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Speaker 1: I got something that I need to ask you about
Speaker 1: because I think there's something that everyone's got wrong. And
Speaker 1: it's about demerit points.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, an interesting way to start the class
Speaker 2: about this episode.
Speaker 1: About demerit points.
Speaker 2: Everyone, demerit points, you know what, That's what you come
Speaker 2: here for. You come here for the real hot topics, well,
Speaker 2: the topics that just you dye and to know about.
Speaker 2: And I reckon that the top not at the top
Speaker 2: of this maybe second or third on the list demerit points.
Speaker 2: So let's chat about it.
Speaker 1: People have got demerit points wrong. Why did you know
Speaker 1: that you have no demerit points? And then you gain them, You.
Speaker 2: Gain them, and you can gain up to thirteen and
Speaker 2: then you lose your license.
Speaker 1: Everyone that I talk to thinks you start with thirteen
Speaker 1: and then you lose de merit.
Speaker 2: And so it's in the name demerit and so everyone's like,
Speaker 2: it's not a merit point, it's a demerit point. You're
Speaker 2: getting a point for doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense, right because everyone that I speak
Speaker 1: to about it is like, yeah, I've lost this many points,
Speaker 1: but don't lose points, you gain them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I see what you're saying, Like I lost four points.
Speaker 1: You didn't lose four points, you gained four point.
Speaker 2: No, they did lose four points because they've got thirteen.
Speaker 2: See here's the tricky thing, because I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: You're gaining the four points, but they lost four.
Speaker 1: Points out of the thirty. No.
Speaker 2: See, how do I explain this? How do I dumb
Speaker 2: it down? Because I know what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 2: but I can't say it. The words aren't for me.
Speaker 2: So when they say I lost four points, that actually
Speaker 2: is still correct terminology and the correct way to say it.
Speaker 2: Because but they haven't lost four demerit points, but they've
Speaker 2: lost four of their thirteen points.
Speaker 1: See, but I have zero points.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, But you have an allocation of up to thirteen.
Speaker 2: So if you gain four demerit points, you have lost
Speaker 2: four points.
Speaker 1: Why does it have to be that way. Why can't
Speaker 1: everyone just have thirteen and then you lose them and
Speaker 1: when you get to zero, then you've lost your license.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to get to thirteen?
Speaker 2: Because I think if you get more than thirteen, I
Speaker 2: don't know, but what happens then, because if you get
Speaker 2: twelve to jail, I don't think you go to jail.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is like, if you were at
Speaker 2: twelve and then you know on double demerits, let's say
Speaker 2: you got six demerit points for whatever you did wrong,
Speaker 2: then you're at eighteen demerit points, even though the limit
Speaker 2: is thirteen.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I got another question. While we're
Speaker 1: on the topic of double demerits. You know how when
Speaker 1: it's double demerits long leaking, jove bug and safe, why
Speaker 1: don't they just do double demerits all the time?
Speaker 2: Then? I think it desensitizes everyone. And I think at
Speaker 2: the point is is that more accidents happen on those
Speaker 2: weekends because more people are on the roads and more
Speaker 2: people are likely to drink drive. True, So I think
Speaker 2: that's probably the answer. They're sorry, I get it. You
Speaker 2: probably wanted me to go back and forth with you
Speaker 2: there and go. I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: I and also I also think about speeding cameras. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: Like I know there's obviously rules around them, you know
Speaker 1: how they have to have like the two warning signs
Speaker 1: before it before you actually like everyone just knows where
Speaker 1: they are. They just slow it down.
Speaker 2: This is so funny. I love this episode. The speed
Speaker 2: cameras are not there to trick you into catching you speeding.
Speaker 2: It's put in problem areas so that everyone slows down.
Speaker 2: They need you to know about the slop speed cameras.
Speaker 1: Wh don't we just have them everywhere so then everyone
Speaker 1: just drives normal? Why don't people just drive fucking normal?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Agree, normal, but speed cameras are yeah, put in
Speaker 2: places I am.
Speaker 1: Normal the whole America troop because there's this really old clip.
Speaker 1: Surely everyone knows Cheryl and Barnes.
Speaker 2: I don't reckon everyone does.
Speaker 1: There's Cheryl and Barnes. Just look her up and there
Speaker 1: was this clip that she made like years and years ago,
Speaker 1: like in the YouTube days, because that's how long Cheryln's
Speaker 1: been around for Shout out Chryln. By the way, not
Speaker 1: that I think she listens to every episode of ours.
Speaker 2: I don't think she listens to any episode.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to send this to her because she
Speaker 1: always picks on me on my lives. And so it
Speaker 1: was in the era of a lot of the big
Speaker 1: American YouTubers like doing a coming out video. People are
Speaker 1: gonna find this funny because you just got to know Chryln.
Speaker 1: So there was like, who was in it, Tyler Oakley,
Speaker 1: I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm by and then she goes
Speaker 1: and I'm normal like you.
Speaker 2: I just love it. She literally she used to say
Speaker 2: in her videos all the time. I respect everyone, whether
Speaker 2: you are gay or normal.
Speaker 1: You have no Chryln anyway. I don't know. I saw
Speaker 1: it pop up on TikTok and it was when we
Speaker 1: were in America. I'm then the whole tripe. I just
Speaker 1: it made me realize how much I use the word
Speaker 1: normal in my everyday language. And then to the whole truth,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, that is so normal. Normal anyway, fucking
Speaker 1: drive safely everyone. That is the key messaging of this episode,
Speaker 1: sponsored by New South Wales Roads. It's no, it's not,
Speaker 1: it's over there, like no.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: If you thought that you start with points and lose them,
Speaker 1: you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Yes, but technically you do lose points.
Speaker 1: But you start with zero end if you go on
Speaker 1: to like your service New South Wales app or whatever
Speaker 1: app you use.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do the other states have apps?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 1: Did you know?
Speaker 2: I heard Victoria doesn't do double demerits?
Speaker 1: Don't they?
Speaker 2: That's not a thing?
Speaker 1: And don't they not have tolls?
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I think they don't have to.
Speaker 2: Don't know.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here, but they don't have tolls.
Speaker 2: Came with the fuck down there because the amount of
Speaker 2: fucking do you know that? Like sometimes one trip will
Speaker 2: cost thirty two dollars.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have been driving for the last two years
Speaker 1: for this podcast and it costs me, Yeah, forty bucks
Speaker 1: every day and forty bucks parking. I pay eighty dollars
Speaker 1: to come on this podcast every week.
Speaker 2: It makes me sick because my dad used to just
Speaker 2: when I was younger, he linked up my tolls to
Speaker 2: his toll account so my car would go through, but
Speaker 2: he'd get and then he just would pay it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then he obviously at the time I wasn't driving
Speaker 2: to Sydney that often. So then when you get the
Speaker 2: bill at the end of the year or however it works.
Speaker 2: He'd just be like, hey, mate, you owe one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy dollars for your toals. I'm like, sweet, nowhere
Speaker 2: is there?
Speaker 1: You go?
Speaker 2: So I didn't think about it because it was so
Speaker 2: you know, it was like one big lump sum fuck.
Speaker 2: But all so I had this thing on that was like,
Speaker 2: you can do it with your toll boothy thing, you know,
Speaker 2: your little thing that beeps when you go through. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can set the amount that loads onto it. So
Speaker 2: I had to set it twenty five dollars my fucking
Speaker 2: bank statement in the space of a week. Because there's
Speaker 2: something that's like a CAP's at sixty dollars. So that
Speaker 2: used to not happen. That's a new thing, I think,
Speaker 2: or recent in.
Speaker 1: The last people that live there, because it costs me
Speaker 1: Yet like forty dollars every time I come to Sydney.
Speaker 2: Twenty five dollars got taken out like six times in
Speaker 2: two days. I was like, this is a fucking jowa.
Speaker 2: You know why we pay tolls right? And how that works?
Speaker 2: Because I didn't know this and they found it really interesting.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: So from my understanding, the government has employees a construction
Speaker 2: company to build the toll road but doesn't pay them,
Speaker 2: but says you may have all of or maybe it's
Speaker 2: a split, but you will get the earnings off it.
Speaker 2: So basically the government goes, hello, we need you to
Speaker 2: build this road to a big construction agency or company,
Speaker 2: and then they go, we won't pay you a cent.
Speaker 2: It's going to probably cost you one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: to build the road, but we're not going to pay you.
Speaker 2: But you can charge tolls and get the toll and
Speaker 2: you can make the money off it. So in the
Speaker 2: long run, and you know, for these building companies, like
Speaker 2: you know, thirty years down the track or I don't
Speaker 2: know how long, then it's really profitable and they probably
Speaker 2: make more money than if they just charge the government
Speaker 2: to do it. But that's why we pay tolls. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hate it, but I found it interesting.
Speaker 1: I thought I just went to the government and they
Speaker 1: use it for whatever the fuck they want.
Speaker 2: I think that they must take a cut of some sort.
Speaker 2: And also, don't quote me. It could be fucking wrong.
Speaker 2: Half the shit I saund on this podcast I make up.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this is a fake news podcast. If I'd ever
Speaker 1: seen what I was just confidently saying everything that is
Speaker 1: so wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, as I was saying in News South Wales,
Speaker 1: we have the service New South Wales app. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: go on to it and then you can literally just
Speaker 1: click this one section and it will show you how
Speaker 1: many points you do have. And then if you've never
Speaker 1: gotten like a fine or whatever, you've got zero.
Speaker 2: Have you got any fines? No ever in your life?
Speaker 1: Parking fines. Yeah, I've gotten parking plants, but never got
Speaker 1: a speeding fine.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So you've never lost any Tomerit points.
Speaker 1: No, I've never gained any because it's zero. But it
Speaker 1: scared me the first time I looked, because I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's a zero, Like I thought I'd.
Speaker 2: Lost my license.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize you have to gain them in the app.
Speaker 2: Right. Okay, yeah, yeah, sorry to go back to America again.
Speaker 2: But have you found that since you have gotten home
Speaker 2: it's not so bad on the roads. Yeah, But on
Speaker 2: footpaths or.
Speaker 1: At the shops, I haven't really hoped anywhere noticed.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I.
Speaker 1: Have been walking around my house, I.
Speaker 2: Have been walking on the wrong side of the path.
Speaker 1: I hate it over there, I hate it. I hate
Speaker 1: going on the other side, like, yeah, they drive on
Speaker 1: the other side. Which Aj and I drove from Palm
Speaker 1: Springs to Vegas and then that was pretty fun, and
Speaker 1: I drove because Aj is like, I don't want to drive,
Speaker 1: like I think he was freaking out. But when you're
Speaker 1: in the car and like all the other cars are
Speaker 1: on your side, you don't even feel like you're on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of the road.
Speaker 2: No, but it's not the wrong side of the road vibes.
Speaker 2: The thing that gets me is you don't know the rules.
Speaker 2: So for example, with certain signs or certain stop signs
Speaker 2: or certain traffic lights, but they're not marked. You can
Speaker 2: just turn. You can turn if you know here we
Speaker 2: have like left turn permitted on red yeah, if safe
Speaker 2: to if there's no cars coming, it's that, but it's not.
Speaker 1: Marked as I didn't get any of those.
Speaker 2: So I remember when my dad was driving in America
Speaker 2: and everyone was kept beeping him and then it wasn't
Speaker 2: until someone was in front of us that we saw
Speaker 2: them go on a red light and we were like,
Speaker 2: get any of that. So it's all those things that
Speaker 2: that's what stresses me out. It's not so much that
Speaker 2: it's on the opposite.
Speaker 1: When you're on the opposite side of the car and
Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the road, you don't feel
Speaker 1: like I didn't feel anything different. The only thing where
Speaker 1: you feel weird is when you're like turning at a
Speaker 1: set of lights, and like you go to go where
Speaker 1: you would be at home, but you've got to go
Speaker 1: out and around like to get to the I don't know.
Speaker 1: That was the only bit that threw me off. But
Speaker 1: then also in America, because they obviously drive on the
Speaker 1: other side of the road, they walk on the other
Speaker 1: side of the foot part, and we're so used to
Speaker 1: going left, Like when you're walking towards someone and you're
Speaker 1: on the foot path, you go left. They go left,
Speaker 1: but in America they go right.
Speaker 2: So my thing is, though, did you find that people
Speaker 2: didn't take any fucking notice of that? Because it was
Speaker 2: pissing me off. So I was very diligent with the
Speaker 2: walking on the right side. I'm very much. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: such a like. I don't know why. I actually don't
Speaker 2: know why, because it wasn't even like a big thing
Speaker 2: in my upbringing. You'd think it was like drilled into me.
Speaker 2: But for some reason, walking on the left hand side
Speaker 2: here in Australia, even if I'm on an escalator, I'm
Speaker 2: up against the left so that people can overtake me.
Speaker 1: That was we do over there, Like the escalators are
Speaker 1: on the right and you don't realize how used to
Speaker 1: it we are at home, but you go to go
Speaker 1: to the left, and so we would go to go
Speaker 1: to the left and it's the down.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, that's what you're saying, so you know, okay, yes,
Speaker 2: so true. So because that made no sense to me
Speaker 2: at first, but I've just realized.
Speaker 1: The escalators are literally switch.
Speaker 2: Yes, so obviously when we're going in Australia up and escalator,
Speaker 2: it's on the left side, but it's flipped the leftie.
Speaker 2: The left one is down.
Speaker 1: Why does it have to be flipped?
Speaker 2: Well, because that's the side that they do everything all
Speaker 2: over there. But the point is I've gotten home and
Speaker 2: I'm I'm stuck in the right side, and I keep
Speaker 2: because in Australia we really abide by that law. I feel,
Speaker 2: not law, but you know what I mean, like the
Speaker 2: unwritten law. Yes, Like I feel like in Australia everyone
Speaker 2: knows how to walk on the football path properly. In America.
Speaker 2: I was making sure I was sticking to the right side,
Speaker 2: and I just feel like no one else gave the shit.
Speaker 2: I had people coming directly at me the whole time.
Speaker 1: Everyone there was a tourist, So I did consider that.
Speaker 2: But what I have learned is I feel you can
Speaker 2: just look at someone and know they're American.
Speaker 1: Right? What?
Speaker 2: Why are we? Why are we laughing at that team?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: You? Could you?
Speaker 2: Sorry? I can I just look at someone and go American.
Speaker 1: I can tell the same way that you can look
Speaker 1: at someone and be like, you're from Australia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because remember we'd even that while we're over there,
Speaker 2: We're like, oh, is that a couple?
Speaker 1: Ossy and I remember when I was in China, like
Speaker 1: a few weeks before. I was in the hotel lobby
Speaker 1: and this guy walked in with no shoes and boardies
Speaker 1: and a T shirt and I'm like, he's Ozzy yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I heard him.
Speaker 2: Talk and he was, yeah, you know what's funny is
Speaker 2: in when we were in Airwon that last day, we
Speaker 2: were in an aisle and this guy walked into the
Speaker 2: aisle and I looked at him and in my brain
Speaker 2: I went, that's a fucking aussy. He didn't speak, he
Speaker 2: didn't do anything that was aussy. There was that. I
Speaker 2: just looked at him, and when that's an Australian man.
Speaker 2: The strangest thing happened. I get a DM later that
Speaker 2: day from a guy saying because I had posted I
Speaker 2: was at Airwon and he messaged me and said, we're
Speaker 2: doing the exact same trip at the exact same time.
Speaker 2: It's spinning me out. And I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: so funny. And I looked at his profile picture and
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second. I clicked on his profile.
Speaker 2: I think it was on private, but I was able to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, make his profile picture bigger. It was the
Speaker 2: guy I saw in air on. So I messaged him
Speaker 2: and was like, I saw you in air on today.
Speaker 2: I remember you were in Australia.
Speaker 1: It was the same guy that I saw at Sydney
Speaker 1: Airport when I landed.
Speaker 2: That'd be crazy. I'll find the DM and see it was.
Speaker 2: But anyway, he didn't. He didn't see me an air one, okay,
Speaker 2: like he didn't. That didn't prompt him to message me.
Speaker 2: He didn't even see us. He didn't know I was
Speaker 2: there until later and I posted on my story like
Speaker 2: that was so weird, but it's so funny the.
Speaker 1: Same guy, because I was standing at the airport trying it, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, my rant of the week this mini
Speaker 1: I'll just end this episode with a rant of the
Speaker 1: week Sydney Airport. I hired a car because AJ had
Speaker 1: driven my car home from the airport, so I hired
Speaker 1: it one way rental. So I landed at the International terminal.
Speaker 1: And you know how usually the higher cars are just
Speaker 1: out there in the car park like in the like
Speaker 1: in the underground car park area. Not at Sydney International.
Speaker 1: They are all the way over at the domestic side.
Speaker 1: They're not just there, like you don't just walk out
Speaker 1: and walk in to hire your car. So then I landed,
Speaker 1: got my bags and then for any of you that knows,
Speaker 1: Sydney International Uber area is absolutely like a nightmare, like
Speaker 1: there's a long snake line for the uber x or
Speaker 1: if you want to order something better anyway, hang on a.
Speaker 2: Second, what the bloody heck are you going on about?
Speaker 2: I think you landed at an awful time, because my.
Speaker 1: I must have my mind was seamless, No, mine was chaos.
Speaker 2: Did you do uber X or the other one the
Speaker 2: other one Okay, so I did the other one. It
Speaker 2: wasn't good. I then went to uber X. So uber
Speaker 2: X doesn't assign you a driver.
Speaker 1: The driver yeah, which I was short, but the line,
Speaker 1: the snake line was full, so I was like, I
Speaker 1: go fucking lining up there. So I'm trying to book
Speaker 1: like an Uber Comfort or Uber Premium whatever, and they're
Speaker 1: all over in like you know how they wait in
Speaker 1: the other car path. Yeah, like they go wait until
Speaker 1: they get a signed and blah blah blah. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to book it. And then i'd book it and
Speaker 1: get a driver, but then they'd cancel because my trip
Speaker 1: was so short, and so I'm like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: am I supposed to do here? So I'm messaging them like,
Speaker 1: please don't cancel. I have no other way to get
Speaker 1: to the other side taxi. That line was fucked as well.
Speaker 2: A really awful time anyway, because I.
Speaker 1: Got up that you have to pick up the car
Speaker 1: at the other side of the airport. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 1: no like true, there's no shuttle bus or anything to
Speaker 1: get you to the car rental spot.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. I reckon. I got off my plane
Speaker 2: and was in my Uber within about twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: No, I was there for an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: Crazy, Yeah, and I just got my Uber. I did
Speaker 2: the comfort first or whatever it was. And then because
Speaker 2: usually you have a bit more luck with those at airports,
Speaker 2: I find and there.
Speaker 1: Must be a new thing, the uber x thing where
Speaker 1: you don't book and there's like staff there from Uber
Speaker 1: and they like tell you where to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Melbourne does it really well too in Melbourne and
Speaker 2: gone Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've got that zone or the zones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go to the zone, you know what. Lax
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 2: They have a huge car park and everyone goes there.
Speaker 2: First of all, we had to get on a shot
Speaker 2: of us from our terminal to this big car park. Huge,
Speaker 2: and then it's like row twenty one abcd EF, you know,
Speaker 2: row twenty two, twenty three, and so we book an
Speaker 2: Uber and then it says, oh sorry, no we select.
Speaker 2: So it said where would you like to be picked
Speaker 2: up from? And then we say twenty three G And
Speaker 2: then we just walked to twenty three G and the
Speaker 2: car comes there and it won't allow like there's just
Speaker 2: random numbers because it won't allow you to book one
Speaker 2: that someone else has booked. Yeah, so just so seamless.
Speaker 2: As I said, some things they do in that country,
Speaker 2: I think this is genius, and other things I go,
Speaker 2: what the bloody fucking heck is going on in here?
Speaker 1: To that? I love anyway, See you next Tuesday,