3AW Breakfast with Mark Allen & Russel Howcroft - Tue 15 Sep, 2026

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1:04On Melbourne's own. 3AW 693. Ross Stevenson and Russell Howcraft. In today's paper we've got, you know, the expanded AFL grand final entertainment list. I saw it. It's good. Yeah, it's good, right? Because I was hoping, I was hoping that that young fella from the Doze Eastern Resellers, I had this sort of fantasy, if you like, that he would be out there on stage singing Eastern Resellers and 100,000 people would be joining him with Eastern Resellers and then they would get this massive cage full of Eastern Resellers and then unleashed the you know, like in the old days when the balloons would be released, you know, we'd release Rosellas. We would release the Rosellas. I put to you. It would have been fun. That an early spring Rosella sighting. Yes. Is spectacular. Great. How about when you see about four or five of them in the one tree? Stummed. They just fly in, sit there for a while and you just happen to catch them. Yes. There they are. Beautiful. Absolutely. Have you been attacked by a bird in the

2:10last couple of weeks? I certainly have. Have you? Yeah. In fact, a bird that was relentless as I was walking down through the MCG there, through the Jollymont part. A Maggie? No, wasn't a Maggie actually. I don't know. What was this? Maybe I should have said it was a Maggie. Yes, it was a Maggie. Yeah. Relentless. Like it swooped me and then went away and then came back and went away and came back. It was relentless. Okay. See, the place that I was attacked more than any other. And one double three, six nine three, join in. If you've been attacked, I'd leave you got a good story for us. Yeah. Was in Tasmania and they've got these birds called plovers. Yes. Yes. We've got plovers here in Victoria and other places in the mainland. But in Tasmania, they go nuts to where they've got little, they've got little, what would you call it, a claw on their elbow of their wing? Oh my god. And they can rip you apart. On the elbow of their wing? Yes. Do they? I didn't know that. Well, I think we should check that, Sophie.

3:10That's a fact check. But go on, go on, go on have a quick look at it. But I remember going there and the people warned me that it was plover, swooping season. Yeah, watch out. And it put the fear of God in to be rustled. I didn't know where to look. And then once the first one came down and brushed my head, my god, I was walking around. I was walking around with a seven iron swinging it in between shots over my head. And did you read today that I think it was parrots? Yeah. Apparently some research has determined that parrots, they don't just sort of fly because they have to. They fly because they enjoy it. Well, you would wouldn't you? How on can they work that out? How can they work that out, Russell? Well, let's find out more. But that was in the paper this morning. I go, I had the same thought. Okay. Right. If we told everyone where Ross is, no, we haven't. He's well, I said he wasn't here. I think now I don't know whether

4:10we'll have over or let it say, but look, he was in the dentist chair yesterday. And today just wasn't for him. And we get that. Well, I mean, if you're in the dentist chair and there's some activity, you can sort of feel like you're obviously, you know, fair enough. I think it's measured if he turns up tomorrow and he's got a full mouth of Tony Jones style teeth. We might have gold teeth. Have you ever had a friend that he hadn't seen for a while? Yeah. I had a friend, he moved the Queensland and I hadn't seen for a long time and I loved him. He was a great black. And then we caught up 10 years later and he had a mouthful of brand new teeth top and bottom. Had he gone to summer in Asia in order to get the teeth done? No, that does happen. No, he's doing well and just went to the goalie to get it done. He was living at the century car. So he's doing well in life. But the the the the the the the the shock you get. Oh yeah. When you see someone with a brand new set of good on him. Good on him, I reckon. You know, the great

5:11mate of mine, the King Curtis comes to mind. The King. He arrived at the racetrack one year, looking magnificent. Tell me more about King Curtis. Well, the King. Well, the King. Oh, yeah, well, well known amongst sort of in particular the amateur crew and in the gamut of what he could. Yeah, mid eighties to mid nineties in the rock. You know, oh, the King. And he was known as the King the King. The last name King. No, Curtis Curtis. Yeah. Right. The King Curtis. We got a couple of calls. Mel's calling. Morning to you, Mel. Oh, my gosh. Um, every day I have up to ten Rosalos come and visit me. I have a, um, terminant, um, feeder at the front, um, on the council tree. And, um, they absolutely give it to the cockies who come near them during feeding time. I give them some apple and wild bird seed and they're absolutely beautiful. I can get within about probably four feet, but, you know, give them space and they're just gorgeous.

6:12Mel, are you telling me that the Rosalos scare off the cockatoues? Oh, yeah, they are feisty when there's food there. The cockies, um, yeah, they don't get a look and they get a check. They're up I go. Yeah. I would never have believed that. I would have thought the cockatoues would have dominated the bigger aren't I? Yeah, they're bigger. And I can talk. Yes. Mel, uh, breakfast at 3aw.com.au, send them through. We'd love to see them. I, um, I used to go to a farm, Mark, I went on to the young boy, you know, like, from part of our holidays. How old? When you say young, odd, from six, six, from six to twelve, you know, a lot. And then, um, they had a cockatou, this farm, the maze farm up there in barren, and the cockatou, knew all the kids' names. And it would yell out, Jeff, that is, is that because the parents would say, Jeff, come in for life, and he would just copy. Yeah. And the, uh, the mother was known as Squeak. Right. Um, lovely woman, Squeak. But so, so the cocky, not only would yell out, Squeak. Squeak. But also Squeak's actual name was Marion. And the cockatou could also say Marion.

7:17So there's a cockatou in a cage, you know? Cockatou in a cage. Yeah. Go. Aaron. I can only remember that happening once or twice when I was going up, but it, it gives you a fright. Jeff Reed. Bird starts talking. Uh, thank you, Mel. Send those pictures through. Eddie's called in as well. Good day, Ed. Yeah. Good morning, fellas. I live on Phillip Island. The place is full of Plumberbirds. A my wife, she loves baby birds and baby everything. Anyway, I was down on this paddock the other day. And there was a young baby there. The Plumber Birds of my wife said, I'm going to go away, I would have a close look. I said, I won't do that if I was you. She goes, boy, I said, the mother of father will take you. I said, they got hooks in their wings, I believe. And her elbows, I said, and you'll get swirp, but she has no, well, why don't you actually walk over? Well, it was the funniest thing I've seen when she was right on back with the arm. Wow. I said, I told you so, but you touched on something just in what brought me back memories. You mentioned the word King Curtis. Well, King Curtis was a famous wrestler. This would appear on Channel One wrist. That's right. That's right. That's why you got King Curtis. That's

8:20why you got King Curtis. That's why you got King Curtis. Does Mario Milano is that right, Eddie? Yeah, that's what Mario Milano, Mark Lewin, or Paul. Kill a cow. Kill a cow. Something. Well, I don't know. You kill a cow. You kill a cow. Well, that was full of them. All the old audience to know. All right. Well, it was Kahu Mahunga, part of that crew, or was he, he was, he was, he was Friday night boxing. He was, he was a boxer. Yeah, he was a boxer. And the man. Yeah. And the most frightening move was the sleeper hold. In the wrestling. Do you remember that, Eddie? Now it's, when we were kids, we used to do it on each other. And the bloke would flake out. Yeah, that's it. But leave it or not, it was actually a whole the American police were trying to do. Yeah, well, it's big in the, it's big in the UFC. That's how you put someone to sleep before they tap out. Well, I didn't know that actually to sleep hold was real. Not at all. I thought you actually just died. Eddie tells us it's real. Good on you, Eddie. By the way, I just heard Paula Duncan was 74 from our friend of E4.

9:28Did you ever watch Copshop? Oh, yeah. How good was Copshop back in the day? It was fabulous. The band I was in called, we were in a band. Oh, yeah. Kelvin and the absolute zeros. And one of the songs we, and one of the songs we sang was the Copshop Blues. I'll see if I can remember the verse for you. Yeah, I remember. Did everyone smoke in Copshop? Oh, absolutely. Smoking was part of acting back in the 70s, wasn't it? Yes. It really was. Skyways. Skyways. What was the, what was the airport one? And then the airport one, they would also, the, the, the opening sentence of every single scene was what he wanted to drink. Are you the police? No, man, we're musicians. Emergency services update. Thanks to Monjon, Melbourne's trusted name in security, securing your business 24, seven. Visit monjon.com.au. Good on you, Johnny Monkrey, for me, your advisor, Catherine Muffet, his Jonas, good morning to you, Cath. Good morning. What is the latest? Well, police arrested a man overnight after he escaped, police custody in a hospital in

10:30Heidelberg. So that was last night. The man had just been charged and remanded following an alleged theft incident in Preston and was taken to hospital after reporting that he was suffering from a medical episode. It's alleged the 21-year-old man escaped custody at the hospital and climbed into the roof about 10.30 pm. So police negotiated with the man for around three hours before he came down and was taken back into custody without incident. So the caram downed man was, was charged with escape custody and criminal damage and remanded to appear at Heidelberg magistrates court later today. Any footage of him on the roof, Catherine? Not that we've provided, no, but anyone obviously can follow that one at court and I'm sure there were plenty of people around at the time of the incident. Might be good for the TV, Chris, I'm Mark. I what else you got? Well, a woman has sadly died following a three-vehicle collision in inbellying yesterday evening. So emergency services responded to reports of silver hold and sedan collided with a black Ford escape utility on back

11:34as March rurred around 5 pm. So investigators believed the hold and then crashed with a white Ford Ranger. The driver of the hold and a 70-year-old woman from Melton was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries and she sadly died in hospital. The passenger of that hold and an 85-year-old man was also taken to hospital with serious injuries and the occupants of the other vehicles were uninjured. But we need anyone who may have witnessed that collision or have any information to contact cramped stoppers. Catherine, any suspects? Not that I'm across at the moment. I mean, we've got one going incident that we continue into appeal for information. But yeah, keep an eye on our website, that's where all the latest news goes. Good evening, Catherine. Just wait a bit, a couple of hours. No, it doesn't appear to be a suspect. Well, it does appear to be a suspect every day. It was missing from Catherine's story list. Russell, before we came onto that, I hadn't seen Damien for a while. And I walked in today, Damien walked in and I said, your coach is the coach of the year,

12:36for Fraser. And he was saying that perhaps Stephen King was the coach of the year. Now, are you being a Melbourne person? Who's the coach of the year in 2026? I think Stephen King needed to win a final in order for Stephen King to be the coach of the year. Although, to be fair to Stephen King, we were definitely going to finish at the bottom before, according to the experts. And we finished up winning 15 games, Damien. I think we won 15 games. If the competition was normal, IE, the final late, as has been for the previous, you know, next many years, we would have had a week off. Yes. And then we would have gone to Adelaide and played Adelaide in an elimination final. And done well. And I think done well. And done well. I thought in the end, your wild card match with Catherine, determined who was going to be the coach of the year. Well done. And I would love and those thoughts on the coach of the year because for an interim coach, I was emotionally win the coach of the year, would add to the Carlton story of 2026. It's great. They were a punchline after nine rounds. The Carlton was a punchline. It was so much fun. OMG.

13:41OMG. WTF by the face. WTF. Why the face? Discover the new key at premiership offers today. Cashback offers on key at EV3 and EV5 Eagles. Visit your local key at E-Lux today. Minute to the news. Caller earlier. Since a few pictures of the Rose Ellas. Look at them. They're stunning. Aren't Rose Ellas the most beautiful bird in the world? This should be a flag made out of those colors. And look what she's done. She's got that beautiful little shelf for them all to sit there and feed. Yeah. You're so lucky. If you are feeding Rose Ellas and they actually come to your house. Yeah. What a joy. Do you know what I did a couple years ago? I shanked a golf ball. Couldn't find it. Yeah. And it was in a nest. It was not. It was in a nest. That tell me it was next to other eggs or something in the nest. I legit. It was sitting up there. You know. So I could see it. Probably not too high off the ground. Sitting in a nest. Taking an unplayable line. I don't remember my teeth. Two club links. What I didn't do is take a

14:44photo, which is stupid on me. Just a quick WTF. I look on the front page of the age today. Yeah. And the pothole that killed a human being is still there. I would have fixed it myself if I was the premier of this site. Well done. Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe. But the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTI, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor develop guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded,

15:44you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. We'll call her Emma. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at Jones Gabb, dinner at topsoil, a room at the best hotel in town. Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never return from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up. Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Well, the truth is once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops and performing arts all in one place. Everywhere else started to seem a little. Meh, Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell

16:47your friends and neighbors goodbye. Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visit GreenvilleSC.com. Roscoe, the day of the dinner yesterday, just not filling up the company. Today we understand that. He'll be back tomorrow. What's called your eye on the paper's rust? Good to see him. I never like reading about loneliness. I hate it. I hate it. So, Harold some pubs, Australians are increasingly lonely and socially isolated, very searchers found. I studied by the University of Sydney found rates of social isolation is nearly doubled in the past 23 years. Social isolation is a very serious issue. Something that maybe we don't talk about enough. Interestingly, Marco, in the UK, they actually have a minister for loneliness. That's amazing. Why? Because they know that it is something which is society wide and effort needs to be put into ensuring that there isn't loneliness. It's a big, because I think of Australia. My Rosie, look at Australia, it's just a fun loving

17:53country. We're all getting along. Maybe things are, there's some bad stuff going on at the moment, but the overall view of our country is that we look after each other and we love having a bit of fun and to read that we are a lonely group in some instances. What's true? That's make you sad. In the Western world, it's a really issue in the Western world. There's increasing loneliness. Of course, there's a lot of young people who are increasingly lonely and COVID is what calls that. In particular in our state, you've got a lot of people that were teenagers when we had COVID. I was speaking to a fellow who would be known to all of us. He's got a son who's just really struggling to get out of his bedroom. There's lots of kids like that. That makes kids, to me, kids shouldn't be lonely. Exactly. That should be an even lot of fun. The other upside, of course, there is

18:55lots of community opportunities for people to get involved. If you turn up and say, I want to get involved with athletics, no one's going to say no. You turn up and say, I want to have a game of tennis or I want to go to the church for goodness sake. If you want to go to a book club, there are all kinds of things you can do to get out of that bedroom and do something. No one's going to reject you. Chest club. Who cares where it is? Exactly. Get out and do something. It's precisely, I don't have to be sport. A book club. Book club would be great. Book club would be good. Have any of the many bikes join book clubs here again? I don't know. We should. A book should be bikes book clubs. A book clubs book clubs are they champagne clubs? Well, I guess as book clubs. Are you aware that Marjon is going crazy? That's the new trend. I don't even know what Marjon is. Marjon is a, I think it's probably originally a Chinese game, certainly an Asian game. It's a bit used tile. Imagine it's card, imagine gin rummy. I've said I've said I've played. I didn't know what it was. Yeah. I would argue that a big reason why the trend Marjon trend is on the up is because people

19:58have martinis with Marjon. Fred of this particular program, Chip Le Grand, front page of the age. I love Chip. When you say he's coming on next, no one gets out of the car, Russell. I promise you that we all wait for Chip. A mountain of state debt stands between labour and historic fourth term in office with voters increasingly pessimistic about Victoria's outlook and concerned about the financial burden of the suburban rail loop. Well done Victoria. We're starting the wake-up. Yes. That is no good. Approaching 200 billion, I keep on saying it when I get on this radio station. And one million dollars of debt, every hour of every day of the year we are burning. Yeah. Now here's an interesting one for you. So the SRL is costing two billion dollars per mile. Yeah. Per mile. Is that at the old costing? No, maybe it's the old costing. Well double it. So the SRL is costing two billion per mile. Germany and Denmark are building an 11 mile under sea tunnel

21:04with two rail lines and four lane freeway for a billion per mile. So basically half the price underwater. Right. Right. Good morning to people out there who don't think there's got to be an issue with our costings and buildings and and and rotting. And I'll just show you a graph. Which is not really it's not very good radio. They're showing you a graph. Yeah. But this is so so the two towers on the left hand on the right hand side. Yes. That's the cost per mile. Yes. Of building the SRL and the lower tunnels at the lower graph there is other tunnels that have been built around the world. Right. So for the people who aren't in this studio listening along it's tenfold. Tenfold. Tenfold the difference in price for Victorians costing over tunnel versus everywhere else on the planet. Did you go to the NFL on Friday? No. But I was a curious watcher. Yeah. Of what was going on. So it's in the papers today with regard to the so they had a perimeter they had a perimeter fence around the MCG. Yeah. And so and as a result

22:04you would go through the perimeter fence and then you were inside you know the the ticketed part right. And so and the result of that was it sort of dispersed the crowd very easily. Yes. Right. So you didn't sort of have those cues. So you walked through the turnstiles. And once you got through the gates. Yeah. Well there was no turnstiles. The turnstiles were open. So you just went straight through. Yeah. Lovely. Yeah. And then the other the other effect of it of course was once you're inside their perimeter fence then the popups that they have. So there's like a Netflix pop up and there was a CUB pop up etc etc. Right. So you go through the perimeter fence and you're inside. So all of those pop ups feel like they're part of the event. Yeah. So you're thinking oh this is really good. This is great. And originally they were early. Just have a bit of a look around. So the cues aren't as big when we're all trying to bust through the gates at 2pm. That's it. But then when you think it through it's not good. And the reason why it's not good is because so if you think about the Grand Final week. Well think about what's going on right now at the MCG. There's all these popups that are created you know. So you'll have the Os Kick for example. And so if you want to take your family to the MCG during the Grand Final week to go to

23:10the Os Kick you know and do some handballs through the hole. Well you don't have to be inside the perimeter fence to make that happen. So it's a bit of trickery that's going on. We think that the way the NFL did it was really cool and interesting. But actually what it does do is it takes away free entertainment for the public that aren't able to be inside the MCG. Am I making any sense? Yeah you are making sense. Right. So I get it. Yeah. So when I first experienced the NFL on Friday I thought this is unreal. This is how you got to do it. But as I thought it through and had a chapter a few people I don't actually know. Right. So I don't think it's for us by the way. I think the bells and whistles of a huge event. I think it should be Grand Final week. Yes that's it. Everything else. You don't want the NFL in town. No I love the NFL. I bring events down to Melbourne. Yes. People flying in from all over the world. I love it. And to see and watch Americans take on Melbourne and Australia isms in their posts. It was beautiful. My favourite bit was the

24:12Mary Archie band I've got to say. That was fantastic. I was unbelievable. I've had a thought. This is a pretty well thought which I'm well I reckon you should be able to talk during the tennis. Don't you talk during the tennis? We go the tennis. We're always talking. Well as in the should be okay to talk during the tennis. Don't you reckon? Oh loud but just talk. Just talk. No as in you know a lot. Loudly. Loudly. Yeah. I think it's loud as we're talking now. Yeah I just think get rid of this idea that you've all got to be quiet as the tennis players are playing right. The tennis players need to just sort of get with the program. I'm sure no one will agree with me on that front. But I'm just trying to get my head around it as a person who played golf for a living for a little bit. Yes. As long as the noise is constant. Yeah okay. No on cares. Yeah it's the noise out of nowhere that puts everybody off on that. There's a butcher miss that. That's what puts you off. Carly Manoke is going to be magnificent on Grand Final Day. Yeah. I'm excited for that. She's going to be great. And then in the news that's today we've got some of the other so Mike Brady's there. I mean do you have to have Mike

25:16Brady? I think you do. In my book. But not as part of the main act as part of the warm-up and the lead up to the first siren just for the oldies around who who crave what football was like in the 70s and 80s. I think he's important. Am I right thinking that it was 1977 up there, because I only sound right. I reckon if it wasn't. I'm 79. I'm 79 by Damien who you would go with. Yeah. Absolutely. So we're coming up nearly the 50th birthday of up there, because I only incredible. Just quickly this one called my own front page of the Harold Sunt, the radicalisation of children through online video games. Video games, Russ. Yeah. My kids were playing Mario car. Yeah. What sort of video games? Radicalised kids. I'd like to know more. Well we read in the paper today that a number of people joining the Australian Defence Force has risen to a 16-year high and pushed the military towards largest headcount in a quarter of a century that sounds good to me. Neil James, Executive Director of the Australian Defence Association has joined us. Good morning to you, Neil.

26:18Good morning. This is a good thing. It's a very good thing. So Neil, the numbers. So, have I got this right? Is it 60,000? Is the ambition and we need about 10,000 per annum? And we're getting close to getting 10,000 year recruits per annum, is that right? Yeah, but you can't just look at the recruiting figures. You've got to look at the retention figures. It's about two sides of the one coin. So there's no point recruiting more people if you're losing them. And what's been happening at the moment is that the retention rate is also increasing as well as the recruiting rate, which is good overall. Neil, the deal is pretty good. Is it not? So, if you're, you know, let's say a 17-year-old, you're wondering what to do with your life. You can join the ADF. Maybe you can get a tertiary education, not have to pay. I think there's also, am I right in thinking there's some bonuses if you join as a young person? Look, there are recruiting and retention bonuses. The Defence Force has had full adult pay at 17 since 1963. One of the first people in the country to do it.

27:18But it's very, very difficult because the demographics at the moment, people of what you'd loosely call the military age group, which is 17 to 25, are the lowest percentage of the total population since white settlement in 1788. So, yeah, there's a number of demographic pressures that continually press the ADF. Another big one, of course, is tertiary education. The percentage of people going on to university and TAFE is now well over half, whereas traditionally, you know, it was much, much lower. So, not only is there less people that recruit from, they're all going on to a far greater percentage, and now going on to further education at the end of high school. So, Neil, one of the things which I've always thought there's maybe a bit misunderstood about joining the ADF is in a way there's an assumption that you're going to be on the front line, you know. But if you join the ADF, there's cooks, there's electricians, there's engineers, there are people that drive the trucks like there's a whole range of jobs that are

28:20available. Well, the Defence Force is the largest employer in the country after Coles and Woolworth, and it's also spread around the country. So, there's lots and lots of different things you can do, and it depends on people's education and skill sets, what they end up doing. Initial training as a rougher or a funerary across all three services takes about the first year, but people join the Defence Force because they want to serve their country, they don't have to be safe. Neil, there is a little bit of international unrest at the moment. Could that be part of the push for all these signups? It tends not to be. There's a couple of myths about Defence Force recruitment. The first one is that it's affected by the unemployment rate. You get a lot more applications when unemployment rises, but the number of people actually joining doesn't change that much over time. It can be driven to some extent by the international situation. It tends not to be, although there is some effect where families are occasionally less reluctant to

29:25let the young people join the ADF, if they think they're the wall coming. But then again, if it gets to a certain stage of the situation, it tends to work the other way. It's a complicated situation. There's lots of things come into the equation. Neil, before you like a system, we can go in for a year and see what you think has been quite effective over the last decade or so. Good on you, Neil. Sounds very positive to me. Do you remember you'll be wet? You'll be home sick. You'll be frightened. Well, that can't be. You'll be wet. You'll be home sick. You'll be frightened, but the pride of the fleet will be you. And I come in next.

30:28Is it Greg? Greg? First name, Greg King Curtis. He got his nickname because there was a rest like all King Curtis back in the 60s when wrestling was huge in this country with the likes of Professor Tanaka. Professor. There's not Professor Tanaka. He came in the wrestling ring. There was Spirios Ariane, the man of a thousand holes who was in there. And there was a play, well more recently there's been a famous person, some who wrestled as the outback silverback. He was the famous person. He was an Australian wrestler. He passed away, he may be a documentary coming out on the next week. Is that right? Right. That's it. Yeah, well, someone has a name. I'll have it now. It's a centimeter perfect. That's going to be the name of the docker. One more to the, and apparently it's very, very good. I'll tell you what was good. Look at the photo of Jess Hull in both papers that I, as she's crossed the line in second place,

31:33of the 5,000 meters in Budapest at the old, the championship. What do you notice about the photo? She's smiling. She's smiling. Yeah. This is a race where of the Southern routine or 12 competitors, I reckon a leaven them with just absolutely stuffed line on the track after the race. And he's just how well this big green on the face at the end of 5,000 meters. Where she's at, about $100,000 for finishing second. So that's pretty good call. Yeah. Same money that Cam Mars got for finishing second. Josh Kuhren, the love Cam Mars. There's something to joy in competing. And I reckon she's got it. There's a few that have, no, it's like Brad Johnson, the footballer. Yeah. Everybody had Johnson look like he was always smiling. Yeah. That's his natural look. Jess Hull's natural look is the smile. Even when grimacing or in pain or exhausted. She does see that. Did I mention the arc yesterday? Yeah. I did. Yeah. I got checking. I was like, sure, when I got to it. We hope to speak to the A. I feel a little later today, John. I'll ask, I'll ask on your behalf.

32:34No, the A. I feel ticked off on it. Yeah. They said it was all like, yeah, I felt crazy. The fourth, Melbourne hasn't, hasn't even met its coaching panel yet for a coach. All I know about that is that when Kouten was going through its process and ultimately, Josh Fraser made it impossible to select anybody else because of his win loss record. And I'll speak about the coach of the year at 725 as the who it should be. And I want you to write down who you think it should be. I know who it should be. But it won't be the same person. You'll say Josh Fraser, right? Josh Fraser is the coach of the year by 1 million miles. I'm going to stop that and put my left bow down. And North Melbourne hasn't gone for a deal. But when Kouten was going through its process, Jamie Graham, the assistant from West Coast, really, really impressed Graham right. I know that for a fan. So, and Graham right picked it was responsible for picking Craig McCrayer, Colin Wood, who if I remember, says me quick,

33:39won a Premiership couple of seasons later. Now, Dennis committee, son Mark, he was the outback silverback. You're not going to believe who won. Johnny Rolf. Hey, Jamie. The buzz. Morning, John. It's spelled J.O. in. Jonathan Rolf from Dickson's Creek. Good on your roughies. That's not the raffi way down. No, it's not. But Raffi is Jonathan. John Rolf, I can't wait to hear who you think is the coach of the year. Well, now who raps, raps all the way up, Stephen Kear. Yes. You've got Josh. I've got Josh. You've got someone else. Yeah, 100%. He comes to 630 news. What are you doing in here, Scotch? Well, it's interesting because on Saturday, I had to wrap my mum's present. It was a birthday. I gave her a dressing gown and I had to wrap it. There's a big, huge thing. And I just thought to myself, I'm the world's worst gift wrapper. I've come in here this morning and a stay at home mum has invented a new blade-free tape dispenser.

34:40It's very good. I think we've got a video of it here as well. We've had a look at it. It's excellent. It pre-cuts your tape so you can just use that and then stick it onto the gift wrapping. It would be a game changer for a wrap-in presence. I know. 100% so I need this. Well, I wrapped a present the other day and I said to my sister, how good is the wrapping? And she said to me, you're very needy, aren't you? I was looking for praise off the back of a half good job. It's hard to do that, wouldn't it? Do you use too much tape? I don't fold it right. Yeah, I mean either. I end up just getting a bag. I just put it in the bag and say, you go. That's true, right? Have you got a drawer in the kitchen full of all the bags? Yes. Yes, is that the front door? Yes, that's the second guest man bags. Yes, exactly. So jump on the line now. What do you just know good at? Mark, are you on the cooking? I'm the worst cook in the history of Australia. I don't believe that. And you know good at driving? We need quite early to put some pressure on Europe.

35:41So he put the ball best week. One, two, three, four. After that, you look at four vehicles at top of just crash KB. You are good at driving. That was one of our Craig Howard's car. That one? I've seen you hit a green driving off the T-box. You are good at driving. Why aren't you good at gardening? I think I'm a love gardener. I'd love to be good at it. I'm telling you it, okay. Right, one double three, six, nine, three. What aren't you good at? It just gives a quick call. One double three, six, nine, three. Running. Running? Terrible. Yeah. Pay three, three, three, three, three. More Australians survive cancer than ever before. This is great news. But the research shows the hidden legal and financial costs are mounting. Now Todd Harper is the CEO of Cancer Council Victoria. Morning to you, Todd. Good morning. Good to be with you. It's great news that more and more Australians are surviving cancer. But I'm not sure everyone understands how much it costs. So the good news, as you pointed out, is that cancer survival is improving.

36:45Thanks to early detection, good research programs that are in place that are identifying new cures and are really good prevention programs. But what we then see, of course, is more people living longer after a cancer diagnosis, which is what we want. But the report that we released this week with the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer highlights that there are significant challenges for people diagnosed with cancer, legal challenges, financial, superannuation, insurance. And all of these issues are happening at a time when some money is facing a little challenging diagnosis. So there's already quite a lot of emotional, psychological distress that's going on. And then you face this uncertainty created by additional costs and legal complexities that are faced at a time when you are really facing that challenging life experience. So Todd, I'm imagining, okay, so you get a cancer diagnosis. And that's obviously going to be an emotional blow. And you'll have a GP that's going to sort of help you guide you through it. Is there someone who helps guide you through the money implications?

37:47So a money coach having received that diagnosis? So that's increasingly what we're seeing. In fact, during the COVID pandemic, we were seeing at the cancer councils help line on 13, 11, 20. We saw a sharp rise in people who are experiencing financial problems. It might be that they weren't able to work or other challenges that were associated with their life. And so we were seeing a significant increase in calls to our 13, 11, 20 service. That led to us implying some financial councils to help us with that support and provide that through cancer patients. And ever since the pandemic, we've seen that trend continue. One of the things that really surprises many cancer patients is the cost of the cost associated with that, the healthcare cost. But also then it might be things like, as I said earlier, challenges with employment, for example, not being able to work or work full time or needing to take time out of the workforce. And a lot of these come as surprises to people when they're

38:51dealing with one of the most challenging issues they'll face in their life time. And Todd, I'm also imagining that there's an enormous amount of administration involved as well. So you've got your health guidance, you've got your financial guidance, but then do you also need administration guidance? Yes, absolutely. So there's so many challenges that can come up. And so we're finding that this is adding to that emotional and psychological burden that people are already carrying. So these are the things that we've really highlighted in this report we need to look at and make sure that we listen to the voices of people who've been through this experience. So that they're able to guide us in terms of making some reforms to the way that we are talking across associated with cancer, how workplace is dealing with cancer, insurance, superannuation. These are quite complex issues. I'd listen to the voices of cancer patients as we've done in this report, really gives us a chance to identify what sort of system we should be aiming for. And Todd, I see in today's age on the back page,

39:53Cancer Council is an advertisement for bowel cancer waits for no one. And so that's obviously a great message. Oh, absolutely. So this is responsible for the second most number of cancer diagnoses, second most number of deaths. And yet it's all we can prevent so many cases through the National Bail Cancer Screening Program. Currently about 35 to 40% of people do the test when they're invited. If we can get that up to 60% and more, we can literally save thousands of lives over the next 20 years. So please, if you haven't done the test, do it. We find that once people have done that, they realize, gee, that's not too bad. And they're very happy to do the test next time. It comes around in a few years time. And Todd, early prevention is particularly with bowel cancer is a game changer. If you catch it at stage one versus catching it at stage three or four, the percentage survival rate is enormous, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. And you've been wonderful, you know, with your advocacy on this issue. So thank you very much for that. You're absolutely

40:57right. So if we can catch it at stage one, 90% plus cancer survival rate. So there really is the importance of that early detection and prevention message. Good on you, Todd. Thank you, Todd. And good luck with everything you're doing. We appreciate it. It's surprising. 35 to 40%. You know, it comes in the mail. I did it recently, Marco. It is very simple. As Todd says, just get on with it and do it. Yeah. And it look, they are great. If you're in a position to go and get a colonoscopy, that's the other one. That is app completely foolproof. Now we put out the call a little while ago, wonderful three, six nine three. What are you good at? John's called in. Morning, G. John. Morning. I suck at organizing the dishwasher. I can only talk about the top row where the spoons and walks go. That's about it. Is this because you are, are you informed, John, that you know good at it? Or is this self assessment? My wife lets me know that just leave it in the sink. She'll do it when she gets it. Listen, John. Listen, John, I'm going to put you straight

41:57because I'm no good as a cook, but what I am very good at is loading the dishwasher. Good for my wife cooks the wide slots. They are for the balls. The thin slots are for the plates. It can't get any simpler. And you put the mugs at the top against the walls. And then the glasses rest against the mugs. How hard could it be? But then when you put all the pots and pans and all the other, you wash them yourself. You're washing yourself. You're washing them yourself or you do a separate wash of the pots and only pots. Thanks, John. I didn't think I was doing this today. Today is a very special day. For 24 hours only, all donations to the very special kids charity will be doubled. Three, eight, eight, eight. Asking for your support to ensure very special kids' house. Victoria's only children's hospice. It could always remain open, providing quality 24 hours children's palliative care. I've been there. It is an essential service. Please donate today and have double impact for six kids. Call 1-800-Tribalite-875 or side again. 1-800-Tribalite-875

43:05or visit throughoutew.com.au. Let's get to Los Angeles. Barbara Tarlay. Morning, you, Bob. Hi there, Marco and Good Tuesday morning Russ. We're returning to the intensifying debate over artificial intelligence. These systems are eventually calling them much, much smarter than us. We won't be in control of the future anymore. I think that's the important thing. That's Josh Engels until recently an AI safety researcher at Google's Deep Mind. He's one of several now former AI company employees going public with their worries. Yesterday here you heard Anthropics CEO Dario Amode calling for a global slowdown in AI development. Now from a competitor Sam Altman at OpenAI. It would be insane not to adjust the way we all work and put guardrails around this technology. On Wall Street today, tech stocks initially tumbled as investors reacted to Altman and other CEOs calling for a development slowdown. In Washington, Congress is treating the AI sprint like a bureaucratic stroll. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. We should take decisive

44:09action now so that we can slow down as the CEOs have recently acknowledged slowdown the pace of development in order to protect the American people. The speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson is trying as usual to stay in lockstep with Donald Trump's approach. That is don't put the brakes on America's AI development. If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China and that is a threat to every single American. In Ireland yesterday at his golf course, Trump declared, we're leading China in AI. We're most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins. Today back at the White House, Trump writes on social media, quote, the only control or guardrails that AI needs is a strong and smart, high IQ president. Marco and Ross, Trump adds, quote, the USA has that in space. Mark, I can't help but think the tick bros are all about themselves. First and foremost, joining us on the line from Love and Scaven Gride, discover the new

45:11care premiership office today. Cashback offers on the care EV3 and EV5 vehicle. Visit your local care dealer today, get AI Gavin. Good morning to you, Russ and Marco. There's been a huge fire at an ammunition storage site run by a private defense company in Bulgaria. No one was injured in the blaze in the center of the country, although it did trigger a series of explosions. Enco company whose weapons are used by Ukraine against invading Russian forces said the fire at its site was sabotage. The latest incident follows a fire at another M. co-amination warehouse in the area recently. The storage facility that was burned this time is 170 kilometers east to the capital of Sofia and it had not been used for months and was inspected just 20 days ago when full compliance with all regulations was confirmed. The firm is run by Bulgarian arms dealer whose prosecutors a ledge has already been targeted by Russian agents. This includes a poisoning attempt in 2015 and there's been widespread criticism of a British zoo after it advertised a

46:13child predator tour online in order to see its tigers and lions. Bosses at Chester Zoo in Northwest England quickly changed the 90-minute bus tour's name after it was branded Sinister by Vix Visitors and blamed a computer error. The name blunder was part of the site's ticket promotion to allow visitors to go on the tour showcasing its some archer and tigers, lions, rhinos and kimodo dragons. The zoo's website said discover the predators of the animal kingdom and their prey in our guided tour. Your expert guides will share fascinating facts about some of nature's most effective hunters. Marco and Russ, the advert has made a monkey out of the key. Okay Russ, strap yourself in because thanks to listener Dan Mog, we have got the top seven things that are really funny when it happens to somebody else. Apparently it's called the Shudden Freud theory. That is it. At number seven, getting hit in the plums. At number six, slipping or tripping over, yeah, it is funny, especially a big slip. A big slip is funny when it happens to somebody else. Is any of

47:13this actually funny? At number five, getting pranked by a fake spider or snake? We know someone who absolutely you could prank with a fake spider any day of the week. He sits where you're sitting right now. At number four, diarrhea. Nothing funny about that. It is. Yeah, look, when they walk in a road like Charlie Chaplin, it's kind of funny. It happens to someone else, yeah. Okay. At number three, squirting jam on your shirt when eating a donut. That and also... Is that funny? Yeah. Okay, that's funny. I think it's funny when a bird, you might drop on, yeah. That can happen. That can be funny. Number two, my favorite. Walking into a glass door or window. Well, a good friend of mine is getting PTSD right now because he walked straight through a glass door and I saw the wound. Are you kidding? And it was not funny. Stickers on the window or the door? Well, I know. They better put the stickers on. And number one, then, where it all came from, we were speaking about this morning, getting swooped by a plover or a magpie. You were swooped yesterday? I was and it was... And the bird, whatever the bird

48:14was, was relentless. Marco, right? I tried. I love it. I love that you were swooped. Not because you were being swooped, but because spring is here in Melbourne. That weekend and yesterday, just magnificent call now for the room of file. One double three, a six nine three. He comes at seven o'clock news. 3A W. Tomkin Melbourne Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2am, you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care? Close. ER? Slam. Telehealth? Maybe. But the pharmacy's closed. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30

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51:26games that we used to play with. The consoles used to go by and maybe get once every year for Christmas. Santa would drop off under the tree. Unfortunately, now what we're seeing is all the games that have been played by kids these days. Because they're connected to the internet, that's the actual issue here. It's not some of the game itself, but the game allows our kids to chat to people online. They're able to download information. Actually, by pass, some of the safeguards that the government federally has established through the social media ban. Unfortunately, we have people who are praying on our kids. Whether they're people being groomed children to do acts of violence or pedophilia, there are some real concerns out there. The statistics really are alarming when we have around 19-10 children at home playing video games. We see that around 40% of them are talking to strangers online. I think that really is alarming when I come across that data. As a father of a very young son, I really do not want to see him growing up being captured by any of that content.

52:32So, Senator, I'm writing down everything you've just said. I didn't realise it was as severe or as dangerous as scary as you've just outlined. So, what can be done about it? I don't want to be alarmed because I think games and other avenues are very good for kids to let off a bit of steam. I mean, I think doesn't harm our children, but what is really important here is that the committee, the parliamentary committee needs to look at why is it that our kids are being radicalised. Why is it that damning platforms are allowing our children and not having the safeguards in place to make sure that they are protected? I mean, I don't want to be accused of censorship here. This is not about censoring anyone having the ability to play games, but I think there is a Judeo care that has to be imposed on platforms. It applies to everything in life that we do. People should have the right to have fun. I agree. But when it comes to our kids, I think we have to draw a line in the sand and say, these companies need to own it and quite frankly, I think a lot needs to be done.

53:35And that's why we launched the inquiry late yesterday. Senator, the way I like to think about it, it's, we've always had censorship with regard to, you know, when you're a kid. So Marco, when you and I were kids, we got other movies. There's the rated G film and there's the rated M, the rated R. You weren't allowed into the rated R. So I think when people get agitated around, you know, this notion of, you know, we're getting in the way of people's freedom, well, contents always been censored. That is true. And I think I guess the best censorship was my parents if I did the wrong thing. I tell you what, I'd really do copper that night in terms of being told off. So I think, you know, parents have a very important role to play here. I think they're wrong. Yeah. At the same time, I feel like people are also very busy. They don't understand. Now, our kids are probably a lot more smart than us when it comes to gadgets. And what we're saying now is that, you know, in the last six months, we've had, you know, around 250 people up to 300 now that are involved in counter terrorism and violent extreme programs. You know, we've had a 20%

54:38of our caseload in Asia and the AFP being dedicated to young people. Like, wanting farther their caseload, I know kids or miners. And that is just alarming. So tech, so Senator, the tech bros, I do feel like there's a little bit of a, I don't know, is a backlash. Certainly there's a backlash, but is this backlash going to turn into sort of real policy where we say to the tech bros, hey, listen, you're allowing young people to get involved with, you know, being groomed. And that's just not on. I couldn't agree more. And I think they do have to look at it. And I think they've got good products to sell and offer people. But, you know, if they're going to allow, you know, really bad people online to talk to children about radicalising, then, you know, they have an obligation. They have a duty to make sure that what they are offering is safe. And particularly, you know, as we're leading to the Christmas period and obviously, a lot of kids will want a lot of these games around that time. You know, parents need to be asking these questions and saying to these companies as well, like, what are you doing to take my children? I mean, in the same way that we drop off our kids at school or a child care, we expect

55:44our kids to be safe. And the moment that our kids are not safe, then that's when I think, quite frankly, the vast majority of the community say we need to fix this. Hey, Senator, just quickly, the red flag games, the ones that radicalise kids, do they leave a trail? Is it easy for authority to pick this up? Look, they are some of the questions that I want to ask. I'm not really across all the technical analysis, but I do know that there have been a couple of games like Minecraft and Roadblocks and I think Stream and others that have also been slapped with an infringement notices from the E-Safety Commissioner, I think early this year in April. So, you know, there are some concerns that the E-Safety has about a number of these platforms. So, you know, it's been known that these platforms are problematic and they need to fix themselves. Otherwise, you know, government will have to come in and actually start to impose some rules or regulations around.

56:46And this is not just a unique problem to Australia. I mean, right across the world, we've seen either, you know, G-Hardest or Far Right content reaching kids as young as nine. And the Europeans, late last year in November, coordinated an operation where eight countries identified thousands of links on gaming platforms. So, it's not just Australia that's grappling with this problem, but it's certainly worldwide. Thank you, Senator, Senator Refjakone there, one to watch. And our next with sport. 3 AW Breakfast Sports Reports Sports on Anderson for an encore 20k power banker power your commute with a signate power bank. We always take great delight in who is the pre-match or halftime entertainment at the Grand Final. I think back to Blake on a horse. His name plays what? Yeah, like in a horse. What are you talking about? I'm not going to say any more in case I say something as Jack Di1 said. So, somebody will know what I'm talking about. And all will become obvious. All right. 1.33693.

57:48John think what Kelle of the horse was. I think it might have been gray. Coach of the year, Marco, who's yours? Josh Fraser. Yeah. Cuff to bleed. The Card Football Club was a punchline after round 9. Where they went on 8. Okay. Yes. Well, I reckon Stephen King actually just didn't change the D's. I think he contributed to changing footies this year. How? For the better. All right. A fence, crazy chaos footy and as a result, we were entertained. So, you've got one, you're Blake one of final, you're Blake didn't mean a final. One 15 games. One a wild card. Thank you. Yeah. I've got a Blake who's side one 12 games last year. They've won 19 this year, including the best finals when I've ever seen. Oh, yeah. Okay. For his name is Dean Cox. Oh, Cox. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Not for you. Uh, Dean Cox, what he did at the side, who did they beat in the first final? Who did they beat? Yeah. They beat Brzzie. Oh, Brisbane. Who were apprenticeship favourites?

58:49Did they beat it? They floated. It was the most incredible game I've ever seen. They had eight players from their best 18 unavailable. Eight, including their captain, Callum Mills off early. It's hard to beat, John in the, uh, Dean Cox. But the point is, Russ, you have, this has been in, in Vogue, for 25 years, the coach of the year. See, Alan Jeans award. And in that time, I think 13 have been apprenticeship coaches and 12 have not been apprenticeship coaches. Yeah. Alissa Clarkson, never won, coach of the year. That's right. So, in 2008, it was Mark Thompson. Oh. 2013, it was Ken Heakley. 2014. Uh, that's a ridiculous, a ridiculous, and I think Nathan Buckley won it in 2016. Athlete Ridiculous. Yes. So, I mean, surely, to me, the coach of the year is the bloke who wins the, or the woman who wins the premiership. But, uh, I get how it could be someone. So Tom Haley took Collie Wood from last in 1976. Six of the first. Well, well,

59:56two within a point of winning a grand final. I didn't win the premiership. So he would have, to move in coach of the year back then. So I get how he can ever move. But I'm comfortable with Dean Cox. Okay. And if he pulls it off on Friday night against Priya in Sydney, that just adds another, another chapter to the most remarkable story in my lifetime. If they pull it off this year, that will be the best footie. I was your real footie story in my lifetime. I'm out of the same energy that they did a couple of weeks ago. Can you make a go? I can make a motion when you run out of the, you run out of numbers of quality footballers at some stage. There's the catcher. I hope it doesn't know what's in came out on MCG on a horse in 1988. Yeah. And he's saying, I think he's saying the national anthem. He was a. That one, those who he is. Well, Matthew Holland did. It was from lower temples though. Well done to you. Matthew. Now after the 730 news, what do you wish we still had? What do you wish we never got rid of on the back of? Morella jerks. What? What are we talking

1:01:01about? Okay, open line time. One, double three, six, nine, three. On the back of Philip Island racetrack. The Grand Prix circuit. That's not like that. That was one of the greatest circuits in the whole world. The best. They're talking about it turning into a golf course or a hotel resort or something. Right. Nothing better than a beautiful day down at motor GP. Honestly, and then the helicopter shot. So the helicopter came in over the water and then rise up and there would be the track. It's stunning into the war into the best straight. And it was yeah. And I believe the riders loved it as well. Yeah, it was like an infinity straight. It was. Yeah, it was beautiful. They're talking about it. Go. So on the back of that, right. What do you wish we still had? And what do you wish we never got rid of? And you got many cash in your wallet. Now that is a beauty. I don't even have a wallet. Right. I used to have a little money clip. It wasn't really money clip. It was like a bulldog clip. Bulldog clip. Yeah. That's what I have. Yeah. But no more. I don't know. I miss. That was great.

1:02:05I miss cash. How about when you just I'm had a couple of hundreds and yeah, yeah, it was it was beautiful. I know it was a beautiful thing. I'm about you know, in cash, there's freedom too, don't you, Mark? I explain. Well, if you got cash, then no one knows where you're spending your money. Thank you. If you're using your phone, everyone knows that you've just bought, you know, yeah, I wish we had Lou Richards back. I'm with you on that. I think that's a cracker. Right. Yeah. Lou was so good for football. He was so good. So entertaining. And occasionally, if you jump on YouTube, you can you can watch old Lou Richards. Yeah. You know, it was just fabulous. Jack, die. And Jack, die of course. And Bobby. Yeah. It was so. How much fun did they have doing World of Sport? World of Sport. I want world of sport back there and league teams, of course, on a Thursday night. But the wood chop. Yeah. The two guys riding bikes and the little cool go around. Incredible. Fantastic. Ready. There we go. Thank you. One double three six nine three. Robbie has caught in. Good morning to you, Robert. Hi guys. Hi guys. Look, Jeff Kennett did the worst

1:03:10thing ever by getting rid of tech schools. We need trades. Not everyone's going to be a brain surgeon. We need trades. That's good. Thanks Jeff. Got rid of tech schools. You're a good boy. Yeah. I went to blackburn tech and Oakley tech. Yeah. And believe me, boys, some boys need a tech school. Yeah, official 27 years since he lost the election. Don't tell me on Friday. Damien is next. Good morning to you, Damien. Morning, Gents. First of all, big shout out to Mikey in Germany. Listening to AW on the app. You're not your Mikey. But get Jeff Kennett back. Since he's gone, I just had a litany of muppets running this state on both sides. There we go. You can just get the run. First call. Jeff Kennett will blame him for something. Second call. We need him back. Perfect. He did lose. What is it? Was it 1999? Yeah. That's loosable. Pre-liminary final. Yeah. That was a big day. Yeah. Frankston, I think, was the same. Adrian is next. Good morning to you, mate.

1:04:12Good morning. So a few years back, maybe three years, four years back, they are around just cancer. The started to get rid of that only 100 metre indoor pool. And now we have no pool. And they're just decided they're not worth building it. I 100. Back where I was. Did you say a 100 metre pool? No, 50 metre pool. 50 metre pool. Yeah. And it's gone forever. You can't get rid of pools. So on forever. This is one of the great things about where we live, okay? Yeah. All these public pools we've got. I went for a person with a Fitzroy pool the other day. Yeah. That could never go. That nearly, you know, nearly got rid of it. Jeff Kennett. No, you're kidding me. I did see up in Sydney. And Tom, I'll get to you soon. One double three six nine three. You're still trying to call it. I did see up in Sydney. They had this beautiful old pool. I think the Commonwealth Games were swam there one year. And it was inside almost, I'm going to say a factory style building. Yes. But they took the roof off, spent a bomb. And it's right next to the Harbour Bridge. It's the most gorgeous, beautiful thing. Oh, I know that. You've ever seen it. It's at Luna Park, just next to

1:05:15the Luna Park underneath the Harbour Bridge. It's a stunning pool. I could not get over the job that they did on that pool. So there's something that they never got rid of. They decided to enhance it and it just works. Beautiful. Tom is called in. Good morning for you, Tom. Oh, good day, fellas. I can remember when the world was a bit more sainter. So I'm getting and the shop she's to shut halfway through Saturday and Sunday was a genuine day of rest. The family would get together, Sunday roast. And just spend time with each other with everybody doing their jobs, morning, noon and night. It's so hard to get people together to earn a cross. The world just seems to have in some ways just got crazier and crazier. I don't know if you fellas remember those days, but yeah. I know what your thoughts are. It's good to see people employed, but sometimes I think Jeepers were paid a price for just quality time with the family and friends. Well said. Yeah. I've just got a protest. So we'll have to find... So the protest being Joan Kuhner got rid of the text schools. So we need to find out whether that

1:06:17be true. Can we find out who got rid of the text schools place? So Sophie, if you would mind having a quick look at that, so we've got a protest apparently Joan Kuhner got rid of the text. That's not difficult. Rodney has called in. Morning to you, Rodney. Yeah, good morning guys. The news is of course that the big word is divestment. I call it there about to sell the point cook air base, the home of the RWAF. Are they really? Oh, the need for money. Now we've got to stop all this stuff. Okay. I'm a listener to this program and Roscoe is exactly right. Yeah. Once it's gone, it's never ever coming back. Point pick, I'll be surprised by that. I didn't know that. Apparently Google is telling us that John Kain got rid of the text schools. What definitely, what definitely did happen when Kenneth was in charge is they did a malgoma some state schools. That definitely did happen. Yes. And probably considering the state

1:07:18of Victoria when he came in. Yeah. Yeah, to do something. That's right. Well in the hell of sun today, we read that in this magnificent country of ours, Australians are increasingly lonely and socially isolated, research has found. And this study was done in the University of Sydney found rates of social isolation nearly doubled in the past 23 years. Professor Melody Ding from the University of Sydney's School for Public Health has joined us. Morning to you, prof. Good morning. The fine loneliness for us. What we found was a very interesting and somewhat unexpected finding that between the year 2001 and 2023, we seeing Australian more than double the prevalence of social isolation. And we also observe a slight increase in loneliness as well. So Professor, I suppose if it went from 1% to 2%, maybe you could cope with that. But my assumption is that the amount or the percentage of Australians

1:08:18feeling lonely would be quite high. Yes. First, I want to tease out that we're looking at loneliness and social isolation as two separate concepts because they're often mixed up. So what we see particularly as problematic is social isolation. So that's people having see friends less, participate less in their community. So that's social isolation and the loneliness is how people feel that they need more social relationship in their life. So the two are different and what we see particularly at risk is social isolation. Okay, so that's makes some sense to me in that I can see how I might be able to fix social social isolation less so loneliness because loneliness is how I feel. So social isolation being on by myself. So how do we make sure that that is reduced? I think it's really at multiple level. I think rising inequality and cost of living is not making socializing easier. And at a community level, we don't have as many places together as we used to have as communities and people have used visualisation to kind of source out a lot of

1:09:23things, a lot of you know errands in our life that we don't need individual context anymore. So there's just lots of things that are happening in our life that make us look at see this shift and I think you're trying to reverse that we really have multiple levers to work with. So professor, when I think about social isolation, I suppose what I do is I get a bit agist on thinking about older people that might feel it, but equally my suspicion is that there will be a lot of young people that are feeling socially isolated. Yes, that's correct. Even though we see that older people can't report muscle isolation, what we see in young people is that they tend to have a sharper increase. So especially with loneliness, we see really sharp increase in young people. And I think there's really many things happening here and yeah, it is a big social problem now. So socially isolated or loneliness. How long does it take because you know you can be by yourself for a month or two to fix people with different rates I imagine. Generally speaking, how long does it

1:10:26take to start to feel like you are socially isolated? That is really good question. You know, in terms of both social isolation and loneliness, if you occasionally feel that way, it is totally normal. That's just what we are as humans, especially with loneliness. What we actually tend to hypothesis in a scientific literature is that it is a healthy thing to feel lonely every now and then because that kind of prompts us to reach out to people. That's good to know. Yeah, so definitely when you just do stigmatize it, you know, if I'm so lonely for this two weeks, that's totally fine. That's like just congratulations to your human. But if we tend to feel repeatedly say over, you know, a year or two years chronically, that's when the health consequences really start to. So Professor, you say it's a big problem now. So it's a big problem that needs big solutions. Now, am I right in thinking that in Britain, there is a Minister for loneliness. So my assumption there, yeah, so my assumption there being this is a big problem, therefore we need to use government

1:11:26weight in order to try and do something about it. So should we have a Minister for loneliness in Australia? That is a really interesting question. I think that having a designated Minister for loneliness definitely will raise awareness at the population level. I think having both issues, being somewhat sensitive and stigmatized in some communities, raising that awareness is really important. So if anything, like having that awareness and having a designated person to sort out this issue is important. Thank you, Professor. I much appreciated Professor Melody Ding there. Danny's called in. One, double three, six, nine, three. You can too. Good morning to you, Danny. Yeah, good morning. I'm finding I'm lonely quite often. But it's not the fact that I feel lonely. It's the fact that I don't know when this loneliness is going to end. So there's no end to the situation I do have friends. I do have work. So I've got to be interactive with people. But it's when I get home the end of the day and I know there's nothing but maybe Netflix or whatever in my

1:12:30life, that's when you start to get those very dark moments. And I mean really dark. So Danny, are you a member of any clubs or your book club or a chess club? Are you involved like that? Well, I was. And I very much enjoyed it. I even began my own organisation back in 1998. That's still going. But I've retired from that. And maybe that's why I feel more lonely now because I'm not part of something as like bigger than me. Good on you, Danny. All right, Danny. Keep calling 3AW by the way. One, double three, six, nine, three. If you're lonely, that's what we're here for. Thanks for coming out and have a little bit of a chat. Wherever you are, always take 3AW with you. Listen to us, Crystal Clear via the app free from the app store. The 3AW app is the perfect companion for your commute. Instant radio solutions are next. One, double three, six, nine, three. Instant radio solutions. Got a Google, get the Drain Man. He's the local expert who only clears and relimes drains. The Drain Man.

1:13:31Okay, Jen's called in on one, double three, six, nine, three. Morning to you, Jen. Morning, guys. I just want to know the mobile speed cameras that are on the side of the road. You know, the ones that have, they're in the back of a car. Do they catch traffic in both directions or good question? Yes, they do. The mobile speed cameras in the traffic can catch traffic traveling in both directions and monitor multiple lanes at the same time. Jeff is next, good morning. Hey, you know, guys, I saw that ad for the bluff where they're advertising the kitchen reveals and a great big kitchen gas ring sort of coming up out of the water burning. I don't know if you saw that. But my question is, I thought you couldn't have any gas connected to the new builds in Victoria. So why run an ad with a gas burner? You beauty, I'm glad that it was gas at the right. Some builds of Victoria can still have gas connections. If they're planning or building permits were approved before the upcoming 2027 complete ban, you know, we've got a ton of gas here, don't you? We got more gas than we know at the do with the estate. It could get us out of all kinds of trouble. Ross, if they do it properly, hey, big shout out to Emily. She's on the social

1:14:33eyes, social isolation. I'm going to read out her email after the 80-clock news. Ross, Steven's in there back tomorrow, just up in the car. It's Mark Ellen speaking. Hey, right before the ad, I mentioned an email that they came in the breakfast. Emily has written in. We're talking about self-isolation and loneliness. This is what she says and well done to you, Em, because I'm on with you 100%. Remove the taxes from drinks at pubs to make them more affordable. So the youth of today can go out and socialise, meet people face to face and even have a dance. There's no question that beer is too expensive. That's not the pubs fault. That is the government's fault because the alcohol excise. Emily, you are spot on and a couple of bottles on the board. What does that say? Ancient soils, he's got Grinash coming your way. Do you have my eyes going? Well done, Em. Actor Sydney Swini used her advertisement for a sports prediction company, a spot backlash from female athletes and revived debate over objectification. We've got D-Matican with us, a

1:15:38world-winning creative director, a bit of a superstar, the old D-Matican at Marco. So D, look, in the 1980s, I think this was pretty normal. It was pretty normal in the 1980s, but you know, Ruff, you know, born in the 1980s. So that's just maybe she should have moved on. Hey, D, I've seen the ad and I don't know what it's about. So does that make it a good ad or a bad ad? It's actually in terms of just advertising, it's a very good ad for that target market, for selling the betting app. In terms of Sydney Swini's career, really bad idea. So tell us that because I mean, ultimately, I think that what you would call it D is the attention economy and so what she's selling is, well, her asset is attention. She's getting attention and she can make money out of getting attention. So I'm wondering whether she cares. I think she will, because if her attention is limited to how she looks, I hate to be the harbinger of bad news. Looks good to stay with you forever. It's really sad, but true. And it also means she becomes

1:16:43box office poisoned. So I guess if she wants a career in Hollywood, so before American Eagle, before the American Eagle ad came out, remember where she sort of it was kind of alluding to what supremacy or something. But she had this, she had this movie called Christie when she actually played a lesbian box up. And it was apparently a really good movie, but it came out after the American Eagle thing and it was just box office bomb. And when you got a movie in the box office, it's no point just appealing to men because like my husband said, oh, she looks good. Let's go to that movie and I'd be absolutely not. So donate half your audience if you want a career in Hollywood. Yeah, I suppose I do. I understand where you're coming from there, because my guess is that no vick, I think is the name of the advertiser, no VIG, prediction, prediction business gambling in effect, that their audience is blokes. I reckon they're definitely blokes. And I reckon, and I don't know if I'm being super nice to sweetie on saying maybe this was sold to her.

1:17:44As let's do a little bit of a tongue in cheek, have a go at the political controversy surrounding your other ones and just have a bit of fun with this. But it's so heavy handed on the sex thing that that doesn't come across. It's just it's too in your face. There's no lightness of touch that might have. Like I think there could have been some illusions. Okay. Two to it. I think there's a difference between sex and sexism. I feel like this crossed the line. Okay. Yeah. The, um, when I watch the Victoria Secret Angels walk straight down that runway. I watch it because I'm a man. But when you see the ratings, there are more, there are many more women watching that than, than men. So isn't there an argument that men and women can appreciate what Sydney's doing? Except those women are selling lingerie. So then walking down the runway, wearing lingerie makes

1:18:45perfect sense. And as a woman, I love looking at beautiful women. There is nothing wrong with that. When I'm a woman who is interested in sport and a woman is saying basically the only reason you're looking at me is because of my body. That is completely different. So it's about what you are selling. And yes, as I said, that will work perfectly for the target market of young bloats. But the long term effect of her career by alienating women in this case is very different. And a game it goes to the difference between sex and sexism. Victoria Secret definitely, I shop at Victoria Secret. I don't have a problem with women looking hot in lingerie because that's what lingerie is for. Good on you, Dee. Thank you, Dee. Much appreciated. Uh, uh, now moving on. A lineup of Aussie stars will join Pop Princess Kali Manoe for the pregame AFL Grand Final in a time. We're looking forward to this. Beck Hagsma, executive general manager, customer and commercial at the AFL has joined us. Good morning to you, Beck. Good morning, both. How are you? Yeah, well, okay. Can you run through these extra talents for us, please? Yes, sure. We've got, um, we've got a really great lineup this year. Obviously with Kali,

1:19:49who will be belting at a hit. Can't wait for that. But we've got G Flip, um, actually opening up the day with the opening set, uh, kicking us all off, um, which will be fantastic G Flip's had an amazing year. They've been all over the US, uh, and the world playing and a huge career moment for them this year. So can't wait for that energy that G Flip will bring to that opening set. Michael Painter is going to be singing the National Anthem for us. Um, Michael Painter is an extraordinary, musician and vocalist. I saw him earlier. Was it this year? Maybe last year in Jesus Christ Superstar was incredible. And he's going to be, uh, John's doing John Farnam's the, um, musical theater show. And then Mike Brady, of course, coming back to join us as well, which is incredible. Well done, Beck. And so, Anna fell on Friday. Anything, did you have a, your note book out? Well, you're taking notes. I want to think you might, you know, like to adopt. I'm not saying for, you know, in two weeks time, but in the future, I think it was super entertaining show,

1:20:53wasn't it? Um, there was, like, I, you just didn't know where to look. There was, there was things going on over at DJ, Jonas Brothers, cheerleaders. We do a lot of great stuff at the AFL. And, you know, I think we saw a lot of a lot of the crowd singing along. And I think that's what we love about Goldstings at the moment too. That, that's sing along that happens after a goal is incredible. So I think we learned that Ozzy's loved to sing an anthem, any anthem. Yeah. And I love the, I love the Marriotti band as well. I don't know whether that's going to play a role at some point, but I absolutely love them. I tell you what, the room of files been telling us that Eastern Brazil is going to get around. Is that true? Is that true? I can't confirm or deny what will happen on Grand Final Day. Oh, God. Who, who determines what Kylie sings, Beck? We work really closely with Kylie and her team and also with Mushroom, who put an amazing production on for us. So we collaborate on what we think will work really well for the audience there and for everyone who loves the artist at home. So it's going to be, it's going to be a big

1:21:54set of songs. And Beck, you know, the three AW listeners, the NFL, I think that that provided evidence that a day, you know, light, light, the day can work. And so perhaps, you know, once and for all the argument about a night grand final can be put to bed. Perhaps I think I think we've done it really well for years. Like how great was Snoop Dogg last year, how great was Robbie, how great was Katie and Kylie's going to be take us another step further ahead. Get on your back. Good on your back. Much appreciated. I heard you guys talking about the night grand final. Yeah. Would mind just seeing a Twilight. I like Twilight. Well, in fact, this weekend, I mean, I'm with you both no night grand final. We don't want it. And Twilight grand final. I'm interested to see. Well, so what time is the kickoff on Saturday, Hallform, Brisbane? I think it's like five, 15, 15. Yep. You look at photographs of yourself, you know, when you phone, you'll see yourself maybe an old one pops up. Yeah. From many years ago. And I was looking at myself before I had gray hair. And then I looked at myself with gray hair. I went, I'm like in the gray

1:22:55hair. Are they mind? You don't have to comment. I'm making, I'm saying it about myself. Okay. Silver Fox look is sensational. Well, thank you. Well, thank you very much. But, but, which is pertinent to my question. Okay. Getting older. Yes. You often hear the statement, you know, getting old is not fun. Getting old is not fun. But there are some good things about getting old. Okay. You bet there is one double three six nine three. If you'd like to join us. Yeah, what do you like about getting older? Just a quick question with regard to going gray. Is it the same for everyone in that it sort of starts here and it just sort of fades up? Is that how it works? When you when you pointed down. Yes. So it starts at your belly button. Say for example. Yeah. Say and it goes. And then it and then it so hits your chest. No, no, and then it hits your neck. And then it goes up very. Yes, you look at this. There's no gray there. No gray on your chest. No, no, no, no, no, just but the head, the head is very okay. So the way I've graded is not normal. I thought that was why everyone grade. It sort of progresses up the body. No, okay. I've only just

1:23:56started going. And I'll just see some just above my ears. Now the temptation is in you will see people in the media and they will they'll go the coloring and you go, mate. I don't do that. How bad is the diger? Yeah, don't do. Yeah. So, but I understand it because I've had my head died for certain roles. I've played them gone. I might continue. But then but now I'm so when you lose your hair, people people they try to hide it. And I understand. Then they go, then they commit to it. And they go up and up my way or the highway. They're not magnificent. He's had it. Yeah, I know. Yeah, very very seriously. What do you like about getting older? People are going to give us a call and what do you like about getting older? I mean, I tell you what, when you when you walk your daughter down the aisle, that's one of the great days of your life. Yeah, that is that yeah, the opportunity to do that. It really, yeah, it really is. And then of course, the other thing I love about getting older is as your children get older and as they become adults and as they go to the pub, there's nothing better than go to the pub with your kids. Yeah, I like the sound of that.

1:25:00One of the great experiences in what way? Well, in that you're all just, you know, you're sharing, loving, telling stories, getting on the beers together. Do you reckon you get more interesting as you get older? No, no, no, I think I am. I do, I have a habit of repeating my stories, but I think my story's pretty good. I think I've got good stories. I think that we're and you can see some eyes being robbed, but I got, I'm on topic. This is a good story. Exactly. You've got a lifetime of good stories. Yeah. I found talking down to younger people, enjoyable. So really? Yeah, I do. Can I let? How are you? Nice to see you. And by the way, nice work with the dressing sense there today. It's a nice change. Because you know, those sort of things. I'm a little bit different that I enjoy getting young again, meaning I don't care. So when it comes to playing with kids, I don't care being silly. I don't care. Pull them up. No, whatever, whatever it is to take to be a bit silly, whatever it takes to be a bit juvenile. I love it. Because I get attention and people laugh and I make people happy. That's my whole career. Yeah. So this is with grandchildren.

1:26:01So what we're talking about here. But also with friends when you, when you, when you get a bit older and you get a bit silly, I mean, other words, you can get on a dance floor and you can dance like you meant to dance or you can let go and really get into it. Yeah. And not care what people think. Do you like getting on the D for a while, Marker? I was a big dancer with the girls. I used to like my, my, my girls, my wife and I loved it going out and dancing. We loved it. It was great fun. And more now. I haven't gone dancing for a while. Well, I reckon the kids have dragged me off the dance floor. Do you dance at home alone? Sometimes when you get out of the shower and there's a bit of music on do you, because I do, it feels great. When you, when you catch yourself in the mirror, it doesn't look great. No, but the feeling is good. No question. I was going to say the radio is playing you just to jump out the shower. Oh, yeah. I'm not dancing, even to see myself. I think. I do. I do it every day. Oh, my love. I think a new more than yeah. Uh, uh, uh, cellies called in, one, double, three, six, nine, three. Morning to yourself. Good morning. Look, I love being, uh, getting old and you been belonging to a chess club and doing

1:27:05what I want to do. I got my own money. I can, um, please myself if I want to go to the ballet, go if I want to go to a flower show I go and it's just the freedom that you have when you get older that you don't have when you're young. Which not striving for pleasure in some ways and not striving. You're just floating on the boat and wherever it takes you're enjoying it. Let him go. Sally, you still there? Yes I am. So Sally, have you got if you've got a diary, so if you've got if you go to I don't know next year. Yes I do have a diary. So next next Tuesday, have you already slaughtered in what you're going to do on that Tuesday? Yes I'd be at Kaiser, Kesar, you don't need gymnasium. Yes I do there. Good advertiser at Thru A.W. Thank you for that. Good job. Good on yourself. I had more cash written down just as you get on. I don't think it's true. It is true. It is true. I mean everything was about saving money. I mean I realized it's hard out there. I realized that. But does you get older and you're glad to

1:28:09access it? I'm not a pensioner or something. I don't know what I'm on. My account sent me up with something. It's good. You got my gig. You got cash. Yeah. It's good. You don't have to scrunch. You don't have to think about what you're going to do tomorrow night. You can just go. Glenn Robbins is in 1.33693. If you'd like the chat, the joy of gardening is one that comes to mind. You love it too don't you? I'm in. If you have told me when I was 23 years old that at 57, I would enjoy pottering around the garden. What about cleaning the shed? Yeah cleaning things is very satisfying. I've got two more for you. I've got much better at, I had to say this. Have you really? You got better. There's no way you got to be better. I'm glad Ross isn't here. Well I don't know. Maybe it's me but I'm on the receiving. Well I'll keep talking. Yeah. I had my taste buds. Your taste buds have got better.

1:29:12I've got better. Oh yeah. Come on. You appreciate food so much more when you know all that. I guess that's right. Really? Yeah. I think you're right. Yeah. You're appreciated. Yeah. I choose a wine. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'd sub to you. So do you take your time when you're eating? Glenn? I do now. So you use more time now that you're older. I didn't know I'd get on with the other stuff. Good man. I'm so neem on that round that he's better in the sector than he was when he was. He goods that little mat. What? Today's Rema Fong winner is no barriers to entry. Best room is this week going to the draw to win the GLA 200 from our great mate, except Mercedes Benz. Very good to work with you Mark. Good on you Russell. Thanks for making it. It is. He Roscoe back tomorrow coming up with Tom Elliott. Tom has another terrible example of political corruption.