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Speaker 1: now for this week's small thing, Big Joy.
Speaker 2: Small thing, Big Joy text us spot you enjoy, like
Speaker 2: finding five bucks in your jeans or buying the soft
Speaker 2: fan of your dreams.
Speaker 1: All right, what s more thing gives you big joy?
Speaker 1: Text us yours share it? Oh four seventy five three
Speaker 1: one o four three, Perhaps you what's yours?
Speaker 3: Mine is driveway goodbyes, which I think is a dying art,
Speaker 3: so doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Whenever we go up to my parents place.
Speaker 3: Whether it's a small visit could be just five minutes
Speaker 3: to drop something off, pick something up, or a long
Speaker 3: visit on Sunday afternoon, they will always come out and
Speaker 3: wave us goodbye, always always sweet.
Speaker 4: But it's a dying art.
Speaker 3: I think it's dying off with the older generation where
Speaker 3: they would always see you off and it's so beautiful
Speaker 3: and I know one day when they're.
Speaker 4: Not around, you'll miss that wave. I will miss that
Speaker 4: so much, really touching, and it's just the simplest thing.
Speaker 4: And Mum will wait until you're.
Speaker 1: Down out of sight until I'm still the same parts. Right.
Speaker 1: The kids, my two daughters now will obviously drive their
Speaker 1: own cars. I still walk them to their cars, help
Speaker 1: them with their crap, and we'll wave them off down
Speaker 1: the road. You can go now. And no, No, it's
Speaker 1: just a thing, you know. It's a generational thing.
Speaker 4: It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 3: There was never a time when I was growing up
Speaker 3: if you visited an aunt and uncle or cousins where
Speaker 3: they didn't come out and wait off.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now we don't do it anymore, and I think it's
Speaker 4: a real show.
Speaker 1: If you are the receiver of the wave off, you
Speaker 1: should give it away bast away raised right, just not
Speaker 1: the big old but a little like you know, as
Speaker 1: you're being waved off, if you're the wavy and they're
Speaker 1: the wavers, and you've got to return it with your
Speaker 1: going down the road.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only with Mom and Dad though they're the only
Speaker 3: ones I do, because they're always out the front in
Speaker 3: the driveway waving a song.
Speaker 4: I think it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: If I came to visit you, would you wave me off?
Speaker 1: I think I can imagine what kind of wave?
Speaker 4: Thank god he's gone?
Speaker 1: What's that? They don't do that enough anymore?
Speaker 4: The old driveway bird.
Speaker 1: The bird by.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't come out where do you come?
Speaker 1: Mind?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: If I was going to get the wave off just
Speaker 1: to experience that real what small thing? But that was
Speaker 1: a beautiful one, Percy, thanks for show no Rial, what's yours?
Speaker 6: I had a goodie yesterday. I was at the petrol station,
Speaker 6: pulled in behind this guy in front of me. He
Speaker 6: filled up first, he went in. I came in after he.
Speaker 6: I caught him napping. He's looking around at the Allan's lollies,
Speaker 6: the snake having a little look at the ice cream
Speaker 6: right in front of him.
Speaker 1: I paid before him.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, brother.
Speaker 1: In this game silky soccer skills, there a little side step, yes,
Speaker 1: a bit of ekunda. And now Intern Pete is part
Speaker 1: of the advance party. He's up at the criteria in
Speaker 1: hotel where we'll be live tomorrow morning. This is the
Speaker 1: part we've been renovating for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And Pete, what small thing, big joint for you.
Speaker 5: I don't want to use the words the greatest day
Speaker 5: of my life, but yes, that was actually yesterday when
Speaker 5: I sliced a big chunk of cheese. Now the biggest
Speaker 5: challenge when you slice the cheese is, oh, how many
Speaker 5: crackers do I need to take out of the packet
Speaker 5: to match the ratio of the cheese.
Speaker 1: Now, this ratio has got to be right, cracker to
Speaker 1: You've got to balance it. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5: You've got to get it so right. There's no having
Speaker 5: to go back to the pantry and get more or
Speaker 5: bring in the whole packet than having to put the
Speaker 5: packet back later, all that sort of stuff. You've got
Speaker 5: to get it right. I predicted that I would need
Speaker 5: thirteen ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: No cheese an afternoon.
Speaker 5: It was a lot of cheese, and it was a
Speaker 5: beautiful thirteen crackers, perfectly the right amount of cheese on
Speaker 5: everything one, none of that like, oh a little bit
Speaker 5: on that one and a little bit bigger on that.
Speaker 5: It was just perfect.
Speaker 1: Now tell me this, in fact, don't tell us your team.
Speaker 1: Let's have a guess what type of cheese you think
Speaker 1: Pete was calming up? You think a common of garden
Speaker 1: hard cheddar.
Speaker 6: I think he's gone from Mercy Valley cheddar.
Speaker 1: That's a bit fancy. It's Sydney cider in him, isn't it.
Speaker 1: You know all those shears in a cane jay show.
Speaker 1: I think he's going for bre.
Speaker 5: The answer is it was cheer cheese. Oh, sorry to
Speaker 5: disappoint everyone. It was no dafn ware or saying to
Speaker 5: go from Leon in France. It was just typical, very
Speaker 5: basic chee che.
Speaker 1: Lovely couple of slices of Yarlsburg yesterday afternoon picked me up.
Speaker 5: I feel I've disappointed all of you by just eating
Speaker 5: stand and cheese.
Speaker 1: I just thought you would be a bit more fancy.
Speaker 1: I thought you thought you might even be maybe a
Speaker 1: manchega or gooda man.
Speaker 5: Oh, I do love all of them. See I used
Speaker 5: to be a cheesemaker as well, but sometimes it's nice
Speaker 5: to go back to basics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: Yes, so I learned how to make cheese, after all, I.
Speaker 1: Thought you were talking about what you did in the
Speaker 1: Carl and Jackie o' show. Awful lot of cheese, sour blue,
Speaker 1: very blue, very blue. Actually yes, yes, things got rights.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
Speaker 5: After my apprenticeship with the chef, I learned how to
Speaker 5: make cheese in regional Victoria at Timboon Farmhouse Cheese. The
Speaker 5: cheese was that good it was taken over by King
Speaker 5: island and then can of beers, breeze, you name it.
Speaker 1: This is incredible. What a life you've led.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I'm only thirty five. It's crazy now.
Speaker 1: Participating before the show was telling us when we were
Speaker 1: talking about how do you cut the cheese? I actually
Speaker 1: cut it in a triangle formation and then you dress
Speaker 1: the plate so it looks quite nice when you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of cheese and crankers. But I got
Speaker 1: the idea is just using sliced cheese.
Speaker 5: Correct, I just used that, you know cheese, like sliced
Speaker 5: cheese cheese.
Speaker 1: It's not Bogan, it's burger burger cheese. Well, if you're
Speaker 1: using the pre slice stuff you're in the Rappers, you don't.
Speaker 1: That's not a shark coute kind of board.
Speaker 4: Look, not in the Rappers.
Speaker 3: This is the one that's you know the square box
Speaker 3: that you get at Willworths or Coals.
Speaker 6: And like eager or huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and it just comes as a square.
Speaker 3: But I only use that because I have it as
Speaker 3: a snack daily and I like a controlled.
Speaker 4: Amount how many slices.
Speaker 3: I would have two slices, which is equivalent to probably
Speaker 3: about if I break it down into six twelve and
Speaker 3: then I get my thirteen crackers.
Speaker 1: That's the magic number this morning. All right, okay, what
Speaker 1: is the small thing big joy for you? For you
Speaker 1: stay seker about him. Small thing big joy is when
Speaker 1: I'm baking a cake and I need one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five grams of butter and I managed to just
Speaker 1: eyeboard it and slice off exactly one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five grams a butt off the wedge on my first
Speaker 1: attempt known bessing about trying to get a tiny bit
Speaker 1: more but five grams ten grams. It's uncanny when you
Speaker 1: hit that. You do it for great. It's like an
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medal. Christian small thing big joy. When you
Speaker 1: craving a few crackers, open the packet, boom, thirteen left.
Speaker 1: It's the number today, show thirteen Christian small thing big Joy.
Speaker 1: Tickling toddlers, now, Christy, Obviously you need to know the toddler.
Speaker 1: You need to be related to a toddler. You can't
Speaker 1: be going around tickling unknown toddlers. I should have to
Speaker 1: say it, but I feel like I should say three.
Speaker 1: The label always always check with a toddle of bine.
Speaker 1: You right to have a little chicky tile Christian. I
Speaker 1: still tep Patsy. I still wave people off two Patsy.
Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful thing that should continue. It shows
Speaker 1: we're all love kindness. Diane, that's lovely. I remember ree
Speaker 1: years ago. Do you see like families would if they
Speaker 1: saw train go by. This was in the eight and
Speaker 1: obviously trains were there's some excite people where they would
Speaker 1: just wave at the strangers on the trains. Yes, I should.
Speaker 1: When we were out like walking with the dogs, we
Speaker 1: to go by this train track when there was a
Speaker 1: train come and I always get the kids down and
Speaker 1: we just wave at the stranger. I don't even know why.
Speaker 1: And some of them would wave back, Oh that's cute. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's waving. And now if I saw
Speaker 1: someone waving at a train, I would think, bless them,
Speaker 1: they're not well. I would I would sadly think that
Speaker 1: are people still you know? When with a truck?
Speaker 6: Are people still going doing the honks side? I've kids
Speaker 6: and then the trucks trucks honk back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never know. If I saw you doing that,
Speaker 1: I think you really weren't very well. If you're waving
Speaker 1: at a train, that's another level.
Speaker 3: But I go, wow, my dad was a truck driver
Speaker 3: and you'd always have people do that need.
Speaker 4: Horn back sounds like a great You still see kids,
Speaker 4: school kids at the side of the road standing with your.
Speaker 1: Chuckle sisters, are getting very excited out there. What's up,
Speaker 1: chuckle sisters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're in the back of the bus as
Speaker 3: a kid, that you were doing and were doing.
Speaker 1: One day the best of the day as well being
Speaker 1: at that back, that back seat, that big long back seat,
Speaker 1: that's where that that's where the action was, and just
Speaker 1: mooning various tribes as well. Oh my god, yes, check
Speaker 1: with the toddlers and always moon on the back seat.
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