Speaker 1: I Heart podcasts.
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Speaker 2: about surprises, but Kaiton I actually managed to pull off
Speaker 2: a brilliant surprise at the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yes, so my wife, it's her birthday very very soon.
Speaker 3: And when we got together ten years ago, we talked
Speaker 3: about having birthday gifts of a lifetime. I got mine
Speaker 3: when I was thirty, which was a Louis Vuton bag.
Speaker 4: I was very, very lucky, and.
Speaker 3: It's just a gift that you would never get your
Speaker 3: like you would never assume you would get in your
Speaker 3: whole lifetime, and so we always promised to do that.
Speaker 4: This one has taken me ten years.
Speaker 2: So relatable, isn't it At Louis Vouton, you know, perhaps
Speaker 2: you must have five.
Speaker 4: We've been together for a very long time, so we know.
Speaker 2: And also no kids, I'd probably be wearing Louis Vuton's shoes.
Speaker 1: Now I've got those two kids.
Speaker 5: We're both thirty four, we're both you know, professionals.
Speaker 2: So the gay dollar, it's worth more than it's worth,
Speaker 2: way more than the straight pound.
Speaker 3: This gift has taken me ten years to get and
Speaker 3: On Saturday, I revealed to my wife that I am
Speaker 3: taking her on a trip to Japan for two weeks,
Speaker 3: fully organized.
Speaker 4: Nothing for her to worry about.
Speaker 2: Such a beautiful gift, because actually the best things in life,
Speaker 2: for experiences, it isn't things.
Speaker 3: Yes, except mine was a Louis for tom bag. But yes, no,
Speaker 3: she's teaching me that.
Speaker 2: I was talking to the listeners who are a little
Speaker 2: bit more aspirational. Tell me you're a boga without telling
Speaker 2: me you're a bog.
Speaker 1: Let's do it this week. You have a No, you'd
Speaker 1: have a replica Louis, wouldn't you. Yes, yeah, Lewis. But
Speaker 1: what a great gift.
Speaker 4: It was a great gift.
Speaker 1: You guys have an amazing time.
Speaker 4: It'll be incredible.
Speaker 5: I'm such all organized, it's all organized.
Speaker 2: Paying for it because these days, you know, we have
Speaker 2: joint you know, accounts and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And now the app you see what my money's going out.
Speaker 3: I thought she was going to pick it up because
Speaker 3: I had booked it on the credit card, because the
Speaker 3: flights were expensive.
Speaker 1: Walks for the police as well.
Speaker 5: She does, she does, so she should have figured it out.
Speaker 1: Happens to me, don't get an investigat she just said, I.
Speaker 4: Don't ever look at that stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that, you know, I'm sure you'll
Speaker 3: pay anyway.
Speaker 5: So, luckily enough didn't get that butt.
Speaker 3: On Friday night, my mother, who knows about this surprise
Speaker 3: and knew that I was telling her this weekend, sent
Speaker 3: a text to our family group and said, when do
Speaker 3: you guys go to Japan?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Thanks?
Speaker 4: Mom My blood.
Speaker 3: Went ran co like I have never been in such fear.
Speaker 3: And I was sitting ext them on the couch and
Speaker 3: she was like, what what's she talking about? And I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know. She's a cooker. And then
Speaker 3: my brother, my brother swooped in at the last minute
Speaker 3: and said, oh, we are going until December.
Speaker 1: Oh save save. That is very good.
Speaker 4: So he saved it.
Speaker 5: But it's taken me ten years to organize, like not
Speaker 5: to organize this.
Speaker 1: But you get up to the it's a slow planner
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: I've been planning for four months.
Speaker 1: Two thousand, twenty eighteen. Flights book, Oh well, same time
Speaker 1: next year. The transfer.
Speaker 3: You went to so much trouble, much four months in
Speaker 3: the making. He hiding everything, hiding money, hiding everything.
Speaker 4: I'm in nineteen Auary.
Speaker 2: Yeh, sell the handbag, O get here in Geisha.
Speaker 3: Twenty four hours before I told her my mother nearly spoiled.
Speaker 1: The cut of rose and a Friday night.
Speaker 4: I can imagine it, genuinely, she was absolutely having a
Speaker 4: few ones, all right.
Speaker 2: So I want to hear about stories of it takes
Speaker 2: a lot of effort to pull off a surprise, because
Speaker 2: at any moment, I bet we hear about surprises.
Speaker 1: Who got rumbled? I bet it's in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone says something a text or an accident, you
Speaker 2: didn't notice a surprise, or you haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Someone in a while. It must be so hard to
Speaker 1: pull off surprise.
Speaker 2: So we want to hear about your stories of surprises
Speaker 2: done well and surprise has gone bad?
Speaker 1: What happened to you at the weekend? Oh?
Speaker 6: Mine was a few years ago. Actually it was the
Speaker 6: first time.
Speaker 7: Will my partner is our first year and he organized
Speaker 7: a surprise dinner for me for my birthday, very very sweet.
Speaker 7: It was just coming out of COVID, so you can
Speaker 7: only have about twelve people.
Speaker 6: In the time.
Speaker 7: In the last twenty four hours, so I had a
Speaker 7: few of my friends come down with COVID.
Speaker 6: A few of them got stuck in.
Speaker 7: Canberra and some of them were running late and we
Speaker 7: were on our way to dinner that I thought was
Speaker 7: just me and Will, and I could tell immediately something
Speaker 7: was up because there's a lot of checking the phone.
Speaker 7: He suddenly looked very nervous. I walk into the restaurant
Speaker 7: and the scene that greets me there for my big
Speaker 7: surprise party is Caitlin, our very own Caitlyn on her
Speaker 7: phone with her back turned no, and I walk in.
Speaker 1: I see no, the big it's not the big, done done.
Speaker 6: Surprise. I just saw you two hours ago. What's the surprise?
Speaker 6: And there's like eight empty seeds, none of them climate.
Speaker 7: It's just me, Will, Caitlyn and one other friend.
Speaker 1: One can you emerge in the streams. She got a
Speaker 1: work mate, an old mate.
Speaker 6: It was the saddest surprise party I think in human history.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know. Well, let's his way to see
Speaker 1: what we get. Okay, give us a call.
Speaker 2: Your story's about surprises done well and done badly, Christian surprises.
Speaker 2: Stepmom brought me a flight home from Australia back to
Speaker 2: the UK and Bristol. Only I got there and it
Speaker 2: was meant to be my dad's sixtieth, but I fell
Speaker 2: asleep from the jet leg missed most of it.
Speaker 1: Zero. It's a long way, a long way. It's like
Speaker 1: living on another planet. Guys don't know. Twenty one hours Christian.
Speaker 2: Last weekend, my husband turned sixty and we organized a
Speaker 2: surprise KFC bucket party. His favorite food is KFC. He
Speaker 2: thought we were going out for dinner. Then all of
Speaker 2: his friends started arriving with KFC buckets on their heads.
Speaker 1: He was so confused.
Speaker 2: She kept saying, to wait, are they coming with us?
Speaker 1: Sue and Mick? Who? What are the odds are listening
Speaker 1: in Japan?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 1: Talking about that?
Speaker 2: So my daughter is after Japan in two weeks time,
Speaker 2: and she's got tattoos.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize in some of.
Speaker 2: The spas and when you can go in the pools
Speaker 2: now you're not allowed in with.
Speaker 6: Tattoos going on send because they think you're yakuza.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I didn't know, yes, So I had to email
Speaker 2: them and say, you know, she's got some tattoos. Is
Speaker 2: this a yakuza thing? And then my mat going, yes
Speaker 2: it is. I said, I can assure you she just graduated.
Speaker 2: She's not yakuza.
Speaker 6: That's what you think.
Speaker 1: But that's a very Ukuta thing to say it.
Speaker 6: She could be like John Wick.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I hadn't no, I hadn't no idea. So
Speaker 2: is it all tattoos you're not allowed? It? Is it
Speaker 2: based on kind of like they all say tattoo. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's all tattoo that says ain't in the yakuza.
Speaker 1: It's a good loophole. All right. We're talking about surprises,
Speaker 1: and Simon's on the line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Hi Christian, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good. Have you a lovely weekend? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Thank you you too.
Speaker 1: Now, what is the story?
Speaker 8: My partner loves bald wedged eagle. I'm sorry. My partner
Speaker 8: loves wedge twel eagles, and I thought I would surprise
Speaker 8: him with a massive print and I bought it. It arrived,
Speaker 8: I showed him, opened it up. I got the wrong eagle.
Speaker 8: I'd actually bought him an American bald eagle. I could
Speaker 8: tell from his face it was wrong. He had to
Speaker 8: console me.
Speaker 1: You start crying.
Speaker 8: I did it.
Speaker 1: Because she went to all that effort. You just wanted
Speaker 1: to have that big reveal. It's the wrong bird. Someone
Speaker 1: ripped you off. I'm going on a counter affair with
Speaker 1: this picture, and then.
Speaker 8: I just went and mucked up the story.
Speaker 2: Then you ruined the surprise for us as well.
Speaker 1: You still get the wrong bird wrong. So where would
Speaker 1: you got this wrong eagled picture from.
Speaker 8: I ordered it online and I actually googled wedge til eagles.
Speaker 8: So I'm not like I don't know much about birds obviously,
Speaker 8: and so because I googled wedge tail eagles, I thought
Speaker 8: that was the wedge til eagle.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 8: No, And then the print took up half the size
Speaker 8: of the wall.
Speaker 2: So now.
Speaker 8: It's back in the box.
Speaker 1: Simon, I'll tell you what. Why don't we give it
Speaker 1: away on the show?
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll bring it in peace, please.
Speaker 2: I'll take that off you and summer warm on that.
Speaker 2: So it's a bald headed eagle.
Speaker 8: It's an American bald headed eagle. I'll bring it in. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I can have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, please, we'll give that away. Someone must
Speaker 1: love that bird. Please.
Speaker 8: It's a very very heavy jam.
Speaker 1: So tell me this. Did you get him the right
Speaker 1: eagle picture? In the end?
Speaker 8: Well, I've got him a wedgetailed eagle feather, A drink
Speaker 8: that's a prink drink?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look closer that it's not the wrong
Speaker 2: it's a magpie feather. I'm on, Michelle, get it right.
Speaker 2: Some own, very very funny story. I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you two hundred and fifty dollars Chemists Warehouse voucher.
Speaker 1: Really great story. No, it has paid off.
Speaker 7: You might be able to get a Wedgetol Eagle poster
Speaker 7: at Chemists Warehouse.
Speaker 8: Let's you say, I will never surprise him again. I'll
Speaker 8: always make sure he's with me when I get something.
Speaker 1: New, brilliant stuff. Thanks some moment, Thanks you cool.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much, Christian.
Speaker 1: Really, I reckon we should do more stories.
Speaker 2: But it's still in the box, Yes, what's And they're
Speaker 2: always in the garage, aren't they? There's always I reckon
Speaker 2: if we went to any of our listeners homes right
Speaker 2: now and watching the garriage, something is in a box.
Speaker 2: Either hasn't we got out, or it's the wrong thing
Speaker 2: and you haven't sent it back, or you haven't hung
Speaker 2: it up or something like that. Garages are literally just
Speaker 2: sort of waiting grounds, aren't they.
Speaker 7: Well, you don't you want to hide the shame. You
Speaker 7: don't want the contant reminder of your failure.
Speaker 1: Shame rules.
Speaker 2: I've run out of time to find the answer out,
Speaker 2: but I just started to type into Google what's the
Speaker 2: difference between to find out what is the difference between
Speaker 2: a bordered eagle and a wedge tailed eagle. You think
Speaker 2: it's size, well, yeah, but I know baldheaded, that's the yankee,
Speaker 2: that's the big yank one.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the wedgetail's our equivalent.
Speaker 1: It's smaller. But apparently they do fly off with dogs
Speaker 1: wedgetailed eagles. Yep, my wife told me this.
Speaker 2: And we've got this irritational toy poodle which I would
Speaker 2: that west tele eagle flew off with our dog.
Speaker 1: Reggie would drop.
Speaker 2: Them off within five minutes, going wait, god, she's she
Speaker 2: got to keep on the lead. There's one of these
Speaker 2: one these days. An eagle could come by and fly
Speaker 2: off with them if I was strapped some bacon to
Speaker 2: his head. When it come down anyway, you know what
Speaker 2: it does. I also complete on Google. I only got
Speaker 2: as far as what is difference between? And then it's
Speaker 2: come down and learn different options that the two eagles
Speaker 2: isn't on there? But why does that beat my interest?
Speaker 2: What's the difference between raisins and sort of tops?
Speaker 6: Great question?
Speaker 1: What is the difference sweetness. They dried grapes, aren't they?
Speaker 2: Do they?
Speaker 6: How do they become?
Speaker 7: How does it become? How does one grape become a raisin?
Speaker 7: One becomes get sweeter?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And what about prunes? Are they different fruit?
Speaker 1: Altogo? Totally different area. They're not tried grapes.
Speaker 4: No, they're massive, big things.
Speaker 1: Oh do you know what?
Speaker 2: I actually think we should have a weekly feature called
Speaker 2: how that Work? I said to my door yesterday because
Speaker 2: she got to Japan. She was talking about the bullet
Speaker 2: train and I was saying, out quickly that is? I said,
Speaker 2: do you know what moves? It says so quickly it
Speaker 2: runs on magnets, And then she goes, how does that work?
Speaker 1: And I went, I wish I knew more? I also
Speaker 1: know one question. I was like, actually, I'm tapping out.
Speaker 6: Is it one big magnet that sucks the train at
Speaker 6: the end?
Speaker 2: You know how magnets will repel themselves. Is there some
Speaker 2: kind of repellent that's going on? And meaning it's moving
Speaker 2: so quickly, is it's moving away from other magnets? I
Speaker 2: think the magnet speed whoa to Kyoto.
Speaker 6: I think it's a magnet pulls it to the other
Speaker 6: magnet I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is why we need their feature. How that work