Wippa’s Emergency Rush To Hospital… Twice!

Wippa has hit his mid-life crisis, its unfortunate but it comes for every man and instead of getting an overpriced car or motorbike he has dived deep into the Japanese culture. This has led him to buy some Koi fish and then to the hospital...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting In with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's when people hit that sort of middle age and
I'm forty five, you're a little bit older than me.
They talk about a midlife crisis. Some are going to
run off and buy a boat or a motorbike or
a race horse. I've done something a little bit different.
I've delved into the Japanese culture. It's a little bit
odd not those have the depth to understand the sensitivities

(00:25):
and the richness.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Arakkhan, you're still doing arika the martial art a Burmese
al right, Sorry.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Very different strength, confidence, accuracy.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Or they're known for their cats and their martial arts and.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Building and railways and things. Let's go back to Orikato.
The Japanese culture. Kawaii which means cute. If you ever
ever meet a Japanese person and you say kawaii, I
love it, I absolutely love it, they go, oh, gosh,
she speaks our language.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
He's one of us.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
What do they say when you walk into a Japanese restaurant,
you know, someone will yell out something and they'll go
kshigi and everybody goes.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
That sounds like I'm the only.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
They realized something else thirteen twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
If you've worked in a Japanese restaurant, what do they
yell when you walk in?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Because I never know what they're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
They could just say idiots here again idiot he is.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I don't know. Anyway, I didn't buy a motorbike a
fast car. I bought Japanese koi.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
So that's, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
The fish fish you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
So that that they look like the giant goldfish to.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Do Ryan, although they have many different patterns and many
different styles, and what I can tell you is they're
quite sensitive too. So we've a pond out in the
front of the house and the kids wanted to get
some koi as well, to stop the mosquitoes breeding in
a breeding setup we have for the mozzi community of Australia.
We've been supplying for far too long. So the Japanese

(01:58):
coi eat the mozzies. And here's the thing, they're not cheap.
The fish aren't cheap. So we bought a couple of
little ones. There were one hundred and fifty dollars each.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
What they're just for little ones?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, so I'm in for three hundred at this stage.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Okay, gotcha? And do you what, what do you feed them?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Or just normal palettes and stuff. But they're sensitive to
when you feed them and how long you feed them.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
There's a lot of work and it fits.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're allowed to put the food in the pond, but
then if they haven't eaten it within two minutes, you
remove the food from the pond.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
So I have to get my little net out and
leave it.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Cockles because I could know they don't maybe bait one
up and no, not to be fished.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
This pond is not to be fished. I'm three hundred
in Friday. Wake up, absolute panic. Kids are screaming. We've
got a floater the what.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
You left a gift in there?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
No mean one of the fish wasn't doing very well.
It was the chengui.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
So they're not going to eat that.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, they're Chongois butterfly.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
You can't buy that at pet bunk now, you can't, No.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Show where you can at Bunning's. On the way out
a piece of bread.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Whether it of source, you won't know the difference. So
the fish in trouble was that CHANGOI did to a butterfly?

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh are you going back to your butterfly roots?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, it's a butterfly sanky right, So that describes the
color of the fish.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Because he had a butterflying clothes in your dad builted film, yeah,
and used to catch them in your net.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Had a lizard in there as well. Was to dance around,
used to put on an outfit and catch the butterflies.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
So the changhoi did to butterfly had to race off
to fish hospital, which was Aquadisiac on Oxford Street and Paddington. Chris,
he's like the emergency doctor there. He's taken the fish
in anyway, then I've got cameras.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We've got cameras.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Survived.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, it has survived, which is great. So the changoi
did too, So what did he give it?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
CPR He puts.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It into what's called the hospital tank it Akuadisiac there,
so the kids will panic and we take off for
the weekend, and then I look on the security cameras.
Two days later the show Agashiki is floating. So that's
my second fish that I spent another one hundred and
fifty on.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
We've got another floater.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I've got to call ed next door and get h
an emergency bucket and some oxygen.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So the show a Gashiki is now in the hospital
as well.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Chris's emergency service to help out on the Friday was
two hundred dollars and then I paid another three fifty
for emergency services on the Sunday.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's giving us a call from Wattle Grove, Hiana. You
studied Japanese in high school. Can you help Whipper out
this morning? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Sure so?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
And what do they yell out when you walk into
a Japanese restaurant?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
He set?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Say that again for me, Set, what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
It means welcome?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh so, it's not fatty at entering rooms long It's seen.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
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