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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Love you to have you with us. It is fourteen
past nine. Good morning and welcome to Kevin Milne. How
are you, Kevin?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Very good? Thank you, Francesca excellent. I thought this morning
I might pay tribute to two superb communicators. One you'll
know the other maybe not. Did you used to listen
as a kid to lindsay Oh on the radio? No,
or we're not in his neck of the woods?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, not in the neck of the word No.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
No, he passed away during the week and Nelson aged
seventy eight. Lindsay O used to host the breakfast show
on two ZEDB for many years. This was before the
Zedby network switched to the news and talk format. Breakfast
shows back then didn't just bring in huge adult audiences,
but after tend to wait when Lindsey rang the bell,
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much of the show was devoted to the kids before
they head off to school. People your aid Francesca are
just as likely to remember Lindsay's character Buzzo Bumble, that
the man himself created. As a parent, I remember taking
our older boys for the Buzzo Bumble show at the
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Wellington show Building and when Buzzo Bumble got married to Belinda,
thousands turned out to parades throughout Wellington and the Hut Valley.
Lindsay Joe was essentially a showman. He had a fabulous
radio voice, he could sing, he could act, he was
funny and he was hugely popular. A lot of our
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listeners will be feeling the loss at Sydney's at Lindsay's
passing this week, and speaking of people who are funny
and can act, I had the pleasure of sitting in
on the astonishing talents of Stephen Frye on Thursday night.
What a rack onteur. His touring show simple. He walks
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out on stage, sits on a comfy chair and yarms
away to the audience for over two hours about the
mainly funny things that have happened in his life. Often
they've involved uber famous people he that he knows, like
King Charles, the Queen, Mother he knew her, Diana, Paul McCartney,
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Rowan Atkinson, Steve Jobs, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, And he mimics
all of those people to perfection. I've never heard yarms
told so eloquently and with such ease as Stephen Pride
died on Thursday night, his stories when all all funny.
They he described life being bipolar, the condition he shares
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with so many others and volunteers so much time too.
I've never heard a clearer description of the bipolar mind
than Stephen Prize on Thursday night, for which I'm very grateful.
It was the per night Francesca.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I noticed that he's been in the news recently criticizing
the weight loss drug oz in pic, which he gave
a world Did he talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No, not, not in not in any lets that was
mentioned in a broader in a broader conversation. He covers
such a huge amount of ground, actually, but no, he
of courses in he wades into controversy with great deal
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of these, and I suspect quite a lot of pleasure.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I think you right. But he does have this beautiful
way of communicating that I'm sure that everybody found like
they were sort of sitting in the living rooms at
home having a conversation with him.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's superb. Actually, he's a you leave
thinking I'm never going to do a public speech again.
You'll leave thinking, oh, I thought I was quite good
at you know, chat and all that sort of thing.
But his his way with words has extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, I've really enjoyed his books. Actually, I bought the
books for my teenagers, The Heroes and Troy, and to
see in various other you know, books that he's written,
and next year I've ended up really enjoying as well.
He's very multi talented gentleman.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He is. In fact, some of the stories that he
told heard I thought I've heard this port somewhere and
I realized I had. I had read his autobiography, but
I can't remember the name of it now, but something.
Oh no, I can't remember it now. But yeah, wonderful,
wonderful stories about the rich and the famous. They're just classics.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, Kevin, I will leave you to then ponder how
you're going to present your life and words. Yes, were
not asked to do a speech. Thank you very much
for your time today.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Lovely to catch up, okay, Dan, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
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