July 9, 2024 • 14 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) We Want Nice Things Though.../The Train that Never Came/Does It Really Matter What You're Called?/Another Look at G-Strings/Russell Confusion
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio. Rerap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All the best,
but's from the Mike Hosking breakfast on News Talks. He'd
be in a Sillier package Sillier still because it's hosted
by Andrew Dickins and he wants to talk about the
light rail that never came. TODAYO the public service sing
confused about whether they should be speaking it, whether they
(00:48):
should be called today O names Still, we're all confused
about chee string togs in the middle of the winter
and mixing up Russell Crowe with Russell Coots. But before
any of that, the taxman come, well, he does if
the Labor Party has this, say, apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Tax tax back on the conversation menu is driving that conversation,
no kidding. At the end of this year they've got
their conference and Labor will be floating their new ideas
for an agenda to regain the Treasury benches. And after
the failure of the policy bonfire known as Chippy, taxes
Back and Barbara Edmonds, who is the new Finance spokesperson
has already signaled that a healthy debate on a capital
(01:26):
gains tax will be on the table, but now they're
looking at another one. It's called inheritance tax because many
OECD countries have always had it, and Islands just introduced it.
So it's an idea doujoure. Firstly, why are they wanted
to tax these taxes in the first place. The left's
response is to prevent the rich from getting richer, which
is terrible bias the richer rich because they worked hard
(01:48):
and if their heirs inherit it, it's their right. And
then if their heirs maintain that capital, they grow it. Again,
it's due to work and we all benefit, so that's
not punished the workers, even if they are rich. Ah
Economists though, argue that we need more capital to buy
more infrastructure, nurses, doctors, teachers and cops. So what are
what's then the Irish inheritance tax. Well, the first half
(02:10):
a million is exempt and so as a family home,
but after that you have to pay a third to
the state. Trusts are not exempt. It's supporters say it's fair,
but then again, a couple of weeks ago, the Irish
Coalition just proposed the first cut to the inheritance tax
for five years because his election coming up, because you know,
it's not popular. The big hurdle for the taxes when
you suddenly find a wad of cash, or granddad suddenly
(02:31):
croaks and leaves you his rolls, royce or farm or whatever.
Then you have to sell your inheritance to find the
cash to pay the state, which destroys the inheritance and
the emotion connected to it. And then, in a cruel irony,
some richer guy buys your inheritance off you and he
gets richer. So much is based on valuations, So much
as abstract, and so much ignores the fact that inheritances
(02:51):
is actually trickled down. The money comes from one generation
to another. How many of us owe our house to
the windfall that came from the hard work of a
previous generation. So good luck labor. And here's atruism. The
real problem with introducing these taxes is the transition generation,
the generation who suddenly loses the benefits that previous generations
had and they get angry and then they don't vote
(03:14):
for you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh it's always tricky bringing up tax isn't it. We
don't like talking about it. We don't like thinking about it,
we don't like paying it. But also we also want
all these things like roads and hospitals, you know, that
sort of cool stuff. It's tricky, so tricky. Maybe we
wouldn't need so many roads if we had more light rail.
(03:35):
That's a theory anyway. But these theories, they just never
seem to actually manifest into reality, do they.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Okay, so now we know what happened and what was
spent on Orcan's light rail that never happened. Apparently two
hundred and twenty nine million dollars over six years. Now,
that is a lot of money for not one meter
of track, which is a very catchy line. Politicians use
it all the time. But of course that two hundred
(04:02):
and twenty nine million did buy something. There is a
whole heap of IP and property that bought. The biggest
spen was sixty four million on plans and geotech. Now
that stuff is still sitting on computers. That stuff is
still relevant and needs to be saved because you never know,
light rail might still happen. So is that wasted? I
(04:23):
would say, with light rail being so common right around
the world, it's inconceivable that it won't finally come here
one day, so eventually that money will not have been wasted.
Maybe what really killed light rail was labor. They mucked about,
they stuck it underground. They let partitions get into the
design of it, who of course know nothing about how
(04:44):
to design light rail. They let the costs balloon. They
did nothing. Hey, but now we hear that there may
be trials of a trackless tram in Auckland before the
end of the year. It's being developed by China Rail.
It operates in Shanghai and Mexico. Perth has done a
trial and now at says they're interested. So it's basically
very long articulated buses running on roads, running on tires.
(05:07):
They can go uphill like the Harbor Bridge. And here's
the thing. You don't have to lay tracks. You just
bang some magnetic nails into the road and the track
list tram will follow it marvelous and cheap. So it
sounds promising, But if the history of debate on public
transport is anything to go by, some grnches are going
to come out and go no, no, nay, say the
whole idea. Now my take on that is, if you're
(05:28):
going to proclaim on public transport. Maybe you should be
taking it, my social media editor at Gold. If M
is twenty two, she's paid nothing, she has no car,
and if she did no money to pay for the parking,
she is forced onto public transport. She hates the public transport,
but she has to use it. She lives seven kilometers
from town. She has to take two buses. She begs
for a bus lane so the whole thing speeds up.
(05:49):
Fifty percent of workers in the Auckland CBD are like that.
They take public transport. They want it to be better.
And if it is better, they get off the road.
And then you and I, who like to drive a car,
we'll have more room.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And if I only live seven k's away from work,
I'd be tempted to bike at least certainly electric bike.
That's not that far on a bike. It does rain, know,
and it is cold and winter, isn't it what I mean?
You know? Yes, we want solutions, but the right solutions
(06:21):
that don't make us too uncomfortable. Now, it was changing
all the public services names to today o names? Was
that really necessary? And it is changing the back necessary?
And where are we if we'sks of caught halfway in between.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I'm reading the paper yesterday and I see that
the public service is confused about the rules about Malordi
language in the public service and whether they get rid
of it. Of course, New Zealand first campaigned of stripping
today names from the public service. They had this awesome quote,
It's not an attack on the Malordi language. It's an
attack on the elite virtue signalers who hijacked language for
(07:02):
their own socialist means. That was a quote, But there
we go. So as part of the coalition agreement, Nicola
Willis sent out memo and she said, stripping Malori from
public service names and documents and all that sort of
thing is up to each minister to assess case. Both case.
But now the public Service and the PSA, who are
famous for taking everything literally and not feeling the vibe,
(07:24):
attacking the government's position as confusing, and yes it is.
But who cares with all the challenges that this little
country faces, all this virtue signaling from both sides is
a massive waste of time and taxpayers dollars. We've got
highly paid public service mandarins spending hours at their desk
looking at their computer pondering the problem with internal memos,
(07:47):
get back to work, sort stuff out. We've got the
white tonguey tribunal hearing packed full of high charging lawyers
and academics and experts looking into the whole thing with
the term and alleging the government as trying to exterminate Toao.
Get back to work and do real stuff. Honestly, if
a language can be exterminated by changing the name of
(08:07):
a public service, then the language must be so weak
that it's on the verge of extinction, which it is
not passed by a cafe yesterday it was a family
there on school holidays. We're talking to RAO. Some people say,
I don't nobody's suggesting the name should to stick to
come in, should be official. Can we just get back
to fixing this place and not get distracted about what
(08:31):
language we use doing it? See wood play Ah, now
I see.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean here's my question. When it was English, did
everybody know what it was?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Then they changed it, did everybody know what it was? No?
Just saying so rewrapped right. I don't know why I've
taken so long to get to this, because, of course
it was probably the top news story of yesterday, the
g strength thing.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
So as much as I am loathed to get into
the great Tallanaki G string debate, which has dominated water
cooler talk for the past twenty four hours, I could
have mentioned it in yesterday's show. I didn't, but anyway,
I thought as a contrarian that I thought I might
come out and support the petition wanting them gone from
the new play with Aquatic Center. The reason I didn't
(09:22):
talk about this twenty four hours ago is because you
know it's prurient. I'll tell you how prurient it is.
As soon as I said I'm going to talk about it,
someone texted me and said, I hope when you mentioned
the D string briefly you cover all the important bits.
Bomb Bomb It's quit quite a well constructed I thought,
so that's why I read it. We've heard everyone sniggering
(09:43):
and talking down their nose about tartar Naki prudes. I
heard Josie Pegani on Heathers Show yesterday chanting free the bum,
which is something I do not need to ever hear again,
specially especially when Paddy Gower joined in. I've had my
own family tell me who am I to tell a
woman what to wear? And to sneer at me that
I'm getting old and conservative in that I am supporting
(10:05):
a G string band in a pool, so hear me out,
not against g strings per se. I cannot see how
they comfy, though, I can't see how they make a
wearer feel secure and surf. I don't know why you
need to tan a bum. I can't see how you
can say they don't sexualize a woman. But I'm not
against them per se. At the beach in summer, where
(10:25):
you can choose how close or how far away you
can be from the bottoms in question. And here's the rub,
it's the environment. A pool is a confined space. I
don't like pools. There are too many people in too
small a space, or frolicking in a limited puddle of water.
It feels dirty to me. Sorry, I find them very claustrophobic.
The new Pimoth Aquatic Center I have looked at it
(10:47):
has both indoor and outdoor pools. But I would suggest
if this story comes up now and you are attending
an indoor swimming lesson on a winter's day, a G
string wabbling pass would be distracting, no matter who you were,
or how conservative or liberal you are or not, because
it's right there. The pool in question has rules about
(11:07):
how much cleavage you can show. So what's the difference
between the rule for the top and a rule for
the bottom. It's like wearing jandles to a restaurant or
genes to an investiture. It's just a dress code which
prescribes horses for courses. So we add a pool. Yes,
skimpy athletic talks. Yes, budgee smugglers for men, they're acceptable.
(11:31):
They're fine for a pool, but leave the g string
for a special beach occasion. And by the way, that
goes doubly for men.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, I've been I've been swaying backwards and forwards
on g strings. Yes, that was supposed to sound slightly
come on anyway, But yeah, because I tend to agree
with Dickens that you know people, And I said this
(12:00):
in my other very successful podcast, news Doors. You've been
look at that, Give it a listen, Think you like it? That? Yeah,
surely the whole point of your jeep string bikini is,
you know, for sunbathing and showing off at the beach,
showing off your body at the beach. That's that's fine,
I guess, And so I don't really understand why it's
(12:23):
necessary at a public pool in the middle of winter.
But and then I think to myself, well, yes, yes,
they've got these standards about how much cleavage you're allowed
to show and all that sort of thing. But you know,
skimpy racing togs and stuff like that are accept the Paul,
whereas they didn't used to be. The society of social
(12:45):
standards do change over time, and maybe they are just
changing again, and people like Andrew and me old fuddy
buddies can't roll that out.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
At least most of the time, I can tell the
difference between the Russell Coots and r Russell Crow.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Though Russell Coots is bringing back the sale GP. Thank
you to the Texters who have informed me that I
said Russell Crow was bringing back the sal GP. The
reason Russell Crowe is in my mind is because of
a controversy that flared about an hour ago when I
was talking about the new Gladiator movie and I said,
ex Mount Albert Grammar school boy Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And then immediately five other different.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
There schools were mentioned. People said, no, Dickens, he's an
Orcan Grammar school boy, and others said No, he's a
Mount Roscal Grammar school boy. And I started doubting myself
briefly because remember I am sixty one years old, the
same age as Russell Crowe, and I was in the
same class as Martin Crowe. And I'm pretty sure I
never saw Rusty anywhere near Grammar when I was at Grammar,
and I always thought he went to Mount Russell. I've
(13:43):
checked it. He went to Grammar briefly after they came
back from Australia, but then his family moved and then
that's when he went west.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And then these people in Australia who are listening thinking,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
True enough? True enough as well, I.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Really wanted to steer that conversation around two when Russell
Crow used to be called Russeller Rock, just to make
things even more confusing. Yeah, he wasn't a very successful
menamemusician as Rustler Rock. In fact, he's been a more
successful musician as Russell Crowe. And the weird thing is
I just listened to a podcast with him the other
(14:17):
day and he was talking about how he still feels
more like a musician who acts and thinks because he
got into music through musical theater. I mean he got
into acting through musical theater and not the other way around.
There you go something that else, perhaps you didn't know
about Russell Cremin. There's nothing you don't know about me.
(14:39):
I've told you everything, and I'll be back, probably repeating
the same things you already knew tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All the best,
but's from the Mike Hosking breakfast on News Talks. He'd
be in a Sillier package Sillier still because it's hosted
by Andrew Dickins and he wants to talk about the
light rail that never came. TODAYO the public service sing
confused about whether they should be speaking it, whether they
(00:48):
should be called today O names Still, we're all confused
about chee string togs in the middle of the winter
and mixing up Russell Crowe with Russell Coots. But before
any of that, the taxman come, well, he does if
the Labor Party has this, say, apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Tax tax back on the conversation menu is driving that conversation,
no kidding. At the end of this year they've got
their conference and Labor will be floating their new ideas
for an agenda to regain the Treasury benches. And after
the failure of the policy bonfire known as Chippy, taxes
Back and Barbara Edmonds, who is the new Finance spokesperson
has already signaled that a healthy debate on a capital
(01:26):
gains tax will be on the table, but now they're
looking at another one. It's called inheritance tax because many
OECD countries have always had it, and Islands just introduced it.
So it's an idea doujoure. Firstly, why are they wanted
to tax these taxes in the first place. The left's
response is to prevent the rich from getting richer, which
is terrible bias the richer rich because they worked hard
(01:48):
and if their heirs inherit it, it's their right. And
then if their heirs maintain that capital, they grow it. Again,
it's due to work and we all benefit, so that's
not punished the workers, even if they are rich. Ah
Economists though, argue that we need more capital to buy
more infrastructure, nurses, doctors, teachers and cops. So what are
what's then the Irish inheritance tax. Well, the first half
(02:10):
a million is exempt and so as a family home,
but after that you have to pay a third to
the state. Trusts are not exempt. It's supporters say it's fair,
but then again, a couple of weeks ago, the Irish
Coalition just proposed the first cut to the inheritance tax
for five years because his election coming up, because you know,
it's not popular. The big hurdle for the taxes when
you suddenly find a wad of cash, or granddad suddenly
(02:31):
croaks and leaves you his rolls, royce or farm or whatever.
Then you have to sell your inheritance to find the
cash to pay the state, which destroys the inheritance and
the emotion connected to it. And then, in a cruel irony,
some richer guy buys your inheritance off you and he
gets richer. So much is based on valuations, So much
as abstract, and so much ignores the fact that inheritances
(02:51):
is actually trickled down. The money comes from one generation
to another. How many of us owe our house to
the windfall that came from the hard work of a
previous generation. So good luck labor. And here's atruism. The
real problem with introducing these taxes is the transition generation,
the generation who suddenly loses the benefits that previous generations
had and they get angry and then they don't vote
(03:14):
for you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh it's always tricky bringing up tax isn't it. We
don't like talking about it. We don't like thinking about it,
we don't like paying it. But also we also want
all these things like roads and hospitals, you know, that
sort of cool stuff. It's tricky, so tricky. Maybe we
wouldn't need so many roads if we had more light rail.
(03:35):
That's a theory anyway. But these theories, they just never
seem to actually manifest into reality, do they.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Okay, so now we know what happened and what was
spent on Orcan's light rail that never happened. Apparently two
hundred and twenty nine million dollars over six years. Now,
that is a lot of money for not one meter
of track, which is a very catchy line. Politicians use
it all the time. But of course that two hundred
(04:02):
and twenty nine million did buy something. There is a
whole heap of IP and property that bought. The biggest
spen was sixty four million on plans and geotech. Now
that stuff is still sitting on computers. That stuff is
still relevant and needs to be saved because you never know,
light rail might still happen. So is that wasted? I
(04:23):
would say, with light rail being so common right around
the world, it's inconceivable that it won't finally come here
one day, so eventually that money will not have been wasted.
Maybe what really killed light rail was labor. They mucked about,
they stuck it underground. They let partitions get into the
design of it, who of course know nothing about how
(04:44):
to design light rail. They let the costs balloon. They
did nothing. Hey, but now we hear that there may
be trials of a trackless tram in Auckland before the
end of the year. It's being developed by China Rail.
It operates in Shanghai and Mexico. Perth has done a
trial and now at says they're interested. So it's basically
very long articulated buses running on roads, running on tires.
(05:07):
They can go uphill like the Harbor Bridge. And here's
the thing. You don't have to lay tracks. You just
bang some magnetic nails into the road and the track
list tram will follow it marvelous and cheap. So it
sounds promising, But if the history of debate on public
transport is anything to go by, some grnches are going
to come out and go no, no, nay, say the
whole idea. Now my take on that is, if you're
(05:28):
going to proclaim on public transport. Maybe you should be
taking it, my social media editor at Gold. If M
is twenty two, she's paid nothing, she has no car,
and if she did no money to pay for the parking,
she is forced onto public transport. She hates the public transport,
but she has to use it. She lives seven kilometers
from town. She has to take two buses. She begs
for a bus lane so the whole thing speeds up.
(05:49):
Fifty percent of workers in the Auckland CBD are like that.
They take public transport. They want it to be better.
And if it is better, they get off the road.
And then you and I, who like to drive a car,
we'll have more room.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And if I only live seven k's away from work,
I'd be tempted to bike at least certainly electric bike.
That's not that far on a bike. It does rain, know,
and it is cold and winter, isn't it what I mean?
You know? Yes, we want solutions, but the right solutions
(06:21):
that don't make us too uncomfortable. Now, it was changing
all the public services names to today o names? Was
that really necessary? And it is changing the back necessary?
And where are we if we'sks of caught halfway in between.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I'm reading the paper yesterday and I see that
the public service is confused about the rules about Malordi
language in the public service and whether they get rid
of it. Of course, New Zealand first campaigned of stripping
today names from the public service. They had this awesome quote,
It's not an attack on the Malordi language. It's an
attack on the elite virtue signalers who hijacked language for
(07:02):
their own socialist means. That was a quote, But there
we go. So as part of the coalition agreement, Nicola
Willis sent out memo and she said, stripping Malori from
public service names and documents and all that sort of
thing is up to each minister to assess case. Both case.
But now the public Service and the PSA, who are
famous for taking everything literally and not feeling the vibe,
(07:24):
attacking the government's position as confusing, and yes it is.
But who cares with all the challenges that this little
country faces, all this virtue signaling from both sides is
a massive waste of time and taxpayers dollars. We've got
highly paid public service mandarins spending hours at their desk
looking at their computer pondering the problem with internal memos,
(07:47):
get back to work, sort stuff out. We've got the
white tonguey tribunal hearing packed full of high charging lawyers
and academics and experts looking into the whole thing with
the term and alleging the government as trying to exterminate Toao.
Get back to work and do real stuff. Honestly, if
a language can be exterminated by changing the name of
(08:07):
a public service, then the language must be so weak
that it's on the verge of extinction, which it is
not passed by a cafe yesterday it was a family
there on school holidays. We're talking to RAO. Some people say,
I don't nobody's suggesting the name should to stick to
come in, should be official. Can we just get back
to fixing this place and not get distracted about what
(08:31):
language we use doing it? See wood play Ah, now
I see.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean here's my question. When it was English, did
everybody know what it was?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Then they changed it, did everybody know what it was? No?
Just saying so rewrapped right. I don't know why I've
taken so long to get to this, because, of course
it was probably the top news story of yesterday, the
g strength thing.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
So as much as I am loathed to get into
the great Tallanaki G string debate, which has dominated water
cooler talk for the past twenty four hours, I could
have mentioned it in yesterday's show. I didn't, but anyway,
I thought as a contrarian that I thought I might
come out and support the petition wanting them gone from
the new play with Aquatic Center. The reason I didn't
(09:22):
talk about this twenty four hours ago is because you
know it's prurient. I'll tell you how prurient it is.
As soon as I said I'm going to talk about it,
someone texted me and said, I hope when you mentioned
the D string briefly you cover all the important bits.
Bomb Bomb It's quit quite a well constructed I thought,
so that's why I read it. We've heard everyone sniggering
(09:43):
and talking down their nose about tartar Naki prudes. I
heard Josie Pegani on Heathers Show yesterday chanting free the bum,
which is something I do not need to ever hear again,
specially especially when Paddy Gower joined in. I've had my
own family tell me who am I to tell a
woman what to wear? And to sneer at me that
I'm getting old and conservative in that I am supporting
(10:05):
a G string band in a pool, so hear me out,
not against g strings per se. I cannot see how
they comfy, though, I can't see how they make a
wearer feel secure and surf. I don't know why you
need to tan a bum. I can't see how you
can say they don't sexualize a woman. But I'm not
against them per se. At the beach in summer, where
(10:25):
you can choose how close or how far away you
can be from the bottoms in question. And here's the rub,
it's the environment. A pool is a confined space. I
don't like pools. There are too many people in too
small a space, or frolicking in a limited puddle of water.
It feels dirty to me. Sorry, I find them very claustrophobic.
The new Pimoth Aquatic Center I have looked at it
(10:47):
has both indoor and outdoor pools. But I would suggest
if this story comes up now and you are attending
an indoor swimming lesson on a winter's day, a G
string wabbling pass would be distracting, no matter who you were,
or how conservative or liberal you are or not, because
it's right there. The pool in question has rules about
(11:07):
how much cleavage you can show. So what's the difference
between the rule for the top and a rule for
the bottom. It's like wearing jandles to a restaurant or
genes to an investiture. It's just a dress code which
prescribes horses for courses. So we add a pool. Yes,
skimpy athletic talks. Yes, budgee smugglers for men, they're acceptable.
(11:31):
They're fine for a pool, but leave the g string
for a special beach occasion. And by the way, that
goes doubly for men.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, I've been I've been swaying backwards and forwards
on g strings. Yes, that was supposed to sound slightly
come on anyway, But yeah, because I tend to agree
with Dickens that you know people, And I said this
(12:00):
in my other very successful podcast, news Doors. You've been
look at that, Give it a listen, Think you like it? That? Yeah,
surely the whole point of your jeep string bikini is,
you know, for sunbathing and showing off at the beach,
showing off your body at the beach. That's that's fine,
I guess, And so I don't really understand why it's
(12:23):
necessary at a public pool in the middle of winter.
But and then I think to myself, well, yes, yes,
they've got these standards about how much cleavage you're allowed
to show and all that sort of thing. But you know,
skimpy racing togs and stuff like that are accept the Paul,
whereas they didn't used to be. The society of social
(12:45):
standards do change over time, and maybe they are just
changing again, and people like Andrew and me old fuddy
buddies can't roll that out.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
At least most of the time, I can tell the
difference between the Russell Coots and r Russell Crow.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Though Russell Coots is bringing back the sale GP. Thank
you to the Texters who have informed me that I
said Russell Crow was bringing back the sal GP. The
reason Russell Crowe is in my mind is because of
a controversy that flared about an hour ago when I
was talking about the new Gladiator movie and I said,
ex Mount Albert Grammar school boy Russell Crowe.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And then immediately five other different.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
There schools were mentioned. People said, no, Dickens, he's an
Orcan Grammar school boy, and others said No, he's a
Mount Roscal Grammar school boy. And I started doubting myself
briefly because remember I am sixty one years old, the
same age as Russell Crowe, and I was in the
same class as Martin Crowe. And I'm pretty sure I
never saw Rusty anywhere near Grammar when I was at Grammar,
and I always thought he went to Mount Russell. I've
(13:43):
checked it. He went to Grammar briefly after they came
back from Australia, but then his family moved and then
that's when he went west.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And then these people in Australia who are listening thinking,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
True enough? True enough as well, I.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Really wanted to steer that conversation around two when Russell
Crow used to be called Russeller Rock, just to make
things even more confusing. Yeah, he wasn't a very successful
menamemusician as Rustler Rock. In fact, he's been a more
successful musician as Russell Crowe. And the weird thing is
I just listened to a podcast with him the other
(14:17):
day and he was talking about how he still feels
more like a musician who acts and thinks because he
got into music through musical theater. I mean he got
into acting through musical theater and not the other way around.
There you go something that else, perhaps you didn't know
about Russell Cremin. There's nothing you don't know about me.
(14:39):
I've told you everything, and I'll be back, probably repeating
the same things you already knew tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
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