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September 12, 2024 11 mins

It’s the end of the week and Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson have once again joined Mike Hosking to take a look back on the week that was. 

The first civilians have set foot in space, but they had to pay for the privilege. How much would you be prepared to pay for a private spacewalk? 

They also discussed their sporting exploits, the nine month cruise, and the Presidential Debate. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim Wilson's with us along with Kate Hawksby. Good morning.
Good morning, let's talk Tim. School sports highlights. Where were
you good?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
What do you do at school? I'll tell you what
there was. There was a time of absolute glory the
B team for following your high school hockey when we
bust across to PARMI I was subbed off after thirty
minutes because I was so useless. But bit a squash,
a bit of squash, I think, okay. I used to

(00:30):
go down to this well, the thing was down the
squash club. That's where I used to keep mc dury's.
So I go and play a game of squash or two,
open up my locker, roll myself a SIGGI and contemplate.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Really a Hamish Cur type moment there was it that
was such a lovely interview.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hamish Cur was so.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Greatly a delightful guy. And do you know, do you
know why he's delightful?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Why he's from christ j all right, that explains it.
Listen to the.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Actually he was born and done and studied in Parmeston North.
He's done some agricultural stuff and he's not using it
any time soon, so he's got a back up long term,
but it does. We've all am I right, Katie and
saying we've all a done school sports, but be fascinated
ourselves with the high jump because none of us can
do it well.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
It was such a competitive thing because if you were
little and sprightly, which I imagine you where and I
was pretty, you know, like a string bean and probably
tim too, you kind of backed yourself to get a
bit of momentum and fling your body across it. So
I used to be really disappointed if I didn't. It
was like, wait, what why didn't my body get across this?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
But did Mike, Mike, did you do the high jump? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
We all did the high jump because it was compulsory,
so so school sports was compulsory. And she did a
good run up though, right, yeah you did well?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
You did? No?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, you in particular, wouldn't he like, did you?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
He's got he's got hang on this guys back, but
he's got little legs, so he's going to have more
of a run up.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, did you hear? Hamish's answer was if you are
slight like I am, you needed more speed, so yes,
you need to come from a long distance. It was
it was like my cricket career. One of the most
embarrassing moments of my sporting life was when I was
playing cricket at Hagley Park in the Sir Richard Hadley
team captained by Sir Richard Hadley, and he came up

(02:28):
to me and I'll never forget it. And I was
not an unreasonable cricketer like I was. You know, I
could you would look at me and go, he's played
some cricket anyway. He comes up to me and he
goes left arm, medium pace, as though that's something that
I would be doing. And I said, sure, Sir Richard,
that's left arm medium pace anyway. Because I got carried

(02:48):
away with myself, I took it back in the run
up just a little bit further than was necessary to
try and turn myself into a Richard Hadley or Dennis Lily.
And so I came in from the long basically from
the bound, and so as I built, it's built.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Some of those really annoying kids.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You can imagine where the ball went, and it wasn't
on the pitch, it was nowhere near anybody. The whole
thing was just so embarrassing, and I'm pretty sure I
dislocated my shoulder.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
And that was the beginning of your shoulder issues.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
And that was pretty much the beginning of my shoulder issues. Anyway,
nine months cruised him a couple of things. I want
to test out this morning. So the spacewalks that they
talk right, how much would a spacewalk need to be
for you Tim to to pay it and go, yep,
I'll do that because that's an interesting thing to do.
Or would you never do it? Sety eight dollars fifty Okay,

(03:43):
so you don't really care. It needs to be like it,
It needs to be nothing. I don't think I'd even
go if it was free?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? Yeah? What about what? What about the high altitude skydiving?
You have you considered that there was a bloke who
did while back out of a plane in a space
suit you fall for thirty nine k's this bloke Ossie
Broke Mac one point twenty five So fastest falling person. Wow?

(04:09):
Would you do that?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
No? No, see no, I don't jump off the table
at home, far less doing a parachute, bungee jump or
to bungee jump. Will do any of those sort of things?
Mac too? I wonder if you do you feel it
as you go through the MAC.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, would you in your spacesuit though, that's the question,
or would it just be see you'd want to be
you want to take your helmet off as your break
in the MAC, wouldn't you?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
And what? Flick your visor up and just see what
the wind? See, see what the wind feels like? Is
that what it is?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I thoroughly enjoy it, Like I thoroughly enjoyed Hamish Care.
I think I think people like that. There's something about
sport is in the caddy. What is it about sport
that turns people into decent human beings?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, I just think they're well rounded. They've usually they've
usually got good families who've backed them up, and they've
usually had a weekends, you know, weekends filled with sport,
and they've made good connections and it's good community sport.
I mean, that's why they encourage you at a very
young age to get your kids in as much of
it as possible, which is actually quite pricey these days
though by the time you pay all the club fees
and all the uniforms and all the gear, I do
think that's an issue. But if you can get your

(05:08):
kids into as much sport as possible within reason. It's
it sort of rounds them out. I don't know it's
good for them.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's the team. It's the team issue, isn't it Actually? Well,
but it's also like I can't do this on my own.
I have to have people to help me. I think
our society has just become fragmented and individualistics. Sports the
antidote to that.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, it isn't It isn't funny. You should say that
because Martin Crow, who I remember talking to because I
was always interested in him. He was a singular character,
but he played in the team sport. But cricket's one
of those games, for example, that you can be a
singular character and start in end of your own right
while being in a team as well. And he was
one of those. He didn't ask me.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
He was still.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
He didn't ask me.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'd been talking to Sir Richard exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, Sam says, you pay a thousand bucks. The point
I was trying to make is unless you can get
me up there, everyone seems to agree the look back
down to Earth is the thing. So you go back
and go whow that's where I live. So but the
point is you've got it takes so long to get there,
and really how long what if you step out, how
long do you look back down at earth, going, oh,
that's really cool before you go? Right time to go,

(06:17):
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Can't can't be bothered with the commute, can't be fast.
It's just just send me, send me a picture exactly.
I thank you. Hey, hey, I just want to say
a great comment I thought at five to seven this
morning about about Trump and immigration and Springfield. Yes, there
is an issue here. There's clearly an issue here. Same
with there's a place called Aurora where they've got Venezuelan gangs, extortion, beatings,

(06:41):
child prostitution in housing projects. There is an issue. He's
just he just fumbled it.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, it's not just him, it's it's the nut jobs
who surround him. And if you just got rid of
the weirdos and you dealt with the issue, then then
you might deal with the issue as opposed to getting
waylaid with all of the other stuff. Second question, okadie
nine month cruise. Most interesting article I read this week
was the Serenade of the Seas, which is just returned

(07:06):
from nine month cruising, and they talked to the people
on the cruise. Do most of the people think they
had a great time and would do it again, or
do most of the people never want to get on
a ship again.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, they're probably Anyone who goes on a nine month
cruise is obviously a hardened cruiser. So they probably loved it.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
They hated it, did they, But almost universally they hated it.
They came back and they said, a couple of things happened.
One see, there's the other one, which is the round
the world one that you buy a cabin and you
pop on and off as you see please, and that's
what happens. This one was a nine month cruise. You're
on there for nine months. They all missed their family,

(07:45):
they all missed the stuff that was going on on
land that they never got to experience. And they were going,
oh damn, I was missing that one. What a shame.
And they got bored witness basically, and it was too
long and they felt trapped.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, I mean I could have told you that before
you went on board. I mean it just seems so obvious.
I don't know who would be.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
So you know that's why nine months here, Yeah, that
seems well, because that's what that's what happens.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
What you do is you go, well, here's a ten
day cruise. Hey, how about a twenty one day cruise?
I tell you what, thirty two days around Scandinavia and
before you know you're on a nine month cruise. That's
how that w was.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Nine months is really long?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
About a two hundred and seventy day cruise?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, it's too much because if you just said a
baby that long and I can tell you it's a
long long time, having done it three times, it's nine
months is a long time. Ask any pregnant woman.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Could you argue that having a baby is not the
same as going on a cruise?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Both sound pretty, you know, taking.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
On a lot unusual, nothing like it.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
You're not comparing apples and I was just here and
you're stating a baby baby, you're creating life. It's beautiful.
It's a wonderful journey with you and your bride. What
are you worried about?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh, that's okay. It's good for you to say that
because you're not actually carrying the baby there to a
thief year.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah. Well, oh you're you're a man. You can't talk
about this. Bound don't start don't start with don't start
with this. You can't comment. Listen, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Twenty two. I am sorry, Caddy.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I just say I am I. I just say I
am a little bit concerned that you're you're lining up
a pretty terrifying retirement for us, because what you have
so fast produced this week is space a nine months
spacewalk or moving to a house and above a racetrack
that has cars in.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
The lounge above it's on a racetrack, which does lead
me to twenty two Monaco Drive. So it's a beautiful house.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Have you seen it, Tim, Yes, that's it's not quite
for us because if you've got a car in the lounge,
the Philistines will jump, We'll grab the keys. They'll be
doing donuts in the living room. Forget about it.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Problem being.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
If you're living on a race track, what about the
you got rear.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
All day?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
No, that's you on the race trip I got.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I've got a semi if you like that, I've got
a semi detached on Dominion Road. That will just suit you.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Guys, you reckon. I don't know what do you do
when you reach your point to where your dreams are
being scuttled right in front of your right.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Come on, these are crazy dreams. You got it. This
is crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
You get, so you know what, you get new dreams.
Go and get some new dreams.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Where do you get new dreams from the new dream Shop?
Do you go down to the new.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Dream shop somewhere either than a raceway or a cruise
ship or your space rocket countdown.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
And fun here so there's no space, there's no rockets.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Look, I've got it. I've got it. Crocheting. This is
what this is for you. And you're sitting there quietly,
You're thinking about things, You're talking about the stuff that's interesting.
You're making nice little outfits.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
It is time to end this segment fourth withth

Speaker 2 (10:59):
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