A long-time FIVEaa listener and long-time caller, has pinpointed the downfall of western society to one 1.1km piece of cycling infrastructure running through the Adelaide CBD.
The caller, known only as Terry from Fulham Gardens, presumably because that’s his name and place of residence, called in to Conversations with Cornesy to express his world view. A situation that baffled Cornesy and FIVEaa staff because the show doesn’t take callers and is pre-recorded weeks in advance.
“The second they painted that road green and removed all those parking spaces, things started going downhill,” Terry told a confused Cornesy who had just gotten to the good bit in his chat with Steve Vizard about how he came up with the idea to just do the Letterman show but in Australia.
“Everything is ‘what about the cyclist’ or ‘what about the trans person’ but what about you and me? When are they going to start looking after us, Colonel?” At this stage, we think Terry was confusing Graham Cornes with the fictional ‘Colonel’ from ‘Graham and the Colonel’, a segment featured on an ABC TV series that aired over 30 years ago.
When pressed by Vizard on how the name ‘Cheer Cheese’ related to the Frome Street bike lane, Terry became flustered, repeating the phrase ‘cancel culture’ multiple times before seeming to begin chanting the name ‘Tony Abbott’. The call was interrupted to make way for a Posture Care Chair Company live read and seven minutes of ads for funeral homes.
