FIVEAA Breakfast with Will & Stacey - 23 October 2026

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Speaker 1: I want the least weight, Mum.
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 3: It.
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Speaker 4: Lockdown, Bill 2, with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
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Speaker 5: Live from Hindmarsh Square, it's 5AA Breakfast. Will Goodings with Stacey Lee.
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Speaker 6: Sip it after six. Good morning to you. You made it to Friday. It is the 23rd of October. Coming up on the program this morning.
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Speaker 6: We maintain the range after seven o'clock this morning. Grandma Leanne Morgan is going to join us to talk about the disgrace that is the treatment of people's cherished and loved items at the Enfield Cemetery that was seemingly scooped away and dumped. Remarkable chat at the end of the program yesterday and more people have come forward. Seven news last night and Leanne Morgan this morning after seven. So if that story drove you absolutely nuts, make sure you listen after seven o'clock because we've got more to come on that. Nelson Scott in the nation's capital has been a remarkable and terrible week in Australian federal politics. A little bit later in the morning, it's a Friday, we'll feed back. We'll have the top five of the week after 6.30. We'll have a closer look at the US midterm elections about two weeks away. Depending on how they go, they will either provide ample opportunity for the US President Donald Trump to continue the way he spent the first two years of the term, or the handbrakes could be put on in a big, big way. Bruce Wolper, you'll try and predict what will happen for us after 6.30 this morning. Stacey Lee, good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Will.
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Speaker 6: It's a big weekend for one of our own here at 5AA. Tim Jennifer, turning 60. That's not the big thing that's happening. That is a big thing that's happening, but his stand-up show is called Timmy G Turned 60, Kent Town Hotel, tomorrow night.
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Speaker 7: Make sure you get your tickets because I think they're nearly all gone.
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Speaker 6: Event at Humanitix. I just Googled it, Humanitix, Timmy G Turned 60. Turned 60. Big room at the Cantan Hotel. Beautiful pub. Beautiful upstairs area as well for events. I think it was where KG had his big birthday bash.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 6: I think doing stand-up comedy is just probably the most terrifying thing you could do.
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Speaker 7: I'm with you. There is no way.
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Speaker 6: Genuinely, standing on stage and asking people to pay money and in return you're going to give them laughs.
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 6: That sounds like a nightmare. So it got us inspired for the meat tray this morning. What is your worst nightmare or something that just genuinely terrifies you, something you would never do, something that wild horses couldn't drag you to?
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Speaker 5: 8223 0000.
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Speaker 6: It might not be that physical. It might be psychological. It might be– well, I don't want to lead the witness. 8223 0000. What is something that absolutely terrifies you? The meat tray. This morning is all thanks to the wonderful people at Windsor Meats. Nothing scary about that. 61 Dukley Street at Malvern. They are the best in the business. Call in and see Sam and the team this weekend.
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Speaker 9: Here's Timmy talking about his stand-up last week. We had him in the studio to tell us about it.
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Speaker 10: I've got to say, when I did the Gluttony gig, the first night, I just felt like it was prior to running out the tunnel in the grand final. It had the same emotions, like the nerves running Am I going to play well? What if I don't play well? All of those things that go through your mind.
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Speaker 9: I once played a charity football game for Recklink. So they raise money for disadvantaged youth.
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Speaker 6: Football, Australian rules football. Yeah. I don't want to seem shocked.
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Speaker 9: That surprise on your face is correct. Because you know that I don't know the rules.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And I don't like catching balls. I can barely catch.
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Speaker 6: Okay. How did this go? You have me intrigued.
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Speaker 7: I had one touch.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 9: And I wasn't aware you can't just throw it, that you had to punch.
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Speaker 6: Hand pass.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And I attempted to kick and that didn't work. So then caught.
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Speaker 6: Did you execute a netball style chest pass at one point?
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Speaker 7: I tried. I tried to do the over the head lob.
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Speaker 6: Like, what do they call it in rugby, in unions? Yeah, whatever they call that.
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Speaker 7: Were they thrown into the scrum?
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Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: But no, it wasn't very good, clearly.
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Speaker 9: And I had family members there. My husband came. His parents came. And then I felt pressure because they were watching me. They were all excited to see me. I bought new football boots. I bought really nice-looking football boots.
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Speaker 6: You bought boots for the occasion?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they were pink and green.
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Speaker 6: Oh, you would have looked the part.
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Speaker 7: I got them from the kids' section.
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Speaker 11: Yep.
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Speaker 6: Nice and colourful.
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Speaker 9: They had the nicer looking ones and the women's ones were too expensive for just one charity football match. Yeah, and so doing that again, no, I was very embarrassed. My husband after the game said, you.
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Speaker 7: Touched the ball once.
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Speaker 12: Okay.
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Speaker 9: He was trying to find a positive. It wasn't broadcast on TV, but it was filmed and put online.
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Speaker 6: Hang on, so it exists somewhere.
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Speaker 7: There's vision somewhere of it.
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Speaker 6: Well, that sounds like a challenge for our listeners this morning.
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Speaker 7: Doing that again would be a nightmare.
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Speaker 6: A line out, Patty tells me, is the way the ball's thrown back into play in rugby. Oh, a line out. There's some good traditional ones coming through on the text line already.
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Speaker 3: 04808 1395.
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Speaker 6: Things that scare you, terrify you, that you would never ever do or would be your worst nightmare if you had to. Phil says, I haven't been on a plane in nearly 40 years.
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Speaker 7: 40 years.
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Speaker 6: Wow. So Phil hasn't flown since the 80s.
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Speaker 13: Wow.
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Speaker 6: Phil, tell us more.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: What happened?
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Speaker 6: What happened? What happened back then? Has it meant you can't go on trips?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, did something on that flight mean you didn't want.
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Speaker 7: To fly again? Or was it you just didn't like the experience and that was enough?
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Speaker 6: Andrew says sharks.
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Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Swimming with sharks. I think I could do that. I could go down in the cage.
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Speaker 6: I think the cage actually I think would be less scary than– I'm a classic I'll never want to be the furthest out guy at the beach.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: That requires a level of bravery that I simply do not possess.
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Speaker 7: I don't really go past my knees at the beach.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, that's fair.
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Speaker 7: Just enough to cool off and go, okay, I'm done now.
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Speaker 6: 8223 0000, your worst nightmare. Maybe it's stand-up comedy. Maybe it's public speaking. There are so many people who– I mentioned earlier in the week, hosted an event earlier this week. at the Hotels Association. One of the ways that works is the people that run businesses that sponsor pubs or are involved broadly in the industry, they might be Host Plus that does superannuation for pubs or they might be insurers or whoever or 5AA actually working a lot with pubs is one of the organisations that sponsors an award. And this sponsor comes up and presents and they literally have to say– probably somewhere between, well, they can say as much as they want, but you could get away with saying six words probably. The category is the winner is. The number of people that would, I'd shake hands with them as they'd come up and there were a number of people, sweaty palm that would say, oh my God, now my night can start or thank God that's over. We underestimate the degree to which just speaking in public for so many people is their absolute worst nightmare.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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Speaker 6: Let's go to McGill. Con, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Good morning, people. Yes, I saw at the Royal Show this year they resuscitated the Mad Mouse. Naturally, I never went on it. I'll never forget as a kid my first ride on the Mad Mouse. I thought I was going to end up on Goodwood Road. on that first right-hand turn at the top.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: It's absolutely terrifying.
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Speaker 6: It doesn't look like it's going to stop, does it, Con? Or does it ever feel like it was going to stop? That's a good one, the mad mouse. The zipper, I don't know if the zipper still exists. It shouldn't. I think that thing was a menace, an outrage. I did it once to impress a girl, and I will never do it again. Did it work? Yeah, I married her. Okay, good. Job done. I was too afraid of having to go on again with someone else, I think, so we just went with that.
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Speaker 7: She thought you were brave after that.
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Speaker 6: No, she knew I wasn't. She really didn't. Simon says, competing against Ashton Hearn in a goal-shooting match live on radio sounds terrifying.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: You've done that one.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it should be terrifying, Simon.
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Speaker 6: Ange says, snakes. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Slade's got a good one. Slade says, needles and blood tests.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 7: I have, yeah. COVID was tough for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: With needle phobias.
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Speaker 6: Well, I had a needle phobia my entire childhood, like a genuine, scared the hell out of me until the first time I went overseas and got, you know, inoculations for whatever the hell you get when you go into Asia, yellow fever, whatever it might all be. And I worked myself up into an absolute frenzy going, it was just down, I don't even think the place exists anymore, but just here in Hindmarsh Square.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And they said, you're going to need five injections. And I thought I was going to walk out of the room. But before I had a chance to think, I went to this other little room and the nurse turned up and just jammed these little needles in my arm like thumbtacks. Generally, she was putting needles into a cork board. Just bang, bang, bang, bang. And it was like, what do they call it? Aversion therapy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just, I had so many needles in such a short period of time. From that point on, I had no issue with it. She cured me.
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Speaker 16: Great.
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Speaker 6: Love that. Felt like a cork board at the time, though. Jess's worst nightmare is being swooped by a bird.
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Speaker 7: He says they're actual dinosaurs, terrifying animals.
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Speaker 6: Use Magpie Alert, Jess. Good website, Magpie Alert.
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Speaker 17: Oh.
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Speaker 6: No, Magpie Alert. For anyone who's worried about their walking, running, cycling, or whatever track, Magpie Alert is great. People go on. and they register where the and you can interactive map in your area you can see where all the magpies.
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Speaker 9: Are love that like the um barn me app tells you where the best barn me's in adelaide it's.
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Speaker 6: Way less fun than the barn me 70 minutes after six what terrifies you folks for the meat tray this morning uh thanks to the great people at windsor mate 61 doofy street mouth.
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Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 6: 21 minutes after six, talking fears for the meat trade this morning. Thanks to the wonderful Windsor Meats, 61 Doothley Street at Malvern, inspired by Timmy G's bravery. Tomorrow night, Timmy G's turning 60 show at the Kent Town. You can still get tickets at Humanitix. Dave in Alberton, good morning.
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Speaker 14: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Gorgeous sunrise out there at the moment if people could get their head out the window.
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Speaker 18: I'm absolutely terrified.
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Speaker 3: Of my wife asking, are you listening?
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Speaker 13: Because it doesn't matter what answer I.
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Speaker 18: Give, she knows the truth.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that one's only asked when the answer is known. Or maybe we're never listening, I'm not sure. Dave, that is genuinely.
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Speaker 7: I'm just so glad it's not only my husband.
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Speaker 6: Just chilled my blood here, just hearing the words in sequence.
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Speaker 7: Are you listening?
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Speaker 6: Andrew in Kirsbrook, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you?
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Speaker 6: Good, mate.
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Speaker 3: I've got a female goliath bird-eating spider that I've had for about three or four years now, so she's quite big.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: When you feed her, she comes out of the hole. That's scary as.
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Speaker 6: You've sent this through a picture, Andrew. It's a remarkable creature. How big?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I would say... She's as big as the palm of your hand.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But they get quite big. They can get, like, dinner plate size.
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Speaker 7: Is she a pet? Like, is she in an enclosure or is it a wild one?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. No, she's in an enclosure.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 6: So bird eating, what are you feeding it? Birds?
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. You can feed it, like, little kind of embryonic kind of mice, but that's kind of gross. No, I just feed it crickets.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: You buy the crickets from the pet store.
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Speaker 6: How long do they live for?
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Speaker 3: I'm not too sure. I think they're fairly long-lived, like in captivity, well, you know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: With a human looking after them, but I think they have a fair few predators in the wild.
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Speaker 6: I just wonder, because you hear most people that have sort of parrots and things that live to, you know, 90, and they've got to find someone to pass it down to. Who takes carriage if you get outlived... Boy, you're a.
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Speaker 2: Giant bird-eating spider.
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Speaker 3: Everyone in the household hates it.
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Speaker 7: Everyone will be waiting for that will reading. What's her name, Andrew? Does it have a name?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 13: Catherine.
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Speaker 6: You know what, Andrew? Everything about that was excellent. Thank you. Let's go to Thevenin.
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Speaker 7: I don't even need to know why it's called Catherine. It's just perfect.
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Speaker 6: No, it's great. Catherine the Great, maybe. Sam in Thevenin, good morning.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 20: You're not petrifies me.
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Speaker 21: You know when you cross the main road and you think, oh, I'm not going to cross all at once because I'm not going to get across, and you're standing in the middle of the island and you think, oh, my God. You know, the truck's going past, and then you sort of freeze. You thought, shit, I'm not going to make it. I'm not going to make it. And then you sort of walk a bit, and then you walk back.
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Speaker 19: You know, like, you don't know what to do. You're like a cat.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Sam. You can't hesitate. Ben and Sky, good morning.
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Speaker 22: Good morning. My greatest fear is Pauline Hanson becoming Prime Minister.
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Speaker 6: Well, look, it could happen, Ben. I don't know. I haven't got any good news for you on that front when it comes to your political concerns. I mean, obviously, we'd need to switch houses, but I don't think you'd have any issue winning a lower house seat based on current polling. So, yeah, Ben, people... All I will say is this, people's political fears come true every day. Frank in Birkenhead, good morning.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, Will and Stacey. When I was doing an acting certificate with a class at Actors Inc. in the city, each one of us had to.
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Speaker 13: We had to do a monologue of something and we had to say it and recite it in front of the class at the end towards the end of the... certificates that we were doing. We were all doing the same certificate. Now, I chose to go to Rundle Mall and recite the first soliloquy of Shakespeare's Richard III. Fantastic.
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Speaker 6: And it was.
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Speaker 13: Frightening for the first time to get used to saying it in people. What better place would you do it saying it in front of real people in the mall coming and going? And that gave me the practice of getting used to saying it to people, being at more ease saying when I had to say, when each one of us had to say at the class, we each had a turn, you know, at the.
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Speaker 2: End of a situation.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 7: Well done, Frank.
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Speaker 6: Well done, Frank. That would genuinely be terrifying.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And look, you obviously did it well enough that you weren't arrested, which is terrific. Well, at least he.
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Speaker 9: Wasn't holding out also free hugs sign.
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Speaker 6: That's true.
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Speaker 7: Those people should be arrested.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that is a bit strange. Top of 27 today. It's going to stay warm but get wet tomorrow. Top of 26, 4 to 20 millimetres of rain. Sunday, the temperature drops away massively. 17 at the top on Sunday. It's a cold one. 3 to 15 millimetres of rain. A bit drizzly on Monday. 18 at the top. 19 on Tuesday. It starts getting dry by Wednesday. 20 and warming up to 23 on Thursday. So on that trajectory, possibly by next weekend, it'll be back being hot again. Let's talk sport. Jase Kemp in the studio. Agostino Mitsubishi's demo clearance on now. Save on the Pajero Sport, the ASX Triton and Outlander Nailsworth in Mawson Lakes. You don't have any crippling fears, do you, Jase?
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Speaker 14: No, I don't.
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Speaker 8: One, and probably most reporters can attest to this, is doing a live cross, and just before you're about to do it, you go blank, and you just forget what you're talking about.
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Speaker 6: It sort of happens.
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Speaker 8: You have a long day, and you're covering a lot of things, and yeah, doing a live cross, going blank. That's my biggest fear.
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Speaker 9: It's happened to a journo or two over the years.
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Speaker 6: There's a turn of phrase about, I can't think what it is now. Frank's got me thinking about it being an acting person. Actors have the same thing before they go on stage and suddenly they go, I can't remember any of my lines. They've all gone. It's going to the white room or something. I can't think of what it's called. I always have some notes.
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Speaker 8: So that's the way to do it.
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Speaker 6: Well, there's so many facts and details you've got to go through. You might be out because you cover everything, Jase, not sports. Police report, when it happened, what the car was. Especially covering a court case, it has to be very accurate. Yeah. No, I get that. And you've got to do that first bit on camera without looking. You've got to have memorized it. Yeah, no, that's a good fear. I get that one. Hopefully that's enough. No such fear on radio. You can be totally protected. You can read it wherever the hell you want.
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Speaker 7: If you forget what you're talking about, that's fine.
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Speaker 6: Change the topic. Oh, we do all the time. I just keep talking and hope for the best. What's happening in the world of sport?
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Speaker 8: Well, Australia, they've lost to South Africa over there. They lost by innings and 31 runs. Travis Head, really the only... Shining light. He managed to salvage a century out of it. But, Jesus, some real questions now to be asked by the cricket players over there. They go to that third test now in Cape Town, the series decider, next week.
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Speaker 6: So, yeah, they're really struggling.
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Speaker 8: And it makes you question, you know, how they're going to go against New Zealand when they come back over here.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, weird test. You would have watched more of it than I have, Jase. I've seen some of the highlights. It's not as though they all got out just to bought unplayable deliveries. There were some pretty ordinary shots being played.
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Speaker 8: And that was probably exemplified by Marnus Labuschagne, who needed to just go in there and just, you know, go in there and bat through the day. Instead, he goes in and tries to hit the spinner for six and gets caught. You know, like it was just ridiculous sort of stuff. So, you know, fingers crossed that... Yeah, they can make amends next week. But yeah, it looks like Travis Head's probably locked down that spot as the opener. I don't think his batting partner will be there, though.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 6: When they come back on. They have to make a change on that front.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Nick Madison's in trouble.
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Speaker 6: What else is in fight? This time of year is tough for sport, I reckon, Jase. Sort of in between. Cricket's going on, but it doesn't feel like cricket season yet. Adelaide United are about to kick off their A-League season. Excellent.
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Speaker 8: So that's on Sunday. They go to Sydney to do that. So that's really exciting for them. They made it to a semi-final last season. So fingers crossed that they can. Go one better again. And, you know, geez, it's been a long time since we've had a championship here back in 2016.
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Speaker 6: That's Adelaide Oval. Cease in your seat. Were you there? I was there. It was the loudest I've ever heard Adelaide Oval.
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Speaker 8: It was an amazing atmosphere that day, and it was just incredible to see them win it.
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Speaker 6: So, fingers crossed they can do it again. Yeah, wouldn't be great. Good on you, Jase. Thanks, guys. Stay away from those live crosses. They are scary. I totally get that. 822-300-00 for your fears. Any texts we can sneak in?
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Speaker 7: I love this text from Meg in Kalangadu.
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Speaker 9: Having to go to Ikea because the last time I felt like I was never, ever getting out.
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Speaker 7: It was over 15 years ago. Never again.
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Speaker 6: She's not still in there, is she?
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Speaker 7: She's texting us from Ikea.
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Speaker 6: That place has to be designed so you can't leave, doesn't it?
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Speaker 7: Oh, it's so annoying. And you think there is a shortcut.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Just tell me how.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you've got to go through some sort of weird bathroom installation and then you manage to escape somehow. 8223 0000, your fears. This is good. I think this is good for everyone, this topic this morning. You text us too on 04808 1395. And in the process, win yourself a meat tray.
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Speaker 4: With Metro Homes, sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it.
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Speaker 7: All for you.
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Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 6: 21 minutes to 7. We are giving away meat tray this morning. That is not unusual. We're talking fears for the meat tray. Timmy G living out. I think Stacey and I share this. This might be our worst fear, being asked to go on stage and be funny.
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Speaker 7: And be funny.
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Speaker 6: And be funny. You're selling tickets to a comedy show. In fact, if it interests you, you can buy tickets to Timmy G's show tomorrow night at Humanitix, Timmy G's Turning 60. Got us thinking about fears. We've had fears, everything from sharks to flights to... IKEA. IKEA and questions people's wives ask them, like, are you listening? Or what did I just say? Peter in Salisbury East, what's your fear?
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Speaker 19: Good morning, folks. Yeah, 60-odd years ago I was in Coopapiti and I met a miner. He said, do you want to come down and have a look on the ground? And I said, yes. So we went out 20 metres down the shaft and then crawled for about another 20 metres to this little opening. And they said, right, you've got to crawl through here on your back because the roof is not too high. So I crawled through on my back and I'm not lying. the roof was just above my head. And we were scrounging around and all the light that we had was those carbine lights.
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Speaker 6: That's terrifying.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 19: The next minute, three blasts of gel ignite went off somewhere in the area and the roof started to trickle down.
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Speaker 6: No way.
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Speaker 19: He said, I think we'd better get out of here. So we eventually got out, but on the way out, He lost a plastic bag full of money. Now, I wasn't worried about the money, and I don't know whether he went back to find it, but I've never been underground since then, and I'm 82.
00:21:45
Speaker 6: How long were you under there for, Peter, do you think?
00:21:48
Speaker 19: About half an hour.
00:21:53
Speaker 6: They say claustrophobia is a phobia. I think every human being feels it in a space like that. I'm not convinced. Okay, there are some cavers. What do they call them? Cave divers like Richard Harris and others that might get a perverse thrill out of it. But I'm not convinced any human being feels comfortable crawling through that sort of space like that.
00:22:14
Speaker 3: No.
00:22:14
Speaker 6: That's not fun at all.
00:22:15
Speaker 7: No, I couldn't do it. This one from Sonia is a funny one. Ice skating. It's not funny, actually.
00:22:21
Speaker 6: Sorry, Sonia.
00:22:22
Speaker 7: Fear of falling and the blade will skate over my fingers.
00:22:26
Speaker 6: That's a very specific fear.
00:22:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's crossed my mind.
00:22:30
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:22:30
Speaker 7: I don't ice skate very often.
00:22:32
Speaker 6: It clearly doesn't happen very often.
00:22:33
Speaker 11: No.
00:22:33
Speaker 6: Because there's lots of ice skating in the world. You don't hear too many blade-related issues, do you?
00:22:38
Speaker 7: I don't know.
00:22:38
Speaker 3: Do you?
00:22:39
Speaker 7: Now I've got the mental image in my head.
00:22:41
Speaker 6: Maybe we live in the wrong part of the world for that.
00:22:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably.
00:22:44
Speaker 6: No, surely not. I just can't do it. It is embarrassing how bad I am at ice skating. Really? It may be the thing I'm least capable of on planet Earth. And that's a fairly crowded field, but it stands proudly above the rest. It's just pathetic. 8.87. Let's turn our attention to the news cycle this morning and give a bit of a preview of what's coming up over the next few weeks. You've doubtless heard that it's midterm season in the United States. We are less than two weeks away from the official polling day, but mail ballots have started to be counted. There are various states, depending on rules and whatnot, we're starting to actually get some early returns. So there's some data to this. And you think, well, what's the significance to Australians? What's the significance to people living in Adelaide? The midterms– actually, let's take a step back. The way this works, we know US presidential elections every four years. The House of Representatives in the US is every two years, so at a presidential election and during the middle of the term, the midterm. The Senate, which works a bit like our Senate, where there's a fixed number of representatives for every state, over there, two for every state. Here we have– Proportional. We have it proportionally. a third of that goes up every two years. So it sort of works similar to what we have here. The significance of it for you as an Australian, why do I care about any of this? Because the US president has had, majority in both houses, total unfettered control of all the levers that are available to the US president. So that means now, if that was to change, and you hear this terminology, the Dems were to flip at one of the houses or maybe both. They can frustrate the agenda of the president. They can start impeachment. They can put people on trial. They can question people. They have a lot more control just to frustrate it. So that means things like tariffs affects Australian industry. That means things like AUKUS potentially. Does it get scrutinised more? Are there more sceptics? Is it fast-tracked? Just these sorts of things that political dynamic changes and they will have impacts on Australia. What about the US attitude to the war in Ukraine? What about the attitudes to Taiwan? These are all things that we are directly tied to that could shift in the next two weeks. So that's the broad Australian perspective of it. Beyond, of course, US politics is endlessly fascinating. Bruce Wolpe is the senior fellow at the United States Studies Center and joins us now. I should just let you do that, Bruce. You would have done a much better job. Good morning to you.
00:25:05
Speaker 23: Good morning to you, Stacey. It's great to talk with you again. And Will, you passed today's civics test. There is no one I'm telling you, you know more than most Americans.
00:25:17
Speaker 6: Bruce, what have you read into the combination of early voter data and the polling going into midterms? I know it's sort of hard to forecast. What do you expect?
00:25:30
Speaker 23: Early voting data seems to be skewing heavily to the Democrats. It's up by 20%, 30%, 40% in states like Texas, for example. So that's really significant. As far as the polling is concerned, what impresses me, as someone who's followed and been involved in these elections for many, many years, is that every successive poll shows more and more Democratic strength. And it keeps building. So states that are absolutely Republican have voted for Trump with double-digit margins, over 10%, over 20%. Places like Kansas, places like Iowa, places like Mississippi over the past week, all Senate races. Democrats are now highly competitive in all those states. And that could be a breakthrough moment. Maybe it doesn't happen. But it's scaring the hell out of the Republican Party. The president, he doesn't get scared because he's not on the ballot. But Republicans, they know they've lost the House and they're fearful that they're going to lose the Senate.
00:26:33
Speaker 6: So what would that mean practically for Donald Trump and what he wants to achieve in the last two years of his term?
00:26:40
Speaker 23: Two scenarios. If the Democrats only capture the House but fail in the Senate, it means that Trump's legislative agenda is dead and it won't pass the House unless they agree with it. And there will be just a bonfire of investigations on him, the people around him, money, ethics, and so forth. Sort of like what happened when Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, you might remember, in the first midterm election in 2018 when Trump became President. If both houses are Democratic, something very interesting happens. The Senate has to confirm all of Trump's senior appointees, Supreme Court justices, cabinet officials, top military brass, and others. So the confirmation process, they can hold up, stop Trump appointing people that Democrats don't like. But what I think will happen if both houses are Democratic and they control the Congress... is that the key issue in this election is still, as Bill Clinton said in 92, it's still the economy, stupid. And it's the economy that is the biggest driver of sentiment against Trump and leading to his ultra-low approval ratings. He has the worst approval ratings of any president since Harry Truman in 1952. And so affordability is it. And it's hitting harder in America because Australia, even though it's hitting harder here, America doesn't have the same safety net that Australia has. And so what I think the Democrats in the House and Senate are going to do is put together packages of legislation to cushion against the affordability crisis, pass it, and then Trump will veto it because he hates what Democrats do. And they'll do that again and again. And that means that and Republicans will vote against these packages. And so this election is really about 2028 and the presidency, because what they will show is that they are the mainstream and Trump is not. And so if the Democrats can control Congress, they can build on it for the 2028 presidential election. This is exactly what happened in 2006. George W. Bush was president. Second term, midterm election, second term. And you had forever wars that people were, they just disliked intensely, Iraq and Afghanistan. The economy was softening, would go into the global financial crisis. Democrats took the House and the Senate, and two years later, Barack Obama was elected president. And that is the road Democrats want to be on in this election.
00:29:07
Speaker 7: I find U.S.
00:29:08
Speaker 9: Politics harder to follow in that respect, given they don't technically have a formal opposition leader.
00:29:15
Speaker 7: So it's hard as an Australian to get invested there.
00:29:18
Speaker 9: In the election without knowing, you know, I know even here we don't vote for a leader, but we know who the prime minister and the alternate prime minister could be in an election. And that's why I find American politics somewhat harder to follow.
00:29:31
Speaker 23: It's really an infirmity in the American system. And what Democrats across the country in doing their preselections, their primaries for Democratic candidates that are in this election coming up, they are angry for exactly the reason you're saying, Stacey. People are not– they're angry at the Democrats who are not standing up tough enough against Trump and fighting harder. So those candidates who have been selected to run and are on the ballot, they said, I'm going to go to Washington and fight for you. And they're the ones who won. the support of Democrats. And it's the leaders as well. Okay, you don't have an opposition leader, but, I mean, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House, Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader in the Senate, they didn't have the common sense to get together every morning and hold a joint press conference and say, since you went to bed last night, here are the six atrocities that Trump has committed, and this is what we're going to do about them. They don't do it. And Democrats are frustrated. They want to check on Trump. This election... Well, as you were saying, Will, the midterm elections are always a referendum on the president. Presidential elections are, who do you want for the future? Who do you want to lead the country? So this is a referendum on Trump. And the leaders in the Congress haven't stood up on a consistent basis and saying, this is what we're going to do. And it's hurt them. But the anger is such, the blue wave is building.
00:30:51
Speaker 6: Great to chat with you, Bruce. We really appreciate your time, mate. That was terrific.
00:30:55
Speaker 23: Remember to vote often as much as you can, okay? And a democracy sausage, too, after you vote.
00:31:03
Speaker 6: That's exactly right. That's all part of the deal down here. Bruce Wolfie from the United States Studies Center, he's the senior fellow there, and we always enjoy our chats with him about what's going on in the US. Interesting international picture, as much as we can read tea leaves in infer about what's happening internationally, but just as I wonder, just as we saw the rise of the populist right with MAGA and with reform in the UK, they're both having a bad moment, at least polling-wise right now. And polls, okay, polls, believe it or not, but there is some science to this. In the United States, clearly we'll find out definitively the polling says it's going badly. In the UK, the Conservatives have just overtaken reform for the first time in a long time as the There's the opposition. And now the conservatives there were polling way worse than the Libs here.
00:31:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
00:31:51
Speaker 6: They genuinely didn't look like they were going to exist as a party. So, and that might be, they've got a really good, Kemi Badenoch looks like a really impressive leader there. The only reason I raise any of this is previously it has foreshadowed movements in Australian politics. So, maybe it's something to watch out for here.
00:32:09
Speaker 7: The rise of the right coming to an end.
00:32:11
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that style of politics. Maybe has it had a moment and is it dropping off? Or are these things entirely based on the people that are locally available to represent them? Is there just a better leader for the Conservatives, which are the Libs in the UK, than we've got here? Maybe. But it's interesting to think about. Let's talk about the weather. Christy Johnson of the Bureau of Meteorology joins us. I think the weather is actually more complicated than politics at the moment, Christy. What is happening? So today's a hot day, a wet day, or a cold day today?
00:32:42
Speaker 1: Look, none of the above. No, look, it was a warm day. Sorry, a warm night after our hot day yesterday. We've been down in the 20s all night pretty much. We only got down to 20.7, which is actually closer to our average maximum temperature. It's about 21. So, yeah, warm night. Look, there is a southerly change. At the moment, we've got very light northerly or northeasterly winds, but there is a bit of a southwesterly change that's pushing across Kangaroo Island at the moment. I think that will push into the city sort of around lunchtime. And so we'll have sort of southwesterly winds through the afternoon, which will keep a bit of a lid on the temperature. So just the top of 27. But we will see a fair bit of sunshine today. We've got some cloud at the moment. I think we'll see that breaking up and we'll see some sunny breaks. There is the chance of a shower or two as that sort of wind change comes through. Maybe even a rumble of thunder about the sort of northern suburbs, most likely sort of out towards the hills. but it's going to be pretty low rainfall totals expected. There's a stronger change that comes through later tomorrow and into Sunday morning. That's where we're expecting more significant rainfall and the potential for more thunderstorms as well. We're probably on the edge of where we could see severe storms. The severe storms tomorrow are probably more likely around the lofties and eastwards, but we'll be watching that to see if anything could get towards the city tomorrow. But yes, tomorrow, 26 degrees before that stronger front comes through later in the day and drops the temperature to 17 degrees for Sunday.
00:34:12
Speaker 6: All right, Christy, thank you for that. Christy Johnson at the Bureau of Meteorology. Let's head to Save Poles. In comes to Holly Frisby joins us. Holly, a hoon driver has been reported overnight at Aldinga Beach.
00:34:22
Speaker 17: Yeah, good morning, Will. That's correct. About 8.30 last night, police received reports of vehicles speeding and hoon driving on the Aldinga Beach foreshore. When police arrived, they observed a white Holden ute doing a burnout on the sand for an extended period of time. Police stopped the driver, an 18-year-old man from Henley Beach South, and checks revealed he was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence. The driver was reported for misuse of a motor vehicle and driving while disqualified. His ute was impounded for 28 days and he will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.
00:34:53
Speaker 9: And there are investigations into a house fire at Elizabeth North Holly.
00:34:57
Speaker 17: About 1.30 this morning, police and MFS were called to May North Road, Elizabeth North, to report to the house fire. Fire crews extinguished the blaze not before significant damage was caused.
00:35:06
Speaker 2: To the property.
00:35:07
Speaker 17: The occupant was taken to hospital for a medical assessment and crime scene investigators will be in attendance later today to determine the cause of the fire. And we do ask anyone with information or who has CCTV or dash cam footage... that can assist with the investigation to contact Crimestoppers online or on 1800 333 000. All right, good stuff, Holly.
00:35:27
Speaker 6: Thank you. Seeing Constable Holly Frisby there from SAPOL. Let's check traffic for the first time on this Friday morning. Long live recreation and the all-new RAV4 plug-in hybrid at Jarvis Toyota, Brighton Road, Summit and Park. Thank you.
00:35:37
Speaker 4: Knockdown Bill 2 with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
00:35:45
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:35:55
Speaker 6: Two minutes to seven. I think we've got a little top seven before seven. The top seven before seven. All right. We have top seven before seven storm songs. Warm today, stormy over the weekend. Here we go. Number seven.
00:36:09
Speaker 13: A bit.
00:36:18
Speaker 6: Of Adele in the seventh spot. Number six. Guns N' Roses. These next two actually would have been my top two, I reckon. Guns N' Roses, November Rain, and number five, The Doors.
00:36:35
Speaker 14: Yep.
00:36:35
Speaker 6: That's number five, Riders On The Storm. I'm intrigued what the boys have come up with for the top four there. Number four, Superdrip. Okay, I accept that. That's not bad. Yeah, I'll allow that.
00:36:56
Speaker 7: Number three.
00:36:58
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:36:59
Speaker 6: Wasn't quite what the Bureau forecast.
00:37:01
Speaker 7: In the number two spot.
00:37:03
Speaker 6: Is Prince made it twice this week? I'm tipping on that. The guys just might want to be cutting less audio.
00:37:25
Speaker 7: Are they just looking at Prince songs and going, what list can we come up with?
00:37:29
Speaker 6: I think they're starting with Purple Rain. What top seven can we come up with? Number one.
00:37:33
Speaker 7: Thunderstruck.
00:37:37
Speaker 6: That would have been.
00:37:39
Speaker 7: Mine, I think.
00:37:40
Speaker 6: I guess Thunder's weather, isn't it? It's a feature in a storm. Yeah, why not? And they've got an honourable mention.
00:38:02
Speaker 5: Oh.
00:38:03
Speaker 24: So what?
00:38:04
Speaker 7: Power.
00:38:06
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
00:38:07
Speaker 7: Thunder.
00:38:07
Speaker 6: Patty just said power, thunder.
00:38:09
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:38:13
Speaker 7: Well, Thunder's the mascot.
00:38:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's not in the song at all, is it? We've got the power to win.
00:38:19
Speaker 7: The logo's the lightning? What about this is not stormy, Will?
00:38:22
Speaker 6: The logo's not in the song.
00:38:24
Speaker 7: Power outage in a big storm?
00:38:24
Speaker 6: We've got a logo of a storm. That's not a line in the song, by the way. You were doing so well under the honourable mention. All right, 5AA news time.
00:38:38
Speaker 4: Knock down. Build two. With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment.
00:38:44
Speaker 7: Metro Homes. They do it all for you.
00:38:46
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:38:51
Speaker 6: Seven after seven. Good morning to you if you're joining us for the first time this Friday the 23rd of October. It's a good Friday feel this morning. A bit of warmth in the air. There's a meat tray on offer thanks to Windsor Meats at Malvern. And there is fear as well because we're asking you about your fears. Timmy G's comedy show is back tomorrow. I don't think he's afraid, but the concept of a comedy show is in and of itself terrifying. You can get tickets to Humanitix to Timmy G's Turning 60. We're asking you this morning about your fears, and there have been a real wide variety of fears. Some people have lived them out. Some people have imagined fears that we didn't think were real, like the fear of going ice skating and being run over or being stabbed by a blade on the skate. And we said, well, that doesn't really happen. Colin says, that's not true. It happened to me. He sent us a picture. He said, my finger got ice skated in grade six. I'm not sure that that's the turn of phrase, but we're happy to go with it. Maybe it is. It was on a school outing. I was showing off a fellow over in front of me, one of the fathers that were there that day. He went to try and go over me, parted his leg so I would go through the middle, and he ran over my finger. He said the blood went everywhere all over the ice. Sorry if you're eating your breakfast. That's the power of Talkback Radio. We can say that incident has never happened to allay someone's fear, and within five minutes someone texts us saying, no, that exact thing happened to me.
00:40:10
Speaker 7: So fear confirmed?
00:40:11
Speaker 6: Fear confirmed. Is that what we're saying? We're saying fear confirmed.
00:40:13
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, we're not helping anyone with their fears today. We're only making it worse.
00:40:19
Speaker 6: Don't call in and say you imagined something that may never happen because we'll have a listener that will happen too.
00:40:23
Speaker 7: We will make sure.
00:40:24
Speaker 6: We confirm it. Keep your fears coming through. We have the meat trader giveaway by 9 o'clock this morning.
00:40:29
Speaker 7: Sharon says the dentist drill.
00:40:30
Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
00:40:33
Speaker 6: Yes. Why is the dentistry advanced with other technologies? I know it has to some extent, but surely we can just have pain and sound free dentistry in 2026. Sound free would be big, I think. Sound free.
00:40:46
Speaker 9: I think that would go a long way. It would be like watching Jaws without the soundtrack. It doesn't have the impact.
00:40:52
Speaker 6: You're absolutely right. It loses its sting a little bit. Yeah, come on dentistry.
00:40:58
Speaker 9: And Phil said he hasn't flown in 40 years. We asked him why.
00:41:01
Speaker 7: We wanted to know more.
00:41:02
Speaker 9: He said, I had a trip from hell to New Zealand when I was 20 and it just got worse after that.
00:41:08
Speaker 7: Now I won't fly.
00:41:09
Speaker 6: Fair enough, Phil.
00:41:10
Speaker 7: I kind of don't want to know anymore. I appreciate.
00:41:13
Speaker 6: We're not going to investigate that one any further.
00:41:14
Speaker 7: Let's leave that one there, I think.
00:41:15
Speaker 6: You're in the running with the meat tray, Phil.
00:41:18
Speaker 17: Yep.
00:41:18
Speaker 9: Well, at nine minutes past seven, there have been reports in the advertiser they've done a great job this week in regards to bikey links to the Torrens to Darlington and charges that have been laid over this.
00:41:32
Speaker 7: And there was reporting around... When the.
00:41:35
Speaker 9: Government found out about these suspected bikey links on Monday, was it Monday?
00:41:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:41:42
Speaker 9: We had the Transport Minister, Joe Sokach, on the program, and this is what he told us about the timeline of when he found out.
00:41:49
Speaker 6: Joe Sokach is the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and has called in on this. Minister, did your government learn about this by reading the Sunday Mail?
00:41:57
Speaker 2: Look, largely, yes, really.
00:42:01
Speaker 7: The Advertiser is reporting now that the Minister knew for a month. So we thought, let's clarify this.
00:42:07
Speaker 9: What's happened here? Joe Sockarch joins you again this morning. Good morning to you, Minister.
00:42:11
Speaker 2: Good morning, Stacey.
00:42:13
Speaker 7: So when did you find out?
00:42:15
Speaker 2: So we found out about litigation on the 18th of October in the Sunday Mail. This is the civil litigation that I've subsequently learned was lodged on the 12th of October. That was the material thing that enabled me to intervene directly on that day and to ensure that the contract was suspended. We, about four weeks before that, my staff member attended a meeting with representatives of a shareholder of Career Boss where a number of things were raised including a number of allegations or unfortunately more so the legal perspective hearsay around the shareholder dispute including an individual. We thought at that time, and certainly my advisor thought at that time, that it was still important enough to act immediately. That referral was immediately made to the Torres-Darlington Alliance for further investigation. And also the individual, the shareholder representative, was directed to provide evidence, information, anything that he possibly could to the Torres-Darlington Alliance or other law enforcement authorities. But what materially enabled the government to act was learning of the civil proceedings of shareholders suing other shareholders on the 18th of October. And I copped a bit of heat about that, Stacey, and it certainly ruffled a few feathers in the industry. But it's a decision that I'll take again because we will not accept, even though this is a civil matter, a matter that's playing out where one shareholder is arguing against another shareholder, We won't cop that and we simply will not allow that on the biggest project in our state's history.
00:43:58
Speaker 6: So, Minister, your staff member acted on this suggestion that there may be a bikey interference or some sort of bikey entity trying to muscle his way onto the Torrance to Darlington project immediately. Yes, yes, yes. But did he not tell you immediately or did you just forget about it when we asked you about it on Monday?
00:44:19
Speaker 2: He told me about it about two days later, Will, so he briefed me about two days later on the action that had been taken, the referral that had been made to the Torrens, the Darlington Alliance.
00:44:29
Speaker 7: So why did you.
00:44:30
Speaker 9: Tell us on Monday that you largely found out about this case in the Sunday Mail?
00:44:35
Speaker 2: Look, Stacey, that is my sort of consistency across this has been pretty upfront. I found out, as I did tell you on Monday, I'll be very clear about it today, found out about the Sunday Mail, sorry, the civil litigation, the material reason that we were then able to suspend the contract in the Sunday Mail. And that's really, really poor.
00:44:56
Speaker 7: But you knew about the suspected bikey links a month ago?
00:44:59
Speaker 2: So we, and we acted immediately. We acted immediately upon any information that we had.
00:45:05
Speaker 7: We're not commenting on the actions after that. We're commenting on your words, Minister.
00:45:08
Speaker 9: You have known about these suspected links for a month and then you came on our program on Monday and said you only found out about it the day before. And we now find out you've known about it for a month. So what's going on there? Why weren't you honest on Monday?
00:45:23
Speaker 2: Look, I've been pretty, I've been very clear in this, Stacey, from Monday, I think, early with yourself and other radio that morning. I've been speaking to media all week about this and very clear about the timelines now as well. These are two things that have happened. We acted immediately upon both. One of these things I was personally involved in, of course, one of them I wasn't in a meeting. Nevertheless, within an hour of that meeting occurring, immediate action was taken. And that action that was taken and the outcomes that arose from that were to confirm very clearly that that this individual has not ever stepped foot on the T2D, does not have a contract with the T2D and has no involvement in the T2D. Now, we also were very clear, my staff member has advised me at that meeting, that the representatives of Career Boss were directed to provide anything they could, anything they had outside of hearsay to the tolerance, the violence and lies.
00:46:31
Speaker 22: I guess the reason.
00:46:32
Speaker 9: We're asking about the timeline of when you knew what and why you... said what you said on Monday, that you only found out about it on Sunday, which we now know to not be the case. The reason we're asking about that is because how do we not know that this is more widespread in the Torrens to Darlington project or other projects in South Australia? How can we trust that this is not more widespread if you told us on Monday you only found out about it on Sunday, but we now know you've known for a month?
00:46:59
Speaker 2: The second part of that question is a really fair question, Stacey. I'm happy to speak a little bit about it, but I can also be very clear that So our conversation on Monday, and I do apologise if there was any confusion that was provided between you and I on that, but my very clear answer to your question on Monday was in respect to the litigation, the civil proceedings that had been exposed by the Sunday Mail that enabled us to act immediately. That's what we did. That's what we took action on on Sunday morning. And that's why Career Boss are off our site. And as far as I'm concerned, I don't ever want to see them back on our site either. In respect to the broader project, this has been a project that was contracted a number of years ago. There are a series of agencies involved. The Department for Infrastructure and Transport, the Torres of Darlington, our police do speak regularly. They're constantly engaged. I am told, and I'm advised by not just my department and the Alliance, but by other agencies that we have incredibly high standards. But it reminds us that these nefarious figures, you know, organised crime is called organised for a reason. But we'll continue to try and gain the system to work around things. That's why we have to be eternally vigilant. It's why we have to have non-negotiable standards. That's precisely why I will not equivocate from the decision that I made to take action immediately when I was given reason and cause to do so, even though it's ruffled feathers, even though it's put nose in a joint, we'll do exactly the same thing again.
00:48:41
Speaker 6: So for a long time fear there might be organised crime that will try to get in on a project like this. We've got the blueprint, we've seen it in Victoria, so it's played out. So then your office is told about it, you hear about it, you take action immediately to make sure that can't happen in your words today. Did you make any public comments at the time about the action you'd taken? Did you tell anyone in South Australia that You've managed to stamp out this threat?
00:49:02
Speaker 2: Well, at that point, Will, the investigation that had been taking place, or that was taking place, was undertaken by the Torres-Darlington Alliance. Confirmed, as it does today, that this individual, the biking individual, has never had any involvement whatsoever. in the Torrance Darlington project.
00:49:21
Speaker 6: Without trying to, and then you took action in your words. So when would have we found out in the absence of the Sunday Mail report?
00:49:27
Speaker 2: So what I was able to take action on, because one shareholder has taken action.
00:49:31
Speaker 9: We've heard about the action, Minister. Will's asking about when you were planning on making it public.
00:49:37
Speaker 2: Well, we made it public within minutes, and I know that the.
00:49:41
Speaker 5: How?
00:49:41
Speaker 2: I think the Premier spoke to this on Sunday morning within.
00:49:44
Speaker 6: No, but you took action a month ago.
00:49:46
Speaker 2: We did, and we investigated.
00:49:49
Speaker 7: So why didn't we know about it a month ago?
00:49:51
Speaker 2: Well, what I can tell you is that I and the department and other agencies are investigating matters all the time.
00:50:00
Speaker 6: There are.
00:50:01
Speaker 2: We don't stand still. I expect the agencies, as they are and as have briefed me... to undertake every single day, as they did on this case, due diligence, investigations, speaking to appropriate authorities, because we will not allow, as we have right through this, for nefarious actors seeking to influence, improper influence. We have the highest of standards across this contract. there is a very clear expectation from every level of government. And I can tell you that these types of investigations are occurring every single day. And I think the expectation from.
00:50:36
Speaker 7: The public is that they will get notified when something like this happens.
00:50:40
Speaker 9: So will you notify people in a more timely manner next time? Or have you learned anything from this?
00:50:46
Speaker 2: So communication is important, Stacia. I agree with you on that. And where we can undertake appropriate communication is But what I don't want to do, and I would be acting in the face of being able to actually undertake proper intelligence gathering investigations and supporting our agencies in doing so, is to sort of run up the flagpole every bit of work that is being undertaken by appropriate authorities. You know, communication is important. I agree with you. And where any department, any agency can do that better, it would be my expectation that But I wouldn't want to say that every piece of work that every government agency and appropriate investigative authority can do could be spoken about publicly in a way or in a timely way that wouldn't compromise the other work that we're doing.
00:51:38
Speaker 6: Until it gets reported in the Sunday Mail, so I guess we'll just wait for that next time. Thank you, Minister. The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Jo Sockarch. Ashton Hearn scored in the leader of the Liberal Party. Ashton Hearn, good morning to you.
00:51:49
Speaker 23: Good morning.
00:51:51
Speaker 6: What's your take on all this?
00:51:53
Speaker 25: Oh, it's just an absolute joke, to be honest. I mean, the minister was on your program and was deliberately misleading about what he knew and when. And if it weren't for the investigative work of the advertiser, then South Australians would have absolutely no idea that we've got all these allegations of bikies trying to muscle in on our biggest ever infrastructure build in South Australia. And I'd say two more points. First of all, it's this cloud of secrecy that we saw in Victoria that was allowed to fester away and eventually saw $ 15 billion worth of taxpayer money flow to corrupt and criminal organisations. And secondly, the Premier was out there on the weekend saying he's got a zero-tolerance approach to this type of stuff. But what about having a zero-tolerance approach to the Minister that is in charge of delivering this project for South Australia? As soon as you start to allow an inch of secrecy on this type of stuff, I just think it's a It's a slippery slope, and I think the minister and the government still have enormous questions to answer.
00:52:58
Speaker 6: Ashton Hearn, the leader of the opposition, calling into the program. Lots of text coming through on this. Might take a quick break, and we'll get to some of those very, very shortly. Timmy G, too, as we turn our attention to sport on this Friday morning. Long live recreation and the all-new RAV4 plug-in hybrid at Jarvis Toyota, Brighton Road, Somerton Park.
00:53:15
Speaker 4: Knock down bill two with metro homes sell one and move on keep the other as an investment metro homes they do it all for you.
00:53:23
Speaker 5: Will goodings with stacy lee this is five double a breakfast.
00:53:29
Speaker 6: 26 minutes after seven a lot of love for your uh prosecutorial uh style stace on the text line coming through at the moment zero four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five i i did laugh at like this one um The text says, I have a fear. This is our Metro Friday question, of course, this morning.
00:53:46
Speaker 7: What's your fear?
00:53:46
Speaker 6: I have a fear of a government minister answering a question correctly, which is why I have no problem listening to your breakfast show. Well, that's good. That's good. You won't get that here. A lot of feedback that suggests this is an important issue that I'm trying to paraphrase has not really been handled to the satisfaction of our listeners. People are angry about this. People are angry about it. Some are defending, saying, why does it matter when we get told? If the right thing was done by the government, why does it matter? Others are saying that this....
00:54:18
Speaker 7: Some of them we can't read.
00:54:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually, we can't read many of them. But anyway, a lot of people said it didn't go particularly well. That's the nice way of putting it. Let's go to Timmy G.
00:54:24
Speaker 5: Speaking about report cards with distinctions, here's Ginebra.
00:54:30
Speaker 6: Tim Ginebra on 5AA Breakfast.
00:54:32
Speaker 16: Timmy G!
00:54:35
Speaker 6: I don't know if you're aware of this, Timmy, but you are the inspiration for our meat trade this morning. We're asking people about their worst fears inspired by the idea of having to do stand-up comedy. Your show tomorrow night. Timmy G's turning 60 at the Kent Town. You get tickets at Humanitix, I think, at the moment, albeit I think they're going at the moment. Good morning to you, Tim. How are you feeling? Are you nervous?
00:54:57
Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah.
00:54:58
Speaker 6: I always do get nervous, to tell you the truth.
00:55:00
Speaker 10: I think it's the closest thing to actually... playing a game of football again where you're standing in the race, the expectation of going out and will you perform or won't you perform, and, yeah, those nerves do kick in. But one thing that I don't have is fear, and I heard you talking about it with listeners. They reckon that people's– one of their greatest fear is being asked to go up on the stage and speak. My greatest fear is not being asked.
00:55:27
Speaker 7: LAUGHTER That would have never happened.
00:55:32
Speaker 9: There's never been Timmy G in a room where he hasn't been asked to speak.
00:55:35
Speaker 6: Are you afraid yet of the concept of trying to clap between push-ups? Yeah, yeah. Look, I put that one away.
00:55:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
00:55:43
Speaker 6: You shelved that one. Didn't quite work.
00:55:45
Speaker 10: Out last time with the best of SA. Broke my nose again.
00:55:49
Speaker 6: You beauty. That's going to live forever, live in 5AA for me, that one, Timmy. What's happening sports-wise at the moment? And is anything worse than the Australian cricket team? Yeah, look, they won the first one and looked pretty good. I must say, probably on the back of one man, which was Matt Renshaw. So it probably hit a few cracks. And what happened in this one was we were completely humiliated.
00:56:14
Speaker 10: Not very often. I think we were saying only three times in the last 40 years have they been asked to follow on, let alone get defeated like that. So it's sort of been... bubbling away for a while. Australia, I think, have been carried by their bowlers. And when it didn't happen this time, and again, you know, just the 99 was probably one of the most reckless innings that, you know, they played.
00:56:38
Speaker 6: So, yeah, it's disappointing.
00:56:40
Speaker 10: Can they come back and win that third one? Well, it starts even, doesn't it?
00:56:43
Speaker 6: So I think if.
00:56:44
Speaker 10: They win it, they sort of, again, maybe get away with a few things that need addressing. And, you know, there's been the constant, in and out of openers, which I just don't think is doing those particular people well. So I put that on the selectors. I don't put that on the guys that have been thrown to the wolves.
00:57:02
Speaker 6: Do you feel like, certainly it's slightly before my time, but I reckon our listeners might have a view on this as well, that this is the biggest generational crisis we're going to have in Australian cricket that we've probably had since Thompson-Lilley sort of chapel kind of era, where, yes, we've been carried by the bowlers. They're all in their mid-30s now. There doesn't seem to be any youth being blooded. The top six, we can't find six actual test cricketers, I'm convinced. We've got Travis Head and a few others that are trying their best. Steve Smith still has something to say, but other than that, it's pretty thin. And there's no youth on that front either. It feels like we're about to come to the end of a generational cliff, the likes of which we haven't seen in cricket for four or five decades, Tim. I think you're spot on, Will.
00:57:44
Speaker 10: When Lily Marsh and Chappell all retired on the same day, there was a chasm there that just took too well and Borda took over five years later to sort of really toughen them up and get them back into what was a tough Australian cricket side for 25 years after that. So I think at the moment we're in a bit of trouble exactly on that front. And you look at carried by bowlers, well, the guy who comes in every time maybe somebody's out, is Scott Boland, who does well, but he's 37. Yeah, that's right. You're going, well, who is that understudy? Who is that next one coming along who's maybe late 20s? You know, that's what we're looking for. And then, like the batting you're saying, it's probably, there's been a mainstay, but Labashane's really struggling. You've got sort of Smith still hanging around at four and, you know, still.
00:58:34
Speaker 6: Eking out some good innings.
00:58:35
Speaker 10: But, yeah, Travis Head is, you know, like he's still making runs, but Is he the right man for the opener? He put his hand up. He was the one who put his hand up when there was a big gap and said, oh, look, I'll fill it. And he's still doing well there. But you couldn't say there's a lot of consistency outside of that. So it is a concern for Australia. And I know that they're sort of mucking around with it. But you can't bring a guy in like Constance where they did it for a couple of tests and then throw him back out as a 19-year-old. It damages your confidence too much. They've got to you know, make sure they earn their spot and then stick with them.
00:59:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, it feels like it's coming. Hey, best of luck tomorrow night, Tim.
00:59:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, good luck, Timmy.
00:59:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm going to need it. No, you'll be right.
00:59:20
Speaker 5: You'll be right.
00:59:20
Speaker 7: Happy birthday.
00:59:21
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:59:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, for six months ago.
00:59:23
Speaker 13: Thanks.
00:59:24
Speaker 6: Hey, you had to write the material. Stuff doesn't write itself.
00:59:27
Speaker 7: Hey, you're the one celebrating now.
00:59:30
Speaker 6: Timmy G, turning 60 tomorrow night at the Kentown Hotel. You can get tickets via Humanitix.
00:59:38
Speaker 4: Knockdown Bill 2 with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
00:59:47
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:59:51
Speaker 6: 20 minutes to wait. When we spoke with Koshi earlier in the week, he was suggesting that maybe we might dodge a rate rise on Melbourne Cup Day because of the unemployment data and the trimmed mean inflation data had come down a little bit. So there was some hope we might dodge it. I'm going to say right here and now it's going to go up, and here's why. There is a line-up at the Apple store today in Rundle Mall for the new Apple flip phone. We've just been told. There's a massive line-up in Rundle Mall today. The base entry-level flip phone. So Apple never had a flip phone. I can't describe any better than that. Folds. A folding phone. Sorry, a folding phone. The base entry-level 256 gigabyte version, so it's the smallest memory capacity one you can get, $ 3, 500. What? For a.
01:00:40
Speaker 16: Phone.
01:00:40
Speaker 6: And there's a lineup.
01:00:42
Speaker 7: How do people have that money in this economy?
01:00:43
Speaker 15: Yeah.
01:00:45
Speaker 7: What about the big one?
01:00:47
Speaker 6: The biggest, the two terabyte phone, $ 5, 899 for a phone. For a phone.
01:00:54
Speaker 7: I've had cars worth less than that.
01:00:57
Speaker 6: Yeah. My first car was less than that.
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Speaker 7: My most recent car was worth less than that.
01:01:03
Speaker 6: If Michelle Bullock walks down Rundle Mall today, she might just raise rates as of right now. Don't even wait. Cancel the meeting. Let's just do this. I can't believe that.
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Speaker 9: $ 3, 500.
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Speaker 6: I knew they were coming out. I had no idea they were that expensive.
01:01:15
Speaker 16: Me either.
01:01:16
Speaker 6: Anyone getting a folding phone today?
01:01:18
Speaker 7: How many screens can I break on a foldable phone?
01:01:21
Speaker 6: It just feels like more breakable parts, doesn't it?
01:01:23
Speaker 7: I do like the idea of it. I'm not buying one.
01:01:26
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:01:27
Speaker 6: I can't believe they're that expensive. That's unbelievable. Let's go to Port Nolunga South. That scared me. Paul, what scares you for the meat trade this morning?
01:01:34
Speaker 21: Hey, g'day.
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Speaker 22: I'd just like to say, in the age, 78, same as Cornsy. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the King of England.
01:01:42
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:01:42
Speaker 22: But the story goes back to 1965 on Kangaroo Island. I don't know if I'll get through this. But, yeah, what it was, I got a job with Joseph's, the contractors, right?
01:02:01
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:02:02
Speaker 22: And they mixed all the cement for the big poles on Kangaroo Island. And I delivered them. I was the only one on the truck, and it was a big army truck converted into a, what would you call it, a ready-mix truck, you know, them big trucks.
01:02:17
Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 22: And I mixed the cement by tipping bags of cement in the top, and I got sick of opening bags after the first, second week. So I threw bags and all in this big mixer into the chute.
01:02:32
Speaker 6: Then I.
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Speaker 22: I said, oh, how am I going to unblock it? I've got to get the cement to the boys out in the field. Anyway, I got up on the back of the truck and I jumped and jumped and jumped on these bags of cement and they all give way. And lucky I hung on to the lip of the ready mix truck and nearly went in the chute. You're kidding.
01:02:57
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:02:59
Speaker 22: I've told the story before, but my wife says, what? Why didn't you tell me before? Sorry about that.
01:03:09
Speaker 6: No, you're all right. Paul, it's amazing how many people are out there doing labour-intensive jobs that come so dangerously close to us in their life, doing innocuous things, you know?
01:03:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:03:21
Speaker 6: That could have been you that day, obviously.
01:03:23
Speaker 22: The funny story was I was jumping that hard, and I'm lucky I hung on. If I went in the mixers, they'd never find me.
01:03:31
Speaker 18: Oh.
01:03:33
Speaker 22: I lost one of me boots. So guess what I did at 17 years old? Tied a cement bag to me foot and still drove the truck all day. Didn't even think about nearly dying. But yeah, so that's the story.
01:03:48
Speaker 7: We're glad you're here to tell the story.
01:03:50
Speaker 6: Absolutely, Paul. Absolutely. It's a good reminder of the risks that are faced by people every day that are working with trucks, that are working with heavy machinery, that are working on building sites and construction sites. that do it, don't think twice, but can come in the blink of an eye really close to tragedy happening. Thank you for that, Paul. You know what? We never said they had to be lighthearted stories. They're genuine fear stories for the meat trade this morning. And that one, genuinely terrifying. Thank you for calling in, Paul. Let's head to Canberra and recap the last week in federal politics. Nelson Scott is our 5AA Canberra correspondent. Of course, the week dominated by the horrific attack on the member for Indi, Helen Haynes. Nelson, good morning to you. Morning, guys. Canberra, I imagine, still reeling from this. We've got local security stories dominating media coverage right around the country. What's the end of the week bringing with regard to the Helen Haynes story? And what's the feeling there just among the staffers and people that work in politics?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it certainly has been a very, very difficult week. And from the people that I've spoken to, politicians and staffers, there has been this general sense of angst because as so many people have made the point throughout the week, we've had warnings from security agencies and attacks such as what we've seen could happen for some time given the heightened threat environment. But the fact that it could happen to Helen Haynes, one of the most widely respected people in the parliament, suggests that this sort of thing could happen to anyone. And looking into next week, this is going to continue dominating discussion, I suspect, because of what politicians are likely going to do in terms of boosting their own security. There was some suggestions earlier in the week that there might be every politician having their own personal security. That's something they do in the UK in the light of a death or a murder they swore over there. That's considered impractical by the AFP. They said they don't really have the resourcing for that. But some of the things that they're considering doing, it appears, might be having more protective services rather than the reactive AFP, protective services they've got at the moment, overhauling security architecture at electorate offices, having permanent security there. Some have even suggested bollards, funding safety upgrades, cameras, fences and the like at politicians' homes. That would be funded by the taxpayer, potentially a tax deductibility scheme. This is all being considered at the moment. It will be considered for some time. But that's where things are going to go. In terms of where discussions are at today, it's moved on to this dirt sheet or so-called dirt sheet about Dr. Helen Haynes. So this is something in federal parliament. It's quite common that staffers will hand out bits of information to journalists to inform their stories. This is what's happened here. So the Prime Minister's office has given journalists this sheet. This was in the context of this community infrastructure program. Labor was on the fire because this report had found, basically, they were prioritising their own seats for this grant program, including the Prime Minister giving money to a golf club he was an honorary member at. Helen Haynes was very critical of this, as was the opposition. So they circulate this document, basically trying to suggest that she... had suggested funding for projects in her own electorate, questioning whether she had conflicts of interest with those, whether she'd done her due diligence, whether or not these projects she was advocating for were in the public benefit. This came to light this week. At the same time, the Prime Minister is saying, turn the temperature down. We've got to do politics better and this sort of thing. And he's now come out and said, basically, it contained no personal criticism. It was merely a list of funding asks. It is pretty clear that they were trying to at least insinuate that the transparent public image she puts up isn't reflected in practice. Senator David Pocop's come out and condensed today. And it's one of these things that while he says turn the temperature down, I don't think it's looked particularly good on him. I think it comes across as hypocritical, particularly in recent weeks he's called Angus Taylor an idiot and at a time when he's already on the nose. I do think Sam Mostyn, the Governor-General, spoke so brilliantly at the Alfred Hospital earlier in the week. She's come across hypocritical. as more of a statesman, I think, than the Prime Minister.
01:08:18
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:08:19
Speaker 6: Thank you for that, Nelson. Nelson Scott, our 5 to Play Canberra correspondent. I'm glad that's been brought up. Quite aside from the horrific nature of the week that's transpired, it staggers me that one iota of the Prime Minister's office time would be spent preparing a dirt sheet on an independent member for a rural seat in Victoria. This is a Labor government with a thumping majority. You've got pressing issues, running the country, and you have the capacity to do so. You're not fighting. You don't need to win one vote or win one seat away from majority to enact your legislative agenda. You can just do it. Why is anyone in that office spending time putting together documents to discredit independence in random parts of australia look.
01:09:02
Speaker 9: At the economy right now there's more important things the prime minister should be doing.
01:09:06
Speaker 6: Jim chalmers is going to present a speech today saying economic growth is is slowing um Which flows neatly into some of these texts about the iPhone.
01:09:15
Speaker 7: Cam's text.
01:09:16
Speaker 9: I just could not agree more with. Do we think that all those people lining up for the new iPhone are mortgage holders? I'm a mortgage holder and I'm not lining up for a new phone. Believe me, the interest rate lever is punishing a portion of the population that aren't the problem to begin with.
01:09:30
Speaker 6: Just on that, and I sound like a broken record on this, but I just want to keep saying it. There are multiple levers to control inflation. The RBA's only one is interest rates. But that's not the only lever we possess.
01:09:42
Speaker 7: So there's an entire arm of government that can.
01:09:45
Speaker 6: Public spending? Fiscal policy. RBA's monetary policy, there's fiscal policy. And if you want to fight inflation, you can do one of or both of these two things. Raise taxes or reduce spending. They're both unpopular and governments won't do them and they run and hide from the issue and it's why the RBA raises rates and disproportionately punishes mortgage holders. That is it. Yes, they probably aren't buying iPhones.
01:10:09
Speaker 13: Yep.
01:10:10
Speaker 9: This person, Darren, says, I've got a $ 300 Samsung. It does everything I need. I've had it for five years. I cannot get my head around people paying five grand. It must be a vanity thing.
01:10:18
Speaker 7: I agree, Darren. I can't get my head around that.
01:10:21
Speaker 6: I feel like I've been living under a rock. I had no idea they were that expensive. That's just mind-boggling.
01:10:25
Speaker 9: I was about to say, how many grocery shops would that give you? Actually, not too many in this economy.
01:10:28
Speaker 7: But still.
01:10:29
Speaker 6: Maybe one. All right, we're going to check traffic. And when we come back, we're going to get back into this Enfield Cemetery story where, if you missed our chat yesterday, a really emotional chat just before nine o'clock with the father of a young man who died. And he had all these beautiful personal effects there, like even a handwritten poem from a father to his deceased son that had been swept away and removed because they'd been plucked some weeds, apparently. Shocking. And their personal effects were treated disgracefully. Well, more people have come forward talking about this, and we're going to speak to another on the other side of the break. Long live recreation and the all-new RAV4 plug-in hybrid at Jarvis Toyota Brighton Road, Somerton Park.
01:11:08
Speaker 4: Knock down. Build two. With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes. They do it all for you.
01:11:16
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:11:21
Speaker 6: Four minutes to eight. Yesterday on the program, just before nine o'clock, a remarkable chat with Robert Bruno, whose son is buried at Enfield Cemetery. He had left some personal effects at his grave, including a handwritten poem, something of unspeakable value. It has... It cannot be replaced. Well, it was removed along with everything else around the grave. The cemetery authority saying that they had to do some gardening and these things were to be taken away. Robert, I thought, was pretty magnanimous with his comments. He made the point that I understand there are going to be regulations, but we are grieving people. Maybe a little bit of sensitivity and a desire to reach out might have been good. Well, he wasn't the only one. A stack of other people have come forward saying, incredibly valuable things that matter more than words can possibly say, have been shoved in a shelf, removed, lost, thrown in a bin. One of those is Leanne Morgan, who joins us on the program. Now, Leanne, good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Just take us through your experience with the cemetery.
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Speaker 14: Well, my grandson is laid there, and.
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Speaker 14: We've had, he's only been there a couple of years and we really liked the area when we were looking around.
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Speaker 16: My daughter loved it.
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Speaker 14: It was really calming and really pretty. And when you walk through, it looked really nice. People had different little things around their gravesite and everything. So, and my daughter goes there every week. Every week she goes there and we've got rosary beads and all little things like that. And he loved motorbikes and Anyway, when she went up there the other day, everything was just gone. And she rang them up. Well, the girl said that that was taken away. Well, everyone's got different stories, obviously, but she said that they were killing the trees.
01:13:19
Speaker 6: They were killing the trees?
01:13:20
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:13:21
Speaker 14: Everything that was around the trees was killing them, but that was.
01:13:26
Speaker 14: So I don't know what's going on there.
01:13:28
Speaker 9: Had there been any communication ahead of time that your belongings were going to be moved?
01:13:35
Speaker 3: No.
01:13:35
Speaker 15: No, there wasn't.
01:13:37
Speaker 24: No.
01:13:38
Speaker 7: Could you locate them afterwards?
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Speaker 14: She went down to where everything was shoved and what a mess that was. I was up there yesterday and it was just absolutely sad to see people's things just shoved in places. I know there was a lot of artificial flares. I can understand. that they do deteriorate after a while. But I found some little crosses and stuff like that that have obviously come off someone's gravesite. And it's just so sad. And in fact, we really loved it that much. My husband and I, we'd already planned that when we go, just cremate us and more or less throw our ashes out somewhere together. But when our grandson was put there, we decided... We decided we'd buy a plot right next to him. And I feel that way that it's not homely now. I know it sounds silly because it's the cemetery, but it was homely.
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Speaker 16: You know, people go up there.
01:14:39
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:14:40
Speaker 14: Yeah, and they're grieving. And when they go there, they want to take a little gift or something for them.
01:14:45
Speaker 6: So you've cancelled your lease on those plots?
01:14:48
Speaker 11: No.
01:14:49
Speaker 14: No, I haven't cancelled as yet. I just want to see the outcome of it first because it is a beautiful place.
01:14:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: And it is nice. You know, people go up there. When we go to the cemetery, we see other people there and they're sitting there in their deck chairs and, you know, that's where you want to go. It's making it feel now like when you go there, just plonks and flags and goodbye, whereas before you could take something up there for them and you feel as if they're still really with you. It's hard to describe, I suppose. And a lot of them, I know there's elderly that die and there's young ones and there's all different, you know, age groups of death. But I feel that the younger ones, you know, you want to go there because you still want to celebrate their life.
01:15:39
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:15:40
Speaker 14: And that's how it's just taken it away. Yeah.
01:15:44
Speaker 6: Well, I think. To this point in time, we would have imagined it went without saying where there's a basic level of respect and decency you would think goes with bearing a loved one at a place like this.
01:15:53
Speaker 9: And this takes that feeling away of cemeteries are more than just a business. And this makes it feel businesslike. We have OH & S.
01:16:03
Speaker 7: Policies that we need to follow and we need to remove personal belongings.
01:16:06
Speaker 9: These aren't just personal belongings. This isn't just a site that people go. This is somewhere you go to honour people. a loved one, and to remember them. And it has incredible significance to people in their lives. We do have a statement from the CEO of Adelaide Cemeteries, Michael Robertson. He says, we sincerely apologise for any distress this has caused to families. We've launched a review into the handling of tree maintenance works. We're also reviewing how we advise internment right holders and other visitors of maintenance works in our grounds. We're working closely with families to make this right.
01:16:38
Speaker 7: So it's good to see that.
01:16:40
Speaker 9: They've acknowledged that they're I've done something wrong here and they're working to make it right.
01:16:45
Speaker 4: Knockdown, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they.
01:16:52
Speaker 7: Do it all for you.
01:16:53
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 7: And that was from years ago. And Paul still feels it.
01:17:29
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01:17:54
Speaker 9: We have been talking about the Adelaide City Council's AI parking car. parking fine car for some time now and we spoke to Dallas Call this week who owns a tourism business and he was fined by the AI car for pulling over for 37 seconds to pick up a bunch of passengers who were here to see Adelaide and do a tour and he's taking that fine well he is not taking that fine he's trying to oppose it to the council. Well, there's one Adelaide City Councillor who hopes to do something about the car. Carmel Noon joins you this morning. Good morning to you, Carmel Noon.
01:18:32
Speaker 11: Morning, Stacey.
01:18:33
Speaker 4: Morning, everyone.
01:18:34
Speaker 7: Now, you've been.
01:18:34
Speaker 9: Looking interstate about what they've done with these AI cars.
01:18:38
Speaker 7: What have you been able to find?
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Speaker 12: Well, some interesting information that I've been digging up, especially in New South Wales. The New South Wales government changed the state legislation effects from the 1st of July 2025. And it generally requires parking officers across New South Wales to leave a paper fine or notification on the vehicle with limited exceptions. So the officer may attach a penalty notice itself or a notification card. The card is not just a warning. It tells the driver that the parking fine has been recorded while the formal penalty notice is then sent to Revenue New South Wales. So what I can verify is that Sydney introduced paperless fines from 2021 with rangers. Don't you love that? They call them rangers. Recording office offences and Revenue New South Wales sending the notices later. So obviously that wasn't working. And then in 2025, they changed that to actually putting these notices. And something like 98% of fines in the City of Sydney were done via these notices put on cars, which sort of suggests that the park-safe type car that they may have been using is not being used anymore anymore. And I also found the legislation, the supporters across the political parties, that an immediate notice would give drivers a fair chance to see what they were accused of and, for example, clear obscured signs. And the government's reply described the bill as a practical fairness reform. So I guess my motion that I'm putting up next week is, It's sort of a follow-on from a motion that Councillor Snape and myself moved and seconded in February asking the administration to review ParkSafe. In response, a report was first sent to committee and then council. In May, the report described safeguards intended to prevent an incorrect or unfair expiation. So, you know, I'm hearing a significant volume of concern from the community. and hearing from people like Dallas and programs like yourself. So my motion is to check whether those safeguards are working in practice. And I think that we need to go down this process to actually see how we could improve on these processes, on timelines, on, you know, people describe as being caught by trying to read a sign. or dealing with a brief real-time situation. So I think, you know, I mean, we've all been in this situation where we've run to our car, we're running late, and there's the parking inspector just about to ride out a fine, and you actually, you know, tell them some story, and they see how anxious you are, and then they just give you a warning and walk off. Well, you can't do that with this, you know, park-safe car.
01:21:57
Speaker 13: Yep.
01:21:58
Speaker 7: Okay.
01:21:58
Speaker 13: So.
01:22:00
Speaker 7: We'll see how that motion goes next week.
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Speaker 9: It's interesting that in New South Wales, the state government had to introduce legislation to prevent something like this.
01:22:08
Speaker 7: I wonder if the state government here would consider doing the same.
01:22:13
Speaker 6: They will if there's enough noise. You know, this is an interesting study, I think, in a debate and a discussion we're going to have increasingly over the next few years with the automation, the AI-ification of so many other things. Because I think we're suddenly realising in real time that how much humanity is baked into things we take for granted that we think can be automated. And this will sound like a long bow, but bear with me. Sport was the first to have this happen. When in the manner in which things were adjudicated, we started handing it over to computers. In cricket and in soccer, I think of two examples with LBW and offside. Two rules that when they're officiated by a human have an element called benefit of the doubt. When computers started assessing these things, they could do so within minutes. a tenth of a millimetre, and there was suddenly no doubt. They could make technically the right decision, but in removing doubt, they ended up applying the laws in a way that humans never would or could.
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Speaker 9: It also removes context and Correct. A whole bunch of other things.
01:23:14
Speaker 6: And I think about that in the context of this.
01:23:16
Speaker 11: Yeah.
01:23:16
Speaker 6: Oh, that person's an older person trying to read the sign. Human knows.
01:23:20
Speaker 13: Yes.
01:23:21
Speaker 6: That's a tour operator picking up people. Good for the city. I give tickets. I get it. I'm a human.
01:23:27
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:23:27
Speaker 6: Computer doesn't. So this is about fines now. So sport, fines. What's the version of this going to be? And I'm broadly optimistic about some of this stuff. But when the AI is deciding your home line.
01:23:40
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
01:23:40
Speaker 6: When the AI is deciding your license and registration, or when the AI is working out other subjective things that we have historically engaged with humans with, and that will be 95% okay. But the 5% of cases where it's not okay are going to be completely outrageous. And we're finding out that humanity is baked into everything we do, and you just can't automate it away and expect a better experience. Because I bet on some level you'd think no parking inspector required, no driver, no mistakes being made by an AI car find thing.
01:24:20
Speaker 5: Yep.
01:24:21
Speaker 6: The lived experience is worse.
01:24:23
Speaker 7: Exactly.
01:24:24
Speaker 6: It's worse for everyone. This is the tip of the iceberg where there's going to be so much of this kind of stuff.
01:24:31
Speaker 9: Well, I'm glad Carmel Noon's looking into this because there are so many people who are frustrated by that AI car and hopefully something can be done here like was done in the city of Sydney.
01:24:42
Speaker 7: They got rid of that car.
01:24:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I reckon it's going to happen here, and it will happen if enough people get angry about it. Someone texted saying, what can we do to get the state government involved? Get angry about it, and they will. Call in on 8223 0000. Now, it feels as though AI might already be working for the Enfield Cemetery. It's not. This was an old-fashioned human error. How about this for a text? Thank you guys for covering the Enfield Cemetery issue. It's disgraceful. My mother-in-law is buried there, and when we went on my wife's birthday, we discovered that everything had been removed from her gravesite. We had No notice at all. Things were broken. There was little care taken at all. When we tried to follow it up, the receptionist we spoke to to complain told us there was no one available to take our complaint. She then went on to say, and I quote, it was starting to look like cheap as chips out there.
01:25:29
Speaker 13: What?
01:25:30
Speaker 6: Which explains why they took no care because they viewed our personal belongings as junk. It is disgraceful and I hope this leads to a thorough review. Thanks for bringing light to the situation. Well, thank you for your text.
01:25:41
Speaker 7: That's disgusting.
01:25:42
Speaker 5: It is.
01:25:43
Speaker 6: It is absolutely disgraceful. Sue in Valley View has called in on this. Morning, Sue.
01:25:47
Speaker 24: Hi there. Look, just ringing about the Enfield Council. For over three years now, I've been going there to their rose garden where the cremations are. I've had a brother there for 40 years and parents in the last 20.
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Speaker 21: So I've got a.
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Speaker 24: Fair idea what it's looked like. There's never been a complaint about the things people leave around those gardens. What the complaint has been, for three years I've been making this, some of the actual plot areas were so overridden with weeds, you could not see any of the nameplate. Now, I've followed this up for three years with photos that do a little bit of a clean-up and Three months later, in one case, I had to send off again. This time I got two MPs behind me, which I'm so grateful for, and they did a big clean-up. Now, I'm not sure, did they suddenly decide, with a bureaucrat sitting at his desk without any idea, just saying, clean everything?
01:26:53
Speaker 11: Yeah.
01:26:53
Speaker 24: And they did. Now, the complaint is more about your care.
01:26:59
Speaker 18: Yeah, great point.
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Speaker 24: You're supposed to pick up the bad things. Yes, there's old flowers that need to go and things like that, and Certainly wigs that are standing sort of over a foot high and covering a complete plot, that needs to be cleaned up. And they need to start and take the responsibility for what families have paid for, for the respect to their families.
01:27:22
Speaker 6: Absolutely. Well said, Sue. Sue, no one begrudges the clean-up component of this. It just doesn't seem beyond reasonable expectation to imagine that you can both remove precious items and clean Handwritten.
01:27:36
Speaker 7: Poems, teddy bears, yeah.
01:27:38
Speaker 6: You can do both.
01:27:39
Speaker 7: Two things, yeah, can occur.
01:27:40
Speaker 6: We are capable of this as a species. Thank you, Sue. Let's check traffic. We're going to come back with more in just a moment. A long-lived recreation in the all-new RAV4 plug-in hybrid at Jarvis Toyota, Brighton Road, Summoned Park.
01:27:52
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01:28:00
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 6: 25 after 8. If you love your food, make sure you're listening to Leaf Forest today just after 2.30. We'll be joined by the wonderful Chris Jarmer from Jarmer's Kitchen for Foodie Friday. Thanks to Smeg and Pals. If you're building or renovating your first choice, you'll be visiting the Smeg showroom at Daphne Distributors. Taste the difference with Smeg and Pals. Also, if you want to win something, Feedback Friday is coming up on the other side of this break. 8223 0000 is the number. Four simple questions. No wrong answers and three fabulous prizes. If you call in now, you can be part of Feedback Friday.
01:28:33
Speaker 9: And, Will, I know I've said this before, so apologies for saying it again. I do miss Foodie Friday in the afternoon.
01:28:38
Speaker 6: I know you miss Foodie Friday. I can see you. You go green.
01:28:40
Speaker 9: Chris Jarmer's cooking kingfish sashimi today. A word I can never say, but sounds amazing.
01:28:48
Speaker 6: Do you cook kingfish sashimi?
01:28:49
Speaker 13: No.
01:28:50
Speaker 7: That's the wrong word, isn't it? Preparing?
01:28:52
Speaker 6: Prepare. Yeah. You know what? It's delicious. He'll make it delicious.
01:28:56
Speaker 7: However he's making it, it'll be great. And pals have a Riesling from Hentley Farm to go with it.
01:29:02
Speaker 6: I mean, it sounds like Leith's going to have an awful afternoon, doesn't it? Commiserations. I might just come back in this afternoon.
01:29:06
Speaker 5: That sounds excellent.
01:29:10
Speaker 9: Well, we're going to move on to another topic now, and I think every single one of us has that moment where we hold our breath opening a bill.
01:29:17
Speaker 7: That comes to us, the water bill, the electricity bill, whatever it is.
01:29:21
Speaker 9: There's around 200 customers in the Mount Compass area, though, who– hold their breath a little deeper when they get their water bill or a letter from their water provider, so much so that it's now being looked into by a parliamentary committee, which.
01:29:36
Speaker 7: Starts on Monday.
01:29:37
Speaker 9: Lou Nicholson is the independent MP for the seat of FINIS. She represents these people in Mount Compass who have concerns about their water bills, and she joins you this morning.
01:29:47
Speaker 7: Hello, Lou Nicholson.
01:29:48
Speaker 13: Good morning.
01:29:49
Speaker 26: Thank you so much for having me on.
01:29:51
Speaker 9: Why do we need a parliamentary inquiry to look into the private water supplier in Mount Compass?
01:29:57
Speaker 7: What's the issues?
01:29:58
Speaker 26: This issue has been long running and while it affects, as you said, around 200 customers in the wonderful town of Mount Compass, the impact that it's had on those customers is huge and ongoing. So these customers are in the Mount Compass Golf Course Estate, a beautiful area that And the water that they receive, so their drinking water to their taps, is from a small private water supplier called Compass Springs. And the owner took over about 10 years ago, the current owner. He also owns the golf course there. And unfortunately, over many of these years, the customers have been raising significant concerns around the pricing of the water. around the billing practices, the servicing, more recently some concerns around the quality of water and compliance. And the issue has just been so stressful for the customers and has created a lot of uncertainty, which is ongoing. They've had to be involved in sort of so many rounds of consultation. And this year they received a letter with a really significant price increased proposal from the business. And that was probably when I really thought it's just been going on for far too long. So when I was elected in March, I worked really hard to get a parliamentary inquiry to look into this issue. And I'm really pleased that that's happening right now.
01:31:36
Speaker 9: That price increase that you talk about is quite significant. The supply charge has gone up from about $ 95 a quarter to $ 400 a quarter. And I guess for the rest of us listening, anyone else who's on SA Water, with something like that, you'd have safety in numbers because there'd be so many people who would be.
01:31:56
Speaker 7: Impacted by that.
01:31:57
Speaker 9: But with 200 customers, it has such a smaller impact, but it doesn't make it any less significant.
01:32:02
Speaker 6: 400% increase.
01:32:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's huge.
01:32:06
Speaker 15: Yeah, it is huge.
01:32:07
Speaker 26: And I think it's important to point out that the sort of increase from about $ 95 to $ 400 a quarter, increasing up to $ 700 a quarter, was.
01:32:19
Speaker 23: Just that it was a proposal from the owner.
01:32:22
Speaker 26: And this is where it goes, the regulator, so the Essential Services Commission of South Australia, who regulate small private homes, providers of essential services, well, all essential services providers, including SA Water, but they are the regulator here. They do step in and they have stepped in over many years when proposals like this have come. It goes a step in and they say, hang on, let's take a closer look here. Let's have a look at what is a reasonable and fair cost for this essential service that obviously is affordable and reflective of what it costs to deliver the service.
01:33:00
Speaker 3: But also ensures.
01:33:01
Speaker 26: That the assets that are required to deliver that service are going to be maintained and secure for the future. So, Escoza has stepped in. They do something called pricing determination. So, that takes a lot of work and, you know, over the years they have stepped in many times or multiple times to deliver a pricing determination. So, customers aren't having to pay $ 400 a quarter and moving up to 700, but that's what's proposed. And I think that's the best example of why this has been so stressful for customers. So I think I would ask listeners to imagine that yes, their bills are regulated, but if you're receiving letters saying that the owner of the business who's providing your water wants to, is proposing this price and is going to fight for that price, then you have to you know, get involved in another round of consultation to explain why that's not reasonable. That's what these customers, these 200 customers have had to do for a number of years. And to be honest, they are worn out and they just want it to come.
01:34:12
Speaker 2: To an end.
01:34:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, I bet.
01:34:13
Speaker 7: Fair enough.
01:34:14
Speaker 6: Thank you, Lou Nicholson, the member for Finis there. 5AA News is on the way. Feedback Friday is full. We're going to do some giveaways. Meet Trey Friday and have some fun the last half hour to round things out for this.
01:34:28
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01:34:36
Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast. 90 minutes to nine. It is time to feedback.
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01:35:19
Speaker 7: Yum.
01:35:20
Speaker 6: Or you have Cocktails and Waterfront Views upstairs. Colac is a very versatile venue, award-winning venue as well. All right, let's go to Grange. Mark, good morning.
01:35:29
Speaker 2: Good morning to you people.
01:35:31
Speaker 6: Mark, we spoke with a 10-year-old that at the age of eight designed a new board game earlier this week. What was your favourite board game growing up?
01:35:39
Speaker 14: Oh, Monopoly.
01:35:40
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:35:40
Speaker 5: Hmm.
01:35:41
Speaker 6: Did you ever flip the board over in a fit of anger?
01:35:44
Speaker 2: Uh, no, I hate when I lose.
01:35:46
Speaker 6: Yeah. Okay. That's easy. You know, teaches you about loss and, and you know how easily money gets, disappears. Uh, how many K's could you run today, Mark, if you were forced?
01:36:01
Speaker 22: Uh, maybe two.
01:36:02
Speaker 6: Two. We spoke with Ned Brockman, runner who was here on Wednesday, uh, for an event raising money for, to combat homelessness, uh, ran across Australia. Uh, Horizontally?
01:36:12
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:36:12
Speaker 24: Jeez.
01:36:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, unbelievable story. Does your rubbish bin need to be collected weekly, Mark? Are we talking about your general waste bin? Because this is very much up for debate at the moment.
01:36:21
Speaker 2: Well, our counter rates have gone up, and I reckon they should be.
01:36:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:36:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, you should. More collection with higher rates, you think?
01:36:29
Speaker 7: Higher rates.
01:36:30
Speaker 6: If they kept pace with one another, we'd have a bin collection every afternoon. What do you get when you go to the bakery, Mark? What's your go-to order?
01:36:39
Speaker 13: Bakery. I like a nice hot bread that's come out of the oven or the orange spot in those pasties early in the morning. Beautiful.
01:36:46
Speaker 6: I love orange spot. That bakery is sensational. Their pastry is something else, Mark.
01:36:50
Speaker 15: Beautiful.
01:36:51
Speaker 6: Brad in Parryfield Gardens. Good morning.
01:36:53
Speaker 22: Morning, guys.
01:36:54
Speaker 18: How are you going?
01:36:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're good, Brad. There was a magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet overnight. We had the earthquake, of course, not quite as large in the Barossa Valley earlier in the week.
01:37:06
Speaker 7: Two point something?
01:37:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, low twos. 2.8, high twos. Brad, do you know what you're meant to do in an earthquake?
01:37:14
Speaker 20: Got no idea, man, because we don't get them here.
01:37:16
Speaker 6: Exactly right. We had that debate during the break. I said I think you're meant to go under a doorway.
01:37:20
Speaker 7: I thought go under a heavy table, but now I'm regretting that.
01:37:24
Speaker 6: I don't think you do that. I'm like, Brad, we live in the luxurious place of Adelaide where we don't really have too many natural disaster issues. We also live in a place where we have beef schnitzels, Brad. We found out that this doesn't happen around the country. You're a beef schnitzel guy.
01:37:37
Speaker 20: I've heard of the chicken, but I'm not, oh, I'll do beef whenever, you know, if I've got the feel for it.
01:37:44
Speaker 6: Did you know that was a South Australian thing, beef schnitzels?
01:37:47
Speaker 20: Well, yeah, that's the thing. When I was in Sydney, you couldn't get them. When I was living there for about 15 years, I couldn't get them, but I get them here.
01:37:55
Speaker 6: Yeah. We discovered all sorts of things this week. Do you use self-serve or manned checkouts at the supermarket, Brad?
01:38:02
Speaker 20: Depends on the size of the shop. If I'm going to get bread and milk, just scan it through there or... But if we've got a big weekly one where it's spent $ 200 or whatever, here we go. They can do it.
01:38:14
Speaker 6: I wonder if that is the most common answer. That certainly would be how I manage it.
01:38:18
Speaker 7: That's how I do it, yeah.
01:38:20
Speaker 6: Can you sew or knit, Brad?
01:38:23
Speaker 11: No.
01:38:24
Speaker 19: Neither?
01:38:25
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
01:38:26
Speaker 20: What's this about?
01:38:29
Speaker 6: Barb's shop closed in Glenelg, of course. Oh, the haberdashery. The haberdashery there. We're lamenting lost skills and little local businesses with experts you can go to. Barb retiring after 70 years in business. Actually, not 70 years in business.
01:38:42
Speaker 23: 40.
01:38:42
Speaker 6: 40 years in business. Remarkable story. Thank you, Brad. Let's go to Prospect. Morning to you, Kirsty.
01:38:48
Speaker 11: Good morning. How are you?
01:38:49
Speaker 6: I'm good, Kirsty. I'm getting tired. I got the Richter scale wrong on the thing. I put Barb in for three extra decades.
01:38:55
Speaker 27: Kirsty, who.
01:38:56
Speaker 7: She deserves it.
01:38:57
Speaker 6: She is. Barb's a legend. Who is the best James Bond of all time, Kirsty? There's a new shortlist that's knocking around this morning about potential next Bonds. Who's your favourite?
01:39:07
Speaker 11: I haven't actually seen too many, but I do like Daniel Craig.
01:39:10
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:39:11
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:39:11
Speaker 7: I like Daniel Craig too.
01:39:12
Speaker 6: The most recent Bond? A lot of people... partial. Sean Connery is sort of more honest to the books, the original version, because he's much more rough and tumble. The bonds became more gentler as life progressed, which is sort of how the world's gotten, I guess. Have you ever lined up to buy any form of technology, Kirsty? There's a line up at the Apple store this morning for the new Fold phone.
01:39:34
Speaker 11: No, I have a thing. I have a thing. Kirstie doesn't line up. I don't wait.
01:39:38
Speaker 6: I love that.
01:39:39
Speaker 11: If it's to get into a nightclub, I don't, Kirstie doesn't line up.
01:39:43
Speaker 7: Oh, you go straight to the front or you go to the next club?
01:39:46
Speaker 11: No, I go to the next club. I don't line up. I don't wait.
01:39:49
Speaker 6: I love that.
01:39:50
Speaker 11: If I can't do what I want, I don't do it.
01:39:53
Speaker 6: Someone needs to put that on a t-shirt. That's like a slogan for living.
01:39:56
Speaker 7: What would Kirstie do?
01:39:57
Speaker 6: Kirstie doesn't line up. I love it. Um, Now, Tim Jimmett has got a joke. He's got a stand-up routine to do tomorrow night, Kirsty. Is there any joke that you like to tell that potentially he could work into the routine tomorrow night?
01:40:10
Speaker 24: No.
01:40:10
Speaker 11: No joke. Just stories from, like, you know, my granddad or something that's happened or.
01:40:17
Speaker 21: Yeah.
01:40:18
Speaker 6: That's the best kind of stand-up.
01:40:19
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:40:20
Speaker 6: You know.
01:40:20
Speaker 7: Personal anecdotes.
01:40:22
Speaker 6: Which is, like, largely what Timmy will be doing tomorrow night at the canteen. Have you ever driven from Glenelg to Birdwood, Kirsty, in a vintage car or otherwise?
01:40:32
Speaker 11: No, but I've watched it by the Bedwood many times.
01:40:34
Speaker 5: Have you?
01:40:34
Speaker 11: Once again, my granddad.
01:40:36
Speaker 6: Did he have a car that he drove in it? Did he, Kirsty? Or did he just want the old cars?
01:40:40
Speaker 11: No, we just watched it on the side of the northeast road.
01:40:44
Speaker 13: Beautiful.
01:40:44
Speaker 11: We saw the old time cars going past.
01:40:46
Speaker 16: Yeah, nice.
01:40:47
Speaker 6: Oh, beautiful. Yeah, well, it's a nice thing to do.
01:40:48
Speaker 7: There'd be so many people listening who have done the same.
01:40:51
Speaker 6: Kirsty, does it line up? I love that. I think that's what I've taken away from this week. Kirsty in Prospect, thank you. Brad in Parryfield Gardens. Mark in Grange. Mention SMEG, Gramazio Food Meat Pack, one of the prizes as well. The Sinopoli Pack, all thanks to Gramazio, SA's only celiac certified butcher at Burnside Village, Golden Grove Village, and online at gramaziofoods.com.au. So SMEG, Gramazio, Colac. Who gets what?
01:41:13
Speaker 9: Kirstie doesn't line up, can go to the Colac. There'll be no lines there.
01:41:17
Speaker 7: I mean, there might be a line at the bar.
01:41:19
Speaker 6: That's true. It's very popular.
01:41:20
Speaker 7: Sorry about that, Kirstie.
01:41:22
Speaker 9: Brad can have the Gramazio meat pack and Mark and Grange gets the Smeg appliance.
01:41:26
Speaker 6: Congratulations to you all. Thanks for being part of Feedback Friday. We're going to take a break. We'll count down the top five moments of the week very, very shortly. But first, let's check traffic for the last time this morning. Long live recreation and the all-new RAV4 plug-in hybrid at Jarvis Toyota, Brighton Road, Summon and Park.
01:41:41
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01:41:48
Speaker 14: All for you.
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Speaker 5: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 6: Eight minutes to nine. We're going to have a meat trader giveaway. Thanks to Windsor Meats at Doothy Street in Malvern. We've been asking you about your fears this morning. Whose fear story did you like the best, Stace?
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Speaker 7: Oh, there were so many good ones. I think Paul in Port Nollunga.
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Speaker 24: Yep.
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Speaker 7: He rang up.
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Speaker 9: It was a pretty emotional call because he had a fear from decades ago that has clearly still stuck with him.
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Speaker 6: Telling the story. You can hear the fear in his voice. It gets scary. And the idea of having to tell his wife, well, he took years to tell her about the day he almost died on the job. He was doing a silly thing, trying to get cement bags out of the back of the cement truck and got himself in all sorts of strife. All right. Shall we count down the top five moments of the week? Go on. All right, it's top five time. It's been one week.
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Speaker 5: The top five of the week.
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Speaker 6: We've got some honourable mentions this week, which means we're bursting at the seams with top five content. So, honourable mention. Did your government learn about this by reading the Sunday Mail?
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Speaker 2: Look, largely, yes.
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Speaker 6: That one got the minister into a little bit of strife this week. Turned out he knew about it before. He took decisive action, just didn't tell anyone. The other top five moment of the week. All the best with the new gig, knocking around with the king and so forth. And, you know, don't forget us peasants. No, I'll try not to. And Stacey, you need to practice your curtsy for the next time we meet.
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Speaker 5: Deal.
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Speaker 7: I can do that.
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Speaker 6: Outgoing Police Commissioner Grant Stephens. Yeah, the Police Commissioner. For the last time on 5AA Breakfast, he started the job when David and I started doing the program in 2015 and came in as part of the regular gig. And I think we've interviewed him more than anyone else.
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Speaker 7: And look where he's gone.
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Speaker 6: And look where he's gone now. So we didn't hold him back at all. I mean, maybe he might have been the Prime Minister if not for these segments. All right, let's get into the top five. Number five. Tom says it's South Australian to have a beef schnitzel. You can't find it in Victoria. Is that true? Can anyone confirm that? So we tasked Patrick with doing some research. He looked at the menus of the Terence Hotel, the Workers' Club, Union Club, the London Tavern, the Grosvenor, the Lincoln, the Hotel Railway, the Standard, the Morningstar and the Courthouse all in Melbourne. How many of those cook a beef schnitzel do you think?
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Speaker 16: Four.
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Speaker 6: None.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 6: Not a one. Doesn't exist. So no beef schnitzels, we learnt. On the Eastern Seaboard, there's some suggestion you can get them in Western Australia, though. Is that just.
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Speaker 7: Paddy patting himself on the back for the work he did this week?
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Speaker 6: Paddy put himself in the top five. He's now trying to say Jess put him in the top five. Yeah, but Jess operates under duress out there. We understand that.
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure that deserves to be in the top five, but anyway.
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Speaker 6: Number four.
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Speaker 7: I once played... A charity football game for Recklink.
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Speaker 3: Football.
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Speaker 6: Australian Rules Football. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I don't want it to seem shocked.
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Speaker 9: That surprise on your face is correct because you know that I don't know the rules.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I had one touch.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 9: And I wasn't aware you can't just throw it, that you had to punch.
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Speaker 6: Hand pass.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And I attempted to kick and that didn't work, so then caught.
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Speaker 6: So did you execute a netball-style chest pass at one point?
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Speaker 7: I tried. I tried to do the over-the-head lob.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: This is great. Learning about your sporting career is one of the real highlights of this six-month stint.
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Speaker 7: Career is a very loose term.
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Speaker 6: Number three spot. Adam Pascali is the chief scientist at the Seismology Institute. Research Centre, who we understand, Adam, you've broken down on the side of the road, so good time to chat with us.
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Speaker 1: I have.
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Speaker 7: Perfect timing for you.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Adam, that sucks. Just a regular breakdown with the battery conk out? You all right?
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Speaker 23: No, my motorcycle just decided to go electronically dark.
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Speaker 17: Oh, no.
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Speaker 6: Is someone on the way, or would you like to broadcast to Adelaide that you're in need of assistance?
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Speaker 21: No, I'm under control.
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Speaker 6: Okay, that's good. Cool as anything, Adam was. He gave us a fantastic report on the earthquake we had here, and while Steve was waiting for his bike to be repaired, Good.
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Speaker 7: Way to pass the time, I guess.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's fantastic.
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Speaker 7: Sometimes you have to wait a while for road service.
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Speaker 6: If you ever break down, you need to wait for road service, give us a call. We'd love to chat with you. The number two spot.
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Speaker 7: Grace, how did you come up with the idea for Five to Fetch?
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Speaker 27: It all started a couple of years ago. I was playing around with this pack of cards. I had this idea for a game and so I made my own cards for it and so I played with them with my family for a bit. And then Dad encouraged me to design cards on Canva and print them out onto business cards. So that's what I did. And then as of this year, Dad encouraged me to go even further to make my Game 5 to fetch into a game that others can play as well, not just family.
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Speaker 6: Remarkable. Young Grace, 10 years of age. built a card game at the age of eight, and by 10, she's spruiking it on the local radio station.
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Speaker 7: You can buy it in some stores across the state. You can buy it online. Five to Fetch is the name of it.
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Speaker 6: Love that story. The number one spot.
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Speaker 16: Yes, I had the first five tickets at Omi Stadium.
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Speaker 6: Did you really? Did you go with your family?
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Speaker 16: Yes. Coinsy and Curly were talking on the radio and the footy show saying they're going to start a club called The Crows. Any members want to join, ring up. And anyway, I rang up and I got the first five tickets.
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Speaker 6: That was Barbara, we've just been speaking about earlier in the week, closing her business, the haberdashery in Glenelg. And we found out in the process, massive Adelaide Crows fan. Arguably, the first Adelaide Crows fan. End of an era there at the Bay. And indeed, well, not an end of the year for the Crows fans, because she'll still be going along. She isn't retired from life. She's just retired from the haberdashery. Maybe she'll be buying more tickets, as it turns out. The fuel situation is something we'll turn our minds to in just a moment to wrap things up for the week. The trap of fuel, thanks to RAA Road Service. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. There are some headwinds when it comes to the petrol situation. There is, at the very least, there's some warning signs about potential activity in the Middle East this weekend. Historically, the US has... escalated things over weekends when markets have been closed. And there's just, you know, it's impossible. No one knows unless you're in the Situation Room, but there are just some things that suggest that maybe some action will be taken this weekend. So it's something to keep an eye on. The cheapest spots, though, this morning in Adelaide ahead of that, the Yugo at St Mary's is $ 2. 15. 4, and the cheapest diesel is the Liberty McCracken, $ 2.
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Speaker 3: 65.
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Speaker 6: Have a wonderful weekend, folks. Enjoy the week, and we'll be back Monday morning from 6 o'clock.
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Speaker 27: I was trying to find my way along But.
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Speaker 7: All I heard was a drum Bouncing off a.
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Speaker 6: Satellite By the time you play the ads, it's not a half or three hours for you guys. Is there
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Speaker 7: Anybody out there?