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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Room, cutting room, the cutting room floor. Well, this is
something that we've swept up on the cutting room floor.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I came across this story earlier in the week and
we just didn't get a chance to talk about it
because we've been looking after Blaze the Bird. This is
interesting that Americans have only just learned about the Australian
game Goon of Fortune, and it has been written about
in the American magazine Food and Wine that has an
explanation of how to play, as they say, the sacred

(00:40):
Aussie drinking game Goon of Fortune. Here's what they have
said about the rules. The rules are simple. Attach a
wine bag to one of the prongs of the hills
hoist clothesline. A large group of people ideally eight to twelve,
stands in a circle around the hills hoist. Sounds like druids.
Someone spins the hills hoist and whoever is closest to

(01:01):
the goon once it stops moving, must take a drink
directly from its spout. This is a revolutionary to them.
They've never heard of this, they've never heard the term
goon bag. They've never well, I'm sure they've got their
own backyard alcoholism. Still. This features a hills hoist.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, do Americans even have a hills hoist?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, hills hoist is an Australians.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
How do they drive their clothes? Then?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I guess you can have a close on. There's
not a hills hoist.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, I guess that the hills hoist as we know
at the round one. Yeah, I guess they have those
crazy pull out ones, all the ones that come out
from the.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Set, everything in the dryer. Do you know Americans don't
know what a kettle is? Really, they never boil the
kettle to make a cup of tea. They put or coffee.
They make it in the microwave. That's weird, isn't it
When you discover that they don't have a kettle?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
That is weird. Have you ever played Goon of Fortune? No?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
They have once, but it just didn't work. There wasn't
enough people playing and it would never come around to
the person. You know, it kept the hills hoise was
such that it would end up opposite. There was only
three of us play, so it did end up.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now you need to have a number of players so
that it will invariably stop me someone. The Americans apparently
have a game that They said, well, this is like
we've got that called slap the bag, right, But that's
what that is. Slapped the bag insisted of drinking from
a goon bag, but then just slapping it when you're done.
That's not the same. But what about this, This is
what Americans do that is so weird. This country singer

(02:28):
Ali Walker, she did this recently. You know how we
have a shoey where you poor. Is it usually beer,
isn't it? Or champagne if you're a Formula one star?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah? Well Daniel Ricardo started it. Yeah, he got Patrick
Stewart to do a shoey. Shoey's have been around Stewart,
the actor. Patrick Stewart, the actor was did a shoey
with I'm not making this up. Daniel Riccardo encouraged him
to do a shoey in front of the crowd.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
How weird. This is an Australian thing, though, isn't it.
You poured alcohol into your dirty shoe, into your sweaty,
dirty shoe and drink it. Well, what about this? This
is another step? This is an American thing. This is
where this woman did it. You pour a beer not
into a shoe, but into the mouth of a catfish.
They do this in Nashville, and then you pour that

(03:16):
down your throat. You pour a can of Budwiser down
the neck of the dead catfish, and then you pour
the soiled contents down your own throat.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It might actually make budwise it taste good well.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
The tradition began apparently when the Detroit Red Wings used
to throw an octopus there's an ice hockey team onto
the ice to symbolize the fact that the team needed
eight playoffs yeah to win the Stanley Cup. So then
the tradition of throwing a catfish and ice which means
maybe I have to win once onto the ice. And
then this then became a semi regular ritual where you'd

(03:50):
pour beer down a catfish and drink it out.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's interesting now traditions we're drinking. What about the yard glass?
And I bear this. I bring this up because you're
son's twenty first is this weekend.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's not going to be a yard glass.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I remember years ago when I used to be weddings,
buddies anything, DJ Man. I was doing a twenty first
for a young man called Darren, and they brought out
half a yard glass for him to skull.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't think it's a full yard glass or fill
a half one up.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
No, it was a half it was it was a
junior burger yard, specifically blown by the glass blowers that
made it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Thank you, okay, thanks for the detail.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Anyway, he didn't have I don't think Darren was very
popular because there wasn't many mates at his party. So
he's gone and sculled the half a yard guys glass.
And while I was down there going from a record
so I to put the Happy Birthday so on, I
hear this crowd yelling out loudly. It seems that Darren
has projectile vomited all over. The only person from his

(04:48):
work that showed up. Oh no, it was a potato
bacon lamb.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh no, half lamb on a spit.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's the twenty first half.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
A later of KB, I found a photo from my
own twenty first so that I sent to Jack saying,
look at my shindy. It's a photo of me just
wearing normal clothes. I don't even think I was dressed up.
I don't think I was wearing makeup. My mom, who
was only in her forties, is standing next to me
looking she'd made her own outfit, I think from a
buttery pattern. So these two shapeless women, so standing there

(05:16):
and I'm cutting a key shaped cake, and I look
at hundred people that are coming to the pub tonight
for Jack's birthday. You know, I've got to put my
credit card down on the bar and off we go.
It's a different world, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, how about you just give that credit card to
me and I'll look after for you.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think that would be so generous, Brendan. I should
get Jack to drink out of a catfish. He's been
Catfished's

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Congasma for more cholsey, then just trying room for
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