1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. Let me ask you this, Brendan, 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: when you go traveling, are you a person who makes 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: the most of wherever you are? You eat and drink 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: the street food, You sit in restaurants and try the 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: local delicacies. What kind of traveler are you when it 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: comes to food. 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 2: I like to experience the local flavors, I must say. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 3: If I'm walking along the streets of Barley, I don't 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 3: go and eat that ranked chicken off the side of 10 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 3: the road. 11 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: You wait till it's. 12 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: Dead, you know, when they cook him a chicken on 13 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: the stick. 14 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: So I'm not going to do that, but I will. 15 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: I certainly wouldn't bring food with me. 16 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: No, And isn't that interesting this man and he and 17 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: his partner boast about how they do this. He's a 18 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: UK resident. He spends about four hundred bucks to take 19 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: a suitcase full of food on his holiday. So this 20 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: is what he took when they went to Egypt. They 21 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: even took a George Foreman grill. What yep? So he says, 22 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: I like my home comforts when I go abroad instead 23 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: of searching for decent food or take my own. So 24 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: this is what they took with them and this is 25 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: not old coots. Well he's forty, his wife is twenty nine. 26 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: You do the mats. Here's what they took. Twenty one 27 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: cups of instant noodles, eighty six bags of chips, two 28 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: packets of bacon. How's that not going to spoil in 29 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: a suitcase. A pack of thirty sausages yep, cans of tuna, 30 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: a block of cheese, brown sauce. You know, if you 31 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: ask an English person what's in brown sauce, I'll say 32 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: it's brown. You know what's in it? I don't know. 33 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: It's just brown. It's no one knows what's in it. 34 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: It is just brown. 35 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 2: How sauce? 36 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: Instead of saying wooster. 37 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 2: What do you say? 38 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: Bushes? Sheer sort sure, short. 39 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: Charlie, that's got anchovies in it. Fun fact. 40 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: Well, also he's crammed thirty mcvitty's club biscuit bars, sixteen 41 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: bags of sweets. I hate these people already, and lots 42 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: of breakfast bars. So they are her. On her TikTok channel, 43 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: she shows the entire pantry that she takes with them 44 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: for their trip. So their trip is nearly two thousand 45 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: dollars for all inclusive vacation package. And they take all 46 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: their own food. Why go to Egypt if you're not 47 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: going to enjoy life? And why why don't you just 48 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: stay home and look at slides exactly? 49 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 2: You go to Egypt and the food. 50 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 3: I've never been to Egypt, but there'd be a lot 51 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 3: of you know, rice and camel and stuff like that. 52 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: Well, that's part of traveling. My grandfather had a phrase book, 53 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: one of which was the expression is Egyptian phrase book 54 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: and it was my stomach is in disarray. I told 55 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: you how to say that phrase in Egyptian. I guess 56 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: that's common. 57 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: You need to know it because that could well be India. 58 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 2: Really well. 59 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: I am known for my iron guts. I traveled through India. 60 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: I traveled a whole lot of places beyond two thousand, 61 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: and I never touched on it got the runny stares. 62 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 2: From what I've heard about India, You're going to just 63 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 2: whoop your dacks when you. 64 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: Get to well, I never whooped my dacks. There were 65 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: probably some times I can't actually remember, but in places 66 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: like China too, I remember being in the hotel thinking, 67 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: please God, if I've got to go to the toilet, 68 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: let it be now, because I know what toilets I'm 69 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: going to see throughout the day in rural China thirty 70 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: years ago. I wish i'd taken my mcvity biscuits into 71 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: a couple of sausages, because I think I've told you this. 72 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: This was, as I said, rural China over thirty years ago. 73 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: But we were taken around so they could show off 74 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: their agriculture, and they were growing some of it in 75 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: human waste. So when I smelt the food cooking, I 76 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: couldn't distinguish what I was smelling. It all smelt. It's like, 77 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: after a while, when you smell Glen twenties, you think 78 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: you're smelling pooh. After a while, the toilet smelled like 79 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: the food. Food smell like the toilets. 80 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: Didn't you encounter the worst toilet in China? 81 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: And it's not a tourist destination. The worst toilet in China. Well, 82 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: we were trying to do a story on the space 83 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: program that was launching an OSAT satellite, remember OSAT, and 84 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: so the Australian government had arranged this story so we 85 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: could view the facility where the satellite would take off from. 86 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: And I don't think I think now looking back, it 87 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: was all bull excuse my language, because when we got there, 88 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: we were just shown people cleaning machinery and we said, 89 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: well this they didn't want us to see anything, right, 90 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: So finally we went to some facility where it was 91 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: supposed to be this is where it will take on. 92 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: So what do they say, take the round eyes to 93 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: somewhere they can go have a look at. I think 94 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: that was probably it satisfy them. 95 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: And Caspar Weinberger was the American I think it was 96 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: what their version of head of foreign affairs, secretary of state. 97 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: Maybe that's his role. And so we went to and 98 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: there were photos of them on the wall. They had 99 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: also done a tour of this facility. So I just thought, 100 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: I'll just go to the bathroom. And there's a picture 101 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 1: on the front, you know those ones. It's a lady's 102 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: profile with a finger touching her nose, holding her nose. 103 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: I went in there. It will always for me be 104 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: known as the missus Weineberger because it was the worst 105 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: thing I've ever seen go on. It was a toilet 106 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: in the floor, and that's fair enough because that's what 107 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: Chinese were. Squat toilet well just not yeah, a squat 108 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: like you know, porcelain in the floor. Yeah, but there's 109 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: no But what I saw there resembled Marge Simpson's hair, 110 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: layer upon layer upon layer, and half up was a 111 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: slipper wedged in like a jaunty Marie Antoinette kind of wig. 112 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for making me retell that story. So that 113 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: toilet became known as the Missus Weinberger because presumably they 114 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: were showing off that they'd been to that facility. And 115 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, I don't think she would have appreciated it. 116 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: You think China, with everything that would have had, would 117 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: have good toilets. 118 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: Well, they probably do, I'm sure they do. Now, this 119 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: was a long time ago, because you go to. 120 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 2: The Middle East, not that I've been to the Middle East. Well, 121 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: I've been to Dubai. But there's got the squat toilets 122 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,119 Speaker 2: over in Dubai. 123 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: Well usually what happens now, and a lot of places 124 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: in China too. Even then there were the western toilets 125 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: and then there was the local toilets. So on our 126 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: day off, our driver said, I'll take you to the 127 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: Great Wall of China, but he took us to the 128 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: area where the locals were, and so the toilet. Now 129 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: I'm on a roll. The toilets. It was a big 130 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: open slab with slits in it, and you squatted and 131 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: looked at other people. There were no doors between them. 132 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: I've never quite recovered. It's amazing. I'ven't been constipated ever since. 133 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 3: So you went in there with your form guide. Excuse I, 134 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 3: this is why I whooped my dacks in the airport land. 135 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: You're only flying to Melbourne. I'm sorry if this has 136 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: been rank. You made me tell that story. 137 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 2: It's just entertainment.