The Shaw Report...with Barra - What Was He Doing On The Plane Do You Reckon?

Barra had his entertainment head on today as he delivered The Shaw Report in Lisa's absence. He had an update on Dolly Parton's health, George Clooney had some Oceans movie news and the bizarre reason Stereophonics have cancelled their Aussie tour.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sure Report on ninety six AIRVEM.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
The Barrow Edition.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yes, multi skilling and it's good news to start with
to Dolly Parton. I absolutely love Dolly Parton. Everybody loves
She has issued a video reassuring fans she's doing fine
after a social media post from her sister Freda requested
prayer for her.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Health and that said everybody worry that don't?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, well that would, wouldn't it let some to believe
that the singer might be in more serious decline than
previously indicated. Here's Dolly.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I wanted to say, I know lately everybody thinks that
I am sicker than I am.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Do I look sick to you?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm working hard here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's
mind at is. There was obi that seemed to be
real concern, which I appreciate, And I appreciate your prayers
because I'm a person of faith. I can always use
the prayers for anything and everything. But I want you
to know that I'm okay.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
No one does it quite like Dolly my hair Goodness
that that is the best relaxed. She's okay, still welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm not sure what Frida was on about, so Freda
back in your box. A representative from Dolly has tried
to calm down fans. It's just you're ready for it.
It's just kidney stones. Oh okay, so good? Not pleasant,
still great.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'd still be praying for kidney stones.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
The girl.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
You don't want to get taken out by kidney stone. No,
well now, George Clooney says a budget's been improved for
Oceans fourteen and the filming is about to get underway.
Have a listen to the lineup, Clooney, see if there's
any ugly people here. Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon,
Don Cheedle. Don't know him Chele? Is he good looking?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Okay, well well he's he's he's you never heard of
Don che Okay, going.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Back and watch the movie. He blows stuff up.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They're all coming back any So. The original Oceans trilogy,
directed by Steven Soderberg, launched in two thousand and one.
Can you believe I know it's a long time, twenty
four years to see what it came about? Made four
and fifty mili franchise continued with Oceans twelve, that's right,
And then there was Oceans eight, which sort of was okay,

(02:21):
Sandra Bullock, Kate Blanche that one.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Didn't Yana pull that one off quite as well.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Helena Bonum Bonham is that he said, Carter, you got
Sarah Paulson.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's your reportment.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I shouldn't have started these names. Anne Hathaway and a
couple of other people.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Ask you, I noticed you skipped over a couple of
names there.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Mate Awkward, Awkwafina and Mindy Kaling.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
There not a bad effort.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now do you know the band's stereophonic? I do?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I do? Well, Okay, what songs?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
What songs are?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay? Well, this is I'm going to play a little
bit of a song that I remember playing on the
radio quiet a Bitch Dakota. Great song. I haven't heard
much from them of late though.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, I remember this song and also maybe tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
But anyway, they're there.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
They were on their way to pert they're doing it.
They were doing an Australian tour and they were going
to be at Freemantle Prison this month, y this month,
October twenty four to twenty five concerts. There are brilliant,
bit spooky bit brilliant freemount On prison.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
But the Australian sphere.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, the Australian shows have been canceled now just hot
off the press because lead singer Kelly Jones suffered a
displaced jaw joint, and in a post to Instagram he
wrote flying long distance is not medically advised. He explained,
I have canceled no more than four shows in my
entire thirty years, and I hope you can trust this

(03:44):
decision was not taken lightly.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
And jaw problems does make it a little hard to
sing too, doesn't it? As well as fly?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I don't know what the flight had to do with it,
but anyway, flew here? What was he doing on the plane?
You reckon? He went on to say refunds will be
given at points. Anyone with tickets please contact ticket master.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Get around all right, mate?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
We talked about Dolly, Now we go on next level.
Dolly's right up there. But this band Queen, Yeah, I've
heard of them and Freddie remember Freddie at Wembley? Oh
good mate? Have you seen the doco Hair Good Hair
Good named UK's most played rock act of the twenty
first century.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Can you imagine that all the hits were in the
twentieth century? And yeah, the most.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Played a Yeah, my kids a century my kids love
them too.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Of course, the movie didn't hurt.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Guitarist Brian made the doco astounding news, bearing in mind
that most of the Queen's major works were done in
the twentieth century. What You just said. According to the
new PPL chart to celebrate the upcoming National Album Day
twenty twenty five, the band is amassed over four hundred
million seconds of radio and TV airplay. Can and get

(04:53):
your head around that equivalent of twelve and a half years.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's a little easier to get my head around.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Of continuous play this century, playing music and Queen music
for twelve years in a row. And their most played track, Yep,
it's not Bohemian Rhapsody, isn't it. It's not We Will
Rock You.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's not Fat Bottom Girls, it's.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Not Fat Bottom Girls, it's not another one bites the dust?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's a kind of magic

Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I'm sure there's a few million more seconds still
to come.