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An email to 2UE’s Jason Morrison
G’day Jason,
Re: Julia Gillard’s message to the Canadian socialists, it’s kind of funny how that works. While we’re exporting our socialists to Canada, they’re exporting their conservatives to us. The other night Canadian conservative Mark Steyn had a video message played to about 600 conservatives who turned up to an Institute of Public Affairs.
If only it worked like that for real. I’d be glad to send all of our socialists to Canada in exchange for their conservatives.
By the way, the Mark Steyn video is up on Andrew Bolt’s blog. It was hilarious, although it doesn’t quite feel as funny to me without the laughter which was in the room on the night.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
June 23rd, 2011 at 06:53am
Greetings Mike from the southern outpost of Melbourne where Andrew Bolt was speaking tonight about freedom of speech, something which he was very able to demonstrate by producing a list of things, prepared by his lawyers, about which he is forbidden from speaking while a certain court case continues. It was a very good illustration of the dangers of the loss of freedom of speech.
Anyway, I’m glad that Kevin Rudd’s job-killing minimum hours per shift restriction has been repealed, or at least reduced to a sensible number. School-age kids can finally have after-school jobs again. The idea that any of them could work for three hours after school on any day except late-night trading or the weekend was ridiculous, and would impinge on their ability to complete their school work anyway…although I suppose that in the ideal world of Kevin Rudd, school-age kids would not work, but would instead have their own taxpayer-funded incomes and be encouraged to divorce their parents and spread the virtues of socialism to all.
The unions are only upset because some eager and cheaper young staff might be more productive than the unionised workforce.
Also Mike, it might interest you to know that when I got to Melbourne and turned on the radio in my room, the news report which was on noted that flights in Melbourne were to be grounded tomorrow due to the ash cloud, which sent me in to a frenzy of trying to re-arrange my plans for tomorrow. It was only after I returned from the Andrew Bolt event that I bothered to double check this information and found that it’s actually Adelaide which will be grounded. I then checked the radio and discovered that it was tuned to the instrumental music flavor of taxpayer radio. I should know better than to trust the news on that form of radio!
I do wish that your show was on the radio down here. It would be so much easier to call you on the phone if the number didn’t divert to 3AW, but alas, I suppose I can wait until I’m back in Canberra to ring you again.
Have a great day, and I hope Jack is well.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
On loan to Melbourne
June 21st, 2011 at 01:28am
Half time:
Good to see NSW get a try. They made a big boo-boo when they kicked for goal from a penalty rather than taking the tap and trying to score a try. They lost momentum after that. It’s good to see them get a try and get some energy back as this has all the makings of a great Origin match as long as both teams fire on all cylinders.
Still, go QLD. A win in extra time would be awesome.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
Full time:
I’m taking credit for this! Once again I tip a team and they lose, so I’m taking credit for us going to a decider. Now if only I could make a profit out of tipping the losing side, I’d be set.
Great call as always, can’t wait for Origin Three. Bring it on!
Samuel
Canberra
June 15th, 2011 at 11:53pm
G’day Andrew and (insert random noise here as a greeting to the big marn)
I just got up from my afternoon nap and turned the radio on, did I hear you talking about banana bread? I live on banana bread on morning shift!
By the way, just for you Andrew after your Sunrise appearance, and because it’s the truth, my Facebook status is “I just woke up from a nap”.
Go the Maroons! Have a great call!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
For some context of Andrew’s spot on Sunrise this morning, here is that segment courtesy of Yahoo7:
June 15th, 2011 at 08:06pm
An email to 2GB’s Mike Williams
Good morning Mike,
You had a correspondent a little while ago who was a bit concerned about those ads about the live export of animals being quite graphic, and was concerned that they might air at times when children are likely to be watching. I’d like to allay those fears to an extent for you.
The ads have been rated “M” which means that they can only be broadcast at certain times of the day. To quote from the Television Industry Code Of Practice, M rated ads:
“May be broadcast during the following hours, except during P and C programs or adjacent to P or C periods:
• Weekdays (schooldays):
• 8.30pm–5.00am (see Note 1)
• 12 noon–3.00pm (see Note 2)
• Weekdays (school holidays) & Weekends:
• 8.30pm–5.00am (see Note 1)
Note 1: not in G or PG programs or sport starting at or continuing past 8.30pm. If the program continues past 10.30pm, this restriction ceases to apply.
Note 2: see Clause 2.10.3 of the Code of Practice for time zone difference adjustment.”
So the absolute earliest time that these ads can be shown is 8:30pm, except on school days where they might be shown between midday and 3pm as well.
And in regards to the call you had about global warming from the guy who just droned on and on, I think he came up with the analogy of the week. 0.05% of carbon dioxide is a very dangerous thing because, in this country at least, that’s the cutoff point to be chanrged with drink-driving. Based on his logic, I should ensure that I don’t fill more than 0.05% of my mug with milk when I make coffee, lest the cows explode.
Fair dinkum! I’m just going to assume that he was sleep talking, which is why he was rambling incoherently. Regardless, I got a really good chuckle out of the way you handled him.
Have a great week Mike.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
June 5th, 2011 at 03:54am
An email to 2GB’s Mike Williams
Good morning Mike,
Well I’ll tick one of the two boxes for you. I can be a cowardly emailer who won’t pick up the phone this morning, but I’m definitely not going to support the failed ideas of the current mob in the Labor Party.
As for the person who emailed you earlier, Lancelot, claiming that you’re a perfect example of why talkback radio should be monitored (and one assumes, regulated), isn’t it funny how these people believe in freedom of speech on the proviso that they agree with the speech. I’m 100% certain that he never had any problem with Taxpayer Radio hosts blasting John Howard every second of every day before, during and after his tenure as Prime Minister.
And speaking of former politicians, I would like to see a “work for the pension” scheme for retired politicians. If they want to claim their exorbitant pension while they’re still of working age, they should be required to work for the taxpayer, achieving all of the things that they couldn’t achieve while in office. They could be driving the trains to try and keep them on time (can you imagine Morris Iemma doing that? “The next stop for this train is, ahhh, I’ll look in to that. I am the boss of this train so the inquiry will report directly to me on that”) or in Julia’s case, she could be on the navy vessels protecting our borders one week, and helping the brickies to build school halls to a budget in the next week.
Have a good morning Mike.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
June 4th, 2011 at 01:39am
Hi again John,
I agree with your caller about The Bolt Report. It is a good program and will probably do very well. Andrew needs a little time to become more comfortable with his personal "to camera" pieces, but he really is right at home when talking to others. Today's panel is former federal treasurer Peter Costello and former NSW minister Michael Costa. I can't wait!
In regards to the timeslot, while it is on at 10am in the capital cities, unfortunately in regional areas Southern Cross Ten are running music programming at that time of day, so for those of us in regional areas, we have to wait for the 4:30pm replay. I record the replay and watch it later as it clashes with the football for me.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
May 15th, 2011 at 02:35am
Good morning John,
Did I hear you telling me that it's a cold eight degrees in Sydney this morning? Well without being too much of a smart alec, I'd have to say that eight degrees would be positively balmy compared to Canberra right now. We were expecting -3 tonight…and as I write this we have already reached -4 at the airport. It doesn't get above eight degrees down here until at least 9am.
Anyway, that Baz bloke who rang earlier, the bloke who "works for the company that does the management of the something" and claims to be earning the same salary now that he was earning in 1995 when he worked for some other company. Well, either he is lying and has received payrises over time, or he is on the same money because he previously worked in a better paying job in 1995 and would be earning more if he'd stayed in that job. Either way, he earns more than I do per hour, so he should stop complaining and learn what his company does.
By the way, did you know John that Sir Paul McCartney is listed by the Guiness Book Of Records as the single most successful commercial songwriter in history, and that his song 'Yesterday' has been covered by more than 2,200 artists. And I'm not sure if you mentioned it or not, but today is the one year anniversary of the successful end of Jessica Watson's solo around-the-world voyage. She became the youngest person to sail around the world solo, three days before her 17th birthday.
Have a wonderful week John!
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
May 15th, 2011 at 12:33am
Hi John,
I knew I forgot to write about something last night, but couldn’t work it out for the life of me. That is until you read out the email after mine which was about smoke detectors.
You mentioned your very sensitive smoke detector last night, and it reminded me of the smoke detector in my Nanny’s house. This was just outside the kitchen door and was very sensitive, so she usually cooked with the kitchen door closed, however even when she did this, all she had to do was open that door and the smoke alarm would go off. It would also go off if she opened the oven door when she was cooking a roast. I was quite young at the time and while it didn’t scare me, I didn’t like the noise at all, and wondered why the alarm wasn’t in a better position.
Also John, I had a very strange dream last night which I thought might interest you. In the dream I was driving north from the NSW south coast with some relatives and we had the AFL on the radio, which was being called by Rex Hunt. We were driving up a hill when we realised that we had reached Indonesia and there was an airport on the other side of the hill. The cockpit of a plane was separated from the rest of a plane and was on the right hand side of the road, and everyone in the car commented that this seemed a bit unusual.
Once we got to the top of the hill, a plane flew overhead and the runway was visible, however there was a tree before the runway so the plane had to suddenly change direction, and landed in a paddock to the left of the airport. Just then, the car started levitating, and the dream ended.
I hope you have a good mother’s day with Rhonda today. Nattie (the little fluffy dog) and I will be making a trip to the bakery today to get some apple pies with cream for Mum.
Regards, Samuel Gordon-Stewart Canberra
May 7th, 2011 at 09:40pm
Good morning John,
Well it sure is getting cold now, I had to scrape ice off my windscreen after work this morning. Welcome to winter I think.
In regards to the payments to our surviving prisoners of war, well it’s about time. I think the reasons it hasn’t happened to date are twofold. Firstly, the Whitlam government was an anti-war ggovernment, so of course they would refuse to pay special amounts to our soldiers. Once that stigma wore off, I think governments just waited until there weren’t many POWs left so that it wouldn’t cost much.
I hope you had a wonderful time on the cruise yesterday.
Regards, Samuel Gordon-Stewart Canberra
May 7th, 2011 at 03:27am
An email to 2UE’s Tim Shaw
G’day Tim,
About that security scanner, you’d think that it would have a light on it to indicate that it has power and is working. The fact that the problem went undetected until some armed police walked through it astounds me, and makes me concerned about how many other times this may have happened and gone undetected.
As for company profits, they belong to the owners of the company. I’m sure the unions want more pay for their employees and think the profits should be “shared” more; I’d expect nothing less from the socialist unions, but what they forget is that businesses are in business to make money for their owners, and employ people in an effort to achieve this aim. Businesses do not exist for the sole purpose of employing people.
In the case of companies, many of us benefit from the profits through our super funds and other investments.
And finally, in many shift work jobs (mine included) there are penalty rates or other extras for working certain hours or public holidays. I’m looking forward to working on the upcoming public holidays because of the extra cash I receive.
If people don’t like shift work, they shouldn’t take jobs which require it.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
April 21st, 2011 at 12:27am
An email to 2GB’s Alan Jones
Good morning Alan,
I enjoyed your interview with Tim Wilson about the carbon tax’s ridiculous complexity and costliness.
You might like to know that I am already seeing evidence that this tax will be rorted, thwarted and otherwise cheated, either mistakenly or on purpose. For example, I recently hired a car from Hertz for about four weeks. At the end of the rental I received a receipt from Hertz which had printed on it “Carbon emissions from this rental were approximately 0.00 grams”.
The question this leads me to is, what kind of gigantic government bureaucracy is going to be needed to enforce this monstrosity? And given the problems which Tim pointed out with working out the amount of carbon emissions for something as simple as a birthday cake, how many people are going to make mistakes and be fined by the tax office for it?
This tax will be a disaster if it ever happens. We must stop it.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
April 18th, 2011 at 08:59am
An email to 2GB’s Andrew Moore, who announced just before 5am that he’d been on for another four hours.
G’day Andrew,
Gee, what is this today? April Fools Day all over again? We’ve got Barry O’Farrell abolishing the Environment Department, a school in Bondi dropping the word Easter, and poor old Alan needing to take the morning off, leaving you on an extra-long-super-dooper shift, just to confuse those of us who aren’t used to daylight saving yet.
I feel for you…I had to do something similar at work yesterday because the big boss forgot to ask me if I’d like to do some overtime and thought he had asked, so I got stuck with it anyway…not that it bothered me too much…I did get to watch a Bulldogs AFL match in the process. I’d imagine that filling in for Alan is a bit the same for you…a slight inconvenience, but enjoyable and worthwhile.
Have a great morning.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
Of course I forgot to add to the list, the caller who was talking about how his kid’s school has renamed the “time out chair” as the “thinking chair”, and then there’s Seven’s Sunday Night offering half a million dollars to help them solve something. This all has to be a joke, surely.
April 4th, 2011 at 05:17am
Good morning John,
John, who called earlier, was asking about concussions and which sport stands players down the next week if they're concussed. I'm not sure about Rugby, which he was talking about, but the AFL have introduced a rule this year where if a player receives a concussion on the field, they are not allowed back on the field that day. They don't stop the players from returning the following week if they doctors think they're fit to play, but they are absolutely not allowed back on that day.
So far this year this has caused two players to be sidelined for the remainder of the match. Geelong's Joel Selwood last week who was knocked out and had to be taken to hospital, and Richmond's Jack Riewoldt last night who landed very hard on the ground and received medical attention in the dressing rooms for some time. He didn't have to go to hospital, but he was concussed so the doctors kept him off the field and the team played their substitute player.
Personally I think it's a good rule. Concussions can be tricky things to deal with and the extent of them isn't necessarily known for a while, so whenever there's a head injury it's better to be safe than sorry and keep the player confined for a while, both for the player's health's sake, and the team's sake, because I don't think that any player, no matter how good they are, is going to make sensible judgements and play to their full potential while they're concussed.
All the best!
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
April 2nd, 2011 at 02:46am
An email to 2UE’s Jason Morrison who mentioned a story about coffee addiction just after the 6:30 news. Apparently drinking more than six cups of coffee a day makes you a coffee addict.
Morning Jason,
Hey guess what I was doing when you were talking about coffee addicts…I was making a cup of coffee!
Anyway, what is the definition of a “cup” in that story, as I use different sizes of cups during the day. For example, the cup I use at work is a travel mug and it holds roughly double what my cup at home does, so I count it as two cups. I usually have two or three them while I’m at work, which counts as four or six.
And then there’s the cup of coffee I picked up on the way to work and the coffees that I had at home.
Yep, I think I count as a coffee addict.
Regards,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
March 31st, 2011 at 06:53am
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