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Speaker 1: It's time for question two in my alternative census, the
Speaker 1: Senseless Census. We're building a picture of modern Australia that
Speaker 1: no one has asked for.
Speaker 3: Question two.
Speaker 1: Please answer honestly right now four seventy five three one
Speaker 1: O four three. Your answers will be revealed tomorrow. Second question,
Speaker 1: what is your useless superpower? I believe that every single
Speaker 1: one of us has a superpower, but they're useless.
Speaker 3: They're not like your marvel.
Speaker 1: No one's building a multiverse around your superpower.
Speaker 3: They are essentially worthless and useless.
Speaker 1: I have a very powerful manifestation ability. Oh I love
Speaker 1: that only in one area I can find a parking
Speaker 1: spot within sixty seconds every single time.
Speaker 3: Really, I wish I could.
Speaker 1: Manifest other stuff, rating success so that it's failed.
Speaker 4: Me, even in big city Sydneys in the world. The
Speaker 4: gift is that I would love the test is nowhere else.
Speaker 1: My wife would always go, my God, there's no parking spots.
Speaker 1: I will always say there's one just about to open up,
Speaker 1: right Now, how.
Speaker 4: Does it come to you like a terminating someone someone?
Speaker 4: I was born with a baby.
Speaker 3: I came out.
Speaker 1: My first words were, there's a parking spot just over there. Now,
Speaker 1: my first words were as a baby, were are you leaving?
Speaker 3: Are you leaving?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Then you hate it when they're like, now is fiddling
Speaker 3: with the car lights?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: All right? What is your use of superpower? Rio?
Speaker 6: Mine couldn't be any more useless. I think if you
Speaker 6: blindfolded me, put me into a shopping center at Westfield,
Speaker 6: walked me into any store, I would know what the
Speaker 6: door is just from the smell.
Speaker 3: Oh, We've got to put this to the test.
Speaker 4: Don't think I can smell a store.
Speaker 6: I'm impressed a dares I would know cotton on, I
Speaker 6: would know rebel sports.
Speaker 4: Tell you what section in rebel sports.
Speaker 3: Would you define the smell of rebel sports.
Speaker 1: It's like the balls, isn't it the rubber they use
Speaker 1: in the making of the basketball tens?
Speaker 4: Which section?
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you're in the ball section, if in the
Speaker 6: boots section, the cricket bats section, the aqua section, the
Speaker 6: treadmill section, I could tell you I've had a very
Speaker 6: finely tuned nose that.
Speaker 3: Is impressive, Patsy, what's yours are? Than in? Great news?
Speaker 4: No, I've got a couple actually got bloody.
Speaker 3: There we go do.
Speaker 5: One is that I'm good at naming people's new pets.
Speaker 1: Literally one of the top five worst things.
Speaker 3: I'm very.
Speaker 4: Times problematic.
Speaker 5: Don't even have to look at them, if they describe them.
Speaker 4: I nail it each time.
Speaker 3: Dear listener, you might be needed for the show.
Speaker 1: We put this to the test once because we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's actually what do you get? This would be a
Speaker 1: nice thing to do. Call in, you know, send us
Speaker 1: your photos, pats will name you. Don't go on there tomorrow.
Speaker 1: First off we got was something like a black cat
Speaker 1: and perhaps you are Blackie?
Speaker 3: Oh how do you do? Are you a channel?
Speaker 4: It's a superpower.
Speaker 5: And my other one is I always always know when
Speaker 5: my husband has snuck a meccas are a hungry jack?
Speaker 3: That's a great one. At one he just looks happy.
Speaker 4: Does no?
Speaker 5: I don't even know if I can smell it, and
Speaker 5: I can tell by the expression on his face.
Speaker 4: I'll say smell guilt.
Speaker 5: You'll say a chicken sandwich, and I said, do you
Speaker 5: mean a chicken burger?
Speaker 4: Because I can smell.
Speaker 1: It the nug all right, answer the question what is
Speaker 1: your use of superpower?
Speaker 3: Christian?
Speaker 1: Mine is organizing the tupperware drawer. Please come around to
Speaker 1: mind once a week, Christian, I compete the perfect avocado.
Speaker 1: I am the avocado avocado whisperer.
Speaker 4: Now I have a follow up question for that. Is
Speaker 4: it without touching the avocado?
Speaker 6: Or it's got to be yeah, because anyone can.
Speaker 3: Anyone can do the squish.
Speaker 4: But you're just going from the colors amazing.
Speaker 1: Please cain'tifind Christian, I work in childcare, I could walk
Speaker 1: out the back and say, bang, this child has a
Speaker 1: dirty nappy, sure enough. I don't think any parent can
Speaker 1: do that because there's the unmistakable smell of poo haka.
Speaker 3: I used to a superpowered Christian.
Speaker 1: There has a been a tell what sex of dog
Speaker 1: is without checking underneath, just by their face.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm honestly thinking that we might start to test
Speaker 1: some of these, like get some dogs in and can
Speaker 1: Tracy where you do this?
Speaker 3: How spotted on?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 3: What's your win rape?
Speaker 1: Christian minus spacial awareness man picking the right size container
Speaker 1: for leftover so there's no wasted space in the fridge.
Speaker 3: That's semi useful cavel. Christian.
Speaker 1: My use of superpower finding four leaf clovers. I have
Speaker 1: over five hundred of them.
Speaker 3: Kidding question.
Speaker 1: At work, we need to sometimes put labels on things,
Speaker 1: and ninety nine percent of the time I will grab
Speaker 1: a stack of labels and it's always the exact amount
Speaker 1: I needed.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Christian.
Speaker 1: My use of superpower having two web toes on each foot.
Speaker 1: As a kid, my mum explained I was a good swimmer.
Speaker 1: It's useless. I can wake up also, Christian moments what
Speaker 1: the alarm goes off, it's just depressing. Christian from behind.
Speaker 1: This is from Mick from behind. I radiate an or
Speaker 1: a friendliness to drunks looking for someone to bore.
Speaker 3: Christian, my name is Wayne.
Speaker 1: My super superpower is I can tell the difference between
Speaker 1: flatulence and actually needing to go for a number two.
Speaker 1: In short, I don't risk it for the biscuit. That's
Speaker 1: just this is.
Speaker 3: What happens, really fascination.
Speaker 1: My superpower is I know when the microwave is about
Speaker 1: to beat, just before it goes off.
Speaker 3: That's a great one, Christian.
Speaker 1: I can see if thing's a dead level without the
Speaker 1: use of a level, especially hedges.
Speaker 4: Love that.
Speaker 3: That's great. What I'm Matthew Kyle.
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Speaker 1: streaming show falling over again. I guess you got to
Speaker 1: listen to something. When you do, Bruno doesn't reboot test
Speaker 1: it when Carlin BONDI my used the super power is
Speaker 1: guessing a villain in of the film. It's always a
Speaker 1: French nice person, never the overtop buddy.
Speaker 6: Actually, I would say my mom's superpower is any detective,
Speaker 6: especially Scandy.
Speaker 4: She will know who did it, who is the murderer.
Speaker 3: And she's always right.
Speaker 4: Yes, I never ever see it coming.
Speaker 1: They made these TV shows for simpletons like me, Blody,
Speaker 1: I had no idea it was a guy who had
Speaker 1: that gun.
Speaker 3: It always kept cleaning it.
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