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0:00Saturday, September 26, two of combat sports most dangerous strikers collide. Bear Knuckle. Liverpool's own down in the Gorilla Till goes to war with Cuban powerhouse LL soldier of God Romero. Plus the Bear Knuckle Midowit Championship of the world is on the line. When the rating champ Dave Varedneck Mundell defends against undefeated British challenger, Jack Demeek Cleaver-Colin, BKFC 94, Till versus Romero. Watch it live only on the zone. Sign up now at thezone.com. News talk breakfast with Anton Savage in association with air. You're on Harry Brown as media lecturer in Trinity in Technical at the University of Dublin of BKB and he's the host of the ditch podcast. Morning, Harry. Good morning. How are you doing? I'm not too bad. Do you think the country's a kid? Well look, I am a graded two Ireland in the 1980s. So what do I know? You know, you were completely going against the traffic. I was going the wrong way. I was fighting against the traffic.

1:00That's the spirit. A couple of stories that have caught your eye this morning. Doctors are urging an outright ban on scramblers and tizer laws and e-scooters. I mean, I thought we'd had this discussion yet here we go again. Well, I was in a couple of weeks ago and Anton was defending e-scooters in the studio here. He's turned me into an e-scooter truth or I have to say, Jonathan. He's not here today. Harry, you can speak your mind. Take your mind. The, what we've got is Dr. Luke Phillips from the motor is going to be speaking at the Eroctis Justice Committee today and he's going to be talking about the ever increasing burden on the emergency services that e-scooters and scramblers have represented and he's going to be talking about some new figures. And the new figures, I think, well, I think a lot of people will look at them and think, God, I thought it might be worse than that though. Four deaths caused by scramblers are e-scooters last year, 59 serious injuries. Now, those are horrible from the point of view of any of the people involved in them, but they're not like the enormous numbers that you might think might be involved in here.

2:01Of the 59 serious industries, sorry, serious injuries, 15 were not the riders but were rather pedestrian cyclists or people traveling in cars. The context for this is that the government, while it's brought in the kind of ban on quad bikes and scramblers in public places, is moving relatively slowly towards licensing requirements for the e-scooters, unlike the e-scooters the government is moving slowly. The doctors are trying to say, look, this is actually a serious public health crisis. In my own hospital, Phillips is saying, presentations have risen steadily over two years, significant limb injuries, spleen, liver, traumatic brain injury, etc. It's nasty stuff and it needs to be dealt with, but we are moving it so much of a glacial pace when it comes to this. I have to say the amount of carton twitching alive and well in Lensster by the sounds of it because more people were complaining in Lensster about

3:02neighbors using water during the hosepipe band than any other part of the country. Yeah, that's right. I mean, we've been kind of waiting for this story. We haven't, we haven't, in the height of the summer when we were kind of talking about wood neighbors rat each other out on the use of water during the hosepipe band. The answer is yes, actually. That's what we were talking about. Especially in Lensster. So, look, there were 439 complaints to Ishaer and across the full period, most of those were concentrated in the first week. It turns out, or at least the plurality of those, about a quarter of them were in the very first week, but that people called to complain. Yes, as you said early on there, by far proportionally the largest number of complaints were in Lensster. 7.5 complaints per 100,000 people. It's nearly double monster and more than double conduct and they're three counties of Ulster. But on the other hand, it has to be said that Lensster people are likely to live where they can twitch the curtains and see their neighbors. Stop defending them Harry. This is a terrible behavior of rashing water rats. That's what they're asking their neighbors. Look, and look, overall the volume of

4:06contacts relating to breaches of the order says Ishaer and was relatively small percentage of calls. So, it wasn't tying up the phone lines. It was 1% of the contacts to customer service were to tell Ishaer and that your neighbor was overusing the hosepipe. They lifted the hosepipe band just last week. So, you can now water your garden with impunity. If you think the rain isn't doing it for you. The world cup sadly a distant memory at this point. But a study showed how quickly and how rapidly we were shown as for things that were bad for us. Yeah, this is a great study actually by some British researchers who have found that branding for unhealthy food and drink, gambling, prediction markets, etc. So, all sorts of harmful products was on screen for 39.3 hours of the live play in the world cup. So, not simply like ads between games or at halftime. But during live play, a quarter of the tournaments total live playing

5:06time, it was branding for something bad for you on the screen. And as one of the researchers pointed out, sports should be part of the solution to poor health, not one of the world's most powerful advertising platforms for the products driving it. I can understand what they're coming from. We have this thing now where alcohol companies will come along and say, oh no, we're not advertising our alcoholic product. We're advertising our zero, zero product. But guess what every child is being indoctrinated in. It's the logo of the alcoholic products that they're taken on board. I mean, they're sneaky enough. It's, I mean, what's his name from Mad Men? Don Draper, be very proud of these guys. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, the final scene of Mad Men comes to mind. So, 70% of all the branding recorded was for unhealthy food and drink. And then prediction markets, gambling, cryptocurrency, et cetera. So, yeah, the World Cup was absolutely dominated by trash. One one one, one list of says, my neighbor started washing his car at six o'clock on a Sunday morning in the hopes that no neighbors would notice and report him. A watery police

6:10station. It's not a list of who clearly must have got up at six o'clock and reported. Are you a fan of slow horses? I haven't watched slow horses, actually. Oh, you need to watch slow horses. I think I do, you know, because I do love that kind of MI5 thing. It's kind of a, it's a bit of a kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, that kind of British mind. I'm holding up. Yeah. Yeah. And these are possibly the worst spies you could possibly ever imagine. But it's a brilliant show. And one of the stars of it is a guy called Jack Lout. Now, he plays a bit of a hapless character who has absolutely no lockboard is a good MI5 agent. But and for that reason, I thought, you know, natural choice for 007. I think that he would be very good despite the fact he has got a shot. I suppose that might didn't stop Sean Connery, right? True. Didn't stop an Irishman becoming James Bond either. But now that the author of James Bond or the current author of James Bond says he's not the right man. Well, look, you know, as you say, slow horses, although I haven't seen it sounds like it's a perfect audition over the last few years for doing James Bond. So Charlie Higgsson, who's written kind of the most recent sort of spin off

7:16pseudo-inflaming James Bond novels is quoted in the papers saying, yeah, you know, I don't see him in hand-to-hand fighting, you know, so that makes him not convincing as a James Bond. But look, you know, James Bond has taken a lot of different physical shapes over the years. It's true that Daniel Craig was a bit of a tough guy, all right. But not every, you know, Roger Moore, you wouldn't necessarily see as your hand-to-hand combat guy. And he was a pretty small team. No, he was more and more about getting between the shades with Roger Moore's character to be fair. But we have the likes of Jack Reacher now, who is doing the big tough guy thing. Yeah, so Bond can go back into the Tuxedo. I, this story is just unbelievable, though. How many years have we been talking about who's the next James Bond? I mean, apparently we're going to learn by the end of the year, but I don't think I've ever seen a story get quite the mileage that this has got. And everyone who can have something to say about it seems to be allowed to have their say. So that's the most recent. Imagine being the poor sad who actually gets the job and then have to wait two years before somebody sees you as James Bond and the hope that you might be good and George Lasons be ghost hanging

8:18around the background wave and at your Harry Brown lecture and media at a technological university of Dublin and host of the ditch podcast. Thank you very much for joining us.