Stephen Mayne
speaker
4,460 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Stephen Mayne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've got no energy.
So I'm off almost trying to lock in my next ten years of don't leave the house but do a few online AGMs.
But if companies don't offer it, then I'm stuffed.
I don't know, really stuffed.
What is a gadfly, by the way?
Um is it where does it
Eric Beecher actually sent me the definition because he was the one who said it that there's not enough gadflies and then the Fin Review puts it on the front page, the last gadfly, and the definition is this quote a person who annoys or criticises others with persistent questions and sharp remarks, often to stop people from being lazy or too comfortable.
bug that's like a blowfly that's really annoying.
We're definitely not going with that one.
No, I'm I'm challenging lazy people to not be too com comfortable with persistent questions and sharp remarks.
I'm happy to put that one as a badge.
Fair enough.
But I know from the last Gadfly, there'll always be Gadflies.
We just need a few more of them.
Journalists are basically gad journalists are basically gadflies.
They ask annoying questions of lazy, comfortable people.
It's basically an extension of journalism.
A good gadfly.
Almond.
You ask sharp questions.
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