⚡️MINI: Is it time to say goodbye to celeb memiors?

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hard Willa thirt six y five. Celebrity memoirs. Have they
got to go? Give us a call. We love your thoughts,
brand new bit here.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Got it girl, let's got to go.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Celebrity memoir in the spot these I should mention there
are some great ones. There are some great celebrity memoirs.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Some some very good friends of ours have done celebrity memoirs.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
And respect to them, and I think there's a lot
of work that's involved. But I think occasionally I think
we're just getting a little bit too obsessed by them guys.
And at the end of the day, story is not
that great.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So I think your story is great, but your story
is not done. I think we hit on something.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, she was releasing your memoir when you're seventy, like
David Attenbery's memoir Perfect.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I love to read that perfect, Mick Jagger perha, you
know what I mean. But like, yeah, I think when
you're in your mid thirties or even under thirty and
you're a a memoir, yeap, it's not sure, it's not
It shouldn't be memoir at this stage.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's just like a life update. So I've got a
few here to read out. We'll get to your calls
on third and one and six.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Five.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Are feeling about celebrity memoirs at the moment, becau's a
lot of them out there. Would you read this memoir
Woods A Different Kind of Power, a memoir by Kiwi
former Kiwi prim Prime Minister j Cinda Adurn I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I think she's got obviously a bit to say. I'm
not a huge fan of politics, so no, I'm not reading.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
She's interesting, She's very interesting, said she.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Would be give some insights in some huge moments, such
as I couldn't name them now, I'd be here for weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Miley Cyrus at least her first celebrity memoir when she
was seventeen.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
It was called Miles to Go. At least she's leaned in.
You open the book, there's one chapter and then just
bank pages. I would read that because you'd read it.
You read that, I love Marley Cyrus.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Snooky Snooky from Geordie Shore, one of the sure Confessions
of a Guide Debt Snookie.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I wouldn't read that one, Okay, I wouldn't read that but.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
She's done it, and that's the point that there's er
many out there there occasionally good. I mean, I'm a
big fan of a sports memoir. I've read Steve Steve
Ware's memoir has a good one.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, James Hurd memoir, Reading reading the play Nathan Buckley,
I haven't read buses?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have you read buses?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Read them? So? I mean, as I think after, at
what point do you think the celebrity memoir? So, at
what point do you think the the memoir is like memoirble?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I think I think you have to be at least
over the age of forty to release a member.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
What if you've what if.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
You've what if you've sailed around the world by yourself?
You know that probably did you know? It's always that
you have to have completed defeat. That is memoirble you.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
That's not a memoir that like if you if you
sail around the world and write a book about that experience,
that's a great book.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm all for that.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, okay, but what I don't like is going, Hey,
I sailed around the world. Who wants to hear about
my entire life? Yeah, let's go to the sailing.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Because they always start off at like, you know, the
day I.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Was born, I was a lonely kid. It's like I'll
get to the sailing mate.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, there's a lot of that going on. There's a
lot of that going on. All right, Yeah, we have
we have some thirteen one o six five if you
would like to tell us what you think about celebrity memoirs,
and a lot a lot of people are called Shannon
hung up, Kevin, Kevin Spacey My Good Side, a memoir
by Kevin.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Spacey recently did he do that?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Didn't release that?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Really?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Since all the things, so yeah, yeah, I mean I'm
not reading. No, I'm not reading that, Okay, read or
watch anything given? Is that a principle? Uh well well
I'm not sure what it is. I'm just not reading
it will