows than we have years but yeah.
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Speaker 3: Hundreds of volunteers make this thing work.
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Speaker 5: Hundreds and you'd say comfortably in the thousands so as a not-for-profit obviously it's really really important that everything that we raise here is going back to agriculture and into education and so we're so thankful for the volunteers not only the ones that you see in our blue show it's helping out at kiosks and at yellow brick road stations but All of our councillors that run competitions, they're all volunteers. Our boards volunteer. So there's so much hard work that goes in behind the scenes.
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Speaker 4: We have some very dedicated people.
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Speaker 3: I knew you were environmental. I didn't realise how environmental you were. 99.2%, 92% of all show waste is diverted from landfill. Because let's be honest. There's a lot of waste because there's a lot of people.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of waste. So, we have a three-bin system. I think it's in its fifth year now.
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Speaker 5: So, red is traditionally the bad waste that we associate it with, but we're really lucky to partner with a local company that then turns that into cement.
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Speaker 4: So, mixes it up. I couldn't tell you the technical name, but it mixes it and we reuse it as well.
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Speaker 5: So, That's just for the show alone, but for the Adelaide Showground itself and all the events that we have, we're at about 99.8% for the year, which is a very exciting stat that we got just before the show.
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Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of hard work, but look, if people are putting things in the right bin, it's an easy task.
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Speaker 3: 26,100 competition entries this year. 7,000 tickets to charity groups and community groups. Again, enabling everyone to be a part of it and to enjoy it.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: I think we strive every year to make the show more accessible. In fact, we've got tomorrow is our quiet hour. That's quiet in the carnivals for no lights and sounds or music from 9.30 till 10.30. So people that are sensory adverse or have difficulty in those spaces it'll be a bit quieter so they can wander through we've also got the accessible ferris wheel down in the southern end and the lead street end which has just had such fantastic feedback I mean I was on with Stacey Lee last year when she told me she was chatting to someone that said look this is the first time I've ever been on a ride with my brother now which was really lovely to hear.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, how nice is that? Yeah, yeah. I love what you do for the charity. So I mentioned earlier about the hundreds of tickets that you hand out, but also the 800 plus show bags. So the kids who are in hospital and can't get to the show, there would be that FOMO or SHOMO, as we know this year, which is a great play on words, but they get to take part too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. We're really lucky.
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Speaker 5: So we have a show bag testing event that's very popular and won by one very special class and Camp Quality get to come along, but There are lots of show bags left over, so the SA police come and pick those up and drop.
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Speaker 4: Them around deliberately in show week.
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Speaker 5: So they're not watching on TV or seeing on social media and feeling like they're missing out. So they get some show bags, but yeah, I think they ended up bringing two or three police vans to fill.
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Speaker 3: 50 plus trailers of wood. That's a lot of wood being chopped, Jordan.
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Speaker 4: That is a lot of wood.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it just? I mean, anyone wants to get a trailer of wood is hard.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: 50 plus. I mean, what an institution it is, the show and the chop.
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Speaker 4: It really is.
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Speaker 5: It's really hard to visualise that much wood, but we do have the rotary sale day after show. So if people are struggling to get wood, come down. It goes quick, but there's a lot of leftover wood there. We're really lucky to keep getting that in every year and I mean wood chopping is an institution as you said it's very very busy and very exciting.
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Speaker 3: To watch 700 plus animals part of the grand parade 16,000 scones baked by the CWA again I'm just cherry picking the really quintessential parts of the Adelaide show which is what people love yes you've got sideshow and show bags and rides and all the rest of it but this is the real heartbeat don't you think of.
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Speaker 5: The show I think what we find what is so special about the show is it's the blend of everything you've got a very traditional agricultural company, second oldest in South Australia, bringing new 26,000 competitors together every year, raising money for agriculture in the future, but then also presenting a carnival and show bags and entertainment across three or four stages. So it's such a unique blend and we're really proud of what we do.
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Speaker 3: You've been hit by some issues, I guess, in previous years with COVID and weather and all of that kind of stuff. Mother Nature turning it on, driving in here today, like it's just the car parks are full, there's people streaming into the showgrounds. Probably too early for indications, but it seems like you're on track for another cracking week.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah.
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Speaker 5: No, it's been a great day, especially yesterday for Father's Day, seeing so many dads being dragged around.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, no, it's been really, really good.
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Speaker 5: We're so, so pleased and we're thankful for whoever comes every year. But the competitions are going swimmingly as well, so... Definitely head down to the livestock areas and catch some young kids doing what they do best.
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Speaker 3: And that becomes a tradition, doesn't it, with a lot of people to take part in that? Also the cooking competitions and the art, et cetera, the plants.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So that for a lot of people, again, there's almost, you can split the show up into different worlds. It's like people staying in their world. Yeah. There's others who like to enjoy all of those, obviously.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: My favorite is walking through the beef cattle sheds. I mean, the people that you meet, it's just salt of the earth, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And they're all there.
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Speaker 5: They're catching up from different regions. And it's the first time they see each other. One time they see each other every 12 months. And they're so excited to get off farm. But one of our big competing families, the bakers from Millicent, they say it's their holiday every year coming to the show.
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Speaker 4: But, I mean, I don't know why. because they work.
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Speaker 5: Really hard and they're here at Cracker Dawn but they look at it as a holiday they just love it so it's really nice.
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Speaker 3: I love to see the generations walking through you know grandparents and parents and kids then you see people of all and I mentioned to you off air too it's great people watching because there's people here with disabilities there are people here who are the show is still for them too. It's like no one's ruled out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: I met a cracking young girl just before at the rabbit fancy dress competition, which is probably something a bit more obscure in our competition suite. But she was six years old, Tilly, and she had her rabbit cookie. And she also usually shows ducks and her chickens. And she's just won at some country shows with her chicks.
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Speaker 4: And her mum was... severely allergic to rabbits.
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Speaker 5: And i was like yeah but she still let her young tilly bring her have a rabbit and a show rabbit at that so yeah it's lovely.
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Speaker 3: Uh as i drove in i noticed there was one ride in particular that took my fancy the warrior oh.
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Speaker 4: My gosh wow.
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Speaker 3: Jordan yeah that's some sort of ride i'm gonna have to have a crack at that this week yeah i mean.
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Speaker 5: It's a beast i i feel nauseous on even a child's ride, so you won't catch me on it.
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Speaker 3: So the best way to describe it is one of those gigantic sort of vertical rides that spins around in a circle in all different directions.
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Speaker 4: Correct. And it goes up to 120 kilometres an hour.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, look fast.
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Speaker 5: And then on each end of those carriages, they spin as well.
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Speaker 4: So you're basically going backwards at 120 kilometres an hour from 60 metres in the air.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 8: That's great.
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Speaker 3: That's the way to do it. The show.com.au, folks, or you can get up online. Of course, you can buy your tickets at Drake's as well. But whether you can go for a day or multiple days, why not come along and enjoy the great institution that is the Royal Show? To you and your team, well done. Congratulations. You're here. Do you get to exhale a little bit or you're just holding your breath until towards the end and then you can.
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Speaker 4: No, it feels really good. We're really excited.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I do hold my breath when the human cannonball launches himself.
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Speaker 4: Out of a cannon.
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Speaker 3: He's going to join us this week, which will be fun. David. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: He is one of the greatest. Him and his family, they're legends. So, no, you'll love chatting to him. But watching him do what he does is, I hold my breath a bit there, but each night.
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Speaker 4: I'll, yeah, I sleep well.
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Speaker 3: Well done. Great to see you, Jordan. Thanks for coming across. We'll catch up later in the week.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Lee.
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Speaker 3: See how it all went. Jordan Philp. Head of Partnerships and Marketing here at the Royal Show, the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society. We are positioned right here in Jubilee Pavilion, right next to Channel 9. One of the stars of 9 is going to join us right after the break. Back after this.
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Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
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Speaker 3: Broadcasting live from the Royal Show, we're here in the Jubilee Pavilion, 20 minutes after 1. We are positioned right next to Channel 9, so it's not hard. To find us, if you're coming along to the show, please come along and say hello. We've got seats. You can say hello to the other 5AA listeners and those who enjoy. And we are delighted to have, arguably, the hardest-working lady in showbiz join us. Because in amongst everything she does, from Adelaide Online, to Hello SA Television, to the podcast that is part of the Nova Entertainment family.
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Speaker 9: Gosh, you know everything about me.
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Speaker 3: To a mum.
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Speaker 2: A new mum family.
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Speaker 3: Lovely to have you. Lauren, how are you? Good to see you.
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Speaker 9: Oh, this is the first time I've probably spoken, and especially live, so I don't know whether this is a good thing since I had a baby.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's fine. You might go a bit Bob Francis on us, which would be fun.
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Speaker 9: Are you ready for me to flip a table?
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Speaker 3: I saw you, Hayley and Tommy, taking some photos with the punters here at the show before with child in hand. How's motherhood?
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Speaker 9: It's going amazing. So Florence is seven weeks now, and I've had a couple of months off from filming and doing everything. Tommy and Hayley have just nailed it. I've let them go, you know, because Tommy wasn't busy enough with everything he does.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, does he sleep?
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: He's a vampire. He does not. I think he is.
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Speaker 9: You know, Saturday he filmed in Port Augusta for us and then drove back to call the game for you guys, to call the footy. He's like, got to go, guys. I'm on air in a couple of hours, and he's in Port Augusta.
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Speaker 3: I've seen him jump from gigs at the same night. So he'll take a break in one to jump to the next. It's amazing.
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Speaker 9: He really is. But no, it's going really well. Florence is just settling in. I'm a bit tired.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
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Speaker 2: But other than that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. You've got an excuse.
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Speaker 9: I can't complain. I've got baby brain.
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Speaker 3: Do you enjoy coming to the show like this when you get to press the flesh? You know, you get to meet the people who love the work that you do.
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Speaker 9: I absolutely love it. And I love the show. I've come to the show every year since I was a kid. And, you know, I just met a lady, a lovely lady called Belinda. She has been to the show every year since 1960. Every day.
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Speaker 3: Really?
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Speaker 9: Every day of the show.
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Speaker 9: Since 1960. You do the math.
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Speaker 3: She must have the annual membership or something that can get her through. Oh, yes. How does she afford it?
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Speaker 9: She would. There would have to be a membership income every day.
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Speaker 3: Wouldn't there? I would think so. That's amazing.
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Speaker 9: Let's look that up.
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Speaker 3: Are you, did you, I'm trying to think, where did you grow up? Are you from the country?
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Speaker 9: No, I'm from Bel Air.
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Speaker 11: Okay.
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Speaker 9: To the hills or foothills.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 9: And I've loved.
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Speaker 3: But it's still a big deal. Like the show, as you're a child coming through to when you're an adult. See, for us in the country, I'm from the southeast. And it was like, we'd never seen this many people together ever.
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Speaker 9: Where are you from in the southeast?
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Speaker 3: Down in Millicent in the southeast. God's country.
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Speaker 9: God's country. The Limestone Coast, one of the best, most beautiful regions. You've got everything there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: How do you do that on Hello SA? Who chooses who goes where?
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: We do.
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Speaker 3: But do you like rock, paper, scissors? Or do you say, hey, I'm going to make you a station down in Millicent because I want to try the Wagyu.
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Speaker 9: Last time I did claim that. I said, guys, it's cool. I'll drive. I'll do it. We'll take the cameraman. And as we were sitting there having that steak dinner, I said, I've won.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: How good is it? Hayley just went up to the Flinders Ranges. She's obsessed with that area.
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Speaker 8: Loves going up.
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Speaker 9: So she'll always shotgun that one.
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Speaker 3: And then Tommy's happy to go.
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Speaker 9: And then Tommy, we just send Tommy wherever.
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Speaker 3: It should be like ladies first. Tom should really let you guys go where you want to go.
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Speaker 9: He's pretty good. And you know what? We just don't. People always say to us, you're going to run out of places to film. And in 10 years. 10 years? 10 years. Which in media land, it's like I'm 100.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, correct.
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: You're a veteran.
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 3: 10 years.
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Speaker 9: 10 years of Hello SA and Adelaide and everything. And we're still finding amazing new businesses. But the best thing as well. is when we went to a business say six years ago and it was little and small and it was a husband and wife team. And now they've got a huge team and it's grown and it's expanded and we get to see a lot of that. revisiting a business six or seven years after we first.
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Speaker 3: Filmed do you love the historical we get very nostalgic on the show you know when you when you meet generational families that have been doing something in adelaide or the company's been around for 100 plus years yeah you know people that have owned particular you know like old mate who sadly just passed at uh talem town you know like those great south australian stories that You know, you think of a town or a location or a suburb and it's like they are the heartbeat of that area.
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Speaker 9: They are. And they've grown that business since it was just them or their grandparents have started and it's gone on. It's amazing. It's the people behind the businesses and the areas and the, you know, driving through the little towns and you've always got to stop at the bakery.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: It's where you find out all the gossip about the town.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is the... Most people go from point A to point B and I'm guilty of this too. You drive home from somewhere and you just go through a town. Slow down, drive through. Whereas you guys get to stop.
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Speaker 9: I stop.
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Speaker 3: You get to have a look and.
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Speaker 9: And especially with kids now, so I've got a five-year-old and a baby, we're always stopping for playgrounds. So if we're driving to Mount Gambier, for example, I'm making three stops. You've got to stop in Keith.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Best coffee, best playground. You stop there.
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Speaker 3: Have you been to the Millicent Playgrounds?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 3: You know, we've got two extraordinary ones there next to the Silicon Arts Center.
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Speaker 9: But people with kids, they have to stop everywhere. So it's like the stops on the journey.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: For me to drive to Mount Gambier, it's probably eight hours, but really it should be four.
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Speaker 3: What's your work look like? So I know Kate, the lovely Kat Collins, part of our 5AA Breakfast team, has been doing some stuff for you. When are you back in front of the screen?
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Speaker 9: Do you know what's funny? I'm filming on Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: Really?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 9: I think Florence is going to come along.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, good.
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Speaker 9: She'll be almost eight weeks. Do you know what?
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Speaker 3: Sign her up.
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Speaker 9: Sign her up. I'm very lucky. I love my job. I've missed my job. I miss the people I get to work with and the businesses and everything.
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Speaker 8: Of course.
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Speaker 9: But I get to bring her along with me, so I get the best of both worlds. It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: Whose idea was the podcast? Who thought, you know what, we've got all this great content that we're just sort of sharing amongst ourselves. Someone, I'm guessing, overheard and said, you should tell everyone that.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think we've been wanting to do it forever, Hayley being in radio forever, and I was her producer back in the day. We've always wanted to, but I don't think we ever had the time, but we've made the time. And it's my favorite thing. We sit on the couch and talk.
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Speaker 3: Anyone run a filter?
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 3: Anyone go, you know what that story is?
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Speaker 9: No, we're Adelaide Unfiltered, so it's very different to what you may see on TV and online.
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Speaker 3: You don't have Sean walking past going, girls, ladies, come on, hold that story.
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Speaker 9: No, you've probably got Sean going, please don't say that. For the love of God, please, please stop. And I'm like, well, we're Unfiltered.
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Speaker 3: But it's funny because it's effectively what we do here. And next thing you know, you become an oversharer. Yes. And you just talk?
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Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And you don't think of the consequences sometimes?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: Until your mum hears it or your mother-in-law hears it or your neighbour hears it.
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Speaker 9: Yes, my mum wasn't impressed at one of the episodes and Hayley and I heard about it. We got a strongly worded text.
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Speaker 3: And you know what? As is the case in Talkback Radio, that then becomes the next show because you talk about the feedback.
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Speaker 9: How do you know? That's how we open the next podcast.
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Speaker 10: 100%.
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Speaker 9: And we've won her over now and now she's our number one fan.
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Speaker 3: Very good.
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Speaker 9: But, you know, it was very hard. Mama Jules is a hard one to impress.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's the, you know. Because I guess they listen to it with different ears too. There's a protectiveness of it.
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Speaker 9: There is. But you know what? It's really lovely coming to the show or going to different events and seeing the lovely people that do watch the show. Or you would be the same people that listen to you on the radio and you actually get to meet them.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 3: Look at these good folk here. Hi, guys. Yeah, that's right. So you don't actually get to meet the people.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: Get to hear you. You might have interaction via the phone.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes you talk to these people more than you talk to your actual family.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 9: And for you, though, do you feel like, because you're sitting in a studio... Do you sometimes feel like you're talking to yourself.
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Speaker 3: And forget that people are listening? All the time.
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Speaker 2: All the time.
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Speaker 9: It's the same with us with the podcast. And then people go, I heard this. I go, what else did you hear?
00:20:08
Speaker 3: I quite often get a text from my mother-in-law or mother-in-law's friends who will say, I heard Leith say this.
00:20:15
Speaker 9: You can't make jokes about your mother-in-law.
00:20:17
Speaker 12: No.
00:20:17
Speaker 3: It's not funny. But even if you just throw a line here or there, you get in trouble.
00:20:21
Speaker 9: Do you know what my brother said to my partner? He goes, do you ever just get home and see your mother-in-law.
00:20:24
Speaker 8: And go, oh.
00:20:25
Speaker 9: And my partner goes, I can't say anything because that's your mum. Oh.
00:20:29
Speaker 3: It's lovely to see you. Are you here at the show all week, or are you just doing the occasional appearance? When can people come and say hello?
00:20:35
Speaker 9: No, from 10 to 2, there will be someone here at all times. You know, Brenton Ragless, Tommy Wren, Hayley and I will all be popping in. Come down. It's a beautiful, giant stand.
00:20:44
Speaker 3: It's a good set-up.
00:20:44
Speaker 9: And I like the 5AAs right next to us.
00:20:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're happy with that.
00:20:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, I really like that.
00:20:48
Speaker 3: I like the set-up you've got, too, with the soccer. You can sit in the grandstand there. You can swing a golf if you want to do that behind you.
00:20:54
Speaker 2: You can do everything.
00:20:54
Speaker 3: And then you've got a mattress right here. Just in case you need a nine-iron.
00:20:58
Speaker 9: Well, actually, so my child's getting looked after in the Channel 9 Cube at the moment, and there is a mattress here. So if I fall asleep there, can you just tell the lovely lady who's got my child that the interview went for 10 hours?
00:21:08
Speaker 3: I just noticed Florence isn't here.
00:21:10
Speaker 14: No.
00:21:10
Speaker 9: Imagine if I said she's fending for herself. She's on the Mad Max.
00:21:14
Speaker 3: She's got a dagwood dog in the bassinet.
00:21:17
Speaker 9: She's seven weeks. She's bound to eat something.
00:21:19
Speaker 3: Correct. And look, all show food is good food.
00:21:22
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:21:22
Speaker 9: There's nothing... Do you know there's a Dubai chocolate stand down here that I'm going to run to? See, right there.
00:21:26
Speaker 3: Yep. Amazing.
00:21:28
Speaker 9: This whole area is filled with great South Australian businesses.
00:21:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. I'm going to have to roll out by the end of the week.
00:21:32
Speaker 9: Yeah, you can even get your hair plaited down there, Lee.
00:21:34
Speaker 3: Well, I'm thinking of doing that. I don't quite have enough, but there's always one trend of the show. It's always the pink cowboy hat, or it's like the glitter wig, or I think you're right, it's the hair.
00:21:43
Speaker 9: I think you should get that done, actually. That would be nice.
00:21:44
Speaker 2: We'll do that.
00:21:45
Speaker 3: Graham Goodings and myself. That would be great.
00:21:47
Speaker 9: I'd love to see Graham Goodings' hair plaited.
00:21:49
Speaker 3: Me too.
00:21:49
Speaker 9: If we can make that happen, that would be nice.
00:21:52
Speaker 3: We'll make it happen. Lovely. Enjoy the show.
00:21:54
Speaker 9: See you Sunday, 5.30.
00:21:55
Speaker 3: Lauren from Hello SA. Thank you for the play. And, of course, the podcast where you download all good podcasts. You can do that too. We love your ads on the show. Thank you. We're going to take a break. We've got headlines next. Smitho will join us for the latest in state politics after this.
00:22:09
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
00:22:13
Speaker 3: Broadcasting live from the Royal Adelaide Show. We are here all week. If you're coming Monday through Friday and you'll be here between 1 and 4, please come along and say hello. We're at the Jubilee Pavilion. Graeme Goodings is here Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The sports show with Rowie and Tim. They will be here on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 4 and 7. So you can come along and say hello. 8223 0000 is my number. Let's talk state politics. It's time for Mike Smithson. Smitho.
00:22:47
Speaker 7: Hello.
00:22:48
Speaker 10: How are you, Leith?
00:22:49
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. Very well, thank you. I was just waiting for our intro, but that didn't seem to happen. We'll do that another time.
00:22:56
Speaker 10: No, it seemed to be radio silence. It seemed to be radio silence, but I can live with that.
00:23:00
Speaker 3: If you can. Did you like that? I was leaving it for the applause from the crowd here at the show, Smitho. You know how that works. Lovely to have you on. Before we talk about the issues of the day, you'd be a showgoer yourself from way back. I'm sure you, like everyone there at Channel 7, loves the show.
00:23:15
Speaker 10: Oh, we used to go down to the show leaf and do our news from there from time to time. We still do the weather there every night. It's a great place to meet people and have a bit of an interface with the public and love coming down there. I don't know if I'll be making it down there this year but I'm running out of time but I'm sure that you will carry the can for me and if anyone wants to come up you'll tell them what a good.
00:23:42
Speaker 3: Bloke I am.
00:23:42
Speaker 10: How's that?
00:23:43
Speaker 3: A hundred percent and if you want me to drop you some donuts or fairy floss or a dagwood dog smitho I'm happy to do that. Hey let's start I guess with a positive before we get into some of the more serious issues. What about the crow mania that we saw across the weekend?
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Speaker 10: What about it?
00:24:01
Speaker 3: As a footy fan yourself and Sevens coverage was excellent.
00:24:04
Speaker 10: Well, look, we have wall-to-wall football, and I think it's the best weekend of footy. I guess you could say the grand final is not a bad staging point as well. But I think in terms of four great games over a weekend where each team is basically fighting for survival or to progress, it's just a showcase of AFL at its absolute best. And the Crows on Saturday night, I think it lived up to all expectations. and Tex kicking that goal that he did in the last quarter. A few heart flutters, I guess, midway through the last quarter, but it really sets a scene that Crows fans haven't seen for, what, since 2017. And look, you dare to.
00:24:49
Speaker 3: Dream, don't you?
00:24:49
Speaker 10: You think that if the Crows can win the first game, if they can overcome Brisbane next Saturday night, which I think will be a very tall order, But you never know. And from then on, it's pretty much the luck of the draw. If you play well enough, you'll get there. But on the downside, it's a lot of travelling to get to the grand final if you reach it that far. 100%.
00:25:13
Speaker 3: And as someone who's had an illustrious news career and knows good television, Mike, like yourself, awkward is always good on TV. I love the Tom Morris-Taylor Walker interaction post-game.
00:25:26
Speaker 10: Well, so did I, and I'm not sure if Tom set out to interview Taylor or whether Tex made his way to him. I think it was probably a bit of both, but I think Tex got the revenge on Tom whilst he was a Channel 7 colleague. But, you know, you stick yourself out there. If you're going to make claims, you've got to be in the firing line. If a player of his significance comes back at you and wants to challenge you on it, And I don't think I'd ever want to really take Tex on in an argument about the coach, especially seeing Tex knows the coach very well and Tom Morris probably doesn't. It was a bit of a risk-taking exercise, but good television. And as long as the Crows are winning, I guess Matthew Nix would think, well, everything's good in the world.
00:26:19
Speaker 3: Love a bit of argy-bargy. Let's get on to the more serious issues. Where are we at with our bird flu vaccination that started today?
00:26:26
Speaker 10: Yes, well, they've started on exotic or species that are vulnerable in South Australia. Great to see. I just still don't know, and I think last time I spoke to you on the program, bird flu, it's on the rise. I think it's plateaued a bit now that the concerns and the public awareness might be dropping off slightly. But whilst they're trying to keep our most vulnerable birds vaccinated, which is a good thing, and it's not an easy task trying to catch them in the first place, and make sure that they get their two doses, if that's what's required. But now, obviously, the hunt will be on for, if it spreads to mammals, which we've already seen in a small degree, but that is where the hunt is on overseas for vaccines. So listening to the... Primary Industries Minister today and over the weekend, I know that she is still very concerned about where this is going and the fact that we're trying to keep ahead of the curve. So we just hope that it doesn't reach the poultry industry, it doesn't decimate any industries at all, but it's still very sad to see dead birds along our shorelines from time to time.
00:27:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%. And let's hope we don't get those major escalations, I guess, those huge spikes like we did with the algal bloom.
00:27:47
Speaker 10: Well, that's right. And it has a bit of a different feel. And I don't know about you, but it drops off my radar from time to time unless we hear of another species that is contracting. And when I heard the dead dolphins, well, that sounded more alarm bells. But as I said, it seems to have plateaued just over the last week. Whether that means it's dropping off or whether it means people aren't noticing dead birds or reporting them, I don't know, but authorities are still keeping a watchful eye, as we all should. We're spending tens of millions of dollars a year on air surveillance. It's coming out of your pocket and my pocket, so you obviously want it to have a successful outcome.
00:28:34
Speaker 3: Yes, let's hope so. Fingers crossed. What's the latest with the MotoGP? It seems like Our Premier has a few issues on his plate, including trees and then the release.
00:28:44
Speaker 10: It was interesting. I was sitting in a Budget and Finance Committee meeting in Parliament today. That'll be two hours. I'll never get back, I'd have to say. But that's part of the job. But John Whelan, who's the head of the Department of Transport and Infrastructure, was in the hot seat being grilled by the committee saying, about moto gp and you could just tell that certain members of the committee were just itching for him to put his foot in it and say that the budget was going to blow out or there were going to be more trees coming down than anticipated but he kept a very steady line with that kept the government line that's for sure uh and he can only report or or testify to what he knows um but i still have my doubts from not just from what i've heard this morning but the cost benefit to the state, how many trees are going. And I think this is a story brewing possibly out tomorrow that the cost to business and the cost to average commuters who are driving through those areas, the lost time from roads being closed either during the construction phase or of the MotoGP or during the running of it and the supercar race, you'll be staggered to know how many hours you're going to lose by just sitting in your car in the eastern suburbs trying to get into town. And is the cost benefit? All right, if you spend money in town, if visitors are coming here for the MotoGP or whatever, they're spending it in one area, but it means they're not spending it in another. So is the government being very robbery with these figures? certain experts are saying, yes, they are. As I said, I think that story's about to break.
00:30:34
Speaker 1: OK.
00:30:34
Speaker 3: Well, watch that one with it. You don't sense, Mike, you know how often it happens in this city where, you know, we're going to redo the Adelaide Oval and there's a little bit of controversy. No, we want a new stadium or something else gets announced and then people are almost default negative at times. Do you get a sense this is a little different, this one, that there are genuine... It doesn't seem to be just one... party who are sort of against this it's coming from all angles be it eastern suburbs types or you know conservation types etc oh.
00:31:03
Speaker 10: Well people are raising concerns which i think is is quite genuine has the government rushed through its consultation period it's only three weeks and we're already a week into that and that was raised at the committee this morning by the greens leader robert sims he said to the the deputy boss well three weeks is hardly enough to get a full public consultation on what people think. And even if people think... Yes... who respond to the consultation and say, we think it stinks, will that information ever be made public? Or will you only release the good bits, cherry-pick the good bits you want? And he conveniently handled that to the Premier and Cabinet, basically. So whether we ever find out what the public objections are in full is another thing. The Premier will probably say, yes, well, we will. But the problem that everyone's got here is that time is ticking. And unless they get a start on the new track by November of this year, they won't have it finished. And as John Whelan says, if I don't get this track finished by November of next year, I won't be sitting here in front of a parliamentary committee because I won't have a job. So that's the imperative for him to get it done as quickly as possible.
00:32:23
Speaker 3: Clock is ticking. A statewide audit, Smitho, from SA Health. Interesting when it comes to these sporting supplements.
00:32:31
Speaker 10: Yeah, it sure is. Blair Boyer, the Health Minister this morning highlighted that out of 27 supplements audited, and I'm talking about the ones that you're buying in pharmacies and supermarkets, all sorts of peptide and other things, basically pre-training drinks and powders, etc., which are all look very glamorous and people consume them and it's a booming industry. But of the 28 products audited, 27 failed the regulatory safety test. What is a safe or what is a regulated health standard? I won't say it's unsafe, but it doesn't meet regulations, which he said was an extraordinary amount, which it is. 27 out of 28 get a big cross. So he's calling for national standards on this. and he wants South Australia to lead the way. So, you know, perhaps if you're purchasing these supplements, you might be pouring money down the drain, and it might have an adverse effect on your health if you go by the regulations, but that's one to watch as well, that South Australia leading the way nationally.
00:33:42
Speaker 3: Are you a big shopper in the Smithson household? Like, are you someone that gets into the supplements or the powders or the nutrition bar? Everything we see... today is labeled smitho with protein they're checking protein in everything.
00:33:54
Speaker 10: Well if you can hear my the huskiness of my voice you'll know they're not working um just coming off a bad trot with uh throat chest etc so no i'm not taking anything at the moment at least but if you've got a magic wonder or magic formula please let me know oh.
00:34:14
Speaker 3: Hey i do i can give you one on this it's not protein but Have you ever gone old school and gone back on the Senegal anemonia? Did you give that a whirl while you were unwell?
00:34:24
Speaker 10: No, I didn't. I think my grandmother used to use something like that, and it used to itch my neck. So I've taken everything known to man, but nothing is working at the moment.
00:34:35
Speaker 4: All right.
00:34:35
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you some Senegal anemonia. So Gerald Quigley from the House of Wellness on 5AA told me back in the day he used to make it by the barrel, and it's brutal, like it'll knock your head off, but it clears you up pretty quick. It's kind of what the industry had before somebody realised that if they put sugar in it, it tastes nicer. So it's not great, but it will hopefully get you back on the mend soon. So let me give you some of that to Channel 7.
00:34:58
Speaker 10: Leave it at the Nova reception and I'll come and pick it up.
00:35:02
Speaker 3: Done. We'll do that. Smith, I hope you're on the mend soon. Thank you for that. Thanks, Lee. Mike Smithson, you can see him on Channel 7. Read his work in Daily, running us through some of the state political stories of the day. So... Obviously, the good news there with the Crows, which is terrific. You'll hear that game against their opponents in the Brisbane Lions on 5AA this weekend. But it was, it was great radio. I love it. Sorry, great television. I love a bit of awkwardness. Tom Morris, Matthew Nix, post-game with Taylor Walker was just terrific. So that was excellent. The bird flu vaccination has started today. The latest on the MotoGP. We'll see how that all plays out with the amount of money slash trees slash issues to traffic that we're going to see with that. And then, of course, the government crackdown on those sports supplements. So, again, pre-workout supplements, protein powders, nutrition bars, beverages, 27 of them that are sold everywhere, supermarkets, pharmacies, health food stores, all of them out of the 28, 27 of the 28, breaching Australian food standards. Not ideal.
00:36:08
Speaker 5: Not ideal.
00:36:14
Speaker 3: Maybe check what you're eating before you devour it. It is 11 minutes to 2, broadcasting live from The Adelaide Show. We'll take a short break. Back after this.
00:36:23
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leap Forest.
00:36:27
Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from The Royal Adelaide Show. You'll find us here in the Jubilee Pavilion. You cannot miss us right next to Channel 9. There is nothing like The Royal Show, presented by Drake's. If you miss it, you will be left with a serious case of showmo. You can get your tickets at theshow.com.au. or via any local drakes. John, in Port Augusta. Afternoon, Johnny.
00:36:49
Speaker 15: Good afternoon, Lee. We'll go to the lines.
00:36:52
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm on.
00:36:54
Speaker 15: I'm pulling in to the monorail to One Nation. You know I'm not a fan of that party. I'm not. And, you know, I basically run that party. I was watching Sporting on Sky 24. Or 24, as they call it there, not Sky. And I say that.
00:37:12
Speaker 15: Well, they've not made pay rises for general workers at all, actually. They are a very hideous party. A lot of people vote for them. They don't think they are, but they sometimes... No names, no suburbs, no pack drill. They're tad racist, and you get some of them at night that ring in when you've been out at night. I can name them. I'm not going to, in fairness. But it just stands out like what's-her-name's. And it just stands out like the proverbial... And they're not a nice party. I don't know. Why is it all right for us to come here against everybody else who wants to have a go? Now, I'm not saying if you want to live by the Western society and Australian ways, yes, I definitely say that. If you want to come here, burn the flag white in the streets at the drop of a hat, no, I do not believe that. Leave them at home. Leave the troubled home. But for goodness sake, if people want to have a go, like the Vietnamese in the 70s and the 80s and Monorails, all they do is run businesses. They work seven days a week, 10 hours a day. The Chinese are not this similar. The Indians are not this similar. So the Asians, as being overrun by Asians, and having some of our beautiful indigenous people, I think they're a very racist party. Just your thoughts. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: John, thank you. Well, I think there are some people within the party or supporters of the party who I think have those kind of undertones. It's probably unfair to give everyone with the broad brush there. But yeah, I do agree with you. I think as long as you are coming to this country, I think you have to play your part in some way. Now, you don't want to have the gates open and have just a free-for-all. But if you have people who are genuinely going to contribute and make society better... then I think we should welcome them with open arms. Again, it's not a free-for-all. You don't just let the gate open and everyone come through. But if you're going to be a great Australian, a great addition to this country, it doesn't matter where you're from. In my books, you welcome them. I think what's interesting with some of the things that Pauline's saying and One Nation are saying, particularly the idea about the superannuation, and look, you might think that makes sense to pay your rent or to pay your mortgage, maybe divorce some of that from your super for a couple of years. The problem is what happens when everyone spends that? Then what's going to happen? because people will be there with cap in hand. asking for more money and the government will have to bail them out too. So I'm not quite sure that's the solution for it. But again, the beauty of a free country, everyone gets to vote for who they want to vote for. So at the moment, they've got some popularity in the federal and state political game. We'll see where it goes as we get closer to The election. John, thank you. Appreciate the call. You're welcome at any time to join us. 8223 0000 is the number. Just before we get to the 2 o'clock news with Mel, on the other side, we're going to talk about show bags, but from a different point of view, an organisation called Compare the Market came out and did some research on the value of show bags. There would be, I'm sure, people listening to the show now who themselves or have family members within their family who would say, you know what, show bag's a bit of a waste of money. Why would you buy those? Turns out, not so much. Maybe the show bags are actually cheaper in the long run than the supermarkets for the equivalent products. So we'll talk about that on the other side. But if you'd like to win tickets to go and see Monet to Matisse, It's Defying Traditions, we've got a family pass for you to get along to see at the Art Gallery of South Australia. 57 masterworks by the most influential European and American artists of the 19th and 20th century. If you would like to experience Monet to Matisse defying tradition, this is a feast for the eyes. It's on at the Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace until the 8th of November. Let's take the first caller through. 8223 0055. 8223 0055. Enjoy Monet to Matisse. Back after the 2 o'clock news, Mel's next. 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest. Thank you very much, Mel. Broadcasting live from the Royal Adelaide Show here in the Jubilee Pavilion. Congratulations to Roz from Jupiter Creek. You will experience Monet to Matisse, defying tradition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. It is on until the 8th of November. We'll have another chance for you to win tomorrow on the show. Rebecca Mourne's going to join us shortly, the State President of the South Australian Country Women's Association. Always a big time for them here at the Royal Show. And we'll touch on show bags in just one moment. It is funny, though, sitting here in the Jubilee Pavilion, people come past, they say hello, they wave. There are people who are getting some help with their yellow brick road show bags. Then, of course, some 5AA listeners swing past, including a regular listener and contributor to the show by the name of Boxy, who came along and said hello, which I appreciate. And he said that Kenny and Rod, Kenny is a street sweeper. Rod is a concrete path guru. and apparently the biggest fans of Afternoons and of 5AA, and needed some love. So, Kenny, Rod, thank you for listening, boys. Appreciate it. Boxy, nice to see you, and nice to see anyone who comes to the show and joins us here between 1 and 4 this week while we're broadcasting live. Now, while you're here at the show, as well as taking in all of the attractions down Sideshow Alley or having yourself a ride, I'm sure that many of you will grab a show bag on the way out. Interesting to know that Compare the Market have done some research about the price of show bags, Are popular bags cheaper if you purchase them here versus at your local supermarket? Let's find out from Compare the Market. Sarah Orr joins me. Lovely to have you on, Sarah.
00:42:54
Speaker 14: Hey, Leif.
00:42:55
Speaker 12: Hope you're having a great time. I saw the human cannonball is there at the show. Lots of fun, hey?
00:43:02
Speaker 3: Sarah, nothing better than a bloke who just shoots himself out of a cannonball. That's what we're all after, are we not, in life?
00:43:10
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, life can be a bit like shooting out of a cannon. But yeah, he's doing it literally. It's kind of.
00:43:19
Speaker 3: Crazy, isn't it? It's crazy. Hey, I love the research you've done. Explain this to us. How much can showgoers save if they buy some of the show bags here compared to buying the identical products at your supermarket?
00:43:33
Speaker 12: We looked at 10 popular confectionery bags. that are available at the show. And in 90% of the cases, it was actually cheaper to purchase the show bag than it was to buy all those items individually at the supermarket, which is pretty impressive. And even the one bag that we looked at that wasn't cheaper was equal in price. So you're not going to get ripped off there, obviously.
00:43:59
Speaker 16: That's great news.
00:44:01
Speaker 12: I think a lot of people maybe assume that it's a bit of a captive audience in the show, so you might be getting ripped off a little bit, but it's not actually the case. What we found is that in many cases, you're getting a pretty decent deal. It's not like when you go to the airport and there's an extortionate markup on everything there. We found there were some pretty good savings, which I can run through if you'd like.
00:44:29
Speaker 3: Sarah, please do. First and Airport prices are outrageous, by the way. We might have to get you back on to discuss that at another day because that is a disgrace. But no, tell us about this because you're right, because most people, I think, have that kind of generalisation that maybe the show bags are more expensive than going to the store. And people, you know, mum used to roll that one out. No, no, no, I'll just buy you this at the shops. But now the kids can go back and say, hey, mum, you'll save money if you buy them at the show.
00:44:55
Speaker 12: Yeah, some decent value. Let's start on the Daryl Lee licorice show bag.
00:45:01
Speaker 1: This is a bit of a classic.
00:45:03
Speaker 12: We found that that one was about 20% cheaper at the show. That's a potential saving around $ 5 on those items, which isn't bad. The Kinder Winnow show bag, around 16% cheaper, around $ 4 off those items. And then a couple of other good ones, Cadbury Curly Whirly, you've got a 23%. Cut there, that's around $ 3. 75 cheaper.
00:45:35
Speaker 16: And Mentos.
00:45:35
Speaker 12: If you want to suck up on your mints, then that bag is 37% cheaper at the show. So a cost difference of around $ 3.
00:45:46
Speaker 1: 65.
00:45:48
Speaker 3: And that Mentos bag, Sarah, is $ 6. So it's one of the cheapest here at the show. I mean, that is great value for money. Now, again, people might say, well, would I use that much mint?
00:45:57
Speaker 16: You will.
00:45:58
Speaker 3: You just put the mints away and just use them when you need them. But why would.
00:46:01
Speaker 12: You not take advantage of that? But, you know, you think about how you see mints at the supermarket. They're often a thing that's kind of like that impulse buy as you're going through the checkout. So there can be a bit of a markup on those items at the supermarket. So actually, if you get them at the show, they may be, you know, a better deal there for you.
00:46:23
Speaker 3: Yes. I also saw at Compare the Market, you said if you've got little kids, you know, you've got little ones in tow, find a show bag that has something that you can use post-show, like a drink bottle, et cetera, because then again, you're saving money.
00:46:37
Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's a bit of fun just to mix it up. I feel like that's what the show's about. You know, those little surprises, that's the magic, right? Maybe, you know, there's a bit of chocolate, there's sweet things that are, you know, quite accessible, but you know, the show bags often contain, you know, things that you couldn't just buy at the supermarket. If you're a real fan, you might want to, you know, dive in and get a little bit geeky and get some of the themed show bags as well.
00:47:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And that could be your lunchbox, could be your backpack, could be your bottle. So you're saving money on that when it comes to the school year. Sarah Orr is my guest from Compare the Market. We're talking about the value here at the show. There are other ways, are there not, Sarah, for people to save their money too. You can do the the show on the cheaper side if you wish just be smart with your shopping.
00:47:28
Speaker 12: Yeah absolutely if you really want to um save on on things like your grocery bill maybe you know the show is about kind of like having a good time and letting your hair down a little bit i think um so if you want to really put some money back in your pocket maybe have another look at your you know um shopping routines more generally um because there are easy ways to to save at the supermarket the The one that we talk about all the time is maybe on your weekly shop, switching from brand name products, you know, those are the fancy brands with lovely packaging, to maybe those home brands or generic brands. You know, those can be significantly cheaper, especially if you're looking at things like cleaning products. And then the other easy thing you can do is checking the shelves that are slightly lower. We know that eye level is by level. So if you're just scanning as you walk, check the shelves below and you might find that there's something, you know, a pretty decent replacement there that's a lot cheaper as well.
00:48:43
Speaker 3: Oh, I'd not heard of that. So eye level is buy level. That makes sense now that I think of it, Sarah, because I'm a big one for confectionery. So I go down the confectionery aisle. If you look on the bottom shelves, it was always Chomp, Golden Rough and the Mint Slice, which were always far cheaper than your Crunchy and Co, which would set up about eye level.
00:49:02
Speaker 1: Exactly.
00:49:03
Speaker 12: Yeah, it all makes sense. You know, supermarkets is designed really for us to spend more. This is, you know, everyone's heard of the Gruen Transfer. It's you know, a show. But the Gruen Transfer, what it means is, you know, it's sort of that design of the shop As you walk through, you're potentially, you know, walking past things that you wouldn't usually want to buy, and they're presented in a way that makes you buy them. So, you know, just being a little bit savvier when we go to the supermarket can make a big difference.
00:49:33
Speaker 3: And hopefully that's money you can put back.
00:49:35
Speaker 12: In your pocket and take to the show and have a good time with the family. 100%.
00:49:41
Speaker 3: All right, which show bag am I getting for you, Sarah? And then sending off to Compare the Market there. Which one have you got a request in for?
00:49:48
Speaker 12: Oh, sign me up for maybe the chunky KitKat, thanks, Lee. Looking forward to it.
00:49:55
Speaker 13: What a treat.
00:49:56
Speaker 3: Value for money. Thank you, Sarah. Appreciate your time. Enjoy your afternoon.
00:50:00
Speaker 12: Have a great time.
00:50:01
Speaker 10: Thank you.
00:50:02
Speaker 3: You too. You too, Sarah Orr from Compare the Market. There you go. So if you want the bags that will give you the most value, Mentos is 38% cheaper as a show bag than going and buying all of that in the supermarket. Curly Whirly, one of our workers at 5AA, Sam Kelly's favourite, the Curly Whirly. Kit Kat, Chunky. They've also got the Daryl Lee Licorice, Hubba Bubba, Cherry Ripe, Lifesaver, Caramello Koala, all coming in cheaper than in the supermarket. So make of that what you will. Then you'll have more money to spend at places like the CWA for a scone. We're going to talk about that right after the break. Quarter past two, broadcasting live from the Jubilee Pavilion here for the Royal Adelaide Show. We are here all week and we are delighted to do so. If I was to say to you, what is quintessential about the Royal Adelaide Show, for many people it would be a couple of things. One would be the woodshop, one would be the petting zoo, and the other, I would guess, would be the CWA. Rebecca Maughan is the State President. of the South Australian Country Women's Association. She joins me this afternoon. Lovely to have you here.
00:51:09
Speaker 8: Lovely to be here. Thank you, Lee.
00:51:10
Speaker 3: How is your show going so far, albeit you're only a couple of days in?
00:51:14
Speaker 8: A couple of days in, and it's great guns. We are selling scones by literally dozens.
00:51:19
Speaker 10: Yes.
00:51:20
Speaker 8: And our marquee next door is going just as well, selling out of jam and pickles and preserves. It seems to be the stalwart that everybody goes for.
00:51:29
Speaker 3: I mentioned this to Jordan earlier from the show. We were looking at the stats. 16,000 scones you made last year.
00:51:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, 16,761 actually.
00:51:38
Speaker 3: Wow, you're on record pace this year. I mean, look at this weather. This is good scone weather.
00:51:45
Speaker 8: Exactly right. Yeah, scones, scones, I always get told off for saying the wrong way.
00:51:49
Speaker 3: Tomato, tomato. Exactly. That's a lot. I mean, it's such a great feature of the show, isn't it? Because the CWO, not just what you provide for the people here at the show, but I guess the greater education too about the work that you do.
00:52:01
Speaker 8: Exactly right, yes. Obviously we're everywhere in the state and we're there for advocacy, we're there for friendship and then we're there for the community.
00:52:09
Speaker 3: When did you get involved?
00:52:11
Speaker 8: I got involved around 11 years ago. Just joined the local branch in Adelaide itself. We've got metro branches as well as country. And then my first foray into the internal workings of the CWA was the Country Café. I came as a volunteer, a branch volunteer, and worked my stint on the floor and behind the counter, and then joined the committee itself, and then from there it all flowed, and eventually I became state president. So, yes, it's a great honour to be that sort of role.
00:52:41
Speaker 3: When people ask you what the CWA is all about, is there an elevator pitch? What's the conversation that you have?
00:52:47
Speaker 8: The conversation usually starts, my mother or my grandmother was in the CWA. What are you doing now?
00:52:53
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:52:54
Speaker 8: We're here for the friendship and the community. We give back to the community. But we're here really for that connection, for keeping people connected to each other and to their community.
00:53:04
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:53:05
Speaker 8: And there's a lot of loneliness out there. So, you know, we're a welcoming, friendly face. You're not expected to do anything or be anybody within it if you don't want to be. But there is that scope for leadership if you do. But really, it's just there for you to come and have a chat, have a cup of tea. If you're into your handicrafts, do that as well. If you're not, it doesn't matter. You can just have a cup of tea and a chat.
00:53:26
Speaker 3: I was saying to you off-air, so growing up in the country, I would ride my bike to school and I would go past the Millicent CWA every time. And every event that I can ever remember being as a kid in the country, the CWA were there. They were always, like some of the other great organisations too, like Lions and Rotary, but always ladies there, always friendly, always putting things on. You know, we talk about isolation and loneliness. Like we had one of the experts on the show describe that social isolation is the biggest pandemic in the country right now. And there are some people who don't know how to get out of it.
00:53:59
Speaker 8: That's right.
00:53:59
Speaker 2: This is a perfect.
00:54:00
Speaker 8: Absolutely perfect, yes. All you need to do is just give our state officer a ring.
00:54:05
Speaker 3: Yep.
00:54:05
Speaker 8: They'll tell you where your local branch is. You're welcome to come along for a couple of sessions before you actually join.
00:54:10
Speaker 11: Yep.
00:54:11
Speaker 8: Just make sure it's your tribe, your people, and then come along and join in, and you'll be welcomed with open arms.
00:54:18
Speaker 3: Great point that you raise. People see the sea and think that it's only country, but you've got metro.
00:54:23
Speaker 4: We have.
00:54:24
Speaker 8: We've got about 19 branches, hills and metro. So we've got 80-odd across the state, but 19 of them are around here. Happy Valley, Stirling and Districts, down to Victor. I've opened two new branches in Aldinga in the last six weeks I think it was which was fantastic a day branch and an evening branch to cover those that do work but still want to be that connected to community and that was just fantastic being able to do that you know that the the need is still there we've just got to get out there and let people know we're here.
00:54:56
Speaker 3: Do you find are we in a different time we've talked about on the radio before in terms of volunteer numbers seem to be drying up in certain areas. Are people still as invested? Are you finding the CWA as relevant today as it has been in previous years and decades?
00:55:13
Speaker 8: You're right. Finding volunteers is hard, although you wouldn't think that when you look at our cafe at the moment. That seems to be a tradition for a lot of people. But yes, it is. People are busy. Lives are busy. That's why I'm saying with the CWA... don't think that you're coming to be a volunteer for anything you know you come and you come for the friendship you're not you're not going to be press ganged into to doing some sort of voluntary work somewhere along the lines and we don't ask you what time you have is your time and we're very we know it's very valuable yeah so you know we're just happy to see you there do.
00:55:44
Speaker 3: You find that that once people dip their toe all of a sudden they really embrace.
00:55:49
Speaker 8: Absolutely yeah absolutely um it is it's that same odd thing with whatever you do you're nervous about doing it to begin with And then as soon as you get in there, off you go. You know, there's no stopping you a lot of the time.
00:56:01
Speaker 3: What does an average day look like for you here at the show?
00:56:05
Speaker 8: Chaos good chaos look it opens at seven o'clock you've got your bacon and egg sandwiches or rolls in the beginning and the smell of bacon I've said we've got to get the fans blowing it out so that brings people in and then and then it just segues nicely into the morning tea with your scones and things and then lunch with your sandwiches and your fresh fresh produce you know there's no deep fried stuff at the CWA cafe and then we go into afternoon tea and the scones scattered everywhere around there And then we have an evening meal, so we have a hot evening meal every evening from about 6 o'clock. You get your roast lamb and veggies.
00:56:41
Speaker 2: Oh, so good.
00:56:42
Speaker 8: And I think tonight is lasagna and salad.
00:56:44
Speaker 3: Do you notice a lot of the same people year on year dropping by because they love what you do?
00:56:49
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. They come in, you see the faces, and you still remember them a year later. And, yeah, they are. They're just the stalwarts. They come in, they love their scones, and they love their evening meals. And they love the chat. They like to have a chat, so it's great.
00:57:03
Speaker 3: The money that you raise for the CWA from the show goes to what?
00:57:07
Speaker 8: The money that we raise goes to running the CWA, but it also helps us to run our emergency aid fund, which is a fund that anybody that's got financial counsellors or.
00:57:19
Speaker 8: Social workers can come to us if they're in need of something, whether it be broken down fridge or the motors dropped out of the ute or something like that. And we'll do what we can. We'll pay that bill so that you can move on to your next part of your life. So, yeah, and part of that is also our baby parcels, which is a little bundle of love in a box. Our members make lovely pram blankets and matinee jackets. You know, people still put them on. And booties and hats and a little knitted toy. And we also put in there, you know, baby grows, little singlets and things like that, which we buy from the shops with the funds from emergency aid. So we do that too. Can you get.
00:57:59
Speaker 3: Great, I mean, obviously the camaraderie is one thing, but the enjoyment to give back and what the organisation does?
00:58:06
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's a win-win situation. You know, you're giving your time, but you're also helping others as well. And that's a wonderful feeling, I think.
00:58:15
Speaker 3: Did you have a mother or grandmother in yourself? Was that the inspiration for you?
00:58:19
Speaker 8: Well, it was in a way. I was born in England, and over in England is the Women's Institute, which is the English arm or the UK arm of the Country Women's Association. We're a worldwide organisation. So they're called Women's Institute, and mum was big in the Women's Institute. I was born on a farm in a very small village. So, yeah, so that's where it came from. And then when I came over here, moved over here, a friend said, oh, come to the CWA. And I didn't know what that meant because, you know, I haven't been brought up with CWA.
00:58:51
Speaker 3: Of course.
00:58:51
Speaker 8: And I said, what's that? The Country Women's Association. I said, oh, okay. And I went along and the rest is history.
00:58:57
Speaker 3: Now here you are, state president.
00:58:58
Speaker 9: Yes, exactly.
00:58:59
Speaker 3: Do you see a lineage? Do you see generations of families getting involved too?
00:59:03
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, you do. Yep, absolutely. Go to the cafe and ask any of the ladies there who's got a badge on um you know who how they got into it and it would be a mother grandmother.
00:59:13
Speaker 3: Yeah great aunt and the younger generation coming through.
00:59:16
Speaker 8: Too they are yeah in adelaide branch our youngest member is two years old really yeah yeah two yeah that's right yeah and she was signed up as a baby.
00:59:24
Speaker 3: So on the scones too oh.
00:59:25
Speaker 8: Yes we get them early yeah Yep, there's no non-child labour there.
00:59:30
Speaker 3: Now, Rebecca Maund, State President, South Australian Country Women's Association, you are the best person to ask. As we mentioned, 16,000-plus scones baked and sold at the CWA Country Cafe last year. We had this discussion in the office the other day, led by Chantel in sales. I'm trying to think who else was jumping in on the conversation. Maybe Chantel was leading this one. There was controversy in the office about... What goes first on the scone? Is it the jam or the cream?
01:00:00
Speaker 8: Well, in my book, it's the jam. The jam goes first. Because if you put cream on, the jam's going to slip off, number one, because it's heavier. And number two, you're just going to get cream out of your jam spoon.
01:00:11
Speaker 9: So, you know.
01:00:12
Speaker 3: Thank you. So we're going to use this. We're going to click this. Because there were others in the office who were suggesting, no, no, you put... the cream on first and then you put a dollop of jam but that makes no sense because i would pile my cream so high yeah that it would be moving and swaying exactly no.
01:00:26
Speaker 8: You can't have that no you've got to have the cream moustache as well.
01:00:29
Speaker 3: Yeah do you have to do you have to knife the jam or are you spooning the the jam and then it does it have to look neat or can it be like a glorious mess the scone.
01:00:39
Speaker 8: In the cafe it looks neat yeah but uh yeah our home doesn't matter as long as it's on there.
01:00:43
Speaker 3: Correct and you want crumbs and exactly stuff all over your face Amazing work that you do. What can you tell 5AA listeners who may or may not be able to get to the show? How can they support you? How can they get invested in what you do?
01:00:55
Speaker 8: Thank you for that. We can go onto our website, which is sacwa.org.au, have a look at what we do. We have a donation button there that you can click for us. Or you can just call into a branch and support our trading tables where ladies are selling their produce and stuff. and also just phone up State Office and we'll be there for anything that you want to give us.
01:01:17
Speaker 3: It would be great to get more members too.
01:01:19
Speaker 8: It would be wonderful. Yes, please. Yes, please. Go to your nearest branch. Phone up, find out. We're in every town.
01:01:24
Speaker 3: Because it's a win-win. You guys get great people that come into your organisation and you're doing a good thing for them, helping them meet their community too.
01:01:31
Speaker 8: Absolutely. Get connected to community.
01:01:34
Speaker 3: Lovely to have you again. Thank you for coming across. What's the jam of choice?
01:01:38
Speaker 8: Plum always goes first.
01:01:40
Speaker 2: Really?
01:01:41
Speaker 8: You'd think apricot, but no, it's plum.
01:01:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, strawberry, apricot, any doesn't really matter.
01:01:45
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, it's not the right season for strawberry.
01:01:47
Speaker 3: Oh, really?
01:01:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, at the show, for the show.
01:01:49
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:01:50
Speaker 8: Strawberry is usually number one.
01:01:51
Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter, though. Like, scones on their own.
01:01:53
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:01:54
Speaker 8: I like them savoury, too.
01:01:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, same.
01:01:55
Speaker 8: Butter and cheese.
01:01:56
Speaker 3: 100%. Congratulations on what you're doing here at the show, but more so what you're doing with the CWA, the South Australian Country Women's Association. Rebecca Moore and State President, my guest. Have a great show.
01:02:05
Speaker 1: You too.
01:02:06
Speaker 8: Thank you.
01:02:06
Speaker 3: We'll see you next year. Back after this. 2.30 headlines are next.
01:02:10
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
01:02:15
Speaker 3: Broadcasting live from the Royal Adelaide Show here in the Jubilee Pavilion. Graeme Goodings is just grabbing his things after a big day on the rides. You'll hear all about that tomorrow on the big show from 9 o'clock. Be listening then very shortly. Dr Derek's going to join us. We'll take your questions on any issue that you have with your pets. 8223 0000 if you'd like to talk about your dogs or your cats. First, let's check in with the Weather Bureau. Daniel Hayes joins us. Hey, Daniel, nice week in store, I believe, weather-wise for the Royal Show.
01:02:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, Luke, it's looking pretty good. Pretty much bang on average for the maximum temperatures across the city today. Around about 18, 19 degrees for the most part. Forecast is pretty much the same tomorrow. A little cooler on Wednesday. We might sort of dip down to around about the 16 degree mark, but still reasonably pleasant. There is a bit of a breeze around, so perhaps have a light jacket or something around if you're in the shade and that breeze is about, but otherwise it's looking pretty good. And it really starts to warm up quite significantly as we head into the weekend. So we're up to around about 23, 24 degrees for Saturday and Sunday.
01:03:24
Speaker 3: Nice. Gee, they're going to get some people here at the show with that. It would be interesting watching what's going on the weather-wise around the country. You know, Sydney had a relatively warm weekend, so it looks like the traditional Adelaide day of rain may miss us this week.
01:03:40
Speaker 7: Look, the only outlook for any precipitation we've got is Sunday, but at this stage, look, probably wouldn't expect too much from that. The way the set-up is at the moment is we're broadly dominated by a high-pressure ridge. There is an upper level low back over Western Australia, but that one looks like it's going to remain locked in place. So it's not going to shift any further east into South Australia and have any impact. So that one will die. And then the next frontal system sort of comes into the southwest of WA around about Friday. That's the one that may bring a little bit of shower activity on Sunday. But our high pressure system is looking to be fairly slow moving. So that means that the low that's associated with that front will slip south as it moves further east. Yeah, look, it doesn't look like it'll bring anything significant to Adelaide once that system moves.
01:04:27
Speaker 15: Through further east.
01:04:29
Speaker 3: Showgoers will be very happy with that. So too, grand finals this weekend. A lot of country and amateur football and netball on this weekend, so nice weather for them too. Daniel, thank you. We will speak to you tomorrow.
01:04:40
Speaker 7: Catch you then, Lee.
01:04:41
Speaker 3: Enjoy your afternoon. Thank you for that. Daniel Hayes from the Weather Bureau. How nice is that? High teens into the mid to low 20s for the next Seven days or so right now in the city. It is 16 degrees. Time for Dr. Derek.
01:05:01
Speaker 1: Time to talk all things pets with Dr. Derek.
01:05:06
Speaker 3: You know him, you love him from the Norwood Parade Vet Clinic. Dr. Derek Midnair, lovely to have you on, Dr. Derek.
01:05:14
Speaker 17: Two things, Leith. I'm very disappointed Puppy Love wasn't played this week, but that's okay. I've I'll let that go just for the moment.
01:05:23
Speaker 15: Yes.
01:05:25
Speaker 17: And also, my wonderful mother-in-law who sadly went to heaven earlier this year, she was a member of the CWA and they are the nicest organisation. They are so kind. They were so kind to her when she wasn't well. So, yes. So, it's fabulous. Anyone who's at the show should go along and Buy as much merchandise as they can, as much of the scones and jam as they can.
01:05:53
Speaker 3: Well said, Dr. Derek. Yeah, and that's the thing, too. You get the bonus of the goodies that they are delivering, but, you know, you're also giving back to a terrific organisation that has decades of history and has done great work in the community for such a long time. So we always love to see Rebecca. Do you want to join in on that conversation? Are you a scone man yourself?
01:06:11
Speaker 16: Surely.
01:06:12
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe there were people in the office suggesting that the cream goes first.
01:06:16
Speaker 17: Look, sacrilege.
01:06:17
Speaker 3: Isn't it?
01:06:19
Speaker 17: Absolutely. It's a bit like having haggis without tatties and neeps. It'd be the same tragedy, really. Jam first without no question.
01:06:31
Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah, I'm not quite sure. Is that a sackable offence? Probably not, but maybe just sort of addressing down in the office. Maybe we'll speak to the staff members about that. Hey, how has the weekend been? Were you busy over the weekend? Are people's cats and dogs behaving?
01:06:45
Speaker 17: Yes, we're fairly busy. We're fairly busy. Nothing too extreme. I don't think anything... There's nothing untoward at the moment, although I did have a Westian this morning itching her little paws. And so I think the fact that spring has arrived, the itches have arrived with it. So that's what we're expecting. But that's... what we get every year, so that's nothing new. The tummy, thankfully, as we've talked about, I think in a few of the shows, the tummy bugs seem to have died down. So that is very nice. I think a lot of whatever was flying around seems to have gone. So that's very good. We're happy with that. The itches will take over. And just all the normal things. You still get, even though it's summertime and springtime, You still get sort of colds and flus and little accidents and broken toenails and all sorts of different things. And as I say, the fleas will start coming out soon because it gets warmer. They will breed much more quickly. And so we tend to see more of the fleas as well. And also I should say with your dogs, make sure that they are protected against heartworm because heartworm is... it is a worm and it's a worm that is actually spread by mosquitoes so and obviously the warmer weather mosquitoes come out as well so that's something else to look out for that's more prevalent in the warmer weather.
01:08:22
Speaker 3: It is great advice if you've got a question for dr derrick 8223 0000 or if you prefer to text 044808 1395 you can shoot your questions through on there speaking to someone yesterday in the agricultural field dr derrick they were talking about how we're going to get the mother of all locust plagues this coming summer because of what we've had with winter and the fact that there is so much fuel around. And I guess anything like that, if you've had a really wet winter, there's a lot of grass about and weeds about, etc. I imagine that sort of plays into your life too when it comes to things that dogs get stuck in. their ears or in their paws or, as you say, with their allergies.
01:09:06
Speaker 6: Yes, yes.
01:09:07
Speaker 17: We get the grasses and the pollens attack them from all different angles, if you like. They can get the itches from what's called a contact allergy, where if your dog is just itchy on its tummy and nowhere else, then that is probably a contact allergy. And that means that the dog's skin actually has to come into contact with whatever grass or wandering dew, all these ivies and creepy crawly plants. They are the most common ones that cause itchiness. contact allergies and so because the dog has hair in a lot of areas then that actually protects the skin and so the areas of skin that are covered with hair don't become itchy but the bald areas which is usually the groin do become itchy so that's one problem the other is more common where the dog is breathing in the same thing as we get when you breathe in if you get hay fever you breathe in the pollens and the grass and particles in the air and that can cause different types of itches mainly itchy paws itchy ears also itchy tummy and itchy armpits as well and then the last one as you said is um the grass seeds they can be a nuisance as well they often get into the ears and between the toes are the two most common areas that we get problems with those so yes the you know a I guess if you're a vet and you want to be busy, summertime is nice, but it's less nice for the dogs and the cats who are suffering this. But the good thing is that all these conditions can be treated and can be helped with. And now, in the good old days, when I was young a long time ago, all we had to go for was cortisone, the good old prednisolone, which would always work as far as allergies went. Oh, yeah, prednisolone. But it comes with side effects and potentially not very nice side effects. But now we have a lot of other medications at our disposal that have much, much less risk of side effects and usually do a very good job as well. So that's the good news. That's the good news.
01:11:29
Speaker 3: Just before we take Sam's call, 8223 0000, if you've got a question for Dr. Derek about your pets, you know sometimes you'll talk to us about human treatments that might be available for pets, is it something that you would not recommend if it comes to skin? I mean, there are so many things that humans would do when it comes to allergies. Is it best to not do that to your dog if someone was desperate and wait till they see a professional like yourself to make sure you get the right stuff? Could you do be doing more harm?
01:12:00
Speaker 17: You can do more harm, yes. You can do more harm. There are certain medications that if... you give them to the dog and the same dose as you give them to a person, then in some cases you can kill the dog. So there are some medications like antihistamines, which you can generally use quite safely. But before you use them, phone your vet and get the correct dosage. Because again, the dosages that we take are different from the dosages you give to your dog. So anti-histamines are fine to give if you give them in the correct dosage. There's also other things, some what's called non-steroidal anti-inflammatories you can give to dogs. But again, the dosages are different. And if you overdose with that, you can cause serious, serious issues. So there's a few things you can do. And an easy thing you can do with dogs who have itches is, I've mentioned a few times, leave a bucket of water on a face cloth at your back door. And every time your dog comes in, wipe them down with a damp cloth. They've found that that can help greatly with dogs who have itches from either from contact with allergens or with the inhalant allergens as well. It can actually help with both of those.
01:13:23
Speaker 16: Yes.
01:13:24
Speaker 3: Leave it to the experts. Good advice. Dr. Derek McNair is my guest. Sam, you've got a question for the doctor.
01:13:30
Speaker 11: Dr. Derek, how are you?
01:13:32
Speaker 17: Very well, thank you, Sam. Very well. That's good.
01:13:35
Speaker 11: I've got two rag dolls. One, she's four years old and one, she's three.
01:13:41
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:13:41
Speaker 11: The four years old, she's the biggest scratcher ever.
01:13:47
Speaker 17: Scratching herself or scratching your furniture?
01:13:50
Speaker 11: Furniture. She's driving me crazy.
01:13:55
Speaker 17: Does she scratch everywhere or has she got a special spot?
01:13:59
Speaker 11: Well, she finished from this special spot in the bedhead, and then now she moved to the bottom.
01:14:06
Speaker 13: Yes.
01:14:07
Speaker 11: And I got her a special stool. We used to get her, when we got her, we got her the scratching pole. She's not interested. She's not interested whatsoever in it.
01:14:16
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:14:17
Speaker 11: She just loves scratching furniture.
01:14:19
Speaker 8: What do I do?
01:14:20
Speaker 11: I just got a new bed from the aged care, and she's killing it.
01:14:26
Speaker 17: Okay. It's... a pain in the neck, I have actually two ragdolls as well so I completely sympathise with you, one of my ragdolls Pebbles, if she wants to she sleeps in our bed and usually about four in the morning she decides she wants to go to another part of the house so the way that she tells us that she wants to go is she starts scratching the bed head so that's her signal that she wants us to get up to help her out so a few things you can try Sam One is trying to get different scratching posts with different materials. If you are a bit practical, you can just buy some cheap scratching posts. If your cat doesn't like using them, then get some cheap cuts of carpet and just super glue the carpet to the scratching post because you'll find some cats prefer scratching some materials separately. to other materials so it's a little bit of trial and error finding out what they like to do so if you can find a scratching post that she enjoys and likes to work on then that is good as far as your bed goes the easiest solution is to say close your bedroom door and don't let your cat into the bedroom but you don't always want to do that so i know If it's a large area, putting another piece of material over the top will help. They don't like plastic, but I'm sure you don't want bits of plastic hanging off your bed, but cats don't like touching plastic. If it's a small area like the corner of a chair, then sticking on double-sided sticky tape. Admittedly, it doesn't look very good if your visitors arrive, so you can take the sticky tape off when they arrive, but cats also do not like to be feel they're being stuck to anything so if you put double-sided sticky tape on the area they're scratching they will not scratch that area they might sadly then move to somewhere else but that that will stop and also just putting uh i have a chair that i don't want to be damaged that my cat started to scratch and i just put a blanket over it so it's yeah it's not a great solution but it does work with them it does stop them scratching it.
01:16:56
Speaker 11: Okay and another thing do you know anyone who groom rag dolls it's very very hard to find someone we managed to talk to someone they want to put them under general anesthetic to do the grooming and I said no you can't do this for my cat yes.
01:17:18
Speaker 17: I mean it depends on their temperament um The short answer is no. But if anyone's listening, if they know somebody who will groom a cat, I'm sure, I mean, there's lots of cat societies around. Maybe phone up. There is a ragdoll society. So maybe phone them up and see if they know somebody. We often get cats in at the clinic who are covered in mats and knots. And generally, they are the type of cats who don't like to be groomed. So we will sedate them. Some cats we get, we don't need to sedate, but some of them we do need to sedate. You generally don't have to give them a general anesthetic. I would be surprised if any vet gave them a general anesthetic, but there's a very good sedative that most vets would use where you give them the sedative injection. The cat is very sedated. Then you clip as much of them as you need to clip. Sometimes they need to be clipped completely. And that can take about half an hour. And then you give an injection to reverse the sedative. And so 10 minutes after that, they're up and about and ready to go home.
01:18:27
Speaker 10: Right.
01:18:28
Speaker 11: So do you do them at your clinic?
01:18:30
Speaker 17: Yes, we do.
01:18:32
Speaker 13: All right.
01:18:32
Speaker 11: I'll get in touch with you guys.
01:18:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:18:35
Speaker 11: Yep.
01:18:36
Speaker 17: Do your cats not let you groom them yourself?
01:18:40
Speaker 9: No, no. They won't let us.
01:18:41
Speaker 17: They won't let you.
01:18:42
Speaker 3: Okay. No.
01:18:43
Speaker 17: Okay, that's a shame.
01:18:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, right?
01:18:46
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:18:46
Speaker 3: And I've got two of them.
01:18:48
Speaker 11: I met a lady, she did them once, and she's done a great job, but I want to see her again. She's not in the shop anymore, and she hasn't left any notes.
01:18:57
Speaker 3: Right.
01:18:58
Speaker 17: As I say, maybe phone around and ragdoll associations. They may have an idea who will do it. But, yeah, our clinic certainly does do it as well.
01:19:06
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sam.
01:19:07
Speaker 9: Okay.
01:19:08
Speaker 3: And we are happy here, Dr. Derrick. Thanks, Sam. We're happy here to give anyone a free plug too. Like if someone calls up and say, hey, this is the business that I do or they can recommend someone, we're more than happy to pass that on to Sam as well. Just before we get to a break, more calls for Dr. Derek on the other side, 8223 0000. A friend of mine, Tori, Dr. Derek on social media put a, she had the same issue with a cat who was scratching underneath her new lounge. So she put a piece of alfoil down. on the carpet, and the cat wouldn't go anywhere near it. Now, again, maybe not aesthetic and not that appealing for when your visitor's over, but if it stops, maybe that's something to try.
01:19:49
Speaker 17: Yes, yeah. Alpha would certainly work as well. So, yeah, if you put it on and then when visitors arrive, you take it off for that short time, that would work very well.
01:20:01
Speaker 3: Well, she just had it underneath the couch where the cat laid and then sort of looked up and was scratching, you know, laying on its back. So rather than a cat laying in that particular spot, she just put the alfoil on the carpet there, and the cat wouldn't go anywhere near it. So scratching position gone.
01:20:17
Speaker 17: Okay, so the cat was scratching underneath the couch.
01:20:21
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's different. You know how they like to get sort of the join?
01:20:24
Speaker 13: Yes.
01:20:26
Speaker 3: So there you go. We're going to take a break. Dr. Derek is my guest. If you've got a question for Dr. Derek, 8223 0000, or you can send us a text, 044808 1395. More from Dr Derek right after this. It's ten minutes to three. And Dr Derek McNair, I'm here at the Royal Adelaide Show in the Jubilee Pavilion. If you're coming to the show any day this working week and you're here between one and four, you can come along and say hello. The Sports Show with Timmy and Rowey will be here Tuesday and Thursday. Graeme Goodings, who is here this morning, will be here on Wednesday and Friday. So plenty of chances for you to come along and say hello. Dr. Derek is with us taking your calls. And Jeff, you've got a question for Dr. Derek.
01:21:13
Speaker 15: Yeah, good afternoon, Dr.
01:21:15
Speaker 3: Derek.
01:21:15
Speaker 15: Just a question.
01:21:16
Speaker 16: It's a little bit of a hate of mine. What is the thought by vets on dogs wearing coats, especially the ones that fall coats? Some people have knitted coats that, you know, they sort of slide the dog into. It's just that I just feel the dog that they are self-regulating with their body heat. they can't take it off until they get hot and people go walking and they have these full coats on. And also dogs need to scratch through sometimes and whether they also get home and forget to take their coat off and go into a nice warm room. I'm just wondering whether it's something that dogs mind or don't mind as far as you can tell.
01:21:52
Speaker 17: Yes, I think a lot of dogs do not mind wearing coats and some dogs do get cold. My own dog freddie especially after she she is at a haircut um i think she does get cold i just it it's difficult she doesn't actually shake and shiver but if it's a cold day and she doesn't have a thick coat and in the sense of her own coat because she's at a haircut then i will put a jumper or a coat on her and i think some dogs certainly do get cold. I have seen dogs shivering and shaking with the cold. But yes, when it gets to the hotter weather, you obviously don't need it. Some people, I think, wear them as a bit of a fashion statement. But I do think some dogs do enjoy wearing coats. I don't think they mind it at all.
01:22:47
Speaker 16: Well, the full body one or just one that loops? I don't particularly see a problem with one that just loops over their back type of thing and covers their back. But when it's fully encasing them in their body, I just feel... and I'm just placing myself in their position of having something that I can't control. I can't control myself. As humans, we can take a jumper off if we get hot or cold, especially when people take dogs for walking. Obviously, you get a little bit warmer when you're walking sometimes. I just didn't know what Vets thought about wearing those.
01:23:17
Speaker 17: I just like the coats that go over their back because that's what maintains most of their heat. That's got the largest area. I'm a little bit with you. The coats that you put their legs into, I think if it's a jumper, it probably doesn't upset them too much. If it's quite a heavy coat, I think it could maybe annoy them. But it has their place. I think certainly coats have their place. I mean, what I don't like, and I'm sort of going off a tangent with dogs getting too hot. The main cause, I think, of that, Jeff, is that people get out and they walk and they're often on their phone. I saw somebody the weekend. And I said to my wife, I said, that dog's really struggling. Because the guy was just walking on at a really fast pace. It looked like he was training for a walking race. And the dog was really struggling to keep up. So I think that's a problem. You're meant to, when you take dogs out, go at their pace and let them sniff and smell the roses as they go along. Because that's good. I think that's probably more of an issue, I think, than the coat itself.
01:24:26
Speaker 3: But yes.
01:24:28
Speaker 16: It's the dog's walk, isn't it? Not the human's walk. We take our dog and he loves to sniff. It's a bit painful at times, but he loves to stop and sniff everything.
01:24:35
Speaker 12: But it's his walk, not ours.
01:24:36
Speaker 17: Yes, yes. If you're going out wanting to cover miles and miles and miles, then I guess if you've got a dog who wants to do that as well, like a Kelpie or a Border Collie who are generally super energetic, then that is okay.
01:24:50
Speaker 13: But.
01:24:51
Speaker 17: Yes, you're quite right, Jeff. If you take your dog out for a walk, you let them tell you how fast you want to go. But I think coats have a place. I think certainly where I came from in the good old days in Glasgow, coats definitely had a place there because it was often very, very cold. But I agree with you. You can leave them on too long. If you put them on the wrong sort of temperature of day, yes, you can overheat dogs. That's certainly true.
01:25:19
Speaker 16: Yeah, or you put them in the car and you'll put them in the house when the car is heated and you put them in the car or take them home and forget to take their coat off. It must be very uncomfortable for the dog.
01:25:31
Speaker 12: Yes.
01:25:32
Speaker 17: I completely agree with you 100% there, Geoff.
01:25:35
Speaker 15: All right.
01:25:36
Speaker 8: Thanks, Dr.
01:25:36
Speaker 12: Derrick.
01:25:37
Speaker 3: Thank you.
01:25:37
Speaker 7: Thank you.
01:25:38
Speaker 3: All right. Well done. Kay from Glengarry can be our last call before we get to the 3 o'clock news. Kay, you've got a question for Dr.
01:25:44
Speaker 13: Derrick. No, I haven't got a question. It was in the paper this morning. A pet parrot in England that was being stalked by a neighbouring cat learned to imitate a barking dog.
01:25:59
Speaker 3: That is cool.
01:26:01
Speaker 13: Isn't that gorgeous? Yeah, that's in that Festa Marty Smith column on page 27 of the paper this morning. I thought that was gorgeous.
01:26:10
Speaker 17: That is very... I've seen birds imitate lots of things. and I've known, sadly, of some people who've taught their bird quite bad language because they thought it was funny. But, yeah, they're very clever, but that is brilliant. That is very good. We'll need to try and see if there's a video of the parrot because that would be very funny. Very clever. Very good for self-preservation.
01:26:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, security bird. Like it, Kay. Thank you for that.
01:26:41
Speaker 8: Dr.
01:26:41
Speaker 3: Derek, always lovely to have you on. Where do we find you?
01:26:45
Speaker 17: On the parade at Norwood, number 27, and the phone number is 83635323.
01:26:52
Speaker 3: Beautiful. Congratulations on your team's win on the weekend. Can you brief Brisbane in a word?
01:26:58
Speaker 17: I didn't want to bring up football with you, Leith, but yes, I think we'll beat Brisbane. I'm a bit worried about Hawthorne after that, but yeah, we've got to get through this weekend. I'm quietly confident.
01:27:10
Speaker 3: Well done. One week at a time. Lovely to have you on. Enjoy your week. We'll see you next Monday. Thank you.
01:27:14
Speaker 17: You too.
01:27:14
Speaker 3: Thank you. Dr. Derek McNair, our guest. 3 o'clock news with Mel next.
01:27:20
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
01:27:24
Speaker 3: Broadcasting live from the Royal Adelaide Show here at the Jubilee Pavilion. Thank you for tuning in. You can hear us, of course, on the 5AA Player app as well as see us on our Facebook and live stream on the YouTube. And you would want to check it out now because it's the brightest, bubbliest guest we've Scene of recent times. Frida Las Vegas, a.k.a. Adelaide fashion designer and artist, Stavroula Adamaitis, is here to promote her new book, which is amazing. But firstly, A, thanks for coming across.
01:27:52
Speaker 9: My pleasure, Lee.
01:27:52
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. B, you look amazing.
01:27:54
Speaker 6: Thank you.
01:27:56
Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds inappropriate if you can stand up and twirl. Like, have a look at how... This is amazing.
01:28:01
Speaker 6: This is not going to work for radio being an audio medium. But if you tune into the live stream, you can see, you know, on the Facebook.
01:28:08
Speaker 3: Did you make this jumper?
01:28:09
Speaker 9: I designed it.
01:28:10
Speaker 6: This is a prawn cocktail visual pun jumper. Of course, we don't really have, you know, Midori with a prawn as a cocktail.
01:28:18
Speaker 4: But visually, you get it.
01:28:20
Speaker 6: It's a food, you know, it's the sixth food group, Leith.
01:28:23
Speaker 2: But I love it.
01:28:24
Speaker 3: Your jumper looks amazing. Your jewelry looks amazing. You've got great glasses. You've got a great hat.
01:28:29
Speaker 6: Thank you. Well, the importance of accessorizing, Leith. You've really got to pull an outfit together with the accessories.
01:28:34
Speaker 3: See, look at me. I'm a mess. I just go dark colors and jeans because, you know, I try to, it's not my bag. but you look amazing. And then the book would make sense like this. This is you in book form, is it not?
01:28:44
Speaker 6: Yes, it is me in book form, but it's also many other people in book form because it's, you know, full of shared memories and nostalgia from the 60s to the 2000s. And You know, it's something that we can all relate to if we're of a certain vintage.
01:28:59
Speaker 3: Australian-a-rama?
01:29:01
Speaker 6: Australian-a-rama.
01:29:03
Speaker 3: Australian-a-rama. I've been practicing. There's lots of vows in there. Like on Wheel of Fortune, buying a vow, you get a lot of money for that. I love what it is. It's an encyclopedia of kitsch. Yes. For those at home who may or may not understand exactly what kitsch is, how do you describe it to people?
01:29:19
Speaker 6: Kitsch is a very slippery concept to define. Historically, it's been described as something that is... could be perhaps rubbish or something that is thrown away. But I love kitsch because these are popular items that carry their own memories.
01:29:36
Speaker 5: Correct.
01:29:36
Speaker 6: And, you know, when you go to an art gallery, you don't see a packet of Sonny Boy or, you know, a twisties wrapper on the walls. And yet these particular icons of our culture make us feel a certain way. And they're vehicles to have conversations about, A certain time and a certain place.
01:29:55
Speaker 3: You and I cut from same life, albeit not visually. But like when I heard your Sonny Boy reference, I thought that's my childhood. It's the res, it's the cola, it's the design of it, the shape of it. It's everything.
01:30:07
Speaker 6: And, you know, for a certain period in culture, design was very extra.
01:30:11
Speaker 9: It was bold.
01:30:12
Speaker 6: It was graphic. Bright colors was a normal thing.
01:30:15
Speaker 8: Yep.
01:30:16
Speaker 6: And now, you know, you look at a supermarket, you look at, well, it's terrible. At the show, everything's bright and garish and kitsch.
01:30:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:30:23
Speaker 9: There's lots of kitsch here.
01:30:25
Speaker 3: That's terrific. I heard you once call it described as art pops, artificial, reproducible, too much popular, open-hearted, playful, sentimental. That's 100%. Even just flicking through your book before... Like I was saying to you, all of a sudden something would jump off the page and go, oh, I love this. I had this stool. We had this cooler bag for whatever the.
01:30:46
Speaker 2: Case might be.
01:30:47
Speaker 3: The fridge.
01:30:47
Speaker 9: The fridge.
01:30:48
Speaker 3: And then there are people in there, there's food in there, and there's places in there too.
01:30:52
Speaker 6: Well, the thing is, because kitsch is so hard to define, and when I knew I was going to do this book, I had to create a definition for it. And I wanted to make a definition that was more inclusive and that wasn't framing kitsch as something that was disposable, that was about rubbish, that was classist as well. I wanted it to be a more sort of democratic, inclusive idea rooted in belonging.
01:31:13
Speaker 9: So the art props.
01:31:15
Speaker 6: You know, A for artificial, R for reproducible, T for too much, P for popular, O for open-hearted, P for playful, and S for sentimental are is there to help us think about Kitch in a more community-minded way and to not put down Kitch. It's time for Kitch to come out from beneath everyone's closets. We're allowed to like it with abandon. It's good to have bad taste, Lee.
01:31:40
Speaker 13: 100%.
01:31:40
Speaker 3: I don't even know if it's bad taste. I love the idea of Kitch.
01:31:43
Speaker 9: I agree.
01:31:44
Speaker 3: You mentioned Larry the Lobster from Kingston, which we're very sentimental about, those of us from the southeast. What is it about Larry that you love? What makes Larry so special?
01:31:53
Speaker 6: Well, Larry is the biggest of all of Australia's big things. So he is monumental in size. I think there's something particularly charismatic about the way that the hind legs of the lobster are sort of presenting.
01:32:07
Speaker 4: Up to the world.
01:32:08
Speaker 6: So you drive past and he is open and bringing you into his loving embraces.
01:32:14
Speaker 3: He's just quite fabulous, Larry.
01:32:16
Speaker 6: And you can't think of the town Kingston and not think of Larry.
01:32:20
Speaker 3: He's got chutzpah. You can see Larry from a few k's out. You can see the little tentacle. Michael Smith had a great segment on Channel 7 News. just the other day about Larry being built because the man who created it literally tore a lobster apart to work out the bits by bits.
01:32:36
Speaker 6: Larry is, from a sculptural perspective, an exact sort of, you know, 20 to one, possibly biggest by scale replica of an actual lobster. And the sculptor, Paul Kelly, also built Scotty of Scotty's Motel.
01:32:50
Speaker 3: Scotty's Motel.
01:32:50
Speaker 6: Which was the first big thing in Australia, not the big banana.
01:32:54
Speaker 3: Is Scotty's kitsch?
01:32:55
Speaker 6: Scotty's definitely kitsch.
01:32:56
Speaker 13: 100%.
01:32:56
Speaker 9: 100%. We're on the same there.
01:32:59
Speaker 3: Omega Foods at Hindmarsh.
01:33:01
Speaker 13: Yes.
01:33:01
Speaker 3: There's a great photo of you with Omega Foods where you can buy everything in that store.
01:33:05
Speaker 6: Well, I have a Greek background, and so Omega is Walmart for the Greeks in Adelaide. And there's a church out the front, which I think is a particularly kitsch detail. So you can pay and pray on your way out, getting your olives and your olive oil and vats of delicious pickled treats. So, you know, Amiga is something that's very local. Like, you know about it if you're from Adelaide. And unfortunately, with a book called Australianorama, I had to include... places and things and icons from all around Australia, and I couldn't go too local. So there are a few notable omissions. One of them is, of course, the Gagana's tarama salata.
01:33:45
Speaker 9: Dip, which we all know.
01:33:46
Speaker 3: The pink?
01:33:46
Speaker 6: The pink, the sort of musk stick pink. It's the best tarama in the whole of Australia. Would love to have done an Adelaide version, but, you know, got to be inclusive of everyone.
01:33:57
Speaker 3: So my wife is of Bulgarian heritage, so we're in with the Bulgari community of Adelaide. It was interesting looking at some of the other like the suburban palazzos.
01:34:05
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:34:06
Speaker 3: So we're in the western suburbs.
01:34:07
Speaker 9: Great.
01:34:08
Speaker 3: I see houses like that everywhere I walk, kind of just off Henley Beach Road, hidden in behind Grave.
01:34:14
Speaker 9: Valletta Road, maybe.
01:34:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, like there's so many of those great sort of kitschy houses, two-storey, three-storey.
01:34:20
Speaker 6: This particular architectural style was widely mocked, and it was something that, you know, people would make fun of people from European backgrounds for sort of moving into the burbs, knocking over this sort of small brick veneer place and building a palazzo, but now I think especially my generation sort of third generation European Australians are seeing this architecture seeing how hard our grandparents worked seeing how these places represented you know you've made it in the world and they've become a source of pride now and they were a source of shame and it's very uniquely Australian I.
01:34:58
Speaker 3: Agree it looks regal it's kind of like that's the kind of house that I would.
01:35:01
Speaker 6: Like they're ionic and iconic.
01:35:03
Speaker 3: It's kind of inspirational when it comes to that the pink Poodle Motor Design.
01:35:09
Speaker 17: Yes.
01:35:10
Speaker 3: The sign that you went to there at Surfers. Again, that's kind of that neon, unusual kind of characters. I know that bin chickens get like a bit of love in your book.
01:35:18
Speaker 6: Yes, bin chickens get some love because, well, they're popular. Bin chickens are everywhere. They're also sort of slightly maligned. Unfairly, I believe. Bin chickens are Australia's flamingo.
01:35:30
Speaker 17: They are.
01:35:30
Speaker 6: They have a sort of majesty in the way that they, you know, pluck their beaks through the rubbish that we need to give them their time of day.
01:35:37
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:35:37
Speaker 6: But, yeah, the Pink Poodle Motel sign, it's the last remaining sign from the Pink Poodle Motel that was demolished many years ago. But, you know, it's playful. It's signage, it's design and architecture that wasn't afraid to have a bit of fun, wasn't trying to be too serious.
01:35:54
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:35:54
Speaker 6: You know, when you have a building on the side of a highway, you need to take people's attention as they're driving past. And the way that you do that is using color, by using humor, by using, you know, a cartoonish visual sensibility. And if I cast my mind back to where we're recording from right now in Goodwood Road in the 90s, there was, you know, the termite character. I'm not sure if any of the listeners remember.
01:36:18
Speaker 3: Oh, they would.
01:36:19
Speaker 6: The costumed termite on Goodwood Road, you know, advertising and hawking pest extermination.
01:36:24
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
01:36:24
Speaker 6: We remember that because.
01:36:25
Speaker 9: It was extra.
01:36:27
Speaker 4: It was unusual.
01:36:28
Speaker 6: It popped out at you from.
01:36:29
Speaker 3: The side of the road. I always think internationally, places like Los Angeles and Las Vegas, they have great elements of kitsch to it.
01:36:35
Speaker 9: Yes, they do.
01:36:36
Speaker 3: Which is a great way to do it. I saw Dimeroo in your book in Melbourne. So as a kid, I remember going to Melbourne just for that clock in Dimeroo because it was like, kids, what are we doing in the holidays? We're going to a shopping center and you guys are going to watch the clock.
01:36:52
Speaker 6: Well, going to Melbourne to go shopping, that was a ritual. You know, Chapel Street in the 90s, it's still just this magical place in my mind where I go back to go shopping.
01:37:01
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:37:01
Speaker 6: But Melbourne Central, that clock, again, had that sense of playfulness, whimsy. It didn't need to be there, but it did. And because it was gargantuan in size, we now remember it. And it cemented itself in our memories. And so you had to be there. to really get a sense of just how kooky and out there it was.
01:37:23
Speaker 3: Plants are kitsch, aren't they? Like a cactus is kitsch, is it not?
01:37:27
Speaker 6: I think.
01:37:28
Speaker 3: In surroundings.
01:37:29
Speaker 6: Plants is an interesting one because some are not, but then others are... Well, I would define them. So an asperdistra is probably kitsch because it's so boring, banal and, you know, an indoor house plant that's everywhere. Probably, you know, banksias and if we're talking Australian native flora, you know, a sturt desert pea... The beautiful points, the red vibrant colors, you know, hibiscus in Queensland. Like, plants can definitely be kitsch. But you know what's even more kitsch is fake plants.
01:37:59
Speaker 2: Oh.
01:38:00
Speaker 6: Sort of silk flowers, plastic flowers, anything from a $ 2 shop. Now we're really, you know, erring on the side of the kitsch-o-meter.
01:38:06
Speaker 3: This is why people need to pick up Stef Ruller's book, Australiana Rama.
01:38:11
Speaker 6: Australiana Rama, that's correct.
01:38:13
Speaker 3: People are kitsch.
01:38:14
Speaker 2: People are kitsch.
01:38:15
Speaker 3: You've got the great Albie Mangels in there, which again, Albie is kitsch. He's that 1980s, maybe a little misunderstood, super popular, disappeared, but still has that kind of aura about him.
01:38:27
Speaker 1: We love Albie.
01:38:28
Speaker 6: You know, he was, as a filmmaker, he really invented... He was an original influencer. He sort of invented this model of producing his own movies and television shows and retaining the rights to them and taking them around Australia in a travelling.
01:38:42
Speaker 9: Sort of slideshow format. And, you know.
01:38:45
Speaker 6: It was quite astute in that era. And he sort of commodified himself and, you know, fanned parasocial relationships in the way that modern influencers do now. But he was ahead of the curve.
01:38:57
Speaker 3: Razzmatazz stockings. Mm-mm. Razzmatazz.
01:39:01
Speaker 6: Razzmatazz.
01:39:02
Speaker 3: People remember the jingle. People remember, too, the graphic art of those stockings. particular stockings.
01:39:07
Speaker 6: Well, I think everyone's mum or nana still probably got an old packet of razzmatazz in a bottom drawer somewhere and that's the thing. It stands out in your memory because it was different. We remember razzmatazz and what are the others? Colitex or I don't even remember the others because they didn't have that same Sense of visual bombasticness.
01:39:27
Speaker 3: My mother-in-law was the stocking hosiery person at Harris Garth.
01:39:32
Speaker 9: Oh, my.
01:39:33
Speaker 6: And Harris Garth had the best hosiery department.
01:39:36
Speaker 3: It was like a world. It was like a part of Disneyland. This was your hosiery. And she would get on the microphone and all the ladies would just flock.
01:39:43
Speaker 2: Fabulous.
01:39:43
Speaker 9: Did she spruik the sales?
01:39:45
Speaker 3: She spruik them like anyone else.
01:39:47
Speaker 17: Fabulous.
01:39:48
Speaker 3: It's an amazing book, as is your publisher. Tell us about Pink Shorts Press, too, because we want to celebrate. Like, they, I feel, might have a little bit of kitsch.
01:39:57
Speaker 9: Oh, absolutely.
01:39:58
Speaker 6: So, Pink Shorts Press, the name is obviously an homage to Johnny Dunstan and his infamous pink shorts.
01:40:04
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:40:04
Speaker 6: But they are an independent South Australian-based publisher that champion original storytelling and authors that are generally from South Australia and that have voices that are a little bit different, a bit nice, a bit unusual.
01:40:17
Speaker 17: Yes.
01:40:18
Speaker 6: And in a sort of conglomerate world of publishing that's really dominated by five large companies, they're keeping the industry interesting and fostering incredible relationships with local bookshops. So I urge everyone who's listening, if you love reading, if you're into publishing, go to your local bookshop. Ask for the new titles from Pink Shorts Press and you're guaranteed to find something that you won't find anywhere else.
01:40:41
Speaker 3: Well done. You're amazing. You look amazing. The book is amazing. Thank you. How do we get our hands on it?
01:40:46
Speaker 6: You can get a copy by waltzing into any independent bookshop in Adelaide or around South Australia. If they don't have it, they can order it in. So I've just been doing some book signings today. You can go to Matilda's Bookshop in Stirling. You can go to Imprints on Hindley Street. Harry Hartog in Burnside Village. There's so many different bookshops. You've just got to go in and ask for a copy.
01:41:09
Speaker 3: Well worth checking out. It's a great, and you know, people will have fun with it. They'll pick it up and it's uber nostalgic too. It is. I've been there, I've seen that, I remember that.
01:41:17
Speaker 6: And it's educational for the young ones that didn't get to grow up in this era.
01:41:22
Speaker 9: That's right.
01:41:22
Speaker 6: They can learn about who is Birdie Beetle anyway outside of the seven days of the year that Birdie comes out of the insect hole.
01:41:31
Speaker 9: For the show.
01:41:32
Speaker 3: Birdie's kitsch.
01:41:33
Speaker 6: Oh, Birdie is uber kitsch.
01:41:34
Speaker 3: Uber kitsch. Stavroula Adamaitis, a.k.a. Frida Las Vegas, which is the greatest name I've ever heard, by the way.
01:41:41
Speaker 2: Thank you.
01:41:42
Speaker 3: Australiana Rama. You can get it, folks, at any independent bookstore, and they can find you online, too.
01:41:47
Speaker 6: They can find me online, FridaLasVegas.com.
01:41:50
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming across. Well done.
01:41:51
Speaker 9: Thanks so much, Lee.
01:41:52
Speaker 3: Congratulations on the book.
01:41:53
Speaker 17: Cheers.
01:41:53
Speaker 3: And hello to your uber-famous videographer, too, by the way.
01:41:56
Speaker 9: Yes.
01:41:57
Speaker 3: Carla Lippis.
01:41:57
Speaker 6: I've got a shout-out to my best friend, musician Carla Lippis.
01:42:01
Speaker 12: Gosh.
01:42:02
Speaker 6: With me here, supporting me in this interview at the show. If you don't have your bestie here at the show to go have a baked potato and look at some show bags, what can you do?
01:42:10
Speaker 3: Friend of show. Superstar just walking amongst the public and who would know. Lovely to see you. Thanks for coming across. We'll take a break. 24 minutes after three, Stavroula. My guest, Australiana Rama. Folks, get the book.
01:42:23
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
01:42:26
Speaker 3: That's it. Broadcasting live from the Royal Adelaide show here at the Jubilee Pavilion. Let me sit down for the live stream YouTube and Facebook. That back that you saw is the lovely Di Hall, Newman's Nursery, who you'll hear on the show this week. This is the beauty of the show is that you get to see so many people, different people from all walks of life. One of my radio heroes is going to join us, former 5AA breakfast announcer, by the way. We'll discuss that and what he's doing here at the show. We are here. at the show. And of course, just a reminder that it's presented by Drake's. If you miss the show, you will have a serious case of show mode. Tickets are available at your local Drake's, so you can go to theshow.com.au. We have a $ 50 Quincy's confectionery voucher to give away. 50 years of superb locally made chocolate. Shop in store or online at quincy.com.au. They are here at the show. We'll get you on before the week is out. What I want from you to win the $ 50 Quincy's confectionery voucher is on the back of the chat with Stavroula, the places in South Australia or the things in South Australia that you must take a photo of that kind of might be kitsch. So there's a fair chance that you have in your collection somewhere a photo of Larry the Lobster from Kingston. I'm sure you have a photo of that. Scotty's Motel. I think people have always taken photos of Scotty's. What are the other things that are photo worthy in South Australia? $ 50 voucher to Quincy's to give away 8223 0000 or you can text through your suggestions right around South Australia when you drive past or you're walking past you think you know what this is photo worthy that's what we want to hear today on the show Alan said Frida is so refreshing at a time when we all need a big boost of kitsch and I love the name too Australiana Rama thanks Alan from West Beach it's a great book and you will enjoy that should you get your hands on it 3.30 headlines are on the way. Mel will have those for us. And on the other side, we'll find out what a radio star, former 5AA announcer, is doing here at the show. That's next.
01:44:29
Speaker 1: 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest.
01:44:34
Speaker 3: Kind of feel like we should break in a song. Live stream is on Facebook and YouTube. We're here at the Royal Adelaide Show in the Jubilee Pavilion, joined by a radio legend. What's he doing here at the show?
01:44:44
Speaker 2: Not legend.
01:44:44
Speaker 3: I've said this to you many times before, and I know you get embarrassed by this, but you, Keith McCartan... And the great Disco Dom Renato. Yes. The reasons why, as a young shaver in Millicent as a teenager, I wanted to get into the radio. Kev Mulcahy, lovely to see you. Thanks for coming over.
01:45:02
Speaker 2: Fantastic to be here. Have you had your Dagwood dog yet?
01:45:05
Speaker 3: No, not yet. I'm only day one.
01:45:07
Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing about Dagwood dogs? No other time of the year do we think about having a Dagwood dog. But as soon as we walk into the gates here, it's bang, where is that Dagwood dog?
01:45:15
Speaker 12: 100%.
01:45:15
Speaker 3: And then you want to eat your body weight in them. So you know this, when you were in Mount Gambier, when I was a kid growing up and you were, you know, your dulcet tones on 5SE. We, you know, like the Mount Gambier show felt big to Millicent. We've got five rides in Millicent. Mount Gambier's maybe got eight. Then you walk in here. Your head blew off. It's crazy.
01:45:35
Speaker 2: The country shows were great. They used to have a boxing troupe there called Fred Brophy's Boxing Tent.
01:45:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, just take on a local.
01:45:41
Speaker 2: I thought I was... I thought I was a pacifist until I went to one of those, and I was up the front there.
01:45:45
Speaker 17: Oh, yeah.
01:45:45
Speaker 3: I was having a great time. Pounding, pounding.
01:45:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
01:45:48
Speaker 3: So great. Hey, it's lovely to see you. You've been here in different guises over the years. You are in the Goita Pavilion.
01:45:55
Speaker 2: We are, yes.
01:45:56
Speaker 3: And you're with Calipari Wine and Ned Kelly Red.
01:46:00
Speaker 2: Ned Kelly Wines, yes, from Mildura. So, magnificent wines. The best probably is the Spritzer. Everybody comes here. They've been here for 20 years or so. Yes. And I've only just come on board.
01:46:10
Speaker 1: And.
01:46:11
Speaker 2: The spritzer is the one that everybody goes for here when they come to the show. And there's so many regulars that come back year after year and say, oh, look, just put that in the bag and let's take it. The spritzer is absolutely magnificent.
01:46:23
Speaker 3: So you know this, I'm the only person that we know from Millicent and the South East who doesn't drink alcohol. Yes, we know that. So you need to help me out with these because you've got some crackers, do you not? The red tawny, chocolate tawny, pink Moscato, white Moscato Blanc, and of course the spritzer. So walk us through what these are.
01:46:41
Speaker 2: Look, let's go backwards. Go to those ports that you spoke of. Obviously, there's a chocolate port, which is just so unique, so beautiful, just absolutely velvety. There's also the white fortified, which is a chilled port. Now, you're not knowing anything about alcohol whatsoever. Normally, you don't chill a port. But this white fortified port is absolutely perfect for a hot summer's afternoon just out the back.
01:47:04
Speaker 3: Because the port was always like the last drink of the night. It was, yeah, yeah.
01:47:07
Speaker 2: Oh, look, you still don't drink a heck of a lot at a time. You don't put in a big wine glass.
01:47:13
Speaker 3: No, that's right. You don't start your night with a port. Because it was always like, I'm going to have a little port.
01:47:17
Speaker 2: Relax, chill, watch your TV. The white fortified is just a nice one for a hot afternoon, a hot summer's afternoon.
01:47:25
Speaker 3: And people like, obviously, the variation too. They like a bit of chocolate or they like a bit of... Absolutely.
01:47:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
01:47:30
Speaker 2: And look, we also have the mainstreams of the Shiraz. There's a couple of wonderful vintages there of 2015 and 2020. Yep. And the Cab Sav, which even though it's from Mildura, you would think it's somewhere around Joanna in the southeast.
01:47:42
Speaker 3: Right.
01:47:42
Speaker 2: You'd think it's probably somewhere between Padthaway... Yeah. and the Coonawarra.
01:47:46
Speaker 3: Beautiful spot. So with that, so obviously the show has so many different things from Saito Alley and the rides and everything. What's the food and beverage like for you? Like, it's been years that you've been doing it. People come in, they want to try all of those kind of things. Yeah.
01:47:59
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Me personally? What's a food that I like to go for? I told you, I love a Dagwood dog. I know.
01:48:04
Speaker 3: Which of those?
01:48:05
Speaker 2: Hot American donuts.
01:48:06
Speaker 3: They're baking all the time.
01:48:07
Speaker 6: Oh, my Lord.
01:48:08
Speaker 3: And then you get third-degree burns on the way out as it just sort of dribbles down your face. Which of the Ned Kelly's go best with the Dagwood dog? What do you pair with a deep fried sausage? What are we having?
01:48:19
Speaker 2: A Dagwood dog. All right, look, I'd probably go for a sweet white wine. I'd go for the Moscato.
01:48:24
Speaker 3: There you go.
01:48:25
Speaker 2: A nice white wine that's nicely chilled. It's nice and sweet and goes up against that tomato sauce.
01:48:31
Speaker 3: Imagine you've got your downward dog and then you become a wine snob.
01:48:34
Speaker 2: What an insult to talk about wine.
01:48:36
Speaker 3: No, but there's so much. I mean, that food pavilion in Goida, isn't it? Like, it's got everything. I was looking before. All your favourite people, whether it's food and beverage and there's arts in there and there's textiles and honeys and all that kind of stuff.
01:48:50
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. It's great. Just so many great foods. The different sorts of... you know sausages that you can buy and um you know the nuts and oh it's magnificent and the smells are just the aromas in that place is just fantastic.
01:49:03
Speaker 3: Ned kelly's a cool name and i saw your labeling school too.
01:49:06
Speaker 2: Yes thank you yeah we love it it's um it's obviously it's uh it's michael's idea and uh he's uh he's been a big ned kelly fan over the years and was uh happy to sort of take that on board and uh make that the label and um yeah everybody loves it there's a lot of particularly kids that come to the stand that want just the cap.
01:49:23
Speaker 10: Yes.
01:49:23
Speaker 2: Obviously, we can't sell alcohol. Well, they just love the cap.
01:49:27
Speaker 3: Do you, I mean, it's a great, that's a great part of the show, isn't it? Because it's the human interaction, so you get to talk to people.
01:49:33
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so much fun.
01:49:34
Speaker 16: Yeah.
01:49:35
Speaker 3: Have you always been a wine expert? I know you've, you know, you've had a history in beers.
01:49:39
Speaker 2: Well, that's it. I had the brewery up until September last year.
01:49:41
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:49:41
Speaker 2: But I created the brewery because I always wanted a winery. But, When you get to a certain age, if you start a winery yourself, well, and you put grapes or vines in the ground, you're not going to see them to fruition.
01:49:52
Speaker 3: See you in 50 years.
01:49:53
Speaker 2: That's right. And I'm probably not going to be sadly on this earth. So I created the brewery, which was fantastic. But now it's time to move on, and the opportunity came up for Ned Kelly's.
01:50:03
Speaker 3: That's great. Do people know about, again, as a non-drinker, is Ned Kelly's known enough? Are people trying, you know, is that.
01:50:10
Speaker 2: Here at the Royal Show, it's fantastic. As I say, because they've been coming here for 20 years.
01:50:15
Speaker 2: The number of people who are repeat customers that come along that look forward to seeing Ned's here every year is fantastic.
01:50:21
Speaker 4: Yes.
01:50:22
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I don't know if you ever met my parents during the time, but you know what people are like in the 80s. Dad drank VB.
01:50:28
Speaker 2: Right.
01:50:29
Speaker 3: Or maybe West End.
01:50:31
Speaker 17: Right.
01:50:31
Speaker 3: Mum drank Goon.
01:50:32
Speaker 12: Okay.
01:50:33
Speaker 2: Benine or something?
01:50:34
Speaker 3: Was it called Benine? I don't know, but it was like a footy when it was empty because you could kick it or you'd sleep on it. It was a pillow.
01:50:39
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:50:40
Speaker 3: Whereas now people's taste... Like, I'd never really heard of the red wine spritzer, but apparently it's the thing. It is the thing.
01:50:46
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
01:50:47
Speaker 2: And there's so many varieties. It's like, you know, we've spoken about the craft beers that we used to do, how many different beers you can make out of those four ingredients. It's the same, obviously, with wines. And there's so many more varieties these days as well. Particularly a lot of the Italian varieties are coming through.
01:51:00
Speaker 3: So when are you having a spritzer? Is that your start wine? Again, when you're someone who drinks iced coffee, it's just all day, every day. Whereas this is what I'm learning. I'm getting educated by people like yourself. They're saying start with this and then have this with your red meat and then have this with your seafood. Spicy, this is good. This is your closer.
01:51:20
Speaker 2: Well, Spritz is probably a good substitute for beer or a gin or something like that. It's nice and cold. You serve it with cheese and greens. Sit out the back after you mow the lawn and just have a bottle of that. Absolutely magnificent.
01:51:33
Speaker 3: So you're here all week? People can come along and say hello? Here all week, yes. Come and say hello.
01:51:37
Speaker 13: How long?
01:51:38
Speaker 3: Hey, so we do another segment on the show. Can I just quickly crowbar this in because you are one of our... You know 5AA is 50 this year?
01:51:45
Speaker 2: Yes, congratulations.
01:51:46
Speaker 3: Well, you're part of it too. You were here.
01:51:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's amazing. I can think back to 1976 when it started. I remember the first night sitting by the radio listening to 5AA come on. And it was a beautiful music format. And of course, for these young ears, that wasn't exactly what we wanted to hear.
01:52:01
Speaker 3: No, so you were in Adelaide at the time.
01:52:03
Speaker 2: I was in Adelaide.
01:52:04
Speaker 3: Who was on, do you remember?
01:52:05
Speaker 2: A guy called Des Ferry.
01:52:06
Speaker 3: Right.
01:52:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, Des Ferry was doing the nighttime program. And soon after, because I had an interest in radio, Vaughan Harvey took me for a tour through 5AA. And this whole beautiful music format, really what it was, was a couple of reels of music. And one reel would play a song. It didn't matter what. It would randomly pick a song. Then it would go to the next reel and pick a song from that and play that. Then go back to the other reel. And it really wasn't like we format music or format a radio station today. It was just basically what goes from that. It goes to that. It's just beautiful. It's all beautiful music in the background.
01:52:39
Speaker 3: So you heard the first 1976. Madeline, if we can, can we just hit the intro for our segment, Double Ages Ago?
01:52:47
Speaker 1: Celebrating 50 years of 5AA, this is 5AA Ages Ago.
01:52:55
Speaker 3: You like that because people worked on the station ages ago. Including me. So you are like many of those kind of radio journeymen in that you've probably worked at most stations at some stage.
01:53:05
Speaker 2: That's why I'm not, as you said earlier, a legend. No, just call me a veteran.
01:53:09
Speaker 3: Stop it. No, you're a legend. So we had Rex Leverington in last week and he was the same.
01:53:12
Speaker 2: Oh, Rexy, what a guy.
01:53:13
Speaker 3: Sexy Rexy's worked everywhere. You're a bit the same. So again, I knew you as a kid growing up in the South East. You were at 5SE in the Mount from... Gee, am I going to guess early to mid-80s?
01:53:23
Speaker 2: No, no, it was 92 to 94.
01:53:26
Speaker 9: Really?
01:53:27
Speaker 16: Yes.
01:53:27
Speaker 3: On the end? Okay, so my high school years. I thought you might have been there a bit earlier. Okay, every radio station in Adelaide have you worked for at some stage?
01:53:35
Speaker 2: No, there's one that I haven't.
01:53:36
Speaker 3: Is it the one over there?
01:53:38
Speaker 2: Oh, that one.
01:53:40
Speaker 3: The dark side?
01:53:41
Speaker 2: No, I haven't worked for the ABC at all.
01:53:43
Speaker 3: Who have you not worked for?
01:53:46
Speaker 1: EMS.
01:53:46
Speaker 2: S-O-F-M.
01:53:47
Speaker 13: Really?
01:53:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:53:48
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:53:50
Speaker 3: You did work at 5AA, though. That's why you're here. You were part of our beloved breakfast show. What era was that?
01:53:56
Speaker 2: So it was the year 2000, and it was the Barry Ewan breakfast show, and I anchored it. So I'd been at one of the FM stations doing breakfast, and I was supposed to go to another station, another FM station, to do the breakfast show there, but it didn't quite work out.
01:54:10
Speaker 3: And we pinched it.
01:54:10
Speaker 2: So I ended up at 5AA doing the breakfast show with Baz. And also, we had Rowie out on the road.
01:54:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was a very young sort of... young Stephen Rowe on the road, wasn't it? He was. Radio novice, fair to say.
01:54:24
Speaker 2: Yes, it was pretty well his first year in radio.
01:54:26
Speaker 3: Correct.
01:54:26
Speaker 2: So he was out on the road.
01:54:27
Speaker 9: Loose.
01:54:28
Speaker 2: We had.
01:54:29
Speaker 3: Is that how you would describe Rowie's broadcasting behaviours?
01:54:33
Speaker 2: Has anything changed?
01:54:34
Speaker 3: No, not really, but I think he was extra loose then, was he not?
01:54:37
Speaker 2: He was, yeah, yeah. No, he was terrific out on the road. He was very loose indeed. We had, obviously, Blakey doing the comedy stuff. He was doing Behind Closed Doors and... All sorts of stuff. Baz was part of the program because it was his. We had Chris Dittmar doing the sport as well.
01:54:51
Speaker 4: Ditts, yes.
01:54:51
Speaker 2: So Ditts was on there. And mornings was Pilko and Lee McCluskey.
01:54:56
Speaker 3: Lee McCluskey.
01:54:57
Speaker 2: So it was that period after Baz and Pilko had come back to Adelaide in, I think, 94. And by about 98 or so, Baz decided that he wanted to work with other people. So Pilko went to the morning program. I went to breakfast with Baz.
01:55:11
Speaker 3: Leon was in Afternoons.
01:55:13
Speaker 2: Afternoons we had the classic KG and the Stud yeah and Nighttimes was.
01:55:18
Speaker 3: Big Bob Big Bob who was doing 7 to 8 was there any was that a Neil Humphries or a Phil Sheldon type there.
01:55:23
Speaker 2: Was look John Vincent was actually doing it that year really yeah yeah oh.
01:55:28
Speaker 3: Really gosh yeah that 7 to 8 spot rolled around like a lot of people have had a crack at that over the years yeah did you enjoy your time with us I mean it's very different to music radio it is.
01:55:36
Speaker 2: Yeah look it was great I mean Baz to work with Baz was just you know you talk about How you grew up with radio. Well, I grew up with Baz and Pilko, obviously. And to work with Barry Ian was just extraordinary. And to, you know, work with Plessy as well, because Plessy was part of the deal.
01:55:50
Speaker 3: That's right. Wasn't he a great member? Was there someone, was there a Barry Ian type that made you want to get into radio that you thought, right, I want to do this for my life?
01:55:57
Speaker 2: Funny you should say that. It was another guy who did Breakfast at 5AA for a while. It was Ian McRae.
01:56:01
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
01:56:02
Speaker 2: Ian McRae had come across to, once Baz and Pilko went to KA, he went to 5AAD. He then went to K.A., but then he went to 5AA with The Fox, Macca and The Fox. And that was 1987. But I'd followed Macca in The Breakfast Show through those years because he was such a creative person. And he was very funny, very clever. He was more or less a solo actor. Yes, he bounced off The Fox, Foxy Morgan, Dennis Morgan, but he was very much a solo actor and he was very creative.
01:56:30
Speaker 3: Macca and The Fox. Yeah. That's the most FM-sounding AM show of all time.
01:56:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was about 87. He was doing Breakfast on 5AA.
01:56:39
Speaker 3: See, you can tell, like, you're like me. You're a radio nuff. You remember all of these people, who was on what time slot. And again, I've said this to you publicly. I've said it to Keith. I've said it to Dom. Like, I thank you guys immensely because as a kid growing up, we were limited for choice. And we were so lucky that you guys brought on a product in Mount Gambier that I kind of like, I think I want to do that. Like, they're having fun. They're doing the wood duck of a morning time. And we were even laughing the other day, Mel Usher and I, about how when you were kids, and maybe kids of today don't kind of, you know, because I've got social media now, when you heard your name on the radio, like if you mentioned it was our birthday or someone we knew or whatever the case was, it was the biggest deal ever.
01:57:22
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah.
01:57:23
Speaker 3: We were like, how could this?
01:57:24
Speaker 2: That's why it's so important now to drop names on the radio.
01:57:28
Speaker 8: 100%.
01:57:28
Speaker 3: Macca and the Fox.
01:57:29
Speaker 2: You don't remember?
01:57:30
Speaker 3: No, that's before me.
01:57:32
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Ian McRae was a classic. Gosh. You talk about journeymen here in South Australia. I think you worked at every radio station as well.
01:57:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, most people have, yeah. No, no. My childhood diet was yourself, Kev, your Kev, Keith McCartan. Yeah. That was always hard, Kev Moncay and Keith McCartan. Then you had Pat Fleming.
01:57:53
Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
01:57:53
Speaker 3: Disco Dom Renato. Yeah. Biddy Lee Teets. Yes. Who used to work for us as well, Bid. Yeah, yeah. And some others. George K was our horse race caller down in the mouth who had chronic emphysema and always coughed right at the final post. And as they go over 100, you wouldn't know the winner.
01:58:11
Speaker 2: He was so naughty, George. He was a lovely bloke, but he wanted to dominate the afternoon program. You know, he'd say, oh, across from me now, but the race would be about 10 minutes away. So he just wanted to talk for 10 minutes.
01:58:21
Speaker 3: He used to drive around the mountain. He had a horse on the bonnet of his car. Do you remember that? He had like a brown Kingswood. Headley Hancock?
01:58:27
Speaker 2: Headley, yes.
01:58:28
Speaker 3: I reckon. And even when we used to get, they used to pipe in sometimes, we would get the Cardwell Harvey report. So you'd hear Roger and you would hear Vaughan.
01:58:37
Speaker 2: It's 7 o'clock in the morning. We would be taking 518 News back in those days.
01:58:41
Speaker 3: And then I think at one stage we used to get Jeremy Cordova. through the radio down in the southeast. I don't know how that worked out, but piped in somehow.
01:58:48
Speaker 2: The lousy was on there for a while, and yeah.
01:58:52
Speaker 3: God, days, huh? Yeah, yeah. Did you miss it?
01:58:55
Speaker 2: Which part?
01:58:55
Speaker 3: Any of it?
01:58:56
Speaker 2: What, radio?
01:58:57
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:58:57
Speaker 2: Still do it.
01:58:58
Speaker 3: No, I know, but like as in when you're in the hustle and bustle of like, you know, 1980s, right? Because it's different now. Oh, it is. Everyone's a broadcaster at home.
01:59:09
Speaker 2: Particularly if you're doing regional, anybody listening that is from any of the regions, the radio there, particularly sort of back in those days, was a lot looser, honestly. And Keith and I are still great mates. Keith McCartan, who I did a breakfast show with in regional South Australia. And we talk about how loose it was and how you just would not get away with that today.
01:59:25
Speaker 3: Oh, Dom Rinaldo. If I said the line to you now, I'd be fired. But Dom Rinaldo, I'll tell you off here, he gave a line once on 5SE that I still tell people about. And everyone's like, how did he get away with that as he was introducing a song by Daryl Brothwaite? It was just remarkable. It's always lovely to see you. And you too. Thank you for reminiscing. Congratulations for being part of the 5AA 50 years. We're celebrating all our legends. How long did the show last? You, Baz, Roey, Blakey?
01:59:52
Speaker 2: So it was only about a year. No, it was about a year.
01:59:55
Speaker 10: And a bit.
01:59:55
Speaker 3: Who replaced you?
01:59:56
Speaker 2: So that's when Pilko and Keith Conway came along.
01:59:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
02:00:00
Speaker 10: Yeah.
02:00:01
Speaker 2: So, yes, I'll tell you off air about the year. Oh, good.
02:00:04
Speaker 3: It's obviously a management decision.
02:00:06
Speaker 10: Wow.
02:00:07
Speaker 3: All right. Anyway, it's always lovely to have you. Now, where do we find you? How do people find out more if they're coming to the Royal Show any time during this period? How do we find Ned Kelly Red?
02:00:16
Speaker 2: Cheebly Pavilion. So just behind where the 5AA is. stand is so you're right just just over there yeah so um we're over there and um there's a whole bunch of other foodies there and uh well i've.
02:00:29
Speaker 3: Sold you short because the website told me you're in the go i've only just arrived today so they told me you're in the go so you're right behind us yes sorry i didn't pick up i think no no okay that's easy benny oh forget about me mentioning channel nine i'll just say we're right next to ned kelly could you that's we're gonna do it for now always lovely.
02:00:44
Speaker 2: To see you you're the best well done.
02:00:46
Speaker 3: The great kev mulcahy my guests will take a break 10 minutes to four 5AA Afternoons with Leith Forrest. We are almost out of here for the Royal Adelaide show here at the Jubilee Pavilion. Kev, just put your headphones back on for one second. You'll enjoy this. We'll take a call from Alex. Ange, we were talking about kitsch, you know, things that are kitsch on the back of Stavrola's book. Ange, what's an Adelaide icon that you've got to take a photo of that's very kitschy?
02:01:15
Speaker 7: I think the Moles Bowls, isn't it, guys?
02:01:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, would think so. How many photos have you taken of the Bulls in your time?
02:01:21
Speaker 16: Not recently, mate, but when I was a young packer, we'd go down there, catch puffies and hang.
02:01:27
Speaker 15: Around there a little bit. You know, all your mates would go to the front and do silly faces.
02:01:32
Speaker 3: Everyone met at the Bulls. Everyone. As a South East kid, if you're lost, Mum would just say to you, just go to the Bulls, we'll find you there. Ange, great job. $ 50 Quincy's voucher coming your way. On the text, Karen asked... Is Kev Mulcahy related to Amelia Mulcahy?
02:01:49
Speaker 2: Yes, she's my niece. So she's my brother, John, and sister-in-law, Jo's daughter.
02:01:55
Speaker 3: She's doing well.
02:01:56
Speaker 10: Yeah.
02:01:56
Speaker 3: What a star. Yeah, nice. She's in the family.
02:01:59
Speaker 2: Yes, she just lives around the corner from me, as a matter of fact.
02:02:01
Speaker 3: Kirstie said, in terms of great photo opportunity, the Blue Lake in Mount Gambier. You would have taken the odd photo of the Blue Lake.
02:02:08
Speaker 2: I love the Blue Lake, yes.
02:02:10
Speaker 3: That whole area is nice.
02:02:11
Speaker 2: Only for six months of the year, of course, it's blue.
02:02:13
Speaker 5: Yeah.
02:02:13
Speaker 2: The rest of the time, it's a pretty ordinary colour.
02:02:16
Speaker 3: It's a good spot down there. I mean, it's no Millicent, Mount Gambier, but it's nice. Mark loves a good photo of silo art. That's something you notice when you're driving around the regions now.
02:02:24
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And they actually do tours now of the silo art.
02:02:27
Speaker 9: Yeah.
02:02:28
Speaker 8: It's great.
02:02:28
Speaker 3: Knaupen. They've got some nice ones just out of the city. And Graham said a photo taken from Sellex Hill overlooking Aldinga Beach on a hot summer's day. Graham at Woodville. Well done. Thank you again. Lovely to see you. We'll see you here at the show. Make sure you go, folks, to Ned Kelly and you can see the great Kev Mulcahy and talk wine and radio and find out all the stories that he won't tell us on air. He'll tell you those too. Sports show coming up very shortly with Stephen Rowe and Tim Ginniver. Rowe, I think, is in the studio ready to go.
02:03:01
Speaker 14: How are you, Leith? I've just picked myself up the ground. The last caller, you said, how many photos have you taken of your balls? That is what.
02:03:09
Speaker 3: You said to him. Thank you. Well, see, you didn't need to bring that up. Do you remember working with Kev those days, Rowe in 2000? What are your memories of that particular breakfast show with working with the icon, Barry Ian, Kev and co.
02:03:25
Speaker 2: Well, it was a dream come true, if you like.
02:03:29
Speaker 14: Baz is a legend. Kev, an absolute pro. God, I don't think he made a mistake in that year and a half.
02:03:34
Speaker 3: Told you.
02:03:35
Speaker 14: He was an absolute pro player. A pleasure to work with, and just a great bloke. And it made my job easy, because people like Baz and Kev, they can cover.
02:03:45
Speaker 3: Up your.
02:03:47
Speaker 14: Errors, if you like. And back then, I had to put this link up in the back of this ute. It was just a... And I'm not technically savvy or minded, and if there was any gaps, the boys would fill them in.
02:03:58
Speaker 3: No, it was great.
02:03:59
Speaker 1: Is Kev still there?
02:04:01
Speaker 2: I'm still here, yeah. We were actually off air talking about the time that a certain person, you had the vehicle... for 5AA that went through the bottlo and the back of it came off.
02:04:11
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was my wife.
02:04:12
Speaker 2: Does anybody remember that? Yes. You're prepared to admit that? Well, it wasn't me.
02:04:17
Speaker 1: It was my wife.
02:04:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. She pushed it on, bumped it.
02:04:21
Speaker 3: Up, went the leak, and out went the bottlo. That's right. The lovely Jodie Rowe was driving the 5AA vehicle, which had the OB antenna on it, left it up, and then took it off. Yeah.
02:04:32
Speaker 2: Oh, magnificent days, eh, Roy?
02:04:34
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, Kev, great to see you, mate.
02:04:36
Speaker 3: Well done.
02:04:36
Speaker 2: And you too.
02:04:38
Speaker 14: Hey, and Leith, we've got a big show because the Crows won, which is fantastic. We've got grand final tickets to give away for every caller that goes to air for.
02:04:46
Speaker 2: The next two weeks.
02:04:47
Speaker 14: So that's interaction at its best. Crows' James Borlase will join us. Scotty Campreale in Coach's Corner. Crows are going to take on the Lions Saturday night, and we'll be talking about that, previewing it, obviously, in Frio. will take on Geelong Sydney was the talk of the town how they beat Brisbane was quite unbelievable and that's footy.
02:05:08
Speaker 3: It's real level isn't it it is it was an extraordinary weekend right across from Dangerfield winding back the clock to the Wizard doing his things the Crows getting over the line and Sydney no one gave them a chance and they got it done so Rowie thank you we'll be listening to you at 4 o'clock with Tim Ginniver folks thanks for your company we'll see you tomorrow from 1 here at the show