Speaker 1: I'll get a term. It's a you project. It's Patrick
Speaker 1: James and Tiffany Anne and Craig Anthony. It's your favorite
Speaker 1: podcast in the world. You're welcome and here we are
Speaker 1: for free. Fuck it, We're not going to charge you
Speaker 1: this time. You're welcome. The giggling Gerdy as my mum
Speaker 1: would call her, giggling Gerdy. Up in the top left
Speaker 1: corner on my screen is Tiffany Ann Cook, who doesn't
Speaker 1: have any typ representation behind her as usual, which is
Speaker 1: fucking shit. Hi, TIV, Well, she's on the U Project
Speaker 1: being paid by the U Project. No U Project paraphernal.
Speaker 1: You're behind her?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: When it's time to do our Patrick recordings, I get
Speaker 3: this sensation that I used to get when I was
Speaker 3: going on a sleep over with my friends when I
Speaker 3: was in primary school.
Speaker 1: Fucking hell, could you expand on that a bit?
Speaker 3: You know, it's just feel like, you know, I've packed
Speaker 3: in my sleeping bag and we're about to get up
Speaker 3: to mischief. When I used to do that, or used
Speaker 3: to me and my friend we had she had this
Speaker 3: massive staircase that went down from the attic. It was
Speaker 3: carpet and we used to get our sleeping bags and
Speaker 3: make a sled out of it and go on our
Speaker 3: knees and slide down. And we used to get in
Speaker 3: trouble so much. And that's how I feel. I feel
Speaker 3: like you're my new that friend.
Speaker 1: Well, we can just slide down Patrick's METAPHORICX staircase. I
Speaker 1: might let you two go first, because my knees might
Speaker 1: not fucking cope.
Speaker 2: Not I'm Patrick, but on my staircase it's a wooden
Speaker 2: with sharp edges. You would end up with no knees,
Speaker 2: raw timber, no cup in sight.
Speaker 1: As life up in the sticks, up in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: How is it up there?
Speaker 2: It's so windy that it would blow the milk out
Speaker 2: of your coffee.
Speaker 4: It has been blowing a treat.
Speaker 2: I had cuting put on the side of my garage
Speaker 2: as my big mega rebuild because I'm setting up my
Speaker 2: Thai cheese studio and a little podcasting area.
Speaker 4: And insulation was there waiting for the cladding.
Speaker 2: And then suddenly get up by morning and there's insulation
Speaker 2: all over my neighborhood. It's just blown away. It's got
Speaker 2: in and under the noggins and everything. Because they put
Speaker 2: it in, they pack it in pretty tight. You know,
Speaker 2: they don't justly fit it, they make it snug. Well not,
Speaker 2: that's because it's everywhere and now everybody's sharing my insulation.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about the etymology of the word
Speaker 1: noggin because it also it's a colloquialism for head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did that come to be?
Speaker 4: No, you know that's funny.
Speaker 2: The builders were doing their work at one point and
Speaker 2: they had to go in there for some reason, and
Speaker 2: we got talking about building, and then I showed them
Speaker 2: my hands, and I said, this is the hands of
Speaker 2: somebody who thinks manual labor as a Mexican unionist, because
Speaker 2: I've done these hands except type on a keyboard and
Speaker 2: hold the mouse.
Speaker 1: Well, you and me, You and me both, mate. I
Speaker 1: mean I've got the hands like a fucking surgeon. That's
Speaker 1: why God invented trades people people who are who are better. No,
Speaker 1: I mean they're smart, they're like the crab is. The
Speaker 1: crab is super handy. Like I always say, if you're
Speaker 1: ever going to get stuck on an island or lost
Speaker 1: in the wilderness, do it with a crab because he
Speaker 1: will build you a house by lunchtime, and I will
Speaker 1: probably kill you and eat you. So you know, just
Speaker 1: pick your friends.
Speaker 3: Choose I'd have to choose two people that I would
Speaker 3: have to choose you to make sure that the crab
Speaker 3: stays alive. Hahaps the lifeline, perhaps the lifeline.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, you did the whole life,
Speaker 4: didn't you?
Speaker 1: Who are you? You know? You know in American culture
Speaker 1: they talk about a little bit, they have this this
Speaker 1: when they're talking about friends, they say my ride or die.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that term? Like Patrick's might
Speaker 1: ride or die? And it just means like, if I
Speaker 1: ever need anyone, he's my guy or she's my girl. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like, if I have to go to war, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Patrick. Now, who's your person? Patrick? Who's your ride
Speaker 1: or die? Other than us two? Which are obvious choices
Speaker 1: one and two? Me one tif two? Of course, who's
Speaker 1: your right or die?
Speaker 5: That person that because I love this idea of someone
Speaker 5: that it wouldn't matter if your life was going great
Speaker 5: or shit, that you could ring them and you know
Speaker 5: that it doesn't matter what's in.
Speaker 1: It for them, there's nothing in it for them. They're
Speaker 1: going to show up.
Speaker 2: I've got a good maid of mine who actually is
Speaker 2: now in Europe and landed this morning and was just
Speaker 2: texting me at the baggage carry a place because Edie's
Speaker 2: girlfriend are there, and I think Tom's got me at
Speaker 2: I hit a kangaroo just maybe three months after buying
Speaker 2: the first brand new carb ever board. Well, Thomas, you
Speaker 2: can ring at two am in the morning and he
Speaker 2: will come out with his four wheel drive and rescue you.
Speaker 4: So he's a go to guy. But I've got to
Speaker 4: say this.
Speaker 2: A friend of mine, her husband is the most practical person.
Speaker 4: I think a bit like the crab.
Speaker 2: He told me once he was out in the middle
Speaker 2: of the bush, got a flat tire and no problem,
Speaker 2: changes the flat, then got another flat tire. Do you
Speaker 2: know how he keeps driving? He put grass inside it.
Speaker 2: He just stuffed it inside the tire. You know you
Speaker 2: get the outer, harder layer and hump up bit. Well,
Speaker 2: he just shoved it full of grass and he was
Speaker 2: able to drive on it. Who would think of doing that?
Speaker 1: Not me? I would have been dead and the animals
Speaker 1: would have been feasting on my rotting carcass by lunchtime
Speaker 1: the next day. Who's your right or die? Tif that
Speaker 1: you'll go to You're in the middle of any situation
Speaker 1: they're the person for you that you could rely on.
Speaker 3: Late Corney Devine. She lives in Perth now, but oh
Speaker 3: my god, luck she it would be capable of doing
Speaker 3: absolutely anything anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a Swiss Army knife of humans.
Speaker 1: There's this movie with Ben Affleck I think it's called
Speaker 1: The Town Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, and there's this
Speaker 1: scene in it where Ben Affleck walks into this room
Speaker 1: and Jeremy Renner is sitting in a chair. I think
Speaker 1: they're either brothers or best mates, and Ben Affleck says
Speaker 1: something like, Okay, I need you. We've got to go.
Speaker 1: We've got to hurt some people. We've got to hurt
Speaker 1: some people. It won't be pretty and we can never
Speaker 1: talk about it ever again. And Jeremy Renner goes, whose
Speaker 1: car are we taking? I'm like, I love that. I'm
Speaker 1: not one for violence, but I just love that scene.
Speaker 1: All right, mate, let's talk about let's talk about the
Speaker 1: stuff that you're here for. What do you want to
Speaker 1: enlighten us with today?
Speaker 2: I need to ask you all to remove your phones
Speaker 2: from the room. Can you just take them out and
Speaker 2: hide them somewhere out of earshot? This is really important.
Speaker 2: Because we don't want anybody listening to what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: I'll wait a minute, run, don't we I.
Speaker 1: Was actually about to walk out and put my phone
Speaker 1: out on the fucking stairs.
Speaker 4: I saw you're reaching for it.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm holding it. I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2: Well, we've all been in this situation where we've been
Speaker 2: with people and they've said, oh, I was using my phone.
Speaker 2: I was talking to people the other day, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, when I got onto my phone, ads
Speaker 2: start serving up on things we were talking about. I've
Speaker 2: never searched for them before, but I'm talking about cladding.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I'm getting ads for cladding. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about a new car, Suddenly ads for new cars.
Speaker 2: Now it's you know, it wasn't an urban myth. Have
Speaker 2: you had that happen to you before, Suddenly ads coming up? Well,
Speaker 2: evidently this is a one of Facebook's major partners. So
Speaker 2: an advertising agency has report admitted that they actually listen
Speaker 2: to people and spy on their conversations through smartphones, and
Speaker 2: they curate ads based on the conversations. Now, this is
Speaker 2: it's not just a random kind of article that was published.
Speaker 2: And the thing is that when you think about it,
Speaker 2: when you give access to an app on your phone,
Speaker 2: you have the option to say, give access to my
Speaker 2: photos and microphones while I'm using the phone.
Speaker 4: You know, when you give permission.
Speaker 2: So technically, yes, if you've given permission to Facebook and
Speaker 2: Instagram to access your microphone and photos, then that's what
Speaker 2: the go is. But this is a new report. It's
Speaker 2: from an organization called four oho four Media and they reckon.
Speaker 2: They've got a hold of documents that were leaked to
Speaker 2: them and one of their reporters, and it's called active
Speaker 2: Listening and it's software that uses they know AI.
Speaker 4: We talk about AI all the time, but it captures.
Speaker 2: Real time what they call intent data by listening to conversations.
Speaker 2: This is a frightening thought. I mean, I don't actually
Speaker 2: have Facebook on my phone. I do have Insta though,
Speaker 2: so potentially they still could be listening. But isn't that
Speaker 2: a really frightening prospect that your phones could be spying
Speaker 2: on you?
Speaker 1: Well? Think about also yet, one fucking yes, Patrick, Two, Like,
Speaker 1: how many of us read the terms and terms of agreement?
Speaker 1: Like when it's like I buy a new app, right
Speaker 1: and there's seventy two pages of like agree tick next,
Speaker 1: like you don't know what you just agreed to. I'd
Speaker 1: love the There's probably no actual real data on how
Speaker 1: many people read that shit go through it, and even
Speaker 1: if you did read it, how much would you totally understand?
Speaker 1: But I guess we are unwittingly be becoming accomplices in
Speaker 1: they're endeavors to spy on us because we accept it.
Speaker 2: And we give it away for free. Because we're getting
Speaker 2: it for free. You know, use Google, it's free, we
Speaker 2: use Facebook, it's free. So all of these features and
Speaker 2: all of these big multi trillion dollar companies are giving
Speaker 2: us this stuff for free.
Speaker 4: There's got to be a payoff somewhere.
Speaker 2: So the leaked documents evidently from an organization called the
Speaker 2: Cox Media Group and the TV Radio Giant, but their
Speaker 2: clients include Facebook, Amazon, Google, so the big advertising trio
Speaker 2: going on there. So it does make you really wonder
Speaker 2: and I don't know, a bit paranoid. We should turn
Speaker 2: our phones off regularly, and that's a good thing, even
Speaker 2: from an operational perspective, that it's good to turn your
Speaker 2: phones off and on on a regular basis as well,
Speaker 2: But it's and I mean powering it down, not just
Speaker 2: turning it off and on powering. It's another way to
Speaker 2: apply all the fixes and all the software updates as well.
Speaker 4: You need to turn your phone off to do that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so there you go. Folks, room careful what
Speaker 4: you're saying.
Speaker 2: If you happen to be working for Asio, you might
Speaker 2: want to just consider getting a dumb phone, not a smartphone.
Speaker 1: Can I share an anecdote that's it's related, but it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So here's here's my story. Notice I didn't wait for
Speaker 1: permission from either from of you, but thank you. So
Speaker 1: now this is going to sound like I'm making it up,
Speaker 1: but this is true. This is absolutely hand on heart true.
Speaker 1: So not yesterday, the day before I was talking to
Speaker 1: I was on the phone talking to a friend of mine, Russ,
Speaker 1: who you both know. Russ my friend, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about the perception of value. Like one of my
Speaker 1: just little quirky fascinations is the psychology of value. How
Speaker 1: people will pay, you know, ten thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: sketch that some person did on a surveyette because that
Speaker 1: person's famous. But I could do a relatively brilliant piece
Speaker 1: of art that people wouldn't pay one hundred bucks for
Speaker 1: because I'm not an artist, you know, so that whole
Speaker 1: the psychology of oh but you know, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about this, and I said, and we're talking about like
Speaker 1: even down to so if Tiff goes and does a
Speaker 1: corporate event, So TIFF's profile and brand has grown, the
Speaker 1: perception of value around her has grown in the last
Speaker 1: few years since she's gone from not doing corporate to
Speaker 1: doing corporate. She's getting bigger and better, more well known,
Speaker 1: more in demand. So her hourly rate is going up. Now,
Speaker 1: her hourly rate might go up exponentially, like times five,
Speaker 1: while her skill goes up times two, right, which is
Speaker 1: this is normal? And I was giving this example to
Speaker 1: Russ and I said, look, imagine, imagine if Banksy. You
Speaker 1: two know who Banksy the artist is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course absolutely.
Speaker 1: If do you know who banks is, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So Patrick and a lot of our listeners do. So
Speaker 1: he's a very well known kind of street artist, and
Speaker 1: no one knows who he is. And anyway, so I said,
Speaker 1: imagine if I did a Banksye and it was it
Speaker 1: was identical, like, let's just say it was the same painting.
Speaker 1: And so Banksy did a Banksy and then I did
Speaker 1: one and it was on the same material and it
Speaker 1: was identical, and people would pay one hundred grand for
Speaker 1: Banksy's banksy, but they wouldn't pay one hundred bucks for
Speaker 1: my banksy.
Speaker 4: Right to clean it off exactly.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we're having this conversation about, you know, perception of
Speaker 1: value and what people think they're getting and what they'll
Speaker 1: pay for. So it's what they think they're getting versus
Speaker 1: what they're getting. Now, while I'm on the phone to
Speaker 1: get I can hear a chime a message, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's from the Crab. Of course, the Crab sends me
Speaker 1: fifty things a day, usually conspiracy theories. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: get off the phone and I go, this is not
Speaker 1: a fucking word of a lie. I get off my
Speaker 1: phone and the crabs sent me this thing. And it's
Speaker 1: about this dude. It's a true story. I've got the video.
Speaker 1: I can send it to both you. It's about this
Speaker 1: guy at this it's almost like a Victoria market thing
Speaker 1: where there's this market. There's this old guy and he's
Speaker 1: got this stall and he's selling in inverted Comma's original bankses. Right,
Speaker 1: so he's got about twenty Banksies and he's selling them
Speaker 1: all for like sixty bucks each, and people are coming
Speaker 1: along and like not fucking real, and they're haggling with him.
Speaker 1: They look good, but and you know, so this lady
Speaker 1: bought a couple for thirty dollars each. She bargained him down,
Speaker 1: and as it turned out, it was an experiment that
Speaker 1: himself had organized. And they were all authentic bankses, right,
Speaker 1: So all of the art was original and authentic. But
Speaker 1: because of the context, which is an old bloke at
Speaker 1: a market and he was telling everyone these are real,
Speaker 1: these are authentic, nobody believed him. Nobody would pay for them.
Speaker 1: And then this lady who happened to be I think
Speaker 1: from New Zealand, she bought the two for thirty dollars each.
Speaker 1: She sold each of those thirty dollars purchases for one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars each. Now that tells you now that
Speaker 1: that's what fucking fascinates me about the human brain, the
Speaker 1: mind perception value. What you think, You've literally got a
Speaker 1: real Banksy that you can buy for sixty dollars and
Speaker 1: you're saying no. Yet the other person who thinks that it
Speaker 1: is a real banks he might think it's a bargain
Speaker 1: for fifty thousand dollars, So fucking how amazing is that?
Speaker 1: And that was while I was on the phone to
Speaker 1: Russ talking about fraudulent banks. Is that the crab sent that?
Speaker 1: I went to the gym and I told him. He's like,
Speaker 1: that's fucking I go. I don't.
Speaker 2: I can't even explain that. That's because the crab is
Speaker 2: listening in. He's obviously got spywear on your phone and
Speaker 2: he just listens.
Speaker 1: To Obviously the crab is Facebook.
Speaker 2: Is Facebook's the metab.
Speaker 3: The crab.
Speaker 1: The crabs is about as high tech as a bowl
Speaker 1: of fruit.
Speaker 4: He's the guy.
Speaker 1: I love the crab. The crab.
Speaker 4: What he lacks in technology, he makes up for him.
Speaker 3: Personality is the crab.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Vin and the Crab.
Speaker 4: I'm lucky.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 1: I'm bin's my ride or die. The crab is. I've
Speaker 1: got a few, you know, like those guys. There's one
Speaker 1: guy that used to work for me. His name's Aaron.
Speaker 1: Get off this in a moment. He knows who he
Speaker 1: is and he's just the you remember Asa from Harper's Patrick, Aaron,
Speaker 1: you'd know him. This guy is just the most loyal,
Speaker 1: fucking hard like if you go, if I rang him
Speaker 1: and go mate, you and I go on a war.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's just like that that same bed affleck Jeremy Rana thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm lucky, I've got about I don't have
Speaker 1: heaps of friends. I reckon, I have ten good friends
Speaker 1: in the world, like really good. And then there's a
Speaker 1: big dropper. Yeah, but I'm happy with my ten.
Speaker 4: I'm wondering, we're tiff and I.
Speaker 1: You two have gone to.
Speaker 2: Drop.
Speaker 3: It's a big drop. If I'm eleven, I may as
Speaker 3: well just pack up the bag.
Speaker 1: She's adding up all my friends. Now she's going, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's Russ, there's Melissa, there's the there's been there's not
Speaker 1: many spots left.
Speaker 4: What about nine? Tip? What did you get to nine?
Speaker 1: And it's you or me? Yeah, here for this spot. Unscrewed,
Speaker 1: youre bastards. Let's keep moving forward.
Speaker 2: Talking about money and value and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: There's an interesting article I read this week about why
Speaker 2: Australians are falling victim to subscription traps. So while I
Speaker 2: was sitting waiting for the show to start, I jumped
Speaker 2: into my bank account, and I thought, how many things
Speaker 2: have I subscribed to? And I'm not talking about work
Speaker 2: related stuff. This is just social stuff. And because I
Speaker 2: watched TV or streaming, maybe I'm lucky to watch two
Speaker 2: nights a week. I'm pretty busy. I don't turn the
Speaker 2: TV on it mainly just the weekends. Or I flick
Speaker 2: through a bit of YouTube. And so I looked through
Speaker 2: my subscriptions Prime Paramount, Amazon, YouTube, Apple Plus and Order
Speaker 2: book Right seventy dollars ninety five. So seventy one bucks
Speaker 2: a month is going to services where I may use
Speaker 2: one of them all week. And the problem is, see,
Speaker 2: I've done it well. I do a bit of sharing
Speaker 2: with some friends. I'm later I shouldn't admit that, should I?
Speaker 2: But the problem is I don't want to drop off
Speaker 2: because I want Disney through one of my friends, and
Speaker 2: she supplies Disney, and my brother and sister in law
Speaker 2: provide Netflix.
Speaker 4: So we do a spot for the other services.
Speaker 2: So I feel obliged not to cancel them because other
Speaker 2: people are allying them.
Speaker 4: So other people are.
Speaker 2: Using my subscriptions and I don't use them because I
Speaker 2: want to use their subscriptions that I don't use.
Speaker 1: I think you just admitted to a I'm just writing
Speaker 1: down mine. I've got Amazon, Netflix, Stan, Apple, Audible Chat
Speaker 1: GPT four is like twenty five a month or something,
Speaker 1: and that's off. That's six off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: What about YouTube?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got the most intense spreadsheet of my life
Speaker 3: that tells me every dollar I earn. Ever, it's color
Speaker 3: coded in categories, whether it's a business subscription or a
Speaker 3: life subscription. I've got Netflix and Audible. Netflix comes on
Speaker 3: and off throughout the year. It's currently on, and the
Speaker 3: rest of my subscriptions are all under the business category.
Speaker 3: So I'm pretty good, maybe because I don't have a lie.
Speaker 3: I don't watch the Netflix, but I do this in
Speaker 3: Audible a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: You know the moment that I get rid of it,
Speaker 1: then I want to watch something and I'm like ill.
Speaker 1: Just it's like the gym membership that you're always I know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going at the moment, but I'll be going soon,
Speaker 1: you know, Jim Owners rely on that, that idea that
Speaker 1: people have that they'll be back at the gym soon.
Speaker 1: It's not today, but it'll be soon. So I'll keep
Speaker 1: paying my subscription calories.
Speaker 3: Knowing you have a subscription to the gym exactly.
Speaker 4: No gim owner wants all their members to turn up
Speaker 4: at once.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this sign out the front of Snap
Speaker 1: where I train, and it said something like it was
Speaker 1: trying to get people through the door, and it was like,
Speaker 1: thinking about getting in shape doesn't actually burn any calories
Speaker 1: or something like that, but ironically it does. Cognition is
Speaker 1: the most expensive like energy consumer. It's like twenty percent
Speaker 1: of our energy per day goes on cognitions. So the brain,
Speaker 1: which weighs about one point three kilos, think about that.
Speaker 1: That's you know, maybe one and a half percent of
Speaker 1: a typical person's weight, one and a half percent, and
Speaker 1: it uses twenty percent of our energy. That's a very
Speaker 1: expensive data processor.
Speaker 4: Certainly is certainly is Hey, Patrick.
Speaker 1: It can be less interesting. I know Patrick, since everyone
Speaker 1: let me describe Patrick. Everyone. He's got his hands behind
Speaker 1: his head with his eyes glazed. He's reading something, and
Speaker 1: then he comes in. I didn't he didn't pay attention to.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that I need to exercise more because
Speaker 2: to make up for the less brain work.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is funny.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking people like this.
Speaker 1: People like this show. I wonder why it's so fucking
Speaker 1: people go, oh you Tiff and Patrick, that's the favorite.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why not.
Speaker 4: Using any calories listening? Are they?
Speaker 1: No? No? Sorry mate, go ahead.
Speaker 2: So I was getting back to the subscriptions, and I
Speaker 2: just it made me realize that if you're really canny
Speaker 2: about this, because I've got a friend of mine, what
Speaker 2: they do is they drop in and drop out and
Speaker 2: they binge, so they'll drop out of the membership, they'll
Speaker 2: sign up again, get a free month or a free fortnight,
Speaker 2: binge for that fortnight, and then turn it off and
Speaker 2: they pay nothing and here am I and here are
Speaker 2: we or forking out like you know, one hundred bucks
Speaker 2: a month. But I think you need to be a
Speaker 2: bit smarter, I guess about those subscriptions because it can
Speaker 2: bite you in the pocket. And while everyone's trying to
Speaker 2: tighten the belt a little bit, I thought it was
Speaker 2: a really good idea to maybe have a bit of
Speaker 2: a look, set up a spreadsheet. So I did a spreadsheet.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty proud of myself. TIF you'd be proud of me.
Speaker 2: It's color coated as well. The line figure is in
Speaker 2: green with red letters, So there you go. That stands out.
Speaker 1: What's the one thing that each of you knowingly waste
Speaker 1: money on. And by waste money, I just mean spend
Speaker 1: money on something that it maybe it gives you joy,
Speaker 1: but you don't need it. It's like, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the like? For me? Clearly it's fucking motorbikes, right, I
Speaker 1: just have historically waste wasted stupid money on things I
Speaker 1: often don't ride. What about you, TIF, what's your what's
Speaker 1: your number one money wasted?
Speaker 3: I'd say, well, that motorbike I bought hits the list.
Speaker 3: But aside from that, I do like to eat out.
Speaker 3: So when I eat out, like breakfast in that I
Speaker 3: don't go for the cheapest just to be you know,
Speaker 3: because I love eating. I think I've always invested in
Speaker 3: eating out.
Speaker 1: I love it. Well, that's that's not a waste though,
Speaker 1: because it gives you joy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's always with people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think that's a good investment. What about you, Patrick.
Speaker 2: James, I'm a bit of a sucker for gadgets, you know,
Speaker 2: tooth cleaning stuff.
Speaker 3: That's on the list.
Speaker 2: Just for those people who don't remember, I talk tip
Speaker 2: into buying the Miracle Bloody teeth whitening cleaning thirty seconds
Speaker 2: the top and bottom.
Speaker 4: And it was shit, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate only sixty bucks.
Speaker 2: Actually I might only cost me thirty bucks. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a sucker for gadgets. I love gadgets.
Speaker 2: But the other thing that's I feel really funny admitting this.
Speaker 2: I bought a fountain pen in Europe for a thousand.
Speaker 2: In your ows, it's not yeah, yeah, that's fountain peen.
Speaker 1: Thousand and that's like two thousand Australian dollars, right.
Speaker 4: A little bit less, but yeah close. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well what had happened was I've got some free accommodation
Speaker 2: while I was traveling. I had all these euros burning
Speaker 2: a hole in my pocket, and a friend of mine
Speaker 2: who really loves to encourage me to buy stuff, and
Speaker 2: I was at the airport and I saw I fell
Speaker 2: in love with this pen.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful, beautiful, handcrafted fountain pen. It was a
Speaker 2: limited release, one of only twenty five. And I love
Speaker 2: writing with a fountain pen. I write with one every day.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I have a month long fountain pen.
Speaker 2: And anyway, so yeah, so I bought a pen. It
Speaker 2: was probably the most frivolous act of spending extreme spending
Speaker 2: up everyone.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's do a one eighty on that,
Speaker 1: and let's go, what's the thing that you bought that
Speaker 1: could have potentially been shit which turned out to be
Speaker 1: a great investment, like the one where it might have
Speaker 1: been just something you bought and you went, fuck, this
Speaker 1: is really good. It only I'm actually throwing myself under
Speaker 1: the bus here. But Tiff bought me these gear thing is,
Speaker 1: which I don't have in at the moment. Sorry, Tiff,
Speaker 1: I just forgot. But I think they're only like thirty
Speaker 1: bucks or something, Thank you, Tiff, But they're really fucking good,
Speaker 1: like but thirty dollars a really good investment. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very I didn't even pay for those, so for
Speaker 1: me that was zero so fucking best of all time?
Speaker 1: Thanks TIV. What about you, Patrick?
Speaker 2: I was trying to think of stuff that hasn't really
Speaker 2: cost a lot of money, that brings a lot of
Speaker 2: joy or is really useful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm struggling a little bit. I don't know. I
Speaker 4: tend to.
Speaker 2: As I said, gadgets are such a big part of
Speaker 2: my spend. I did buy something, you know, I get
Speaker 2: sucked into stuff all the time. I bought a thing
Speaker 2: called a rock block once on one of those crowdfunding websites,
Speaker 2: and what it was was a rectangle. It was a
Speaker 2: record player, but instead of you putting the vinyl on top,
Speaker 2: you know, and a needle on top and play a
Speaker 2: record normally, it was like a little car with a
Speaker 2: needle with a Bluetooth connection and it drove around the record.
Speaker 1: OK when you said rock block, I thought you said
Speaker 1: something else. But okay, okay, tipfoot about you.
Speaker 3: Mine is this bad boy all right here? Remarkable. It
Speaker 3: was cost me a fortune. It was like seven hundred
Speaker 3: bucks or something. But I love I loved it. I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 1: Tell people what we'll tell people what it is and
Speaker 1: the application because maybe someone needs Do you know who
Speaker 1: told me yesterday? She the exact same words were Karly Taylor.
Speaker 1: She got one from Paul for I think her birthday
Speaker 1: and she absolutely loves it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just a it's a digital notebook and or a
Speaker 3: digital paper. I don't know what you call it, but
Speaker 3: ink ink yeah, and no other functions. So not an iPad,
Speaker 3: no notifications, no bullshit. It just replaces a pen and
Speaker 3: paper book. It's brilliant, it's so good.
Speaker 1: But people are gone, So what why don't I just
Speaker 1: use a pen and paper. I think you're not telling
Speaker 1: the whole story.
Speaker 3: Well, because you don't have to. You don't have shit everywhere.
Speaker 3: You can file it away if you can, you can
Speaker 3: pay it.
Speaker 1: But you're not telling people that you can upload it
Speaker 1: and stuff. Right.
Speaker 3: Well, I was getting to that but interrupting you. If
Speaker 3: you pay the subscription, which I did for a while
Speaker 3: and then I stopped, you can email directly from it.
Speaker 3: You can change your handwriting into text. It's got different
Speaker 3: formats and backgrounds. And I have got an email yesterday
Speaker 3: talking about some exciting new release which I didn't read
Speaker 3: because I still love the one I've got and I
Speaker 3: don't want to get stucked into buying something new. But
Speaker 3: they've probably innovated it further. Now I've got the Remarkable too,
Speaker 3: but for just a simple basic thing that seems really
Speaker 3: expensive for what you're getting. Like as soon as I
Speaker 3: got I thought, I'm going to have buyer's remorse, but
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure there was a pretty lengthy return policy,
Speaker 3: which is why I got it. And as soon as
Speaker 3: I got it, I went, this is a just to
Speaker 3: have a clean desk, not having bits of paper everywhere
Speaker 3: for all your note taking. So good.
Speaker 1: I'm going to shut up after this and let Patrick
Speaker 1: run his show because it's his show. But my last thing,
Speaker 1: which I didn't buy either, my mum bought. Now. This
Speaker 1: is the woman who bought me a concrete gorilla once
Speaker 1: right to put in my garden, So she's pretty bad
Speaker 1: at choosing shit. By the way, that concrete gorilla that
Speaker 1: had a flat bottom weighed about fucking ten k's so
Speaker 1: it sat in the bamboo for a while. Then I
Speaker 1: think I gave it away. But Mary bought me a backscratcher,
Speaker 1: which is essentially like you know the area on your
Speaker 1: car that you extend the old fashion ones. So it's
Speaker 1: got a scratchy like little handle on one end and
Speaker 1: it goes from about six inches to about two feet
Speaker 1: or whatever. That is one hundred and fifty mil to
Speaker 1: like six hundred milk. Because I'm a bit of a
Speaker 1: Neanderthal and I cannot scratch in between my shoulder blades.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect gift. It's the gift that keeps on.
Speaker 1: I use that motherfucker every day because it's either that
Speaker 1: or rub up against a tree, and I don't have
Speaker 1: any trees. Inside.
Speaker 2: Hey, have you ever used an orgasmotron? Studdn silence el,
Speaker 2: I'm usually the one. No, I know what is an orgasmotron.
Speaker 2: It's if you can imagine like these wires that basically
Speaker 2: sit on a handle and you put it over your
Speaker 2: head and move it up and down and it just
Speaker 2: rubs and massages your head.
Speaker 4: Have you seen it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen them that There's got lots of
Speaker 2: little filaments on them and they form like a claw
Speaker 2: and you just shit down over your head and you
Speaker 2: move it up and down and it runs through the
Speaker 2: people who've got hair, and it runs through it just
Speaker 2: massages your head. It was a I think that it
Speaker 2: was called the brand was called a gaze Matron.
Speaker 4: I thought. I'm trying to remember where I bought it from.
Speaker 4: And it's an amazing head massage.
Speaker 1: It is a studio album by it's an album by
Speaker 1: Motorhead or gas Matron.
Speaker 4: Tried typing all Gazmetron head massage or.
Speaker 1: Gas Matron head. This is great fucking listening for our listeners.
Speaker 1: This is sorry everyone. Okay, yeah, there's a mish Okay,
Speaker 1: there's like five dollar ones, twenty dollars ones all. There's
Speaker 1: battery operated ones. Okay, Oh there are ones with lights
Speaker 1: on them too. Okay, now all right, the mind boggers.
Speaker 1: I love a good massage. I'm a massage slut, so
Speaker 1: I might have to invest in one of those.
Speaker 4: Especially, get the cheap one, the five, all the one,
Speaker 4: you'll be.
Speaker 1: Right whatever, I'll just all right.
Speaker 4: I wonder if they have sizes just to fit your head.
Speaker 1: Just think, what are you saying? I reckon your head's
Speaker 1: got my mister potato head in size fits all?
Speaker 6: All right, move on, I think I look, while we're
Speaker 6: talking about money and all that sort of stuff, scamming,
Speaker 6: I picked up on a scam recently where people are
Speaker 6: putting fake listings on like your Airbnb type platforms, and
Speaker 6: it kind of stands to.
Speaker 2: Reason it's probably not a bad idea to contact people
Speaker 2: directly once you've made a booking, because what scammers are
Speaker 2: doing is they're taking all the images and just reposting
Speaker 2: the property online and getting people to pay their deposit
Speaker 2: and then just taking the money because it's so Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's is just getting a slipperer and slipperier slope, isn't
Speaker 1: that mate?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So just it's one of those be wary when you're booking.
Speaker 2: Always good to talk to people. I tend to like
Speaker 2: to contact people directly when you know I'm booking stuff.
Speaker 2: But I'm just thinking that it's not over the phone.
Speaker 2: You do use the messaging system in the app, don't you.
Speaker 1: So I got off to do a speaking gig in
Speaker 1: South Africa, like all expenses paid, blah blah blah, we'll
Speaker 1: fly And I'm like cool, and they're like, I said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm interested. Let's do a zoom call. Nah nothing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. So like, let's set up a zoom call
Speaker 1: so we can chat and crickets. Now, tell me about
Speaker 1: that was only the week before last. Tell me about
Speaker 1: which reminds me of my childhood. Gen Z being obsessed
Speaker 1: with buying cassette tapes.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is so funny, because of course gen z
Speaker 4: is don't know how to use a rotary phone, they
Speaker 4: don't know how to use vinyl, they don't know how
Speaker 4: to use cassette players.
Speaker 2: But they're getting all retro interested and so the funny
Speaker 2: story the article I read was this young girl put
Speaker 2: on a cassette and then wanted to skip through to
Speaker 2: a track and thought, how do I get to the
Speaker 2: next track because it's all on the loop.
Speaker 4: So I just chuckle to myself.
Speaker 2: So it's we take a lot of the stuff for
Speaker 2: granted to those of us who you know, lived life
Speaker 2: of cassette players and doing mixtapes and all that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff. But nowadays used to just send someone a
Speaker 2: Spotify playlist, but to go from you know, song one
Speaker 2: on the album to the last song on the album,
Speaker 2: you had to fast forward.
Speaker 4: And it's just.
Speaker 2: Not computing for young people who are used to just
Speaker 2: skipping and pushing and jumping from one thing to another,
Speaker 2: and it just tickle them a fancy that you know,
Speaker 2: retros come back. If you can use it, you've got
Speaker 2: to go back to Grandpa to ask how to use it.
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? How like for maybe one hundred years
Speaker 1: we had vinyl and then it just rocketed from that
Speaker 1: to you know, cassettes to blue was it blue whatever?
Speaker 1: Then we had the CDs. That's right, Hey, I'm watching
Speaker 1: this show speaking of technology, which David Gillespie recommended. Just
Speaker 1: from the point of view of looking at it's basically
Speaker 1: like stepping into a time capsule. So there's a show
Speaker 1: called Friday Night Lights and it starts The first season
Speaker 1: is two thousand and six, and it's have set in
Speaker 1: this little town with this high high school football team,
Speaker 1: which is a big deal, and all the myriad of
Speaker 1: social constructs around that and all the fucking families and
Speaker 1: relationships and coaching. But it's two thousand, so it's not
Speaker 1: set in two thousand and six. It's actually filmed in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, so season one is eighteen years old, right,
Speaker 1: So they're all using these flip phones and they've got iPods,
Speaker 1: and they think they're fucking living in the future with
Speaker 1: their iPod and their flip phone. So there's no I think,
Speaker 1: was it two thousand and eight Patrick the first iPhone?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think in season two or three, or
Speaker 1: as I Nellie said, Susan two or three where one
Speaker 1: of the kids gets an iPhone. But it's just funny
Speaker 1: watching stuff happen where there's all this stuff going on
Speaker 1: and nobody's got a phone out filming it, Whereas if
Speaker 1: it was teenagers now and something was happening, everything would
Speaker 1: be would be being filmed on their smartphone.
Speaker 2: We'll talking about being filmed on smartphones and privacy. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize this because they've only started introducing seat belt
Speaker 2: cameras and phone cameras so that you can detect if
Speaker 2: a person who's driving a car and hasn't got a
Speaker 2: seat belt on and is using a phone. But to
Speaker 2: do that, what they do is they mount the cameras
Speaker 2: really high and they look down into the car.
Speaker 4: Well, there are.
Speaker 2: Privacy concerns because you know people go for a bit
Speaker 2: of a scratch or other thing and so.
Speaker 1: Thing, what's the other thing? I know, Sorry, I'm just
Speaker 1: looking for clarity for the listeners. Gives a story.
Speaker 2: Look, our listeners have active imaginations.
Speaker 4: They can work it out for themselves.
Speaker 2: So the use of these mobile detection and seat belt
Speaker 2: cameras and particularly they start off in Queensland, but they've
Speaker 2: raised in the Banana state, I think four hundred and
Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars in revenue since they were introduced.
Speaker 4: So it's a fair bit of money that's being churned out.
Speaker 2: But our privacy commissions there are saying, well, you know,
Speaker 2: we know it's illegal, but this concerns because when they
Speaker 2: take the photos detects whether or not it thinks that
Speaker 2: they're wearing a seat belt.
Speaker 4: Or they're using a phone.
Speaker 2: But then a human person an operator has to then
Speaker 2: grab that photo and verify whether there was an infringement.
Speaker 2: The question is it's believed that some people might be
Speaker 2: shuffling those photos aside.
Speaker 4: They're not just looking and then throwing away.
Speaker 2: They're kind of holding onto the photos and they have
Speaker 2: their little black box of oh, there's some funny photos
Speaker 2: we might send out to our friends, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: So that's the concern is there's no legislation in place
Speaker 2: to protect the privacy of people. If they're using humans
Speaker 2: for oversight to make sure that the find is justified,
Speaker 2: then there potentially could be privacy concerns because people could
Speaker 2: be doing stuff in the car that is not directly
Speaker 2: related to using a phone or a seat belt.
Speaker 1: No, well, I can't think of anything but thanks. But
Speaker 1: it reminds me of the old days, Patrick Jones, when
Speaker 1: you and I were kids and Tiff was just a
Speaker 1: twinkle of a mum's eye, where we would take a
Speaker 1: role of film to be developed and then the people
Speaker 1: at the developing places would look at our fucking photos.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many copies of some photos got fucking
Speaker 1: surreptitiously made and then just put in the old blokes pocket.
Speaker 2: And I tell you that one of the best photos
Speaker 2: of me as a kid that I loved the most
Speaker 2: because of the thought behind it is there was when
Speaker 2: Mum passed away, I grabbed all of our family photos
Speaker 2: that were all in a box, you know, it's like
Speaker 2: the albums with their stick on the place over the
Speaker 2: top of them, and I had them all scanned. I
Speaker 2: had one of my staff and a couple of people that,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of guys that were working after school,
Speaker 2: and I said, right, we're going to scan every single
Speaker 2: photo high resolution share it with the family. And then
Speaker 2: I found this photo and it was me just standing
Speaker 2: at a chemist with like rows of films behind me,
Speaker 2: and it's like, what a weird photo of me just
Speaker 2: standing there with a green shirt, just you know, instant
Speaker 2: kind of at the shot.
Speaker 4: And then it occurred to me, you know what it was.
Speaker 2: Mum's gone to take the camera in to take the
Speaker 2: photos and realized there was one more exposure left on
Speaker 2: the camera. So she's just got turned around and said, right, geez,
Speaker 2: and that was it. So this random photograph that she
Speaker 2: must have taken when she was getting the film developed
Speaker 2: when she realized there was one photo left.
Speaker 4: And then there's me's danting at the chemeras looking like
Speaker 4: an idiot.
Speaker 1: How old are you in that photo?
Speaker 4: Maybe part of me? Maybe eleven?
Speaker 1: I think I think you should do I think that
Speaker 1: the story around that photo is worth doing something with
Speaker 1: that photo because that is a really especially because your
Speaker 1: mum's not here anymore and there's never going to be
Speaker 1: a version of that again. That's such a good story.
Speaker 1: I would like to say that do you still have
Speaker 1: that photo?
Speaker 2: I will grab it for you and I'll send it
Speaker 2: to you because it's it's actually a super cute photo,
Speaker 2: but it's you know, the in situus situation, and it
Speaker 2: really because mum had already passed away, and that was
Speaker 2: the conclusion that I'd come to. It just made perfect
Speaker 2: sense that it was the twenty four exposure, twenty three
Speaker 2: shots have been taken and the person said, oh, you've
Speaker 2: got one more shot left on the camera, so she's
Speaker 2: just turned around and taken a shot.
Speaker 4: It's cute, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I think you should put that in the typ Facebook group.
Speaker 1: Can you do that?
Speaker 2: I will, I'll find it for you. I'll and I'll
Speaker 2: send it off to post or I'll post it. I'll
Speaker 2: give it the Tiff and Chicken post it for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be great, all right?
Speaker 2: Moving along, my favorite band, One of my favorite bands
Speaker 2: is a band out of Las Vegas called Imagine Dragons,
Speaker 2: and you probably if you don't know them, you would
Speaker 2: have heard of their songs. They've got millions of songs
Speaker 2: that have been in movies and the like. But they're
Speaker 2: going to become the very first band in history to
Speaker 2: have one of their songs played from the Moon. Now
Speaker 2: they're not going to the moon and doing a live
Speaker 2: concert tour or anything, but yeah, just thought i'd clarify.
Speaker 1: That I'm just not good because I was thinking of
Speaker 1: might get a.
Speaker 4: So what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: It's part of the Lone Star Freedom Mission and they're
Speaker 2: going to be flying with to the Lunar Pole and
Speaker 2: then they're going to broadcast one of their songs. And
Speaker 2: the reason they they picked this particular song, it's called
Speaker 2: Children of the Sky.
Speaker 4: It's a really great song if you get a chance
Speaker 4: to listen.
Speaker 2: It was a song that was composed specifically for a
Speaker 2: game that was a sci fi kind of space adventure game.
Speaker 4: So it was an amazing, really really great game. Great
Speaker 4: great game to play because it was one of those what.
Speaker 2: They call an open world game where you could travel
Speaker 2: around and you fly from planet to planet. And the
Speaker 2: video clip that went with it is so inspirationally beautiful
Speaker 2: and it's really lovely. It shows a young kid as
Speaker 2: they grow up and then they go into space. It's
Speaker 2: really great. So I think it starts off with the
Speaker 2: kid looking up at a rocket being launched and then
Speaker 2: eventually he becomes an astronaut, and that's the gist of
Speaker 2: the video clip with this great soundtrack behind it. But
Speaker 2: the people who are behind the mission are saying that
Speaker 2: they want to inspire the next generation of kids to
Speaker 2: be excited about the future of space and technology, and
Speaker 2: that's why they chose Children of the Sky. And so
Speaker 2: they've never performed the song live, and they're going to
Speaker 2: on October twenty seven. They're going to perform the song
Speaker 2: for the very first time live. They're not included in
Speaker 2: their recent tour for some reason. And now that they've
Speaker 2: announced that they're going to be playing it from the
Speaker 2: Moon that now they're going to do the song live
Speaker 2: is at this upcoming concert in Los Angeles, and I
Speaker 2: just it was kind of cool.
Speaker 4: I like that kind of nerdy stuff.
Speaker 2: It's interesting and fun and just happened to be one
Speaker 2: of my favorite songs as well from one.
Speaker 1: Of your favorite Why am I not surprised that you
Speaker 1: love a band called Imagine Dragons. I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: that you love the music. I think you just love
Speaker 1: the name either.
Speaker 4: The music's pretty good. I've been to two of their concerts.
Speaker 2: I whenever they tour in Australia, I always make a
Speaker 2: point to go and watch them play. In the first
Speaker 2: concert I went to, I was in the mosh pit
Speaker 2: and it was so loud.
Speaker 4: My clothes were vibrating. You know. My t shirt was
Speaker 4: just moving forward and backward.
Speaker 1: Now taking a left turn. We revisit electric Is probably
Speaker 1: every third or fourth episode. But China claims the world's
Speaker 1: fastest charging av and of course, one of the problems
Speaker 1: complaints I guess that people have is just the impracticality
Speaker 1: of using electricity as a funel source, because you know,
Speaker 1: it takes so long to fill your car so to speak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a company called Zeka. They claim that the new
Speaker 2: electric EV batteries charged faster than all of the other rivals,
Speaker 2: the byds and the Tesla's. They say they can go
Speaker 2: from ten to eighty percent capacity in ten and a
Speaker 2: half minutes.
Speaker 4: That's a game changer for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Isn't it to be able to give yourself a range
Speaker 2: of an extra three or four hundred kilometers in just
Speaker 2: ten minutes. That's pretty massive. That to me, particularly people
Speaker 2: in Australia, is a game changer. And you pointed out
Speaker 2: I think in a couple of shows ago that Chinese
Speaker 2: cars are really flooding the market at the moment, and
Speaker 2: if you can get a decent Chinese electric car with
Speaker 2: a range like that that can charge up so quickly,
Speaker 2: that would be phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, I mean it's just I think the
Speaker 1: unknown around or there's a couple, but the Chinese cars
Speaker 1: are becoming better and better. Like I don't own one,
Speaker 1: but I wentn't looked at when I was looking for
Speaker 1: cars a car, I went and looked at quite a few,
Speaker 1: and I've got to say, the build quality and everything
Speaker 1: is amazing. Like people go, oh Chinese everyone it says
Speaker 1: Chinese crap. Most of the people that I've spoken to
Speaker 1: have never driven one or owned one. And while historically
Speaker 1: they have had some lemons, as did Korea when they
Speaker 1: started pushing out Kia and Hayundai, as did Japan when
Speaker 1: they started pushing out Toyota and Masda, as did everyone,
Speaker 1: so did America. So did you know Italy with the
Speaker 1: Alpha Romeo. There's a lot of shit cars, but overall
Speaker 1: everything is becoming better and better, and there's not many.
Speaker 1: There's not many cars these days that are bad because
Speaker 1: if you're producing bad stuff in a time when vehicles
Speaker 1: have never been more competitive, you're not going to last.
Speaker 1: So but an interesting thing around this, and I'll shut
Speaker 1: up after this, is that in Canada and I think
Speaker 1: the US definitely, in Canada, there's one hundred percent tariff,
Speaker 1: so if it comes in or tax, So if it's
Speaker 1: coming in and it's thirty thousand dollars car, it's now
Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars. So this is one of the things
Speaker 1: I hope the Australian government doesn't because we don't have
Speaker 1: an Australian manufacturer anymore. But what it means is for
Speaker 1: the end, I'm not particularly partial to any particular nation
Speaker 1: in terms of car building, but what it means is now,
Speaker 1: like just from me on Nepean Highway is an MGD
Speaker 1: SO in Brighton, so they're selling brand new pretty fucking
Speaker 1: good cars for under thirty grand with a ten year warranty. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're someone who really struggles financially to be able
Speaker 1: to buy a new car, you lease it over five years.
Speaker 1: It might cost you one hundred bucks or one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty bucks a week maybe, But you've got a
Speaker 1: brand new car with ten years warranty. I mean for
Speaker 1: some people that that is speaking of game changing. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a game changer.
Speaker 4: I just got to cut out all of my subscriptions
Speaker 4: and I could afford.
Speaker 1: It exactly exactly. You've got a good car. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's do two more stories and wind up over one.
Speaker 1: You tell us where you want to go.
Speaker 4: Did we talk about the space balloon the last time
Speaker 4: we caught up? I don't know we did. Did we?
Speaker 1: I don't think we did. We may have touched on something, yeah,
Speaker 1: but let's look, I'm the host and I can't remember,
Speaker 1: so I can, but then I'm sixty So how.
Speaker 2: This is super exciting because they're talking about launching flights
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. It's the Halo Space is the
Speaker 2: name of the company, and effectively it's a high tech
Speaker 2: hot air balloon ish type thing that will take you
Speaker 2: all the way to the stratosphere, so right on the
Speaker 2: boundary of space. So you get balloon, you strap yourself in,
Speaker 2: it goes up up. They're going to leave in Saudi
Speaker 2: Arabia in a space balloon. And look, it's only you know,
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand euro, which is about two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars. It'll go up about
Speaker 2: thirty five kilometers. But to me, I mean, you you're
Speaker 2: gonna get a bloody good view of the Earth, aren't
Speaker 2: you at that height?
Speaker 1: And Google at Google Google three, Like, I've got a
Speaker 1: great view of the Earth on my phone. It's my
Speaker 1: bloody screensaver. One hundred what is it, two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty grand?
Speaker 2: Nah, about two hundred and fifty I think's what about
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty euro?
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, and this is this is
Speaker 1: like we're talking about perception and value and context. Like
Speaker 1: for some people that would be the highlight of their life, right,
Speaker 1: that would be some people would pretty much give up
Speaker 1: everything to have that experience to go to in inverted
Speaker 1: Commas space in the stratosphere. Yeah, but not utif with
Speaker 1: that interest you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nope, not a bit.
Speaker 1: No, Patrick, if I went Patrick, you could be on board.
Speaker 1: It's going to cost you thirty grand.
Speaker 2: On thirty grand, yeah, I'll do it, really, Yeah, thirty grand.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even question it. I mean one hundred and well,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand. Of course it's never going
Speaker 2: to happen. But if it was thirty k I'd sign
Speaker 2: up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well, space Travelers, just around the corner and buy around
Speaker 1: the corner, I mean twenty to thirty years.
Speaker 2: But you know, maybe I think my because I think
Speaker 2: we've spoken about this.
Speaker 4: I have two bucket lists.
Speaker 2: I have the achievable bucket list and the bucket list
Speaker 2: that's never going to happen. And the bucket list's never
Speaker 2: going to happen is walking on the moon, Okay, so
Speaker 2: that's not going to happen, and listening to a major
Speaker 2: dragon's evidently, and the other one is my general you know,
Speaker 2: I I'd like to go to Iceland, and I'd like
Speaker 2: to go to Paris, you know, those sorts of things
Speaker 2: that are on that that you know, the standard bucket
Speaker 2: list that you can achieve. So yeah, Anyway, apparently, apparently Reikiavic,
Speaker 2: which is the capital of Iceland is fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: One of my friends, so Vinn, my mate, his kid Laura,
Speaker 1: shout out. She went there kind of and fucking fell
Speaker 1: in love with it. Like a lot of people who
Speaker 1: go to Iceland, it's quite a special place, I think,
Speaker 1: and fuck all, I think, tif can you just have
Speaker 1: a look at the population of Iceland. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's five hundred thousand or less, like it's not many
Speaker 1: people in a very vast expanse.
Speaker 2: When I was in primary school, I think it might
Speaker 2: have been grade five, I saw a magazine that had
Speaker 2: a photograph of the Aurora borealis and that's what sparked
Speaker 2: my interest, because of course going to Iceland is one
Speaker 2: of those locations where you can see it.
Speaker 4: You get just get the number, tien.
Speaker 3: What says three hundred and eighty one thousand, but then
Speaker 3: it says that's twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, les, yeah, yeah, And Rakie Pick is like most
Speaker 1: of that or half of that or something? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are they the Northern lights or something?
Speaker 4: There is that in all the lights? Yeah? Or some
Speaker 4: ounce and almos fire.
Speaker 2: I took a trip to the far northern territories of
Speaker 2: Canada because you can see them up there as well,
Speaker 2: and my family, my sister in law and my brother
Speaker 2: live in Canada, and I went up as far as
Speaker 2: I could go, So it was two hundred k's out
Speaker 2: of the Arctic Circle. And I was there for four
Speaker 2: days and it was overcards. For four days, I couldn't
Speaker 2: see Jack. And then the next week I left to
Speaker 2: go home and they had the best aurora display. It
Speaker 2: was all the way down to the Prairies and Alberta
Speaker 2: and Gallghery.
Speaker 4: So I missed it.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, I did take some photos and I
Speaker 2: think I sent them to you when we had the
Speaker 2: Aurora Australis recently here. But I think I'd love to
Speaker 2: go to somewhere, you know, like Iceland and check it out.
Speaker 4: That would be pretty cool, wuldn't it?
Speaker 2: And you know what else would be pretty cool is
Speaker 2: that if you got trapped out in the middle of
Speaker 2: nowhere and you needed to call for help, Elon Musk
Speaker 2: might come to the rescue.
Speaker 1: Why go on?
Speaker 4: Okay, So he's now This week there were a.
Speaker 2: Couple of articles saying that he's going to offer free Starlink.
Speaker 2: So Starlink is his satellite based internet service. He's going
Speaker 2: to offer free stylink for people stranded in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: Now that that actually could be useful for me because
Speaker 2: there are black spots all the way through where I live.
Speaker 2: My phone drops out constantly, and of course three G
Speaker 2: is being dropped out in Australia really really soon. Telstranoptus
Speaker 2: are dropping three G, which means a lot of people
Speaker 2: living in rural areas could suddenly find themselves without phone coverage.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is as you were talking about
Speaker 1: black spots and signal dropping out, you dropped out momentarily,
Speaker 1: Patrick James, Patrick, James Bonello, Tiffany and Cook. It's always fabulous, Patrick.
Speaker 1: How can people connect with you? Stay at your joint,
Speaker 1: come and help you collect the insulation from the adjoining
Speaker 1: adjacent paddocks and help you rebuild. How can people get
Speaker 1: involved on Planet?
Speaker 4: You Planet?
Speaker 2: You can go to websites noow dot com dot Au,
Speaker 2: or you can go to tyechi at home dot com
Speaker 2: dot Au and do ty chi with me. I've got
Speaker 2: videos there. You can meet Fritz the Tychie dog. There's
Speaker 2: lots of ways to connect.
Speaker 1: What's the ETA on the new studio bro.
Speaker 4: So Close I reckon two weeks have ordered the shower screen.
Speaker 2: The toilet can't go in until the tiling's done, and
Speaker 2: then the clouding gets put on. But the sparkys have
Speaker 2: been in. All the lights are in. Lads a bit,
Speaker 2: but no one's own. No, it's really really close. I'm
Speaker 2: super excited. So you guys are going to have to
Speaker 2: come down and do some Tai chee with me.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the toilet in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: when you have a wee, do you just stand there
Speaker 1: in the dark and hope it goes in? Or do
Speaker 1: you sit down?
Speaker 2: I never get up in the at night to go
Speaker 2: to the toilet. My bladder is so perfectly trained. I
Speaker 2: never have Yeah, well that's disappointed.
Speaker 4: I don't drink after six o'clock, so I don't have
Speaker 4: a full bladder.
Speaker 1: I have fucking coffee in bed, So don't do it.
Speaker 1: I do everyone.
Speaker 4: That's the way you get to the toilet, you do.
Speaker 1: For yeah, probably only get up once.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's lights on, all lights off.
Speaker 1: I have a bright light and a low light in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I put on the bright light and I
Speaker 1: stand like a fuck an hour for male and get
Speaker 1: half of it on my feet and half of it
Speaker 1: in the toilet.
Speaker 2: You know that's funny you say that because I have
Speaker 2: a lance and a little lantern that I carry down stick.
Speaker 1: Are you one of the seven Dwarfs? What do you
Speaker 1: mean you have a lantern? Are you a Disney character?
Speaker 1: The fucking no one has a lantern. It's not eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty four. You're not in Ballarats, motherfucker lantern. Fuck, I've
Speaker 1: got a lantern, fucking said no one ever. No one's
Speaker 1: ever said to me I've got a lantern. It took
Speaker 1: sixty years. Today's the day. I couldn't be more disappointed.
Speaker 4: In you clarify, please.
Speaker 1: Fo hell, yes, yes, okay, ruddy sleepy doc.
Speaker 4: It's really cool, right.
Speaker 2: The lantern has LEDs in it that glow, and so
Speaker 2: you hold it by a handle.
Speaker 4: It's a traditional type of lantern.
Speaker 2: If you turn it up the other way, it goes
Speaker 2: from the bright white to a warm yellow, and then
Speaker 2: it's got a little slider electronic slider at the top,
Speaker 2: so you can dim it down or make it bright.
Speaker 2: So it's not a ye oldie lantern, it's a it's
Speaker 2: a high tech land.
Speaker 1: Here's a sentence that's never been said. My lantern's really cool.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's these buttons on the wall and
Speaker 1: you push them and the light goes on.
Speaker 4: Turned the light.
Speaker 2: Look, mister, I want to be like sunburnt as you
Speaker 2: get out of bed and take a piss, like why
Speaker 2: would you turn your lights on so bright that it
Speaker 2: wakes you?
Speaker 1: Told you I've got a bright and a loan light.
Speaker 1: The I've got the weeing appropriate light, which is just
Speaker 1: it's like mood lighting. It's been great. Thanks everyone, Thanks Patrick,
Speaker 1: Thanks Tiff, great finish. Just we're going so good now,
Speaker 1: that's not true. We weren't going any any good at
Speaker 1: any stage.