October 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Hayley & Max go head to head in today's Debate After 8! The topic..
Should you say hello to strangers when you walk past them?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Hailey Pierson, Max Burfett head to head one topic
today it is you should say hello when you walk
past strangers in the street. On the affirmative is Hailey Pierson.
On the negative, Max Kenneth Frederick, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I always get the I feel like I always get
the difficult side to argue, the side that makes me
a bad person. But I also feel like it is
the side that a lot of you out there agree
with and you just don't want to admit it. So
before we launch into it, I just want to say,
it's a safe space.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hey, in all honesty, just be honest. You don't like
saying hello to people when you walk past them?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
For the purposes of what I'm about to argue, I
hate saying hello to people.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I know you do, whereas I in real life. Nothing
to do with his argument.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Let's you're affirmative. You get your minute first, then I
get my minute. Then Adelaide, you decide on thirteen one.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
O two three sixty seconds on the clock. Your time
starts now, Haley, go.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You selfish pig.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How can you walk past another human being when there's
nobody else around and not acknowledge their existence? Do you
know what a simple hello can do to someone? It
can change their life, It can save their life. Here's
a fact for you. Feeling unseen and lonely is like
smoking seventeen cigarettes a day, and your friendly hello could
be the only interaction that they have in an entire day.
(01:30):
Your hello could be the reason they get out of
bed tomorrow. I say hi on the esplanade and not
on the trail, A smile at the dog. It costs nothing.
We're not in Sydney, We're not in Melbourne. This is
a city where people talk at traffic lights. If we
lose that, we lose the charm that makes this place
feel like home. Basic kindness spreads builds, connection, creates community, creating.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
A ripple of positivity. A simple high morning, great day
for it, Hello can change someone's life. And if you're
not into that, you're a selfish pig.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You get two selfish pigs in I respect that. Yeah,
right on the buzza too.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You'll said it and have haw to say ripple, which
makes you think you got off chat GPT. But that's
beside the point, dare you our very dare all right?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You should say hello to strangers when you walk past
them in the street. Negative, Max Burford, Your sixty seconds
starts now.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I am so sick of being made to feel guilty
for not doing what society deems the nice thing. I
know it's easy to say hi, I know it's easy
to ask how someone's going. But just going about your
day in your own little bubble, independent of everyone else,
it's not a crime. Sometimes I just want to walk
my dog with a podcast on and not have people
think I'm a bad person just for existing.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I don't want to do the awkward.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Footpath gymnastics trying to catch someone's eye looking at their
phone while we try not to walk into each other.
You go look up and catch the eye at the
same time as they do. I don't want to smile
too early, because then I'm creepy. But if you smile
too late, give mister opportunity. I don't want anxiety when
I'm walking to get some milk. We spend our whole
lives telling kids not to talk to strangers, but apparently
once you turn eighteen, the rule flips around and you're
(02:59):
rude if you don't talk to strangers. I'm not unfriendly.
I'm just respecting decades of public service advice. If that
makes me a selfish peer. We do also happen to
live in a city that is famous for serial killers,
so I'm not a selfish pig. I don't want someone
to wear my skin just because I went for a morning.
In conclusion, I'm not antisocial and pro efficiency.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I don't think that was a good argument at all.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
That was terrible.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You should have chat ebt that you could have got
way better points.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I liked my points, all right, Adelaide, you need to
decide on this one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
We have the debate and an Adelaide adjudicates thirteen one
oh two three. We got those one hundred and fifty
dollars Mermaid hair vouchers. When you sit on this, should.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You say hello to strangers in the street or do
you ignore and just put your eyes down?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's just a high guys through the CBD imaginating hard
with everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Ah, you never get an It's not when you're walking
down Ronde more.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Sorry your argument did say everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It's also not a conversation, just a quick hello, Hi.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Every caller gets today family passes to the Giant Wheel
at Glenow. The next one on two point three Giant
Wheel will take your cause and get a verdict on
this debate.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Next that mix.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is Haley and the maxis after a debate on Mix.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
One O two point three topic today you should say
hello to strangers when you walk past them in the street.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Haley Peterson was affirmative, Mac Burford negative.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Tough one to argue, but it's my best I think
there are some people about. There are people out there
that agree with that side. Sonya in Green Acres. We
need your votes.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
That I'm on team Haley. I have lived in other
cities around the country and you'd be shocked at how
friendly they are. South Australians are so stuck up. I've
become one of those wavy hello people because I lived.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
In to say and we thought everyone else was worse
than us.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I used to I went to Breetsburton and I was
walking around with a girl from Queensland and she kept
waving to people and saying hello, Like do you know
these people? She said, no, no, you did, That's just
what we do here, yea. And they do it in
perf and camera and Sydney is everywhere Sydney, South Australia
that are stuck up, people say hello.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
All right, so you're saying we should be doing more
of this. It's just a friendly doesn't kill.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Anyone exactly, It's just like a mostly friendly. However, South
Australian country people will always stay hello.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Yeah, they will put their little waves on the steio.
That's what they do. Sonya all right, you voted team Hailey.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We'll give you some tickets to go the Giant Wheel.
Every call that gets on here today going to the
Giant will thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I think we should wave to everybody as we drive
past them too. In the city, every single person that
you drive past you should wave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Stuck at Peka, stuck a Peakauur traffic and Port Rush Road,
just sticking your finger up and everyone rather than Semaphore park.
Which way you're voting mate?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Yeah, I'm with team Mac. I believe that not every
day is a good day, and I don't need to
be reminded by every second person or every second Karen
that it's a good day. It's for me. It's a
reminder that you know it's not a good day. For example,
my Mum's just being diagnosed with inopable brain tumor and
dad's just had a heart attack two months ago, and
(06:18):
it's like, I don't need you to remind it. And
you know, you say, oh, you're just saying tired of
someone is going to make them smile. No, it's just
a reminder that it's.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Day, aren't we. Rob? Yeah, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I'm sorry this has happened to you, Rob.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I would see the opposite though. If you say hello,
you acknowledge them. You don't have to say hello back.
You can just be in your own world now.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You can bright and Rob's day in Otherwise, like sending
him tickets to the Giant Wheel, you can go and do.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
That, all right, Sarah. It's sorcery nor which way you're voting.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
And why I wrote Yes, it could make all the
difference to someone's day, and it doesn't cost a thing, exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's a nice thing you can do.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
My three year old doesn't give me a choice in public,
and he fast high to everyone who listens and starts
chatting away to them.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You they all smile, don't they?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
They do they?
Speaker 9 (07:08):
You see the whole demeanor change and then when we leave,
he yells out by see, have a good day, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
If you flipped it around and a thirty three year
old man went up to your two year old and
said hello on the walk like you, that's a bit weird.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
No, no, you're a cute now say hi, Hi, Oh cute.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
See we need more of that. I love that. Okay,
we're going to thank you so much for calling Sarah.
You're going to our giant will.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Yeah, we will enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It opens from midday today. But next we're going to
reveal the answer the verdict.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
The verdict is it across the board?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Do you say hello to sketchy people as well, like
if they look dodgy?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
No, I crossed the road.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
What the hell?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
You can't reveal that now?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Not in the city. In the city, I don't say
hello to people. They're scary as teenagers with hoods.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
No way selective hello.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
He yes, it's always a hello.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
If this comes out that you're only saying hello to
the people that you know, that the neighbors or something,
your entire argument is the func.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Mullen Boyd
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Hailey Pierson, Max Burfett head to head one topic
today it is you should say hello when you walk
past strangers in the street. On the affirmative is Hailey Pierson.
On the negative, Max Kenneth Frederick, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I always get the I feel like I always get
the difficult side to argue, the side that makes me
a bad person. But I also feel like it is
the side that a lot of you out there agree
with and you just don't want to admit it. So
before we launch into it, I just want to say,
it's a safe space.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hey, in all honesty, just be honest. You don't like
saying hello to people when you walk past them?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
For the purposes of what I'm about to argue, I
hate saying hello to people.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I know you do, whereas I in real life. Nothing
to do with his argument.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Let's you're affirmative. You get your minute first, then I
get my minute. Then Adelaide, you decide on thirteen one.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
O two three sixty seconds on the clock. Your time
starts now, Haley, go.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You selfish pig.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How can you walk past another human being when there's
nobody else around and not acknowledge their existence? Do you
know what a simple hello can do to someone? It
can change their life, It can save their life. Here's
a fact for you. Feeling unseen and lonely is like
smoking seventeen cigarettes a day, and your friendly hello could
be the only interaction that they have in an entire day.
(01:30):
Your hello could be the reason they get out of
bed tomorrow. I say hi on the esplanade and not
on the trail, A smile at the dog. It costs nothing.
We're not in Sydney, We're not in Melbourne. This is
a city where people talk at traffic lights. If we
lose that, we lose the charm that makes this place
feel like home. Basic kindness spreads builds, connection, creates community, creating.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
A ripple of positivity. A simple high morning, great day
for it, Hello can change someone's life. And if you're
not into that, you're a selfish pig.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
You get two selfish pigs in I respect that. Yeah,
right on the buzza too.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You'll said it and have haw to say ripple, which
makes you think you got off chat GPT. But that's
beside the point, dare you our very dare all right?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You should say hello to strangers when you walk past
them in the street. Negative, Max Burford, Your sixty seconds
starts now.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I am so sick of being made to feel guilty
for not doing what society deems the nice thing. I
know it's easy to say hi, I know it's easy
to ask how someone's going. But just going about your
day in your own little bubble, independent of everyone else,
it's not a crime. Sometimes I just want to walk
my dog with a podcast on and not have people
think I'm a bad person just for existing.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I don't want to do the awkward.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Footpath gymnastics trying to catch someone's eye looking at their
phone while we try not to walk into each other.
You go look up and catch the eye at the
same time as they do. I don't want to smile
too early, because then I'm creepy. But if you smile
too late, give mister opportunity. I don't want anxiety when
I'm walking to get some milk. We spend our whole
lives telling kids not to talk to strangers, but apparently
once you turn eighteen, the rule flips around and you're
(02:59):
rude if you don't talk to strangers. I'm not unfriendly.
I'm just respecting decades of public service advice. If that
makes me a selfish peer. We do also happen to
live in a city that is famous for serial killers,
so I'm not a selfish pig. I don't want someone
to wear my skin just because I went for a morning.
In conclusion, I'm not antisocial and pro efficiency.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I don't think that was a good argument at all.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
That was terrible.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You should have chat ebt that you could have got
way better points.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I liked my points, all right, Adelaide, you need to
decide on this one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
We have the debate and an Adelaide adjudicates thirteen one
oh two three. We got those one hundred and fifty
dollars Mermaid hair vouchers. When you sit on this, should.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You say hello to strangers in the street or do
you ignore and just put your eyes down?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's just a high guys through the CBD imaginating hard
with everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Ah, you never get an It's not when you're walking
down Ronde more.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Sorry your argument did say everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
It's also not a conversation, just a quick hello, Hi.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Every caller gets today family passes to the Giant Wheel
at Glenow. The next one on two point three Giant
Wheel will take your cause and get a verdict on
this debate.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Next that mix.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is Haley and the maxis after a debate on Mix.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
One O two point three topic today you should say
hello to strangers when you walk past them in the street.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Haley Peterson was affirmative, Mac Burford negative.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Tough one to argue, but it's my best I think
there are some people about. There are people out there
that agree with that side. Sonya in Green Acres. We
need your votes.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
That I'm on team Haley. I have lived in other
cities around the country and you'd be shocked at how
friendly they are. South Australians are so stuck up. I've
become one of those wavy hello people because I lived.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
In to say and we thought everyone else was worse
than us.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I used to I went to Breetsburton and I was
walking around with a girl from Queensland and she kept
waving to people and saying hello, Like do you know
these people? She said, no, no, you did, That's just
what we do here, yea. And they do it in
perf and camera and Sydney is everywhere Sydney, South Australia
that are stuck up, people say hello.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
All right, so you're saying we should be doing more
of this. It's just a friendly doesn't kill.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Anyone exactly, It's just like a mostly friendly. However, South
Australian country people will always stay hello.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Yeah, they will put their little waves on the steio.
That's what they do. Sonya all right, you voted team Hailey.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We'll give you some tickets to go the Giant Wheel.
Every call that gets on here today going to the
Giant will thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I think we should wave to everybody as we drive
past them too. In the city, every single person that
you drive past you should wave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Stuck at Peka, stuck a Peakauur traffic and Port Rush Road,
just sticking your finger up and everyone rather than Semaphore park.
Which way you're voting mate?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Yeah, I'm with team Mac. I believe that not every
day is a good day, and I don't need to
be reminded by every second person or every second Karen
that it's a good day. It's for me. It's a
reminder that you know it's not a good day. For example,
my Mum's just being diagnosed with inopable brain tumor and
dad's just had a heart attack two months ago, and
(06:18):
it's like, I don't need you to remind it. And
you know, you say, oh, you're just saying tired of
someone is going to make them smile. No, it's just
a reminder that it's.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Day, aren't we. Rob? Yeah, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I'm sorry this has happened to you, Rob.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I would see the opposite though. If you say hello,
you acknowledge them. You don't have to say hello back.
You can just be in your own world now.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You can bright and Rob's day in Otherwise, like sending
him tickets to the Giant Wheel, you can go and do.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
That, all right, Sarah. It's sorcery nor which way you're voting.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
And why I wrote Yes, it could make all the
difference to someone's day, and it doesn't cost a thing, exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's a nice thing you can do.
Speaker 9 (06:58):
My three year old doesn't give me a choice in public,
and he fast high to everyone who listens and starts
chatting away to them.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You they all smile, don't they?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
They do they?
Speaker 9 (07:08):
You see the whole demeanor change and then when we leave,
he yells out by see, have a good day, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
If you flipped it around and a thirty three year
old man went up to your two year old and
said hello on the walk like you, that's a bit weird.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
No, no, you're a cute now say hi, Hi, Oh cute.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
See we need more of that. I love that. Okay,
we're going to thank you so much for calling Sarah.
You're going to our giant will.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Yeah, we will enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It opens from midday today. But next we're going to
reveal the answer the verdict.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
The verdict is it across the board?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Do you say hello to sketchy people as well, like
if they look dodgy?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
No, I crossed the road.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
What the hell?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
You can't reveal that now?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Not in the city. In the city, I don't say
hello to people. They're scary as teenagers with hoods.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
No way selective hello.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
He yes, it's always a hello.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
If this comes out that you're only saying hello to
the people that you know, that the neighbors or something,
your entire argument is the func.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
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