Brent and AJ opened the Preamble by discussing Alex's new job, Brent's week and having a laugh.
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The Friday Preamble (28/06/24)
Breakfast with Tim Payne and Brent Costello. Three minutes past seven, good morning. Welcome to Essie and Tazzy Breakfast for a Friday action pack show coming your way over the next couple of hours and looking forward to doing it all. With a man sitting opposite me, it's not the former test captain. It is, in fact, my boss that we've used Tasmania, Alex Johnston, who joins us. A time being, yeah, good morning. Nice to see you. I think we've done this once before, possibly. And good to have you back, you must have done OK. Well, I'm very pleased to be back. And yes, we don't have too much longer working together, Brent. So this is a real treat to get to spend my Friday morning here. Big fan of the show always listens, so to be able to be here next to you. And I'm looking forward to talking to Tim wherever he may be. Yeah, we'll track him down shortly. I believe he's around Dubbo or somewhere. He's driving to noosa. So he went, I think, yesterday, but she wouldn't be a Dubbo. I don't know. We'll find out where he is after the preamble, which we start with this morning, Alex. And let's start there, because you have got a new job. And a lot of people know you about town actually. I don't think there's anyone in Hobart that knows more people than you. So I don't think you need an introduction, but you are off to work for the Jackie Lammy network here in Tasmania. As the Chief of Staff, is that the correct title? I think my title is Political Advisor, but we'll have a small team. So I guess I'll have a few hats. But yes, not something that I planned on doing. Obviously love my job at Win and love the team, and especially you and Soph and people I've worked with for a long, long time. But an opportunity came along. And those that follow politics will know that the three JLN MPs are in a very unique position on the crossbench in a minority government situation. And their job is very important. And yeah, after a quick conversation with them, I thought I might have had some skills that would help them navigate some fairly interesting political seas. And I said, yes, took the leap. And I start officially in the middle of the month. So at Win for a little while yet, trying to make sure that everything's OK. But of course, it will be in fact. I think a few people in the newsroom are just, you know, they might miss me and some of the things I bring. But I don't think they'll miss other elements of my performance brand. Well, that's not true. But it does take me to yesterday because you often, what time do you normally get to work? Probably I'm not always an early riser. But I'm at least I'll let you know early in the morning that, you know, I might be a few minutes late. And you're on the group to Texas and I'm all going to know. You know, I might be starting the day from home, but organising the day. Yeah, yesterday was a little different. It was a little different. So I was in nice and early. We had the TSL, which we have quite early on a Thursday morning. And then I was driving back from there about 10 quarter to 11. And I see the group text go off and you said, I've just slept in. Yeah, no, I owned up to it. I put your hand up just sound asleep. And I'm not sure why I didn't have a big night, the night before, anything like that, just the alarm didn't go off or I didn't set it and just slept right through it. And I like how you owned it. And I certainly owned up. But I woke up to about 15 missed calls and 75 messages. We're worried about you. No one knew what was going on until we saw that message. We didn't know where you were, what you were doing, if you're OK. And you just asleep. And Sophie's on leave this week. So Sophie normally sets the whole day up, you know, has the the rundown looking prim and proper by 9.30. Well, it's 11 o'clock. And the powers in Wollongong thought, does he's looking a bit light on today? So then my boss started calling around and I saw the Miss Call. But I thought I'd need to get to my desk. So I'm in a more of a position of authority here to say, look, I'm sorry. I'm late, but I've set up the rundown now. And so there were a few frantic calls. And I think, generally, she was just worried, worried, yeah. We all were. Anyway, good old sleeping. So you were nervous that I didn't make it this morning, but here I am. And a rare, you know, I'm not saying that I'm the earliest starter, but that was a bit of a rare, rare one. Oh, like I said last night, leaving the newsroom. Are you right for tomorrow morning? Yep, I'll be fine. Actually, no, just send me a text just in case. So I made sure I did this morning and you already awake, which I was impressed about. Yep. Now, as we said, you're off to work with the Lambeys and I scroll through my phone last night as I do. And the first thing I see as I scroll on my phone is new AFL stadium, the wrong priority. Lamby network. This is an article on the Mercury, the state government is being accused of falling asleep at the wheel by prioritizing a new AFL stadium over struggling Tasmanians and Lamby MP says. So there, that's the position or was that blown out of proportion? Oh, well, I'm reluctant to say too much a because I'm an elected member, you know, and I think the staffers should be behind the scenes rather than commentating and also I don't start until the 15th of July, but I think that's fairly consistent with what they said throughout the election campaign and, you know, things have changed on the stadium. Obviously, Labor's position on the stadium means that on paper it has the numbers in parliament, so there's nothing unhealthy about the crossbench keeping the government on its toes. I wouldn't imagine. Good chance to ask anything political this morning on the Harkorps Open Line. If you've got a question for Alex Harkorps, more than just real estate professionals, O four, three, seven, double five, two, five, three, five is how you can text us or give us a call 1342 1533 don't get access like this every day. So make the most of it out there in radio land and get on to our man here who could ask, answer anything political for you this morning. Early text here on the Harkorps Open Line from David of Launceston question for Brent. Given Andrew Dillon's comments during his visit earlier in the week, is it now a 50/50 choice between Rosnian Kingston for the AFL High Performance Center? David, that, yeah, that was the impression I got when he said it, but then he was asked a follow up question with that. Is it 50/15? He said Rosnian is still the preferred choice, but my gut feeling is that Kingston is very, very well and truly in the mix because there's a lot that's got to happen over at Rosnian. Did you get a feeling that he's frustrated? No, no, I didn't actually really. They want to build a training performance center for the AFL and we can't make up our minds. We've got to go to an elected poll and we've got to do you think the AFL thinks, you know, how hard is it to get an answer down there? We asked that and he said this is all part of the process, so he, unless it's a front, but I got the feeling he's a pretty relaxed customer, Andrew Dillon, but he seemed genuinely happy with how everything was progressing, but obviously timelines are tidy, acknowledge that, but at the moment he said also when it comes to the stadium that he's seen nothing on his visit here that would tell him that it's going to be delayed, so we'll see where it lands. Very interesting indeed. Now, Hamish has come in with something this morning which prick my ears up, Jay. Who is the hammer sound effect? Talking about tight people, LeBron James, right? Would be on, I don't know how much, millions and millions and millions of dollars a year. But apparently, this is from a long time ago, this article, two that Hamish has pointed me to. Apparently, he doesn't pay for Spotify premium, so sticks are the ads. The quote here, he's sitting in there in the locker room, and there's hardcore hip hop on, and all of a sudden, the commercial will come on for Cleveland State's graduate studies program or something, so that just made me laugh. He thinks someone might have just sent him a code to him. Exactly. Goodness me. That's pretty tight. We talk about Tim being tight, but that is next level. Who's the tightest person you've ever met? Well, certainly not you, you're very generous, and you've even bought me in a hot chocolate this morning, which I appreciate. You've got to get me on the right day, though. It's got to be a winner of about 12 hours of me being paid. It was, well, it was paid yesterday, so I've got lucky. Just all right. Yeah. Now, you're off to Melbourne this weekend, which intrigues me because, you know, a loose customer, I'd probably call you. Yeah, it is. That's... Would you disagree with that? I have a appetite for life, I would say. That's probably better about some of the finer things. We're not finer things. Some of the more decadent things in life, yeah. You are a very passionate asset and supporter. They play at the MCG tomorrow night against Jelong. I think it's even Dyson Heples, 250th game. A great opportunity to get along and show your support from one of the club, greats. But you're telling me off air that you may not go to the football while you're in Melbourne. The sport being a very big asset and fanfare, flying, they're going, "Well, this year." But your mob on the weekend? Yes. But you would choose... We're just keeping our itinerary loose. Listeners will understand, it's a real treat. Four of us getting together, you know, all around 40 now, it doesn't happen very often. I don't have kids' own, you know, step kids in my life, but they all have... Well, no, Dame doesn't ever have kids, but anyway, the other two do. And so it's a treat. And you don't want to sort of lumbie yourself with too many things on the itinerary. So we're keeping it loose. Look, it'll get to five o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and we'll decide whether the footy looks good or maybe our night will go in a different direction. There's a lot of very good places to eat in Melbourne, Brent. And the MCG is not one of them. Getting a good burger and stuff. I respect it. I know you love your food. You love your food more than footy, though, don't you, probably? I do. There's no doubt about that. I'm a passionate food supporter. Yeah. Good. Big fan of food. We've got a bottomless brunch booked in tomorrow morning at a place that looks fantastic near where we're staying. So I'll report back on that. I could do them a bit of damage. Last time I went to bottomless brunch, it was $75 a head, and Sam had... He was a bit poorly after a big night. He had two things, and I had 222 things. And I said it's only fair if you pay $10, and I pay $140, because we have not got equal value out of this bottomless brunch. That's all we're going to take. My young fella fletch to a buffet. He gets kids' prices, but he goes to town. He loves a buffet. So you feel bad, but it's... Runs your height. Absolutely. Now, speaking of food, we've got a $100 KFC voucher to give away to our contributor of the day. That can't be you. You're actually a co-host today. So you can't win that. But if you'd like to win... You used to get a KFC. If you'd like to win that, send us a text on the Harkorts Open Line. Harkorts More Than Just Real Estate Professionals 04375535, or call us 1342-1533. Big show ahead this morning. The Mavericks, our own Mavericks here at SDN are in town. This weekend, taking on the Sunshine Coast, lightning at My State Bank Arena tomorrow night. Sasha Glasgow and Lauren Moore from the Mavs will join us here in the studio, which we're looking forward to, Northwest Thunder Guard, Trey Armstrong will join us as well, hot off his big game last week, hitting a buzzer, beating three to win the game for the Thunder. Maddie Reed from Taz Racing will be in the studio, which we're looking forward to. And we're going to go around the state as well, looking at some of the things happening over the weekend. We'll preview the AFL. And we're going to try and track down Tim, in fact, that's what we're going to do right after this. It's Etsi and Tazi breakfast. We are powered by Kubota. on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, mowers and utility vehicles.