August 1, 2025 • 6 mins
With winter well and truly set in, some are dreaming of clearer skies across the sea. Kevin Milne has a trip to London coming up, him and his wife deciding to pop over and visit two of their sons on their home turf.
Although this is a trip to see family, there are a few interesting details that Kevin shared with Jack Tame.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The flood of texts come and Jack totally disagree with you.
Put it to a referendum. Jack, you're on point this morning.
I agree. It's just a distractionary effort at a time
when there are much more pressing issues. Ninety two to
ninety two. If you want to see me a message
this morning, Jacket newstalksb dot co dot nz is the
email address.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This Chief of War series, this Jason Momore series in
which Cliff Curtis and Tim Wedder Morrison and Lucian Buchanan,
all these key we actors are starring. One of the
things that makes it really interesting is that Jason Mamore,
in producing it, said that he it was really important
to him that as much of the series as possible
was done in the indigenous Hawaiian language. And so you've
(00:49):
got these keywactors, some of whom will have heard, you
know and know a fair bit of Maudi, who are
then having to speak in a Hawaiian language, which is
really intriguing. I don't actually think there are there are
heaps of Hawaiian language speakers in the world so it's
one of the you know, one of the qious little
details about this Chief of War production that I'm going
to ask Cliff Curtis about after ten o'clock this morning.
(01:12):
Right now though, seventeen past nine, and Kevin Melon's here
with us this morning. Killd to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Jack, you're more than one point, You're on fire this morning.
That was terrific. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You obviously don't have access to our text machine at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm I'm not sure you hold the consensus view, but
that's all right, it's a yeah. I just think my
you know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Just think if you if you want to call it
his own, if you want to call all good, and
I just think there are so many issues that are
more worthy of you know, of time and attention at
the moment that you know, maybe even me mentioning that
this morning means I'm getting sucked into the vortex.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I can't I can't resist it anyway, Kevin, you are
planning a trip to London.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, I've got a trip to London coming up set,
essentially to see two of our boys, Alex and Jake
and their home patch. Jake manages a Danish pub in
London's Exmouth. It belongs to Rick Astley, a fascinating story
in himself, a huge hit in nineteen eighty seven, Never
Going to Give You Up number one and twenty five
(02:16):
countries at the time. Astley's career was revitalized by the
random appearance of a Rick rolling meme on the Internet
using the video for Never Going to Give You Up,
which spread all over the world. Rick Astley's has now
reached one point six billion views on YouTube. Anyway, even
(02:38):
if I don't knock into Wreck, I'm keen to see
Jake's Scandinavian design pub and the in house brewery. I
might ever be there my other son. As I've told
you about, Where's there a coffee company that trains selected
crims to become barristas before their release, So I may
get to prison while I'm over there. Something very special
about the trip, sort of the last minute thing with
(03:00):
zipping over to visit the New Zealand wargraves of Belgium
and France to paid tribute to two great uncles, identical twins,
Leo and Lawrence Donahue, killed in World War One just
twenty one years old. This is a long time ambition
of mine. I didn't think we'd be able to fit
it in, but it's so easy from London. We're hiring
(03:21):
a driver guy who picks you up off the Eurostar
train from London in Leale, France and drives you straight
to the war cemeteries you want to visit, and back
to catch a London train afterwards. That's if you want
to go back that same day. We're staying a second
day in Belgium to catch a bit of atmosphere, staying
at the Novertel Flanders clutch the odd ring about it anyway.
(03:47):
I mentioned the trip to the Wargazes because I know
a lot of Keywis that keen to pay respects to
their relations killed in Europe. It is so easy out
of London if you just had to be there for work,
or you're passing through on a bigger trip. I'm using
info at to explore dot b E. That's info at two.
(04:12):
That's the number two explore two, not an E in
expord so it's two x p l O R E
dot b E Belgium. But there are other excellent sites
to jack.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But yeah, that sounds amazing, Kevin, I'm deeply envious. So
just just remind me of my geography here, right, if
you go across, you go across the channel or you
go to the channel right and then lel is in
the north of France, right like right up by the
Belgian border. A so you're actually instead of going all
(04:46):
the way to Paris, can you get off the train
before getting to Paris?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well well before then? Yeah, right, yeah, really about it.
It's a two and a half hour trip to lele
from London and one only one train, so you so
it's on the main it's on the main route.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's like going from Wellington to partisan North or something.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
This is the thing I'm always I always love about Europe,
you know, like the and and the thing that when
you know, when you're a key, we often like distances
are all relative, you know, and and it's one of
the things in this part of the world, you know,
one of the great things, and sometimes that the trickier
things that we're generally so far from everywhere, and when
you're in that part of the world is the opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, And in a weird way over there, everything smaller
than New Zealand, you know, I mean, getting places in
New Zealand is a big big trip because we're a long,
skinny country. But over there, yeah, it's it did astound
me that you could go and see two gray two
war cemeteries, one in France, one in Belgium and be
(05:48):
back on the train to go back to London should
you want to that sort of sweet somebody picking you
up at the railway station in a van and if
you go what won't be a van or be a y.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it's amazing, I reckon it will be quite an
emotional thing seeing you like that.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely moving.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh when you hit off?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Given, so we go off and about a week.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh very good. All right, well, looking forward to hearing
about that. You have to have to tell us about
how it goes, because I think, yeah, a lot of
a lot of people will be, you know, similarly interested
in following your trip. Thank you very much. Keep a
milm with us this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks d B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The flood of texts come and Jack totally disagree with you.
Put it to a referendum. Jack, you're on point this morning.
I agree. It's just a distractionary effort at a time
when there are much more pressing issues. Ninety two to
ninety two. If you want to see me a message
this morning, Jacket newstalksb dot co dot nz is the
email address.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This Chief of War series, this Jason Momore series in
which Cliff Curtis and Tim Wedder Morrison and Lucian Buchanan,
all these key we actors are starring. One of the
things that makes it really interesting is that Jason Mamore,
in producing it, said that he it was really important
to him that as much of the series as possible
was done in the indigenous Hawaiian language. And so you've
(00:49):
got these keywactors, some of whom will have heard, you
know and know a fair bit of Maudi, who are
then having to speak in a Hawaiian language, which is
really intriguing. I don't actually think there are there are
heaps of Hawaiian language speakers in the world so it's
one of the you know, one of the qious little
details about this Chief of War production that I'm going
to ask Cliff Curtis about after ten o'clock this morning.
(01:12):
Right now though, seventeen past nine, and Kevin Melon's here
with us this morning. Killd to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Jack, you're more than one point, You're on fire this morning.
That was terrific. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You obviously don't have access to our text machine at
the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Kevin.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm I'm not sure you hold the consensus view, but
that's all right, it's a yeah. I just think my
you know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Just think if you if you want to call it
his own, if you want to call all good, and
I just think there are so many issues that are
more worthy of you know, of time and attention at
the moment that you know, maybe even me mentioning that
this morning means I'm getting sucked into the vortex.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I can't I can't resist it anyway, Kevin, you are
planning a trip to London.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, I've got a trip to London coming up set,
essentially to see two of our boys, Alex and Jake
and their home patch. Jake manages a Danish pub in
London's Exmouth. It belongs to Rick Astley, a fascinating story
in himself, a huge hit in nineteen eighty seven, Never
Going to Give You Up number one and twenty five
(02:16):
countries at the time. Astley's career was revitalized by the
random appearance of a Rick rolling meme on the Internet
using the video for Never Going to Give You Up,
which spread all over the world. Rick Astley's has now
reached one point six billion views on YouTube. Anyway, even
(02:38):
if I don't knock into Wreck, I'm keen to see
Jake's Scandinavian design pub and the in house brewery. I
might ever be there my other son. As I've told
you about, Where's there a coffee company that trains selected
crims to become barristas before their release, So I may
get to prison while I'm over there. Something very special
about the trip, sort of the last minute thing with
(03:00):
zipping over to visit the New Zealand wargraves of Belgium
and France to paid tribute to two great uncles, identical twins,
Leo and Lawrence Donahue, killed in World War One just
twenty one years old. This is a long time ambition
of mine. I didn't think we'd be able to fit
it in, but it's so easy from London. We're hiring
(03:21):
a driver guy who picks you up off the Eurostar
train from London in Leale, France and drives you straight
to the war cemeteries you want to visit, and back
to catch a London train afterwards. That's if you want
to go back that same day. We're staying a second
day in Belgium to catch a bit of atmosphere, staying
at the Novertel Flanders clutch the odd ring about it anyway.
(03:47):
I mentioned the trip to the Wargazes because I know
a lot of Keywis that keen to pay respects to
their relations killed in Europe. It is so easy out
of London if you just had to be there for work,
or you're passing through on a bigger trip. I'm using
info at to explore dot b E. That's info at two.
(04:12):
That's the number two explore two, not an E in
expord so it's two x p l O R E
dot b E Belgium. But there are other excellent sites
to jack.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But yeah, that sounds amazing, Kevin, I'm deeply envious. So
just just remind me of my geography here, right, if
you go across, you go across the channel or you
go to the channel right and then lel is in
the north of France, right like right up by the
Belgian border. A so you're actually instead of going all
(04:46):
the way to Paris, can you get off the train
before getting to Paris?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well well before then? Yeah, right, yeah, really about it.
It's a two and a half hour trip to lele
from London and one only one train, so you so
it's on the main it's on the main route.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's like going from Wellington to partisan North or something.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
This is the thing I'm always I always love about Europe,
you know, like the and and the thing that when
you know, when you're a key, we often like distances
are all relative, you know, and and it's one of
the things in this part of the world, you know,
one of the great things, and sometimes that the trickier
things that we're generally so far from everywhere, and when
you're in that part of the world is the opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, And in a weird way over there, everything smaller
than New Zealand, you know, I mean, getting places in
New Zealand is a big big trip because we're a long,
skinny country. But over there, yeah, it's it did astound
me that you could go and see two gray two
war cemeteries, one in France, one in Belgium and be
(05:48):
back on the train to go back to London should
you want to that sort of sweet somebody picking you
up at the railway station in a van and if
you go what won't be a van or be a y.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it's amazing, I reckon it will be quite an
emotional thing seeing you like that.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely moving.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh when you hit off?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Given, so we go off and about a week.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh very good. All right, well, looking forward to hearing
about that. You have to have to tell us about
how it goes, because I think, yeah, a lot of
a lot of people will be, you know, similarly interested
in following your trip. Thank you very much. Keep a
milm with us this morning.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks d B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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