1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Kida, thanks for downloading the show. It's actually here. We're 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: back with more ideas for twenty twenty five, working our 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: way through twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five. On 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: the way, I mean, you know me, there's going to 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: be stuff about bicycles. There's going to be stuff about 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: anonymity on the internet, stuff about using marginalized people to 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: win elections, and possibly even a way to save the 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: punishment of yet another boring workplace onboarding video, which is 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: exactly the same as the last one. Stick with us. 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: We'll be back after the break. Kido, thanks for listening 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: to the show. This is better than yesterday. I'm making 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: a better every single episode since twenty thirteen. Minams Osha Gainsburg. 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm very grateful you're here. On Mondays, it's usually just 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: me by myself. On Wednesdays, we've got a guest, and 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: currently we're working through the twenty five ideas for twenty 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: twenty five. This started as twenty ideas for twenty twenty 17 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: and it has kind of balloarned out from there because 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: look for me painting out possibility, that's just a better 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: way to get people on board, and it helps bring 20 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: people across ideological lines together for me a lot more. 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: And there's an election coming, and certainly with one of 22 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: the people who's running at least who's really going for 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: division and really going for kicking marginalized people as a 24 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: way to get votes, I just figured I wouldn't mind 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: putting a couple of ideas out in the world that 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: sound a little along the lines of the kind of 27 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 1: thing I would like to hear in an election campaign, 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: because I love this country so much and I just 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: want this country to be as good as it can 30 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: be for all of us. So let's begin. We're up 31 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: to idea number sixteen, twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five. 32 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: Idea number sixteen. No anonymous Internet accounts. I don't know 33 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: what is happening over in Facebook and x Land. Couple 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: of tech bros who are just like, no, free speech 35 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: is awesome, dude, great, you do you boot taking any 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: kind of kind of content filtering out or departments looking 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: out for poor content. That sort of thing bad time. 38 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: In Australia, we could pass a law that says, right, 39 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: if you're going to publish and have that post be 40 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: shown here in Australia, it has to be a verified 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: human being. At the other end of the count, any 42 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: other thing that comes from an anonymous acount, well we 43 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: just don't show it. Just don't show it. So you 44 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: can have your Instagram or yell, you know, WhatsApp or 45 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: your x or whatever, but it will only be published 46 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: and legal to publish in Australia if it is verifiably 47 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: being able to trace back to a human being. You 48 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: can have a different name and a different photo if 49 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: you want to be kind of out there. But it's 50 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: on you, you know, because you can define people and 51 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: you can say horrible shit, you can say really racist shit, 52 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: you can say awful stuff. Then you retweet and amplify 53 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: lives and all this kind of stuff. But if it's 54 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: link back to a phone number or a credit card, 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: there's a way that because you can break the law. 56 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: You can totally break the law by publishing and saying 57 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: things online that are untraceable back to a human being. 58 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: That is not okay. We wouldn't allow any other company 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: to be able to do that. You can't do that 60 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: in the newspaper. I can't do that on the radio. 61 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: Why can we do that on this platform or these platforms? 62 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: I don't want to restrict your speech. But I'm also 63 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to restrict the consequence, and right now 64 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: we're restricting the consequence for speech or ideas or disinformation 65 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: or whatever. But that I think would be a pretty 66 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: easy way to really ramp down some of the really 67 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: intense rhetoric we're seeing online, which really makes my head hurt. 68 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: So next idea ID number seventeen twenty five. Ideas for 69 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. You get a discount on your car 70 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: registration if you can show that you commuted to work 71 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: by bicycle by walking a certain number of times per year. 72 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: I am currently on a bit of a trip of 73 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: commuting by bicycle everywhere I go. I have a driver's license, 74 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: I have a car, I have a motorcycle. However, riding 75 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: my bicycle to and from work every day at the 76 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: moment is so much better than driving. Because what's brilliant 77 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: In the words of the fantastic rowing megastar Sam Locke, 78 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: he wrote a fantastic book. I believe it's called Lots 79 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: of What's Sam has this great line, it's a good 80 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: thing your waterproof, because yeah, it's been raining in Sydney, yeps. 81 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm waterproof. I get out there on the bicycle, 82 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: I ride to work, have a change of clothes in 83 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: the bag. But I being but a boom. I'm at work. 84 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: It's fine, and it's less cars on the road. It 85 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: makes me feel better. I'm fitter, I can eat a 86 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: lot easier. I don't have to worry about looking at 87 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,679 Speaker 1: what I'm eating. I sleep better, my body feels better. 88 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: I see my city and brilliantly I have a spacer 89 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: between home and work and work and home, which is 90 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: really really good. But if you're able to show, say, 91 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: for example, your car rego or something like that. You know, 92 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: if you know someone who's got a historic car, they 93 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: pay less insurance on their car. It could be insurance 94 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: if you want. They pay less insurance on their car 95 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: because they have an agreement they only drive it, say 96 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: twenty times a year, all right, if they have some 97 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: sort of nineteen forty hot RN thing. They only take 98 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: it out, you know, a couple of Sundays in the summertime, 99 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: and once to the big show down at summer aunts 100 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: or whatever, and that's it. So because they don't drive 101 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: it that often, they don't get charged so much insurance 102 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: because there's less risky that's on the road less. So similarly, 103 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: if you can show I'm commuting via bicycle or walking 104 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: under my own power, you're taking pressure off public transport systems, 105 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: you're getting yourself out and about, you're feeling better healthily, 106 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: and you're getting a discount, which is a pretty pretty 107 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: pretty good twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five Idea 108 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: number eighteen. No more governmental policies or ads that use 109 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: marginalized people as leverage. We've really got to remove the 110 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: social contract that says it's okay to do that shit. Look, 111 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: I like national security, I'm all for a strong border, 112 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: I'm all for a fair sporting competition, and I really 113 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 1: want to make sure that my money, my government money 114 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: that I contribute to, is spent in the best way possible. 115 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: So while a person in our country might and indeed 116 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: has got elected by saying I'm going to stop the 117 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: boats or calling people who are seeking refuge in our 118 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: country illegals or que jumpers, if they do that, unfortunately, 119 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: what they can do is really denigrate all people who 120 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: fit that description within our community, some of whom may 121 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: visually appear as if they have emigrated recently, but their 122 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: families have been here since the early eighteen hundreds. That's 123 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: not okay. Fair sporting competition is of great value to 124 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: us as a community. It brings us together, It helps 125 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: us grow through healthy struggle and the spirit of competition 126 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: and the spirit of playing by the rules. When it's unfair, 127 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: it sucks, and nobody wants to watch an unfair game. 128 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: Making sport fair for everyone is something that can happen, 129 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: and it can happen without throwing the incredibly vulnerable young 130 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: people who are legitimately struggling with their sexual and the 131 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: end of the bus by vilifying them for the sake 132 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: of a couple of votes or selling a couple of papers. 133 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: These kids are twenty times more likely to die by suicide, 134 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: as it is their children who are loved by their parents, 135 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: loved by their siblings, loved by their friends. We can 136 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: surely find a way to make things like sporting competition 137 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: fair without screaming from the rooftops that these incredibly vulnerable 138 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: children are bad and deserve everything that's coming to them. 139 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: There's got to be a way to do that. Similarly, 140 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: when it comes time to find out where my tax 141 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: dollars go, I want to be sure that money isn't wasted. 142 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: But I'm pretty certain we can find more effective ways 143 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: to deliver help and intervention programs, for example, to indigenous 144 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: communities that are in desperate need of help. We can 145 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: do that without painting an entire portion of our community 146 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: in a terrible light. All right. However, the messaging around 147 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: policies that change the way those dollars are spent often 148 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: do paint an entireest way of our community hundreds of 149 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: thousands of people with the same brush, and that is 150 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: not okay. It's just not okay. So we're going to 151 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: have to get rid of that in twenty twenty five. 152 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,559 Speaker 1: It's a wish, it's a dream. It's not going to happen, 153 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: but it'd be nice. We need to take a break. 154 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm back with the last two ideas in just a sec. 155 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: All right. This is twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five. 156 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: By the way, I do have two tickets to give 157 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: away to Story Club on February the ninth at the 158 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: Factory Theater. If you're in Sydney, stick around all give 159 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: you the details of that. So twenty five of the 160 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: years of twenty twenty five. Idea number nineteen, like a 161 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: Blue Working with Children card, which transfers across jobs. Once 162 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: in Australia, if you're working with children, you get what's 163 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: called a blue card. It involves police checks and you know, 164 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: some onboarding things. But once you've got it, you've got it, 165 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: Like like an rsa responsible service of alcohol. Once you've 166 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: proven that you've done it and you've done the course, 167 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: you can work in any pub you want, and you 168 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: know you keep your training. You can do it. So 169 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: similarly like that, once people have completed their workplace induction, 170 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: if they pick up another gig within I don't know, 171 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: let's say two years, and there hasn't been significant changes 172 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: in laws or safety standards that onboarding should be transferable. 173 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: Sitting around I'm a freelancer, My wife's a freelancer, sitting 174 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: around for hours at a time, watching video after video 175 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: that you can on fast forward through because they time 176 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: it and make sure you're not cheating or making sure 177 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: you're actually paying attention. Going. This is Barry. Barry is 178 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: the boss of Jenny and Jennifer, which is an okay 179 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: thing for Barry to say if he's dissatisfied with Jenny 180 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: or Jennifer's work, you stupid woman, What have you done? 181 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: You know what, Let's have another run of that. How 182 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: about you and me go and speak to our supervisor. 183 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure we can find a better way to do this. 184 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: If you went to B or C, you can move 185 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: on to the next module. Like you sit there for 186 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: an hour doing this shit. Now, there's national safety standards 187 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: around fire escapes, sam health and first aid and mental 188 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: health and being a decent person that extend across organizations. 189 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: Do it once you're good. There might be something so specific. 190 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. If you're going to smoke, do 191 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: it out there on the left by the wheelibins. All right, 192 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: while you're out there, don't say horrible shit about Jaron. 193 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: But you've already covered that, all right, that's fine. Don't 194 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: let me sit through another video. Oh my god, I 195 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: can't fast forward without clicking on the lady who said 196 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: anything but the really fuckwity thing that is the correct answer. 197 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: It's such a waste of time if you can prove 198 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: that you are, because most of this stuff is just 199 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: literally to be compliant, compliant with current rules and regulations 200 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: and laws in Australia, so it's all the same shit. 201 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: Also would save companies, so much money because each company 202 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: has to make their own freaking video. My goodness, blue 203 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: card is working with children. I don't know. Let's say, 204 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 1: have you got your purple card? Which purple card it means, 205 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: I'm not a fuck with great? If you've got them 206 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: not a fuck with card, then you don't have to 207 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: do any more onboarding. Right you are come this way. 208 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: We're happy to have twenty five ideas for twenty twenty five. 209 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 1: Idea number twenty make a fair go for Australian musicians 210 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: and Australian artists. Look, as a country, we don't really 211 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: do a great job of it sometimes, but it is 212 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: incredibly important that there are artists who are able to 213 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: tell the stories of our time through art. But what 214 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: is art? What is any art? Any art is storytelling. 215 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: It's communicating message of feeling. Sometimes it's its words, like 216 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: in a poem or a play or a film. Sometimes 217 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: it's with music or visual art. It could be with movement. 218 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: It could be a combination of any or all of 219 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: the above. It could be an object. There was a 220 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: time when Australian musicians could earn enough money to look 221 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: after themselves and their families. The drama from Australian crawl 222 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: bought a house all right. I don't know if he 223 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: wrote any of the songs, but he he made enough 224 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: money doing that job that he was able to look 225 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: over for his family. There was a time when that 226 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: could happen, and with that money they bought themselves time, 227 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: time that it takes to write great songs, to get 228 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: really great at their instruments, to get great at performing 229 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: those songs, so that when it came time to bring 230 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: us as a community together, as we join in with 231 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: the chorus of these days with Powderfinger or your Mama 232 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: by Butterfingers, I'm on a Brisbane finger based band trip 233 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: there you go. Didn't realize it was going to happen, 234 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: but I did. Whatever. It is a song that tells 235 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: what it was particularly like to be in Australia at 236 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: that time. When it comes time for that, it's bloody 237 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: good and we all know the words. It's not a 238 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: half bake three chord jingle that sounds like it's been 239 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: written by a primary school music teacher on lunch break, 240 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: and perform that assembly and you know the songs I'm 241 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: talking about. As the recorded performance of music no longer 242 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,599 Speaker 1: provides an income for artists. It's terrible what's happened with 243 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: things like music streaming for musicians. Musicians need to hold 244 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: down other jobs to make ends meet. But for every 245 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: hour they're spending at JB Hi Fi trying to earn 246 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: a crust, they're hours not sitting around writing songs that 247 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: aren't great so they can get better and better and better. 248 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: So eventually they write flame Trees and we go, oh, yeah, 249 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: there it is. That's the song that feels like nineteen 250 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: eighty two in Australia. Now, if we don't have someone 251 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: singing the songs of our people to paint the feelings 252 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: of our time, to show through a movement or color 253 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 1: or photography or performance, what it is that we're all 254 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: experiencing and living with our stories, well, our stories end 255 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 1: up being echoes of American stories, sometimes British stories, mostly 256 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: American stories, American songs, American pictures, American films, American plays. 257 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: The first idea that I have, there's more, because they've 258 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: got another one that's coming next week. The first idea 259 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 1: that I have to support Australian artists would be create 260 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: an artist's residence in the center of every major capital city, 261 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: which provides subsidized rental accommodation at about a third of 262 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: the market rate, and in that building there are rehearsal spaces, 263 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: performance spaces, studios. This is not a new idea. There's 264 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: a famously successful artist residence in New York City where 265 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: people like Laurence Fishburne or Robert de Niro lived for 266 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: a time. It is run as a nonprofit and applications 267 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: for residency are decided by a committee who assess a 268 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: previous body of work, whether you'd be a painter or 269 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: an artist, or a playwriter or a director, or a filmmaker, 270 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: or an opera singer or a piano player or whatever. 271 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: They assess your body of work and the ongoing income 272 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: that you're making from that art. So you've got to 273 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: be freaking good to get in. But they're great. You 274 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: can spend more time working on getting even better. And 275 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: also the wonderful other thing is by putting everyone under 276 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: one roof, the serendipity of creation that comes out of 277 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: that is absolutely superb. I think it was daft Punk. 278 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: Apparently they lived in an apartment block, this really famous 279 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: apartment block in Paris, and it was them and it 280 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: was eventually the guys from Stardust and Phoenix and like 281 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: they all lived in the same building. Michelle Gondry. I 282 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: think they all lived there. It was the same apartment block. 283 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: They all bloody lived there. And look what came out 284 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: of stuff like that. The serendipity of creation that comes 285 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: out of having all those people together and around is 286 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: absolutely superb. We have national sport teams. We have the Matilda's, 287 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: we have the First eleven or whatever. The Australian cricket team. 288 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: They should be called the first eleven, shouldn't they the 289 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: Australian cricket team. They give us these collective moments and 290 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: we support them. We pay them to do that, to train, 291 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: to recover, to spend time getting really good at playing 292 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: soccer or playing cricket, to give us these moments as 293 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: a community in the summer or the winter and the 294 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: season's on that we can connect on. Think of this 295 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: as the Wallabies of the soccer rules or something. But 296 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: for the arts. Now, if you get goosebumps when you 297 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: hear I don't know a nose bled section by hiltop 298 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: hoods or am we eving going to see your face again? 299 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: By the angels you're hearing, what can happen when we 300 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: have artists whose job it is to give us the 301 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: same song to sing, and if we have the same 302 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: song to sing, we feel less different from each other. 303 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: If we feel less different from each other, whether less 304 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: angry at each other, but less likely to dehumanize and 305 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: denigrate other people who are strangers to us, because oh yeah, 306 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: I know that one. No way, get fucked fuck off. 307 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: That's chorus for a song. I just know anyway. That's 308 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: idea number twenty. I'll be back with the last five 309 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: next week. If you like what you heard, tell a friend, 310 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: and if you'd like to get a free double pass 311 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: to see Story Club on February nine of the Factory Theater. 312 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: Two conditions. One, you have to be in Sydney. Show 313 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: is six thirty at the Factory Theater in Marrickville. Shoot 314 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: me a messager on the substack. 'll put the link 315 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: in the show notes. Shoot me a message on the 316 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: substack with your favorite idea so far and why all right, 317 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: and I'll pick a winner at random from the messages 318 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: that come in. But you have to be in Sydney. 319 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: You can't go oh great, love a God, I'm in 320 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: path great. But you've got to be in Sydney, so 321 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: if you want two tickets, and the lineup is fantastic. 322 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: It's Rob Carlton, Ato Ferrera, Mark Sutton, Zoey Norton, Lodge, 323 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: Sean and Makayliff and me so two Gold Logi losers 324 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: and one Logi winner, Rob Carlton one for being Kerry 325 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: Packer in Paper Tigers. He's incredible storyteller and it's a 326 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: very fun show. It's super rad. I'd love to have you, 327 00:16:54,120 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening, and I'll see you Wednesday.