Speaker 1: National Days brought to you by Orange Cream Biscuits. Nothing
Speaker 1: goes down better in the middle of the night than
Speaker 1: a beautiful orange cream biscuit and a nice cup of tea.
Speaker 1: That mob that's supply the biscuits. How come? So I
Speaker 1: guess it's a different brand or something. We never see
Speaker 1: Vovos or any of those classics.
Speaker 2: No, that's because we don't have We always have the
Speaker 2: cream biscuits. Well, it's probably a good thing because if
Speaker 2: you put in the non cream biscuits, it's the Scotch
Speaker 2: finger biscuits. They are always the first to go, you know,
Speaker 2: houses a pecking order. Yeah, same as orange cream biscuits
Speaker 2: as a last left. And I said to you earlier, Mike,
Speaker 2: I'm falling off the wagon.
Speaker 1: Did you I did.
Speaker 2: I had a big handful of orange cream biscuits, orange slices.
Speaker 2: They're actually technically.
Speaker 1: Caught as have you had to now buy several new
Speaker 1: pairs of trousers.
Speaker 2: But just in the last what three hours?
Speaker 1: Yet they can be sudden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I did a lot of walking on the weekend.
Speaker 2: I did a big coast walk down there, and also
Speaker 2: I was out today walking, so I have done a
Speaker 2: lot of walking. So hopefully I'm countering it.
Speaker 1: So you're hoping to be rewarded by not expanding in
Speaker 1: the gut department.
Speaker 2: I hope so, Mike. But I think sometimes it's, you know,
Speaker 2: you've sort of reached a point where it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: how much exercise you do, it's you know, starts thicking
Speaker 2: out the waistline.
Speaker 1: So do you have any days?
Speaker 2: I do? And now I'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 2: you say about this, because it's something I still enjoy,
Speaker 2: especially around this time of the year it's National Polage Day.
Speaker 2: Porridge person not.
Speaker 1: That much I got into the habit of because I'm
Speaker 1: not a big fan of milk, of having oats with
Speaker 1: fruit juice and some berries to it.
Speaker 2: We've had this conversation that's my stomach is churning just well.
Speaker 1: I know you think it's sacrilegious, but now I haven't
Speaker 1: eaten notes for a.
Speaker 2: While, but obviously it's sacrilicious sack delicious. Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: think there's nothing better than porridge, particularly if you have
Speaker 2: some cream, If I have some leftover dollop, if I've
Speaker 2: been having some apple pie.
Speaker 1: And sugar and cream and porridge isn't bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think i've got any brown sugar, I
Speaker 2: usually use the raw sugar, though I don't use white
Speaker 2: sugar very often.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the raw sugar. It's kind of crunchier, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but it's I think it's just a little
Speaker 2: bit better because it's not refined. It's not totally brown,
Speaker 2: because I eat refined bread like I've gone back to.
Speaker 2: For a long while, I would only eat bread that
Speaker 2: was either you know, four grain or brown and what
Speaker 2: have you. But if I buy Baker's Delight white bread,
Speaker 2: oh my.
Speaker 1: Lordie, a lot of it's very nice.
Speaker 2: Indeed. But before the invention of baking ovens, porridge was
Speaker 2: the most essential part of a British diet. Porridge. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was actually called gruel as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I always thought gruel was just some sort of slop
Speaker 2: the peasants used to eat, or they give prisoners and things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think rules of it all encompassing, isn't it. Maybe.
Speaker 2: But the origin and the porridge can be traced back
Speaker 2: to Northern Europe, where it was traditionally enjoyed savory. The
Speaker 2: word porridge first appeared in the sixteenth center and is
Speaker 2: believed to be a spin off of the word pottage,
Speaker 2: which is a type of stew.
Speaker 1: Oh, a massive pottage, I would.
Speaker 2: See, I've never heard that word before. Porridge hasn't always
Speaker 2: been the way it is today. Preparation ingredients varied from
Speaker 2: grasp born grains to other crops. Quanoa grain has been
Speaker 2: used for making porridge for more than three thousand years,
Speaker 2: whereas rice porridge was eaten in China since twenty five
Speaker 2: hundred BC. Goes even back further than this, with evidence
Speaker 2: discovered by research is proving that the cooked mush now
Speaker 2: it isn't even better word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is mushy. I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Texture in the mouth, clingy ricey stuff. No, see, that's
Speaker 2: where the milk smooths it out, Mike. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: eaten by some going back twelve thousand years at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Neolithic.
Speaker 1: Revolution, so I think it should stay there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. After people started preparing thick pancakes on stone ovens
Speaker 2: or hot tiles using porridge like mixtures such as flatbreads
Speaker 2: are mentioned throughout the Old Testament, but similar innovation simultaneously
Speaker 2: occurring throughout the world. The popularity pordredge and its many
Speaker 2: variations lead to the creation of corn cakes, corn breads,
Speaker 2: corn puddings, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of that Southern food in the
Speaker 1: Southern US, but there's something they have. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think what a school starts with you, doesn't it groats
Speaker 1: or green grits? Grits grits. Yeah, that's the most boring
Speaker 1: food in the world.
Speaker 2: I don think that wheat based or something.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just mostly I think most people have heard
Speaker 2: the word grits coming from the Beverly Hillbillies grizjowls. I
Speaker 2: think it would be one of Greenny's things to cook up.
Speaker 1: That would be hoggowls.
Speaker 2: I think so in that nice brits and coowls gogiin Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think this and this ties into the next dates
Speaker 2: Let it Go. You know, I'd let those glits and
Speaker 2: gawls go. But let it Go Day is a reminder
Speaker 2: for you to stop wasting time and energy on negative
Speaker 2: feelings from events in the past instead of strengthenings. So
Speaker 2: instead strengthen yourself, you can let it go. Let it go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I like that. The movie that Yeah. We
Speaker 1: had reviewed this morning about the ninety two year old
Speaker 1: guy that discovered seventy years ago. The wife had had
Speaker 1: an affair with somebody.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that looks interesting. I like a good foreign film.
Speaker 2: I think I'll go and see that. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: F one yet, but looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Somebody texted in saying they thought it
Speaker 1: was dull and comical.
Speaker 2: Ah did he say that or did he say that?
Speaker 2: The way they treated F one was ridiculous? But that's
Speaker 2: where I say, it's a movie. It's not a documentary.
Speaker 2: It's a movie as far as I'm concerned. As far
Speaker 2: as I can see, the whole point of it is
Speaker 2: the old dog coming in, You've got the new dog,
Speaker 2: and the clashing of the old dog and new dog
Speaker 2: in the So I see that as the film and
Speaker 2: just having if one of the backdrop. That's what I'm expecting.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Well, the way Alex was explaining it, it just
Speaker 1: had all those classic storytale yeah pillars to keep it going.
Speaker 1: But I actually remember Michael J. Fox talking about Back
Speaker 1: to the Future and he had to explain to somebody
Speaker 1: that it was a movie and not a documentary about
Speaker 1: Oklahoma in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, But that sort of also ties into
Speaker 2: the amount of letters the Coastguard got when Gilligan's Island
Speaker 2: was on. How could they not rescue these people? How
Speaker 2: could you not read all people sending in wedding gifts
Speaker 2: to neighbors and things when someone when there's a marriage
Speaker 2: between some very you know, some favorite people. Anyway, if
Speaker 2: you got anything you need to let go, I've always
Speaker 2: got something I should let go.
Speaker 1: Oh probably, yes, although it's interesting, you know, having had
Speaker 1: a bit of time to reflect in recent years, I
Speaker 1: think you do get things into proportion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, age and wisdom, I think, yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's wisdom. It's just I sort
Speaker 1: of understand the motivations of some of the people who've
Speaker 1: crossed my path. Oh okay, and I see them as
Speaker 1: there's a couple I can think I want in particular
Speaker 1: who I would regard as an interesting study. Perhaps not
Speaker 1: in the way people would think.
Speaker 2: But I suppose as regrets are like exclusively to people
Speaker 2: you have had run in with, I mean, regrets are
Speaker 2: you know, a lot turning left instead of right. There's
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of things like that. But regrets do
Speaker 2: little to know good. They weigh a person down, They
Speaker 2: tend to put a burden on a person's conscience and
Speaker 2: deprive them of even a little joys of life. That's
Speaker 2: particularly if you get wound up and you're really obsessed
Speaker 2: with them. I try not to do that.
Speaker 1: There's some seminars I went too many years ago, as
Speaker 1: inclined to believe them at the time, but I go
Speaker 1: with it more now. They said, we're all going over
Speaker 1: the falls in a canoe, and I think, to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, life is like that. You know, there are
Speaker 1: so many things that happen that you can't directly control,
Speaker 1: so just try not to take too many rocks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny how you'd explaining that. Just reminded me
Speaker 2: of probably near the end of Parenthood, the Steve Martin
Speaker 2: film Neary Steve Brgin.
Speaker 1: I know it's not a film, but I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's beautiful because Steve Martin is so obsessed with
Speaker 2: things going in the family. And then the old granny
Speaker 2: comes in just says something to the effect of life
Speaker 2: is like being on a roller coaster. You just you know,
Speaker 2: you just don't know where it's going in the thrills
Speaker 2: of this and that, and suddenly Steve Martin gets it.
Speaker 2: He sees everything going wrong in the family. All these
Speaker 2: things culminate, and you just hear the roller coasters sound
Speaker 2: effects and him like the camera twisting around and suddenly
Speaker 2: he gets what the and because he dos is very
Speaker 2: dismissive of what Granny said, but now he totally gets it.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and then he just rides with it, which
Speaker 2: was a real I think maybe a lot of people
Speaker 2: saw that scene and didn't even quite get it right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just thought that was really compelling and it was
Speaker 2: a good film.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I do enjoy Steve Martin's work, but I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that particular movie.
Speaker 2: Oh you should. It's it is a good and it's
Speaker 2: a Ron Howard film, and it's got a really good
Speaker 2: ensemble cast.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, oh I think we need a break.
Speaker 1: Okay, Chris says, hello, Dale, help you well, And as
Speaker 1: an elder, I easily remembered every word in that song
Speaker 1: and sang along. It was a little sad when thinking
Speaker 1: of a forty year breakup, to be sure, But it's
Speaker 1: all about I love you till the bluebells, till in
Speaker 1: green or something, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I have a tendency of remembering
Speaker 2: music note for note, but I never remember words. I
Speaker 2: never listened to the lyrics. I just love the tune
Speaker 2: and his voice.
Speaker 1: There are songs like that, of course, where the tune
Speaker 1: is one thing, but the lyrics giving a different sort
Speaker 1: of message. Little said, when thinking of a forty you
Speaker 1: break up to be sure, but happily, not overly, so
Speaker 1: I am h oh. By the way, Oh, both you
Speaker 1: and Michael have great audio presents. Cheers old timer Sydney Chris.
Speaker 2: You're sending them. Sorry, they're sending us presents. You're sending
Speaker 2: us presents and audio presents.
Speaker 1: Now, it's p r e. S in ce. Silly, Joe,
Speaker 1: says I. Mike, my Scottish nan always had salt on
Speaker 1: her porridge.
Speaker 2: I put it in when I'm cooking it even Isn't
Speaker 2: you put a pinch of salt in?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think my granny used to us to do
Speaker 1: something like that, put salt in the possage on the porridge. Mix?
Speaker 2: Sorry, mate, say can you sorry?
Speaker 1: Mike?
Speaker 2: Can you just say you put orange juice in yours?
Speaker 1: Again? Not orange juice? I don't like orange? Oh? What
Speaker 1: used to put in apple?
Speaker 2: That's not how your make porridge prune. Oh, that's not
Speaker 2: how your make porridge.
Speaker 1: Mix says I have the ninety second porridge brown show
Speaker 1: you're in cinnamon flavor. But that maybe there's not or
Speaker 1: it says you know how you eat porridge. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: going for the like inflection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the plane piridge.
Speaker 1: That's what mixes well. As long as it doesn't come
Speaker 1: in a sheep's stomach, I can stomach it. Loaded, load it.
Speaker 1: Today's a good day, Mike.
Speaker 2: It's also National Family Owned and Operated Businesses Day. Just
Speaker 2: salute the family owned and operated businesses that have survived
Speaker 2: over time despite numerous challenges and setbacks. Got a nice
Speaker 2: little couple of little family owned businesses just up the
Speaker 2: road from me that sell a bunch of things. It
Speaker 2: always makes me wonder how they sort of stick around,
Speaker 2: but because I sort of always walk past it and
Speaker 2: go down to out of these coals or woolies.
Speaker 1: But there are some bakeries, for example, that you can
Speaker 1: see the whole family working behind the counter.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what they've got. Probably the best apple pies.
Speaker 1: Little apple pies. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Today's also National Hydration Day. So get that whatever that
Speaker 2: was you were drinking before, Mike, get another glass fall
Speaker 2: into you. It's a good idea to keep hydrated, obviously,
Speaker 2: because it sort of wards off getting things like kidneys
Speaker 2: and things with keeping everything going.
Speaker 1: Through and I don't want them. I hear very well,
Speaker 1: you had to pass one.
Speaker 2: I I, God, Mike, haven't I told you a story.
Speaker 2: I was on air with Sharena when it did, and
Speaker 2: I was seriously by the end of the show and
Speaker 2: I thought, no, no, I'm not bailing, and I was.
Speaker 2: I was like hobbling up because it was a bit
Speaker 2: of pre recorded at the end.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting anything away. I'd get up. It's eighteen
Speaker 1: minutes the midnight.
Speaker 2: And then clapped out on the floor waiting for it
Speaker 2: the sort of finish and so I could you know,
Speaker 2: but it actually yeah, but it actually passed by the time.
Speaker 2: The pain was gone by the time it went off air.
Speaker 1: But so you finally got rid of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I had to go and get it. I
Speaker 2: ended up getting I had it twice and another time
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 1: Actually I remember now you had it made into a
Speaker 1: signet ring, didn't it.
Speaker 2: That's the way. It's big enough anyway. So it's National
Speaker 2: Hydration Day. It's a good idea to keep drinking water,
Speaker 2: and water always has been my drink of choice. As
Speaker 2: you know, Today's National Typewriter Day zing.
Speaker 1: One of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of people did. I learned
Speaker 2: the like I can type full finger without looking at
Speaker 2: the board. I doubt if I'd go very well on
Speaker 2: a typewriter, but I always remember that because they've been
Speaker 2: around a fairwhile obviously, But well, I had one when
Speaker 2: I was twelve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they've been around that long.
Speaker 2: It well, fifteen seventy five an Italian printmaker Francesco Rampazetto
Speaker 2: invented it was called the Little Tactile write, a machine
Speaker 2: to quickly press letters onto paper. And I always remember
Speaker 2: that Tom Hanks actually collects typewriters.
Speaker 1: Oh does he?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Today's also Pink Flamingo Day. I'm just zipping through
Speaker 2: these note because I'm running out of time. Pink Flamingo's Day.
Speaker 2: This is to acknowledge the popular lawn ornament. Yes, I
Speaker 2: doubt if i'd I don't know if i'd have one.
Speaker 2: I like some kitsch stuff. I wouldn't mind putting some.
Speaker 2: You know, you can get those little garden things of.
Speaker 1: Star Wars Guard.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't mind those sort of things, because
Speaker 2: I don't mind a bit of kitch. I wouldn't want
Speaker 2: to put something in the front yard that someone's going
Speaker 2: to walk by and sort of just you know, I've
Speaker 2: grabbed that.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose it would happen, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, our neighborhood's pretty good. But it's also one
Speaker 2: of those neighborhoods that if you have something you no
Speaker 2: longer want, if you put it out the front, you'll
Speaker 2: be guaranteed someone will you take it and reuse it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not a bad thing, No, that's a terrific thing.
Speaker 2: So but even the backyard, Yeah, I got a nice
Speaker 2: bushy backyard, so you know, yeah, maybe if I see
Speaker 2: one in a knop shop, I might grab one, but
Speaker 2: also start tying in with that day, it's also National
Speaker 2: Pink Day. Pink yeah, pink, not as in the singer
Speaker 2: oh I was going to ask, But it's to actually
Speaker 2: celebrate the meaning, history and beauty of the pale shade
Speaker 2: of red, which is pink.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Surveys in both the United States and Europe found pink
Speaker 2: to be the most common associated with femininity. I suppose
Speaker 2: you always do, like if you someone has a little
Speaker 2: girl you'd buy a little pink?
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to do that?
Speaker 2: Now? Though?
Speaker 1: I would still do it?
Speaker 2: My marry fashioned kind of guy.
Speaker 1: As they said in the Monty Python movie, don't you
Speaker 1: think it's a bit early to be imposing roles? Not
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 2: Imposed immediately? Pink being a subject of recent pop culture
Speaker 2: to interesting facts about the delightful shade through time. The
Speaker 2: day celebrates all things pink. See if I can pull
Speaker 2: someone out sixteen eighties. The phrase pink colored in reference
Speaker 2: to the flowers is first recorded. Seventeen hundreds. Men who
Speaker 2: went out wearing embroidered pink clothing were considered masculine and fashionable. Hmmm, yeah,
Speaker 2: how did that change? Seventeen hundred? Oh, nineteen forties. The
Speaker 2: baby Booners are the first generation to have gender roles
Speaker 2: and the preference of the signing them at birth, signifying
Speaker 2: pink infants clothes for girls and blue for buyers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was that recent? Yeah?
Speaker 2: With that recent? Back in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're looking anxious. You don't have to go ye it?
Speaker 1: Or are you out of days?
Speaker 2: Oh? I thought were Oh no, I missed timing. I
Speaker 2: thought he was No, I was mistiming. I was looking
Speaker 2: at the time, thinking oh, we've got to No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I wasn't out of days.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You've got correct with three minutes, actually curried through some
Speaker 2: of them, whereas I could have actually talked a bit longer.
Speaker 1: You can if you want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But anyway, going back to pink Flamingo day,
Speaker 2: because I rushed through that one. Yes, the pink Flamingo
Speaker 2: is designed. It's been around since the late fifties, and
Speaker 2: I suppose that ties in with that whole you know,
Speaker 2: if you look at leave at the beaver, that hole.
Speaker 2: Was it the nuclear effects? Oh shure, sorry, nuclear family.
Speaker 1: I was going to get you to come in earlier,
Speaker 1: just so you could say that every time he mentioned
Speaker 1: new nucular and I run. I thought you'd be worn
Speaker 1: out by.
Speaker 2: The end of the program now and then nuclear like
Speaker 2: little Shenanigans. Yes, yeah, in it was a guy called
Speaker 2: Don Thurston. He created the pink Flamingo while working at
Speaker 2: Union Products. Two thousand and seven, the production of the
Speaker 2: flamingo stopped by Union Products. So that's that's a good
Speaker 2: what's that sixty that's like nearly forty years, So making
Speaker 2: pink flamingos is probably a bit of a mainstay of
Speaker 2: people's gardens.
Speaker 1: Thought of having one, I've never No, I've never gone
Speaker 1: for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: No. Yeah, Well, anyway, this day has been around since
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven. A guy called Dean Mazzarella. Lenn
Speaker 2: Musters Mayor establishes June twenty three is Pink Flamingo's Day.
Speaker 1: But I'm not totally against paddock art. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you've got a paddock and you want to have a
Speaker 1: rusting you know, old tractor, ol tractor or something, I
Speaker 1: approve of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is that art or just the fact that you couldn't
Speaker 2: be bothered to hauling off to the scrap metal.
Speaker 1: It depends some paddocks. It obviously is art because the
Speaker 1: paddock is groomed and there's the rusting tractor and others.
Speaker 1: It's just who cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I've got a couple of big urns that
Speaker 2: I have in my backyard, which pretty much for Oh,
Speaker 2: actually I got something. I've got a twelve foot shark
Speaker 2: in my backyard too.
Speaker 1: Well, we can talk about that if we get out
Speaker 1: a chance a bit later.
Speaker 2: It's actually is a big fiberglass shark, okay, which I
Speaker 2: sort of got somewhere along the way. But back in
Speaker 2: twenty ten, myke Cato Manufacturing purchases the copyright for li
Speaker 2: Mingos and continues to produce them. So they did have
Speaker 2: that little gap between two thousand and six and twenty ten,
Speaker 2: but someone else said, oh, I'm going to give it
Speaker 2: a go and keep making the damned things.
Speaker 1: Sharon says, it's pray for World Peace Day? Is that true?
Speaker 2: I didn't see that one, but let me just I'll
Speaker 2: go outside and it's Sharon kneeling and some praying.
Speaker 1: Sharon is just encouraging that. All right, that's been national days.
Speaker 1: Him Dale, thank you,