Topics: Daily News, News
**Chris Spyrou** (0:02)
A LISTNER PRODUCTION Hello, it is Chris Spyrou with you, and welcome to our brand new Saturday episode, Our Take, where we take our ties off if we were to wear ties during the week. I don't think I've ever seen you wear a tie.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (0:20)
I can for next time if you want.
**Chris Spyrou** (0:22)
No, no, no, because then you'd have to take it off for this episode.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (0:24)
I've pre-taken mine off. I'm ready to go.
**Chris Spyrou** (0:26)
That's perfect. By the way, this is usually where Sacha and I talk about the week that was and what we and you listening made of it. But this week, we are joined by...
I set you up. I set you up for you to introduce yourself.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (0:39)
Oh, I thought maybe you just forgot my name. Joined by Justine Landis-Hanley.
**Chris Spyrou** (0:44)
This seems to be a thing. If Sacha was here now, she'd be like, this is what Chris does. Chris does this way. He wants people to introduce themselves and it's weird. I thought it was an actual, but clearly I'm the only one that feels that's a normal thing to do. Anyway, it's a looser, it's a chattier version of The Briefing, a lot less serious, but we are still bringing facts. Everything that we bring is still fact checked and if it is not fact checked, we are honest about it. We do kick off this Saturday episode and every Saturday episode with a debriefing, the one story that we couldn't stop talking about this week. And then it is our brand new Weekend Quiz where we find out if you listening have been paying attention or someone in the business if they've been paying attention to our headlines. We also open up our inbox, we go through your DMs, your comments, your reactions to The Week that was and we cap it all off with our staple weekend list where we recommend what to watch, see, do, eat and listen to. But first, it is time for this.
One, two, three.
It's so delightful.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (1:59)
It's my favourite song.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:01)
Yeah. Okay. So what you just heard there is Eastern Rosellas. It's a song by a seven-year-old named Miles Phillips. He has been going viral at the moment, him and his dad, for this song. We haven't spoken about this once, and there's been ample opportunity for us to cover it in headlines or even a deep dive. I don't know, what do we do in a deep dive?
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:19)
I can't believe you haven't covered it yet. When you said that to me, I was like, what? Surely.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:23)
Yeah.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:23)
Have I missed it?
**Chris Spyrou** (2:24)
No, no, you haven't. And that's why we found a slot for it in our take.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:28)
Yes.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:29)
So, you're a big fan of this.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:31)
I am.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:32)
You've consumed everything there is to consume when it comes to this song.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:35)
Chris was like, do you need notes for this? And I was like, no, no, no, I'm across everything. I'm good to go.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:40)
Okay, great. So give us the crux of this. This is a seven year old, his dad.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:46)
Yes.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:46)
They've written a song called...
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:48)
Eastern Rosellas.
**Chris Spyrou** (2:49)
Eastern Rosellas. It's gone viral.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (2:51)
Yes. So I saw the original clip, which is his dad and him.
He's such a sweetheart. He's standing by the piano and his dad's playing this little tune. And he sings this great song, Eastern Rosellas, which you just heard in the clip that goes viral on social media, of him singing it by the piano with his dad. And I think it goes viral because it's so wholesome. It's not a high production video to begin with. It's just them shooting, probably front-facing camera on their phone.
And I think what people love about it so much is the creativity and the homage that it plays to Australian wildlife. Like it's a really wholesome, earnest song about the beauty of Eastern Rosellas. And nowhere else in the world are you going to get a song like this.
**Chris Spyrou** (3:37)
No, you're not. And look, like this went viral on TikTok. Everyone was like playing the song, duetting the song and doing stuff with it.
This kid, Miles, has been on a bunch of Brekkie TV and Brekkie Radio.
**Justine Landis-Hanley** (3:49)
He's been on a press tour.
**Chris Spyrou** (3:50)
He's literally been on a press tour.
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