Posts filed under 'Talkback Emails'
I sent the following email to Jim Sutton on New Zealand’s number one talk radio station Newstalk ZB a few minutes ago. Jim is running a rather enjoyable show this evening.
Good evening Jim,
I would just like to wish you and all of your listeners, especially anybody affected by the Gisborne earthquake, a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Over here on this side of the Tasman we are having all sorts of odd weather, it was pouring rain in Canberra this morning and now there’s barely a cloud in the sky! We need the rain though, so if we could get more rain for Christmas that would be nice.
I enjoyed the version of “When a child was born” that you played a few moments ago. It was very nice.
Best of luck for the new year,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra, Australia
December 22nd, 2007 at 07:38pm
Good evening Stuart,
Just a quick note to wish you, your staff, your family and all of the listeners a very merry and safe Christmas, and a wonderful new year. I'm sorry I missed your Christmas lunch but if the photos are anything to go by, it looks like you had a wonderful time…I'm a bit worried about the dancing elf video though…you look good in a green fur coat and red and white striped socks, but are you sure you want to be responsible for making all the toys? I suppose it's better than being a reindeer and having to cart the toys all the way around the world in one night (no wonder they only do it once a year).
Merry Christmas Stuart!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
If you’re interested in seeing Stuart and his staff dancing in elf costumes, click here.
December 21st, 2007 at 08:30pm
Good evening Gibbsy and Cameron,
Just a thought about having day/night cricket test matches…wouldn't it require a change in the rules, in particular the bad light rule?
As I understand it, the bad light rule says play can be stopped when the artificial lights are having more effect than the natural light. For obvious reasons, this rule would have to be abandoned if test matches were to be played at night. Somehow I just don't think the cricket traditionalists would wear it.
Also about Stephanie Brantz being dropped from the Channel Nine cricket team…I thought her role last year doing fluff pieces from the grandstand was a joke and a waste of her talent. She deserves a place on the central commentary team, and if Nine don't want her there, perhaps she could add some badly needed colour to the ABC radio coverage.
Enjoy the golf (I bet Mr. Bocking wishes he was there).
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
December 13th, 2007 at 07:00pm
Good morning Mike,
I just heard your conversation with Ross Knee, ACTEW's principal strategic planner, about environmental flows.
I can understand his point about the need for environmental flows to keep our rivers healthy, but he said that Googong Dam's environmental flow goes in to the Molongolo River and becomes Lake Burley Griffin. Googong is our largest dam by a very large margin, somehow I don't think anybody would mind if the flow in to the lake was reduced in an effort to help fill Googong. In addition, if the lake was to be mostly drained then we could send a lot of water down to Burrinjuck Dam, or with a bit of piping and pumping send it to Corin Dam which is only 16.3% full.
I don't think people would mind if Lake Burley Griffin was to be temporarily turned back in to a river to prop up our dams. It would look a bit odd, but it's only an ornament.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
December 12th, 2007 at 08:30am
Good evening Clinton and Rachel,
A carbon tax of $500 per child per year for the third and subsequent child? Plus the removal of the baby bonus? I suppose the academic who came up with that one doesn't have children…
With the planet already showing signs of cooling, I can't wait until another few years have passed and all of these global warming alarmists have egg on their faces.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
Update: I got the figures wrong…in reality they are much worse. $5000 per child at birth plus up to $800 per child per year thereafter. Professor Barry Walters appears to be proof that just because you’re a professor, you’re not necessarily sane. He might not be insane either, but he doesn’t seem to have thought this one through. Professor Walters, amongst the many other flaws in your proposal, you are forgetting the random nature of some births…why should parents be punished for having triplets? They didn’t plan on having triplets…I would have thought that of all people, you, Professor, as an obstetrician would understand that.End Update
December 11th, 2007 at 08:30pm
Good evening Gibbsy and Cameron,
I really couldn't care less about twenty-twenty cricket, it's just too short and lacks tactics. It seems to be entirely a case of "bash the ball as far as you can or bowl it as fast as you can". I prefer the fifty overs per side game where there is more room for tactics, or even test matches which involve plenty of mind games. I won't be watching the twenty-twenty match tonight, although I will be interested to see who wins.
The sport I would like to see shortened in tennis. I can not sit through a tennis match, so I would be happy with a thirty minute version. Whoever wins the most games in thirty minutes wins the match…I'd enjoy that!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
December 11th, 2007 at 07:00pm
I’ve managed to leave my radio at home so there’s no 2CC for me this morning, as such I decided to take the opportunity to see who the summer fill-in presenters are on various talkback stations. I already knew John Stanley is 2UE’s breakfast fill-in, but I decided to see if Alan Jones has taken leave. He has, and Jason Morrison is filling in for him. I haven’t listened to Jason present a show before, and I have to say that I am impressed.
I sent the following email to Jason Morrison a short time ago.
Good morning Jason and welcome to Summer/Christmas Breakfast.
Just listening to your comments about shop awnings, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if these things are never checked.
It’s a bit like balconies on apartment buildings. Seven people in Sydney and seven people in Melbourne were injured on the weekend because of balconies collapsing. They were probably a bit overloaded, but if a balcony can’t hold seven people (probably about half a tonne) then is it really a safe balcony?
Same thing with those awnings, if they can’t hold the amount of water that fits on them, then they aren’t safe. And by the looks of some of the awnings on Nine News on Friday, there are an awful lot of unsafe awnings.
Somebody has to check these things, and I think it’s the responsibility of the building owner.
Have a great morning Jason,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
(Listening via 2gb.com)
December 10th, 2007 at 06:05am
Good evening Stuart,
I think Sarah is looking forward to getting back to Sydney and having some sleep, especially after Clive crossed to her at 4am today!
To her credit she sounded just as bright and bubbly at 4am as she does at 9:30pm…a true professional.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
December 6th, 2007 at 10:00pm
I sent the following email to Tim Webster about an hour ago.
Good morning Tim, and a belated welcome to the morning show.
I just thought I would send you an email about some of the peculiar things I saw on Hindmarsh Drive in Canberra this morning.
To start with I saw a broom stick snapped in half in the middle of the road…I can only assume that a witch crashed…luckily for them a replacement broomstick won’t cost much.
On a more serious note though, I saw somebody throw a lit cigarette butt out their window. It amazes me that people still do that. I shouldn’t be surprised though, this person also didn’t seem to know that their vehicle had indicators, and seemed to believe that 50km/h was a much better speed than the 80km/h speed limit.
And to top it off, a cafe that I frequent currently has a sign which reads “vacancy position”. It sounds like they’re hiring a hotel…
Enjoy your morning Tim.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
P.S. I was going to suggest “See You later Alligator” as your closing music…but it’s not instrumental.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:00am
Good morning Mike,
I have to admit that I am mildly disappointed to hear that Terminator Four is being produced, mainly because I was very disappointed that Terminator Three was produced.
I enjoyed the first two Terminator movies, I think they are fantastic, but that's where the story should have ended. Terminator Two wrapped up the story quite nicely, and apart from not being a particularly good movie in my opinion, the way the writers tried to make the story flow in to Terminator Three seemed just a bit strenuous. I was hoping that the producers would realise how silly the idea of making the third movie was and not bother to complete the story with a fourth movie.
And apart from that, how can you possibly create a Terminator movie without Arnold Schwarzenegger?
As far as I'm concerned there will only ever be two Terminator movies. The third and subsequent versions do not exist for me.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
December 5th, 2007 at 06:30am
Good evening Stuart,
Just about this ham heist, you've had a few calls about the logistics of such a heist and it does sound quite improbable.
When I first heard about it I was a bit dubious, especially with the message scrawled on the wall, and the more details I heard the more sceptical I become.
I'll leave it up to you to decide what weight you place on the following, but the few people I have spoken to who are reasonably close to the Zammit group have all told me that they believe it is an insurance scam.
It will be interesting to see the outcome of the police investigation.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
December 5th, 2007 at 12:00am
Good afternoon Glenn,
It's good to see that you're back on Terra Firma in one piece following Thursday's star jump.
It was great work you did for the starlight foundation, I donated $50 to them for you. Now all you need to do is get John Stanley up there!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
December 1st, 2007 at 01:00pm
Good morning Lawsie.
Best wishes for your retirement John. I will miss you immensely as you have been a common factor throughout my life, and I am ever so used to hearing you every morning. Not hearing you ever again in the morning is bad enough, but I'm also going to miss the punctuation to my day that "El Presidente" and Roger Miller's "Less Of Me" have provided.
I had the great pleasure of chatting with you a couple years ago, it was one of the highlights of my year, and I was surprised by the number of people who commented to me in the days after that they had heard me talking to John Laws. Oddly enough, the question I got asked the most was how long I had to wait to talk to you!
By the way, it's been bugging me for a year or so now so I hope you don't mind me asking. What was the name of that robot thing that you used to chat to many years ago?
I would especially like to thank you for being there for me when I was bed ridden for a week or so in 2003, and for being there just about every other time I have turned on the radio in the morning. Thank you for the Cuckoo's Nest (whatever happened to that clever bunch), and for nurturing the co-driver, and for your great jingles, and for your services to radio (tell Kevin '07 to get you knighted!) and a really big thank you for just being yourself day after day after day, and bringing so much entertainment to my life, and to the lives of millions of others.
I'll miss you greatly John, but I hope you have a really great retirement, and please come back once or twice to fill in! I'm sure Clive won't mind if you fill in for him once or twice on the overnight show!
Have a really great retirement, and thank you John, there will never be anyone quite like you again. (It's hard to hold the tears back as I write this, I don't think it will hit me for another couple of days that you're not coming back).
P.S. Please leave a forwarding address with 2UE…I have some drawings and a christmas card to send to you.
Best regards, and kind wishes for a fantastic retirement,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
November 30th, 2007 at 10:00am
Good evening Stuart,
Just in reply to your comment about the aisles getting smaller in department stores such as Kmart, I generally try to avoid the department stores where they have a whole heap of checkouts at the front of the store as I end up spending much more time in the queue that I spend in the rest of the store. I much prefer the stores such as Myer and David Jones where each department has its own checkout.
If I have to use the stores with checkouts at the front then I will usually try to use the "entertainment" checkout towards the rear of the store so that I can walk straight out, or favour the stores that have introduced self-serve checkouts, such as Big W.
Actually I think the self-serve checkouts are a great idea as they generally take over some space which was previously used by the fifteen or so checkouts that were never open anyway. I was never able to understand why the department stores would have roughly twenty checkouts, and only ever use five of them.
P.S. If you see Glenn Wheeler before tomorrow afternoon, remind him to take a parachute!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
November 28th, 2007 at 08:30pm
Good afternoon Glenn and John,
Glenn, what a pity I won't be in Sydney on Thursday. If I was then I could stand at the bottom of the building and you would know there would be somebody there to catch you…although you've seen how small I am…you'd probably squash me!
Seriously though John and Glenn, it's a great initiative and I wish you both (especially Glenn) lots of luck. I'm sure you'll raise heaps of money for the starlight foundation, and perhaps if John thinks it's so easy he will have to repeat it on the weekend.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
November 27th, 2007 at 03:00pm
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