1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,559 Speaker 2: Sam, let's get on down to the Jonesy dematter of 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: arms for the pub test this morning. Even before the pandemic, 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: the or Royal Australian Mint was gently nudging the five 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: cent piece into its grave. Demand for coins have halved 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: in the last five years. The mid boss Mint Boss, 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,159 Speaker 2: I like the idea have been the mid boss if he. 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 3: Comes around in the evening, is he the after dinner 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 3: mint boss? 10 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'll ask him when he comes round, he said. 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: As twenty twenty dawned, he expected Australia's smallest coins to 12 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: die naturally. The pandemic has sped all this up. So 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 2: the big question five and ten cent pieces. So they 14 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: passed the pub. 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 3: Time five and tens five cent piece or a ten 16 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 3: cent you know. 17 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 2: Sometimes you know, you buy a newspaper something and they 18 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: changed the price to the newspaper and you had to 19 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: get to the now the newspaper's three bucks, I think so. 20 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 3: Well, many people using credit cards to or you know, 21 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: tap and go for absolutely everything. Yeah, but five cents. 22 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 3: Even parking meeters don't take five cents anymore, do they. 23 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 3: There's no actual machine that will take five cents. It's 24 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 3: only you're going to be a bag of mixed lollies 25 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: or something. And these days that's a million dollars. 26 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 2: People are saying that this is part of the whole thing. 27 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: Calvin here says, I still use coins every day, be 28 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: it in vending machines, parking tickets, or throwing a coin 29 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 2: or two to a buscot. What's it a type? What 30 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: are you Calvin? Five and ten cent piece chugging that 31 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: to him as he's busking away? 32 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 3: What sort of sex is the person? Are you to say? Him? 33 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: Oh? 34 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, him or her some person of no sex performing 35 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: away describing yourself? 36 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: Now, well, what do you think five inten cent pieces? 37 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 3: Do they pass the pub test? 38 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 4: Yeah? 39 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: Keep them around. They can't go just yet. Sometimes you 40 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: just need the loose change. I don't know, if you're 41 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: short of a dollar or something, you just go through 42 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: your five and ten cents in can make it. 43 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 4: No, they're going to go place and space and laying whila. 44 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 4: Absolutely they need to stay. Everybody ins up, rounding up 45 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 4: or rounding down and were still I'm not getting charged 46 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 4: law And you know what, they're just easy so they 47 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 4: don't just integrate so much easier. And if you want 48 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 4: to pick a point across you always fame and general account. 49 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: They definitely would pass the publicans best mate. 50 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 4: You know? 51 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: Does that mean that people buy beers with fives and 52 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 3: ten cent pieces? 53 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: That sounds like the publican's worst enemy. Hey mate, can 54 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: I get in there? And as you're putting out, maybe 55 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: you pack. 56 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 3: Of us on Viningar chips. Maybe you pay for that 57 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: with coins. 58 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: I hate when your little numby is nuts, you know, 59 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: and your wallet, you know, a little coin person there, 60 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: and that invariably spills open because you have so many, 61 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: and then it all goes over the ground. But then 62 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: you look like a big scab because you're picking up 63 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: five pieces, but you're hoping there might be some gold 64 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: in there. 65 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 3: What will this do to the jar beside Dad's bed? 66 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 3: Remember every dad had jar beside the bed that you 67 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 3: put the coins into. 68 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 2: Thank you for all your calls. 69 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: Join the and Amanda in the morning.