FULL SHOW: Give Us Your Conspiracy Theories!

Jonesy and Amanda are back with another entertaining show, and this time we're discussing some pretty wild conspiracy theories. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ready, Jim?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Everybody online.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
The Jonesy and Amanda Show.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Gorgeous Amanda.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Mistress Amanda is delivering discipline.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
It hurts, but someone's got to do it.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Bad Amanda, bad, bad Amanda.

Speaker 6 (00:20):
Am I going to see Jonesy?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
And the virile Jonesy.

Speaker 7 (00:23):
What a creep.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I've heard them describe him as a drunken idiot.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Stay in school and learn school.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Out of the way, Toby.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
Jonesy and Amanda, those are names that you will never forget.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's showtime.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Good afternoon to you, Amanda.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm well. How are you going?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Your sleeves are quite extraordinary. You look like some sort
of Russian dancer.

Speaker 8 (00:42):
Until you see me dance and until you hear me talk.
I'm not Russian and I'm not a dancer.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You know when you used to see the great Moscow
Circus used to come to town? Moscow, Moscow, la, la, la, la, la, la. No, no,
you're confusing that. That was Genghis Khan who sung that.

Speaker 9 (00:56):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
In real life?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
In real life. Well, they're from Belgium.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Who's the ones? They're from Belgium.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You mean Boney M, not Genghis Khan.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
No, Genghis Khan and Boney M were from Belgium.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, the Genghis Khan, the Mongol.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, Genghis Khan was a Mongol.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
He didn't come from Belgium.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, no, the singers.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I didn't know there was a band called Genghis Khan.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, that's who sung Moscow, Moscow, and you're kind of
dressed like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Who are the ones that cross their arms and go
right down and kick it?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Cossacks.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
They're Russians.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, yeah, they're Russians. There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
We've got the Mongols. We've got the Cossacks. We've got
the Genghis.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got Boney M. We've got everyone on our side.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
We've covered everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We've got everyone on our side. How you been?

Speaker 9 (01:37):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Everything okay?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Everything okay.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I had an interesting situation. I was in my car.
I don't drive a car often. I'm a mad motorcyclist,
as you know. But I had to go to Bunnings
to get some supplies. And then my phone rang. And
it's not in a cradle or anything. It rang and
it was in the console. So I hit the button.
And then I realized it's Scotty Camp. But he's bum
dialed me by accident. And then I didn't want to

(02:00):
touch my phone.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
How do you know it was a bum dial?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Because I said, hey, Scotty. And I didn't hear any,
you know. And then he was talking with his wife,
Ann Cam, the lovely Ann Cam.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
About what?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
About you. About Amanda.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
No, tell me.

Speaker 10 (02:15):
Seriously.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, no, just talking about with the tradie. They had
a tradie over doing some work on their house. And
so I couldn't touch my phone because, you know, you
get big fines for that these days.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, you touched your phone to turn it on to
answer it.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
No, no, I was coming out of the driveway.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh, I put it to you, Brendan Jones.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I was coming out of the driveway. You were sticky.
So I hadn't got on the road. No, stop.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
You turned it on to answer. Hey, Scotty.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
And then when you heard it was a bum dial,
suddenly I can't touch my phone to turn it off.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was in the Bunnings car park.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, Brendan.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Boom.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
And then by the time I realized it was a
bum dial.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
You should have turned it straight off.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And also my speaker's a little faulty. So sometimes people
have to.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
You. You just wanted to listen.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
You often complain when I speak to you on speakerphone.
Do you not complain?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
What's that got to do with this?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Because my speaker's not working. So I wasn't sure that
he couldn't hear me or not. And I said, Scotty,
you probably can't hear me. This story is overly elaborate.
Because my phone's bugged.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
All I need to know is that you listened in to.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
A bum doll.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I would never do that.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I was an RBT.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I would never listen in to a bum doll. What
did you hear?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, I couldn't switch the phone off.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Tell me what you heard.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I just heard, oh, okay, you're happy to be a
part of this. That Amanda Keller, she's a piece of work. No,
they're just having a chat with the tradie. And how
long did you? Until I got home.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh, how long was that trip?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It was 10 minutes. I couldn't do anything from Bunnings
to home. You listened for 10 minutes?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Not for 10 minutes. So you did turn it off?
This story is all over the place.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'll say this. You know, you would think with Scotty,
when he would talk to a tradesman, because he's a
very good tradesman.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh, duh.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You would think that he'd be a bit of a bossy,
but he wasn't. He was quite amicable, I thought.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
And how do you think you'll feel listening to this?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think hopefully you'll be. Because Anne listens to the
show each afternoon.

Speaker 11 (03:55):
You know that. Hello, Anne.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
How are you?

Speaker 9 (03:57):
Hello, Anne.

Speaker 8 (03:57):
Although you already know how Anne feels about things. You've
been listening in to their home for some time.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
She's not a fan of you.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
One minute I could touch the phone. Next minute I couldn't.
Suddenly I could. Now I can't. Oh, every hollow officer.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I was on the concrete at Budding's private property. And
then I went on to the tarmac.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
And then suddenly you could again at the end. And
then suddenly you could.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, I know the rules, man. Don't come at me, copper.

Speaker 8 (04:24):
We should do this entire show with you on a
lie detector because you're just full of it.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where are we putting the electrodes? That's all I'm in
it for. We have an action-packed show today.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's Tin Hat Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh, I've got a couple of beauties for you today.
Have you?

Speaker 11 (04:38):
Nice one.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
One that links Wall Street and Ozempic in a very
unusual way.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay. Damnation.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
How fast can this thing go?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Faster than the.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Speed of light.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 12 (04:50):
Stop.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's past five time, five questions. Could you go all
the way and answer all five questions correctly? If you
do that amount, it will say.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, our prize today is a $ 250 Bevels jewellery gift voucher.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Nice prize.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Let me also, I have a question I'd like to
ask our callers. Justin's in Currajong Heights. Hello, Justin.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Hi, guys.

Speaker 11 (05:09):
How are we?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Very well.

Speaker 8 (05:10):
If you're a recipient of a bum dial, do you
stay and listen?

Speaker 13 (05:15):
Definitely. Well, it depends on who's actually talking to you.

Speaker 11 (05:21):
It's my brother talking to his wife, yes.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh, why him?

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, he's a bit of a funny sort of a character,
my brother.

Speaker 14 (05:30):
You trying to get some ammunition?

Speaker 15 (05:32):
Well, he reckons he wears the pants, but I don't
believe any of that.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (05:38):
I wear the pants in my house.

Speaker 11 (05:40):
And I want to win this jury.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
All right, let's see what we can do. Let's see
what we can do here. Question one.

Speaker 8 (05:45):
Thomas Twining was a London merchant made famous for selling what?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Thomas Twining.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (05:55):
Oh, tea?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's tea. It's tea.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Let's play What's in the Box, Justin.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'll turn the box on. All right, Justin, what TV
show has this theme? Any ideas? Any ideas?

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Is it current or is it an old one?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I'll give you a clue. It's not current, but it's
about to be current.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
They're just returning with a third film where these people
are older, funnily enough.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh, is it friends?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, it's not.

Speaker 11 (06:38):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Luisa is with us. Hello, Luisa.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Hi, guys.

Speaker 13 (06:43):
How are you going?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Doing well. Do you want to hear the TV theme again?

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yes, please.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Here it goes.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
You didn't ask Louisa if she'd stick around if she
got a bum dial.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
I will now. Louisa, actually, we'll get your answer first.
Do you know what the show is?

Speaker 13 (07:02):
I have no idea what the show is. And will
I listen to the bum dial?

Speaker 6 (07:07):
Yeah, of course I will.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Would you?

Speaker 8 (07:08):
I'd be so uncomfortable. I'd be so scared that I'd
hear something I shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's so all about you, isn't it? Is that what
you're thinking? Not you, Louisa.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
No, it's not. I don't think they'll be talking about me.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Would you think that?

Speaker 9 (07:19):
No.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, sure.

Speaker 8 (07:21):
There's Prince Charles talking about being Camilla's private things, and
I don't assume they're talking about me.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'd be too mortified to listen.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
What do you say about that, Louisa?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
I don't want to hear about Camilla's things either.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
No. No, quite right. Louisa, thank you, but you're incorrect.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Jam Nation.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Let's do it.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
We're fast for this thing, girl.

Speaker 12 (07:41):
Fast for the.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Speed of light. Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 9 (07:43):
Stop.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
We are playing What's On The Box.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Television.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Television.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
I'll turn the box on.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
We're getting our money's worth out of our jingles today.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
They're called intros.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Hello, Madden Croydon, how are you?

Speaker 16 (07:57):
Hi, I'm good, thanks.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Matthew.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Matthew, listen to this. What's the TV show, do you know?

Speaker 16 (08:11):
I think, is it The Inbetweeners?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's The Inbetweeners.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
They're returning with a third film called, very inventively, The
Inbetweeners 3.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Okay, good. The original name for the cartoon characters Tom
and Jerry were what, Matt? Were they A, Jasper and Jinx, B,
Bigsy and Smallsy, or C, Cat and Mouse?

Speaker 11 (08:32):
I'll have to go with A, Jasper and Jinx.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Jasper and Jinx, you're right.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's true. Where are we? Do you know why, Brendan?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Why were they called Jasper and Jinx? No, I'm not
too sure. I was hoping you'd have that information.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, it's written in front of both of us.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, but I couldn't be bothered reading it. No, I will.

Speaker 8 (08:49):
The phrase Tom and Jerry comes from an 1821 book
called Life in London. The book followed two lively young
men named Corinthian Tom and Jerry Hawthorne. And so Tom
and Jerry had become slang for rowdy or boisterous behaviour,
which is why they thought they'd name those monsters.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So what happened with Jasper and Jinx then?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I don't know. Jasper and Jinx, who knows?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
J-M-Y-R-I?

Speaker 17 (09:08):
Well, they just didn't think the name was very marketable, so.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know about that, Jasper and Jinx. Sounds like
a plumbing organisation, though. Matt, question number four for you.
What is the name of the multi-purpose tool Doctor Who carries?

Speaker 13 (09:26):
No, no idea.

Speaker 17 (09:28):
Sorry, Matt.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Kirsty is with us.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Hello, Kirsty.

Speaker 10 (09:32):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Hello.

Speaker 8 (09:34):
When I first read this question, this is what I
thought it said. What's the name of the multi-purpose tool
Doctor Who carries? And I couldn't understand any of that.
What's the name of the multi-purpose tool Doctor Who carries?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
The Doctor Who carried.

Speaker 14 (09:48):
Oh, sonic screwdriver.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
A sonic screwdriver.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
That just came to you, Kirsty.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
What does he do with it?

Speaker 11 (09:54):
Kirsty?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It's a multi-purpose tool.

Speaker 11 (09:58):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
When you put it like that, it explains. everything.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
But specifically, what would he do with it?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Maybe it's like a Swiss Army knife.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (10:04):
Yeah, he opens doors with it, like unlocks things.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
He analyzes things.

Speaker 15 (10:08):
He opens doors.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Hasn't he heard of a handle?

Speaker 17 (10:09):
It kind of does. It does everything.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right.

Speaker 15 (10:11):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Kirsty?

Speaker 3 (10:13):
This is question five, Kirsty.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
This is you coming in. Pot.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Pot.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Breaking Badly is the subtitle for which new Netflix documentary?

Speaker 14 (10:24):
Breaking Badly.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, I know. You're just typing them in.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Come on. Maria's in Broadford and it's Maria's birthday today. Maria,
happy birthday.

Speaker 11 (10:33):
Thank you so.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Much, guys. Ryan, have we got some sort of fanfare
for Maria?

Speaker 9 (10:39):
No.

Speaker 12 (10:39):
Maria.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Happy birthday, Maria.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You still have to answer the question. Breaking Badly. It's
the subtitle for which new Netflix documentary?

Speaker 10 (10:51):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Just tell us who it's about.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Is it Ray Gunn?

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
It's about Ray Gunn. Untold. Ray Gunn, yes. I'm really
looking forward to watching it.

Speaker 8 (11:00):
I want to watch it too because I keep hearing
that apparently they're like the Addams Family.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
She and her husband, they're quite delusional about.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
How they're perceived. I was chatting to my oldest son
and he said that she has ruined it for the
breaking community. And I said, in what world are you
part of the breaking community? And I didn't even know
there was a breaking community.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now you do.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Anyway, congratulations to you, Maria. You've won the jam pack,
a $ 250 Bevels jewellery gift voucher. Don't miss Bevels' iconic
diamond rush sale. It's Saturday, the 12th of September. Maria,
anything you'd like to add?

Speaker 18 (11:32):
No, thank you very much.

Speaker 12 (11:33):
It's much appreciated.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
What a great birthday present.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
It is.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I rang right on time.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
You did. You did very well, Maria. Good work to you.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
See a whole lot more of Jonesy and Amanda on
our socials.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I know your wife isn't a fan of Meghan Markle.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, she goes apoplectic. Would ever even mention the word
Harry and Meghan. I often said, imagine if we were
in a situation and.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
They were over for dinner.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
We, for some reason, we end up hanging out with
Harry and Meghan. What would you do? Meghan, Harry and Meghan.
What's her name? Meghan.

Speaker 15 (12:09):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
If we ended up hanging out with them, what would
you do? And she said, I would throw fruit at
them and boo. I said, but you wouldn't do that.
You'd be a bit, if I ran into Prince Harry,
I'd be a bit, whoa, that's Prince Harry.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Like I wouldn't throw fruit at him and boo.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I wouldn't throw fruit. I wouldn't throw fruit at Megan.
I wouldn't throw fruit at Megan.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's hard to say. Throw fruit.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Throw fruit at Megan. Say it with me.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I can isolate that.

Speaker 8 (12:41):
I don't approve of them writing stories about the royal
family and breaking confidences and breaking the rich tradition.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
My wife's a big royal. She's a big royal perv.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, as am I.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
As opposed to Prince Andrew.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
He's a different kind of perv.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
I'm happy for Australia to be a republic. Having said that,
I appreciate the long history of the royal family, as
crazy as it is. And I feel that in them
sort of coming at it from a celebrity standpoint and saying, oh,
isn't this weird?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's like letting the magician tricks out of the bag.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
So they have returned to live in England.

Speaker 8 (13:18):
And a lot of people are already having a go
at Megan, which I'm not a fan of because I
just think it's not right to vilify her.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Let it go. They've stepped back. They're private citizens. Don't buy.

Speaker 8 (13:31):
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. She said, I had to leave
because people treated me so badly.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Don't treat her badly. Let her get on with things.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, but having said that, she can't... If she's going
to fly under the radar, she has to fly under
the radar.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
What do you mean by fly under the radar?

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, that's why people get so juiced about it.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
What's her version for you of being.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Over the radar? Going to staff and waving and all
that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, they are still celebrities. They're not royals, but they're celebrities.
And to clarify their role... The King has just released
a statement.

Speaker 9 (13:59):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
He did this today.

Speaker 8 (14:01):
It was a letter written by or I guess as
told to the Lord Chamberlain. And he is kind of
that palace head honcho. Following the decision by the Duke
and Duchess of Sussex to relocate to the UK, we've
received a number of requests for guidance. To help avoid
doubt or confusion, the King has directed the following information
be shared. It's well known that in January 2020, the

(14:23):
Duke and Duchess stepped down from undertaking representative duties on
behalf of the Sovereign and are no longer working members
of the Royal Family. This position, distinct from the state
and royal duties undertaken by the working Royal Family, and
with the personal latitude it brings the couple in respect
to financial independence and protection of their privacy as they
should wish, will continue to be fully respected. It follows

(14:46):
there is no change to the current status of the
Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Their styles as his and
her Royal Highness remain in abeyance and are not used.
They're not allowed to be HRH. The charitable work, the
Duke and Duchess, that's a personal matter for them both
and undertaken in their private capacity. In short, their position
is akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests.

(15:10):
So what they're saying is that they're not dip in,
dip out royals. And that was the Queen's concern. You're
either in or you're out.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Fair enough.

Speaker 8 (15:20):
I mean- It does seem harsh because Andrew's daughters kind
of dip in and dip out. They do official duties,
but they don't live as royals. And I think, I
don't know if they get paid as royals, but they
have royal residences. So, but these two, they are private
citizens and I think they're in a way, not punished,
but they're being told, okay, you ratted on the family,

(15:41):
you pulled out.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's how that goes.

Speaker 8 (15:43):
You're allowed to come back as a family member, but
not as a working royal. And if you see them
out and about, they're private citizens. They are not acting
on behalf of the royal family. That's quite a strict
letter that the king has said to clarify their role.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Fair enough. And I was thinking if we're out of
function and my wife was there, I'd keep her away
from the grazing table in case there was fruit on it.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Don't you want to throw fruit at Megan?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Popping up in my algorithm is these mommie influencers.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Mommies?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Mommie influencers who impart wisdom about their kids, other mums.
their husbands, their yoga pants, how to make virtue music.
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
You must be clicking on them.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I click on because I hate their microphone technique because
they always do it in this wispy, mommy influencer voice.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
But if you're constantly getting them, you're obviously watching them.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Because I click on it. That's how the algorithm works.

Speaker 15 (16:39):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (16:40):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
One of these mommy influences. I was sneering at her.
Poor microphone technique. But she did make this interesting observation.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
I am on a walk with my daughter right now.
And she is explaining to me that kids in classrooms
now just fart and no one even laughs. And no
one is embarrassed. She doesn't even understand what a crazy
change this is. I'm speechless.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
So I was thinking about this. I went to school
when corporal punishment was still around.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I get my corporal and capital punishments.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Capital punishments when you die. Corporal punishment.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Your school was tough.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, that's a tough school. But we had corporal punishment.
They phased it out in 1984. And I remember at
the time when they did indeed phase it out, I
would never want my kids to go through this.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
You'd be absolutely the kid who'd get the cuts all
the time.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I got it so regularly. In fact, there was a
point where one teacher said you could, because there was
these softy, woke teachers at the time, said, I'm not
going to hit this kid.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Woke?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
And I'd say. I'd say, just give me, he'd say,
you're going to have detention. I said, no, I don't
want detention. Just, come on, just do it. Just do it.
Just give me four, sir.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Did you like the feel of it?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, you got used to it. Because we had these
leather straps. Well, the brothers had these leather straps and
they'd pull it out. One of them would walk into
the classroom like, and it'd come out of his sleeve
like a lightsaber. Come out, whack.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
And you liked it. I didn't, I didn't like, I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Lining up for it. Please, sir, can I have another?

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Then how come you kept mucking up to get one?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
No, I didn't keep mucking up.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Don't give me detention.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Hit me.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
That's what you just said.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
No, I said it's just easier, you know, because I've
got cool things to do after school than sit around looking.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
At the wall. Go to the burns ward because of
your hands.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well, they developed a callus to them.

Speaker 12 (18:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, but it was a leather strap. Some kids had
a cane. Some kids got whacked on the bum. Some
kids got whacked on the hand.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Where'd you get whacked?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
On the hands.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
It's extraordinary that teachers could do that.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
But I saw one kid get six of the best,
as they called it, for ripping one out in the classroom.
So we never did that. And there was times, there
was one time when we were reenacting, remember the movie Walkabout?

Speaker 9 (18:55):
No.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
So reenacting a scene. So you walked to Darwin or something. No,
we were reenacting a scene from Walkabout. And one of
the guys, he was walking up the top of the
ridge and in the classroom, you know, indicating that.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Pretend Ridge.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Pretend Ridge. And he's, and ripped one out, which was
very funny. That even had the teacher laughing. And then
I looked around and thought, hang on a minute, being
a class clown myself, I thought, well, last week you
beat a kid half to death because he ripped one out.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
But isn't it interesting?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
And I thought that was odd. But you were not.

Speaker 8 (19:27):
But you still, we all remember a kid at school
who ripped one out because it was hilarious and naughty.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
And terrifying. We all have a memory of someone or
ourselves doing it. If it was yourself, it was the
most embarrassing thing that's ever happened. If it was someone else,
the most hilarious thing. And now kids are being robbed
of the joy, of the exquisite humour of the fart.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
There's even a toilet paper commercial now and it's got
a kid and he's uncomfortable because you weren't allowed to
do number two at school when I was a kid.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
In my house, we weren't allowed to say the F word,
which was fart. And I feel so naughty even saying
it out loud now.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
So what's happened? What's happened? They just let it go?
Is that the problem?

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Apparently so. I saw a story the other day of
a teacher that's allowing a flatulence corner in their classroom.

Speaker 9 (20:17):
No.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Kids go into the corner and let them rip as
if it's accepted. Because you can control it. Sometimes you can't.
And they're the ones we all laugh at because they're mortifying.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
But by and large, you can.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Of course you can. So there's a flatulence corner. That
would also be the naughty corner, wouldn't it? Kill two
birds with one stone. Actually, you'd be in there by
yourself ripping one out. What have you been sent to
the naughty corner from? Because I'd rip one out. Do
you see how it goes? I do. You know, it
was hard not doing a poo at school. I went
to a boarding school. I was very bad.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Is that why you cut your education so short?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
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I'm looking forward to this concert. What I'm hoping for,
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do a tribute to John's star turn celebrating Rundle Mall.

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
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Come on, Johnny. There he is, swinging off the balls.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
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Speaker 2 (22:17):
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Speaker 3 (22:25):
Even Ryan's embarrassed.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
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Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well, the US Open tennis is on at the moment.
Novak Djokovic, he crashed out in the first round.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
It was going to happen, wasn't it, really?

Speaker 3 (22:44):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, he's getting older. I thought he was.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
He's probably the world number one, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, but how old is he? I'm not ragging on,
I like seeing old blokes do stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I mean, it was going to happen. It was going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
You can't do it. It's a young man's game.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Carlos Alcaraz has returned from injury. Anything you'd like to say?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, that was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Put a bandaid on it, give it a rub, you'll
be right.

Speaker 8 (23:03):
But some of the big stories that I've found quite
interesting have been peripheral to the actual game of tennis themselves.
The current female number one, Anya Sablenka.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
You probably won't be able to make out what she's saying,
but there was this interaction with an umpire.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
No, what'd she say?

Speaker 8 (23:28):
She's complaining to the chair umpire about the smell of dope.
She said that the smell was so strong. And I
think it's legal in most parts of the States.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
It is, yeah. But however, you can't sit and smoke
a cigarette at the US Open. And she said the.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Smell is so incredibly strong. But if you've got one
of those vapes.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
But no, this is a marijuana vape.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
A marijuana vape.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
But you don't normally smell the marijuana vape, do you?
You do.

Speaker 9 (23:50):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
There's a real stank.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well, a stank. Afterwards she was asked about it.

Speaker 19 (23:54):
I'm just asking people not to smoke it next to
the tennis court. Also because it was a bit windy,
so I don't know if it was, like, coming from
the crowd or it was from the outside because the
wind blows it into the stadium. So I don't know.
I just hope they're going to be a bit more
aware of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, maybe take a gummy.

Speaker 8 (24:14):
Because the environment around the tennis players, you have to
be so quiet.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
You have to be so respectful.

Speaker 8 (24:22):
If people sneeze and cough as someone's about to serve,
it's very off-putting. Here's the latest thing that's also happening
at the US Open that people are outraged about. And
this is the role of the influencers. So a couple
of things are happening here. The US Open or the
USTA has accredited nearly 100 content creators this year in

(24:43):
a bid to reach new audiences. So they're accrediting them
almost as journalists to come in. They put them in
a corporate box so that they will make content.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
About the US. Yeah, and get eyes on the tennis.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (24:56):
And on top of that, as they've done for several
years now, brands have been inviting social media stars to
watch the action.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Between these two things, you're getting a lot of ring lights.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
You're getting a lot of people posing while the game
is on. You're getting a lot of people moving and
making noises, shuffling around, changing positions, trying to get better
angles on themselves. And the tennis players themselves are getting distracted.
I remember once years ago, I used to go and
watch the tennis at, they don't even have the courts anymore,
White City.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
It was the New South Wales Open. It used to
be held at White City.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
And you could just sit courtside and watch the players.
And I went to watch, I think it was John
Lloyd who went on to marry Chris Everett. And my
friend and I were watching this. I was still in
high school.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
We were watching it. And she said something stupid that
made me laugh. And he turned around and said, will
you please be quiet?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
What, the tennis player said that?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, John Lloyd turned around and told.

Speaker 17 (25:44):
Us off for laughing loudly.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
You have quite the laugh though. I remember being at
a lunch for SBS and you were sitting down one
end of the table and I was talking to this
lady from SBS and you laughed and the lady visibly
flinched and threw her champagne in the air. And I said,
such a delicate.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I remember once being at a lunch with you and
someone said, I can smell dope.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
But this is the world we're in now, this austere,
old-school kind of revered sport.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, because it's influencers. Influencers take it over everything.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Influencers, once they go in the wild, if you ever
see an influencer in the wild, you think.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
That is weird. Yeah, but it's happening. You see kids
doing TikTok dances. You say, oh, it's a local shopkeeper.
He's filming kids doing TikTok dances. Actually, that was a
bit weird. Maybe I should have reported that. Jam Nation.
It's Tuesday, the 8th of September. Pretty ordinary sort of Tuesday,
wouldn't you say?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Except we're wearing alfoil.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Why are we wearing alfoil?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Because of this.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
Do you believe in that the world is flat?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's Tin Hat Tuesday and the alfoil we are wearing
is on our heads. Just in case you're new to
the show.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yes, we are wearing our tin hats.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
And we wear the alfoil because... I can't remember.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Because often we feel our heads are boiling up like
garlic bread by the end. I think it's to stop
the government's thoughts coming in, or is it alien thoughts?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
No, I'm happy for it, though.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
As long as our thoughts don't get out.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I do know this. The executive producer of the show said,
you've got to put your hats on because you look
more mental talking about this without them on.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
It gives the context for it. I've got a couple
that I came across this week. Let me say, I'm
not a believer in these things, but I'm These are
just conspiracy theories that I find. This one is very interesting. Actually,
I wouldn't be surprised if this one was true. This
one is about a Zempik, which is, you know, the GLP-1s,

(27:35):
which are those fat loss jabs.

Speaker 11 (27:38):
Right.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
This is about a Zempik and Wall Street. Have a listen.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
I'm fascinated by GLPs. I've now heard of multiple hedge
funds that are banning traders from taking them. It reduces risk-taking,
it reduces addiction, all this stuff, right? So there's this
positive benefit, but they actually want the risk-taking on. It
is kind of interesting when you're like, hey, wait a
second here. Are you hurting your performance at work because
you want to lose 10 pounds?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Hang on a minute, sir.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
What happens is when those drugs.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Theremin insert.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
What they do is that.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
They stop the food noise and that craving... And they
say it weakens the path from impulse to action, which
is why it stops you overeating. But it also stops
other risk-taking behavior.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I never thought of that.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
The research is also looking at people who've tried to
stop gambling and drinking. It deadens your impulses. And if
you're a trader, you live on risk-taking, you live on impulse.
It's that kind of risky behavior that makes the best
traders the best.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
So you never really see a fat stuntman, do you?
Or a fat motorcycle daredevil.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Couldn't fit into the outfit.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, obviously. But Robbie Madison, for example, you know, have
you seen him? He's been on our show. He jumps
heaps of stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
No, this isn't to do with weight.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
He rode a bike on water.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
It's nothing to do with weight. It's to do with
quieting your impulses.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
The point is, if he quieted his impulses, next time
he's up top of the Empire State about to jump
off it on a motorbike, he says, what am I
doing this for? This is crazy.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (29:06):
And Red Bull have already paid him a fortune.

Speaker 8 (29:08):
So I do think there is a link between, and
I'm sure it's scientifically proven, between these drugs and your behavior.
But I don't know the truth of whether hedge funds
are stopping their traders from taking them. I don't know,
but it's interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Very. Very.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Do you want to hear another conspiracy theory?

Speaker 11 (29:25):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
This one's a full nut job.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I'm not here to have it off with spiders.

Speaker 12 (29:30):
You know how people have like conspiracy theories?

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Have you heard that the lottery is just a way
to cover up paying off certain people by the government?

Speaker 12 (29:38):
This is also a way to catch time travellers.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Let me explain what that man is saying.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
What's he saying?

Speaker 3 (29:45):
The first man is suggesting that the lottery.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Was that two guys?

Speaker 3 (29:48):
I'm not sure. That the lottery is a way to
cover up paying off certain people by the government. So
if you are.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
corrupt government and you want to put some side payment
somewhere and not have it on the books, they happen
to win the lottery. Apparently, and I heard this reported before,
Epstein won the lottery twice. I've heard that before.

Speaker 9 (30:10):
Really?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
When he was on the local news? Well, the lottery,
even if he did win.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
The lottery twice … It doesn't mean the government has
funneled those. That's the conspiracy theory. But the other bit
they've said.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't feel that holds water.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
Oh, well, I'm not asking you to make a bucket
of it. But here's the other one that he said,
time travellers. What he's saying is that this is a
way to catch time travellers.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
How?

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Because, let me tell you, from what I read here,
because time travellers know the winning lottery numbers from the future.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Of course.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
It's a way for the government to catch time travellers.
And then they've said underneath it, Allegedly.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Allegedly.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
It's the Back to Future prophecies.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Biff goes back in time, gets the sports almanac, and?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Oh, come on. You know Back to the Future.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I don't remember. My brain is heating up with this
alfuel on my head.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay. We're in session.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
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Speaker 2 (31:13):
Gold. Hello there. It's Jonesy and Amanda driving you home
on this Tuesday, an ordinary Tuesday.

Speaker 12 (31:18):
Or is it? Do you believe in that the world
is flat? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Or today is a tin hat Tuesday.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
You've already heard my contribution, these things I saw during
the week. One is that hedge funds are trying to
ban the traders from taking a Zempik and other weight
loss jabs.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Because it deadens all their risk-taking impulses.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
That kind of makes sense.

Speaker 8 (31:39):
It kind of does, doesn't it? And how about this one?
Do you think this makes sense? That the lottery is
really the government's way of being able to pay off
some dodgy debts. For example, Epstein won twice. And also
it's a way to catch time travellers.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Duh!

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I saw him with that giant novelty cheque.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Twice!

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Cameron has joined us.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Hi, Cameron. What's your conspiracy theory?

Speaker 11 (31:59):
Hello, Jonesy and Amanda. My theory is Hollywood has run
out of fresh ideas for movies. That's why we're being
pumped with remakes all the time.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I don't think that's a conspiracy, Cameron. I think that's fact.
I think that's happening. Marvel Universe, anyone?

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Do you know why they're running out of ideas?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Have you got an idea, Cam?

Speaker 11 (32:20):
They just keep remaking movies that were perfect first time around,
like Willy Wonka remake, Unnecessary, some of the Planet Apes. Unnecessary.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
Transforms going for 10 stories? Unnecessary. Just go back and
remake a movie that didn't work the first time, like Videodrome.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Okay, Videodrome. You know, I was talking about Snow White today,
and I was just having a chat before I came on.
I have a life outside of this radio show.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Were you talking about Snow White?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
The movie Snow White. And I said to my son,
why did they remake Snow White? And he said, because
Disney has a 75-year history Disney policy on it or
something like that? And I said, but Disney already owns
Snow White. He said, no, they stopped them from anyone
else making Snow White. So imagine, if you will, Tim
Burton doing a version of Snow White. So instead they

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made this so-called woke Snow White. So they Disney-ified it.
Do you know what I'm saying? So no one else
would make it. So you wouldn't get like a Tim
Burton style Charlie and the Chocolate King.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
No, but if they own it, no one else could
make it anyway.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, that's what I mean. And Disney have got pots
of money, so they throw all this money at it.
They make a dud so no one else will touch it.
And then all the other people go, I'm not going
to buy that.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
So even when the rights are given up, no one
else wants to touch it.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
It's cursed.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Interesting. Thank you, Cameron.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Ace is with us.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Hi, Ace. What's your conspiracy?

Speaker 11 (33:38):
Hi.

Speaker 15 (33:38):
My conspiracy is that with the floods that just recently
happened in Nepal, they said that once that flood came down,
that it wiped out all the internet and all the
cell phones and everything like that. But I don't know
about you guys, but every time I look at a
cell phone tower, it's always on top of a mountain,
not in the bottom of a valley. I was wondering
how that was possible, and I thought, well, maybe that
they actually turned the internet and the cell phones off

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to stop survivors from going out onto the actual unsafe
areas and looking for survivors themselves.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
So you're saying they shut down information at a time
when people most need information?

Speaker 15 (34:13):
Potentially a form of crowd control.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Right, yeah, to stop people going there for looking for
the people.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
For their safety.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
For their safety, yeah.

Speaker 15 (34:21):
I think for their safety and also for the fact
that it would sort of be quite horrifying to know that,
you know, you'd ring someone and you can hear their
phone underneath your feet in the mud.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
That would be terrible.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
So it's sort of a public safety thing to shut
the phones off.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Ace, that seems reasonable.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's interesting. Thank you, Ace.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
And Mandy is with us.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Hello, Mandy. What's your conspiracy theory?

Speaker 11 (34:41):
Hi, guys.

Speaker 14 (34:42):
My conspiracy theory is that Jesus Christ was a half-breed alien.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
How does this come about? What made you think this?

Speaker 14 (34:50):
Okay, well, Mary was a virgin and just had the
whole virgin birth thing going on and was untouched by
a man, but she became pregnant. Okay, so that was
an alien who actually impregnated her. And then when she
had the baby and he grew up, he was able
to do all these wonderful conspiracy, wonderful miracle things that

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he was able to do, walk on water and such.

Speaker 9 (35:15):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
And the lepers, he cured the lepers.

Speaker 14 (35:18):
Yeah, and made the blind see and, yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
So you're saying he's not the child of God, he's
actually got alien abilities?

Speaker 14 (35:28):
Well, that depends on whether you agree that alien and
God are the same thing.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
It goes against my Catholic guilt.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Now you've got more to be guilty about.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
I know.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Aliens as well.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Just haven't told.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
You about that. Mandy, thank you. We're going to take more.
What have you got for us?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Cheers.

Speaker 12 (35:47):
Do you believe in that the world is flat?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Someone gave us praise the other day, said, thank God
mainstream media is leaning into this.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Are we leaning into it?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
What we're doing is giving people a forum to talk.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
That is true. That is true. Let's see what Stacey
has to say. Hello, Stacey. Hey, Amanda.

Speaker 13 (36:06):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Very well, thank you. What's your conspiracy theory? Well, in the.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Astrology world, Pluto... is a very high-ruling planet for transformation
and growth. Now, it also is the underlying planet for
the shadow and the negative of the human. So my
theory is that when this woke generation started coming, they,
in quotation marks, started panicking that we might start using

(36:36):
Pluto as a new force and a new beginning.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Right.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
So they've stopped us learning about the planet.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And they made it a dwarf planet.

Speaker 6 (36:44):
A dwarf planet that's no longer in the curriculum of
learning and things.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
So that we couldn't use it?

Speaker 6 (36:51):
Well, we can still use it, but the new generation
coming on won't be open to it as much as
the older generation.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I see. What about Uranus? Can we still use that?

Speaker 6 (37:02):
You could use that daily, I think, Jonesy.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
It talks out of it.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Thank you, Stacey. Stacey's right.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Thank you, Stacey.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Stupid wokies.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Well, look who's here. It's Rob.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
With his own intro.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Rob.

Speaker 15 (37:16):
Hello, Rob.

Speaker 12 (37:16):
How are you, mate?

Speaker 16 (37:28):
Yeah, good. What about you?

Speaker 2 (37:30):
What have you got for us, Rob? I like having
small talk with Rob. You've been a big part of
our show. It's nice.

Speaker 16 (37:36):
What I've got for you today is the first tram,
electric tram.

Speaker 15 (37:44):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (37:46):
Coming to operation in 1889. Yeah. A full five years
before the first power plant was built.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
How does that happen?

Speaker 11 (37:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (38:01):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (38:02):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Actually, you're right there, Rob, because the electrified tram system,
and this was in Victoria, wasn't it?

Speaker 16 (38:09):
Yes. In 1889, they first started the trams.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (38:15):
And the first power plant, Spencer Street Power Plant, was
completed in 1894.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
So are you saying how could it have access to electricity?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, how's the tram running?

Speaker 16 (38:30):
There can only be one explanation, radiant energy.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Radiant energy.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
What is radiant energy? Where do we get that from?

Speaker 15 (38:39):
From the atmosphere.

Speaker 16 (38:41):
It's what Nikola Tesla worked on.

Speaker 9 (38:43):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
And how come we don't use that more often?

Speaker 18 (38:47):
Well....

Speaker 2 (38:49):
J.P.

Speaker 16 (38:50):
Morgan shut him down because when he found out that
electricity couldn't be metered, right, so they couldn't charge for it,
they shut him down, right, because it's free energy. It
comes from the atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Right.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
This is fascinating because you know something? Sydney had a
great tram situation. Then the dopes that run the city
said people are going to drive their car into the city,
so they ripped up all the tram tracks and then
some 60, 70 years later, the dopes that run the
city said, you know what we've got to do? Get
cars out of the city. Let's put tram tracks back.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I don't think that's conspiracy. I think that's just council planning. No,
it's just government incompetence. Rob, thank you.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Rob, thank you. Well done. We'll talk to you next week.
Keep your eyes open.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Keep conspiring.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
No, Rob's not conspiring. He is a A conduit.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
He's a conduit.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
That's true. And if you've got any, please, jonesyandamanda.com.au. Mainstream
media is hearing you, man.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Well, coming up in the next.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Man is just going to go off and eat some babies.

Speaker 13 (39:53):
Me?

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, that's, you know, the conspiracy theory. Oh, okay.

Speaker 19 (39:55):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
I keep forgetting about the baby eating thing.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Amanda podcast. We had
so many requests for them to do it again. Jonesy
and Amanda.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
Amanda, she just cracks me up.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Maybe we shouldn't lay off the moonshine.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Jonesy's always knocking Amanda.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
It's so weak.

Speaker 18 (40:12):
Amanda's always knocking Jonesy.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
I'm done. I always feel good after THT. That's Tin
Hat Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Why do you feel good?

Speaker 2 (40:20):
I just feel like, you know.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
We all scratch our heads when we take off the foil.
It makes our heads itchy.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
It does overheat your brain a bit.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
It does.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Don't worry, Ryan.

Speaker 8 (40:29):
Yesterday on the show we were talking about balloons because
I thought for Father's Day I'd blow up some balloons,
decorate the lounge room, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
And didn't you attach some balloons.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
To a bottle of beer? This is what an idiot
I am.

Speaker 8 (40:42):
I thought I'd get some balloons, attach them to strings
and tie them around a little thing of beers and
have them float in the air. It's only when I'd
tied the strings I realised why would they float in
the air? Balloons don't float on their own.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
You don't have helium.

Speaker 14 (40:58):
No.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
You have a source of hot air, but no.

Speaker 15 (41:01):
No.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
What an idiot.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
You did a science show.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
As I blew up the balloons, I lamented, I think
balloons are harder to blow up than they used to.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
And you said, you don't think so. Have another go.
Have a go at the balloon. I think they're really
hard to blow up these days, and I don't know why.
I think they're thicker.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Do we have to do this?

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I think it's harder. Come on, look at you. In
the old days, two breaths would have made a really
big balloon.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
What do you mean, two breaths?

Speaker 10 (41:27):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
That's two breaths. Look how small your balloon is.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
My balloon is fine, Peggy. You don't shame it.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
And you didn't think that– you don't think they're harder?

Speaker 9 (41:35):
No.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
And now blow up the balloon. We put this to
our socials.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, well, okay. And the question was– So you were saying–
because my argument was a big balloon would– be skimping
on the amount of rubber that they put in the balloon.
So they should be easier to blow up, not harder.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
No, I think they have to be more responsible because
they're probably popping in kids' faces and things. So they've
made them thicker. I don't know the.

Speaker 8 (41:57):
Truth of that, but here's what people think. Are balloons
harder to blow up nowadays? We put a poll on
our socials.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
83% said yes.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Maybe people just don't have the lung capacity.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
That you have.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Maybe they don't.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Maybe they don't. So thank you. I feel vindicated.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
Balloons are harder to blow up than they used to.
Having said that, if you get a regular balloon, it
still won't just bob up and down in the air.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
You've got to put helium in there.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
I do know that.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Did you know mine helium? I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
It's a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's a helium mine.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
When miners go in there, do they start talking like
that and become jockeys?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
They go in with a big Russell Crowe, add my signal.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Unleash it! I read an interesting dilemma. Was it a dilemma?
It could be. It could be for you. Bring in
a can of worms, pub test, a whip pole, all
of those things.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
We've certainly got an intro for it.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 8 (42:51):
But this is a very specific set of circumstances, but
it broadens out. So have a listen to this. This man,
he's a new father. He lives in Australia. He lives
two hours from the nearest town.

Speaker 17 (43:01):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Rural Australia.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Which state?

Speaker 3 (43:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
But his parents are coming from overseas to meet the baby.
His parents are in their late 60s, so they're not
elderly people. They're coming to meet the baby. They're flying internationally.
I don't know from where or how long they'll have
been flying, but they want him or them to pick
them up at the airport.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
The parents do?

Speaker 11 (43:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
And he's saying, look, there'll be a four-hour round trip.
There's a baby seat in the car. Even if the
whole family doesn't go, if it's just him, he's away
from home for four hours with a newborn and a
wife at home. And he said to the parents.

Speaker 8 (43:42):
Why don't you hire a car? And they said, we'd
have to drive on the other side of the road.
We're not comfortable with that.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
So they're coming from the US?

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Maybe Europe? I don't know.

Speaker 11 (43:51):
Germany?

Speaker 8 (43:51):
And then he said, you can get the train because
we're near a major train station. You get the train
from near the airport straight to us. And they said
that it was too confusing. They didn't feel comfortable. They
are really pressuring him to go and pick them up.
And this is, as I said, a unique set of circumstances.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
It's just interesting. So these parents, how old are they?

Speaker 3 (44:10):
In their late 60s, as I said.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Late 60s.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
So they're not elderly people.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
So if they were Gen X parents, we'd just do it.
Gen X just gets stuff done. Like I wouldn't expect
my kids to come and pick me up if that
situation was around the other way, if it was me.
If I was coming into town, I wouldn't expect my,
I don't pick up anyone from the airport.

Speaker 8 (44:27):
We'll get to that in a minute. But in this circumstance,
it's interesting. People were divided about this. Some people have
said if someone's not willing to pick up their loved ones, it's.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
A red flag. I'm sick of this red flag business.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Give me a break.

Speaker 8 (44:39):
Picking up family members is a polite gesture. It's the
least you could do of a loved one traveling to
see you. If you've had a baby, the people who
are coming to see you, your parents, whoever it is,
part of that duty is, yes, to.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Look and meet the baby, but it's also to take
care of the new parents.

Speaker 8 (44:53):
And if you're expecting them to spend four hours of
their day with a newborn baby and a baby seat
in the car, They come and pick you up. That's
not looking after the parents.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Who are sleep deprived.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I'm on the kid's side here.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
I am too.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Okay, Sydney Airport, worst airport in the world to pick
up anyone from.

Speaker 9 (45:10):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Worst ever.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
They make it so hard.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
They make it so hard. You pretty much have to
park your car.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
You wouldn't even bother.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Get out of the car and spend $ 70 on parking.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Get out of the car. And then once you see
the druid and you pass some shekels across his arm.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
And then try and find a way.

Speaker 8 (45:24):
And then when they arrive, you take that suitcase, you
wheel them halfway around the airport to get back to
your car.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Sydney the worst. Gold Coast. If you live in the
Gold Coast, perfect airport. Gold Coast, you pretty much drive
onto the tarmac, pick up your loved ones and get
out of there. Gold Coast is great. Adelaide's good. You
know Adelaide. Have you ever been to Adelaide airport?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yes, of course I have.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
They're good.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
But there's a certain age you get to, and you've
said this yourself, where you don't move a fridge for
your friends, you don't move house for your friends.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I'll move one object but not a bunch of objects.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
For friends?

Speaker 9 (45:56):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (45:57):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
So I'll move like a fridge, yes. But if moving house,
once you're over 30, that's actually 40, okay? Once you're
over 40, you get professional moves.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
And what about picking up from an airport?

Speaker 8 (46:11):
I think, particularly in major cities where it's so hard,
dropping off's one thing because you're going to swing.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
By, open the door, kick them out.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
The pickup is really, it's a lot to ask of somebody.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Oh, definitely. Especially in Sydney.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Don't ask anyone to pick you up from the airport.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
You wouldn't waste your time.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
No, don't do it. Just don't do it. So why
don't we make that bit a pub test?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
I was thinking it was a can of worms, but no. No,
it's not an oral whip pub.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
We'll talk about it further. We'll hone the argument.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
We'll hone it. Ooh, we'll hone the argument. This could
be a fucking intro.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
No, that's not a new segment.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Jonesy and Amanda's big hone.

Speaker 11 (46:46):
No.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
See a whole lot more of Jonesy and Amanda on
our socials.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Jonesy and Amanda.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
When there's big issues to discuss and there's big, I
was going to say, things to fry.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
When there's big things to fry, we go into the
fry pan where we have a kitchen.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
No, that's another time. No, today's pub test, as Sam
likes to say. The good old-fashioned pub test. It's the
arbiter of what everyone thinks.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
We were talking earlier about a very specific set of circumstances.
A couple who have a newborn baby. The dad of
the baby, his parents are visiting from overseas. They live
two hours from the airport and the flying in parents
are expecting the newborn's parents to come pick them up
at the airport. But let's have a broader discussion about

(47:36):
picking anyone up from the airport. It's a lot to
ask of somebody and I would never ask somebody.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
But as I said before, Sydney Airport put me off
picking up anyone from there. Because they make it so hard.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
They make it so, so hard and expensive and all the.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Rest of it.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
When we go to go and see Maeve at Tweed Heads.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Your mother-in-law.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yeah, it's so easy. The Gold Coast is just good.
My sister-in-law comes in literally at the front. It's like
you're a rock star.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Melbourne's good. Tullamarine's good. Because they've got a little, they
give you a bit of time.

Speaker 13 (48:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
So I don't think you can pick up from the
front anymore.

Speaker 12 (48:12):
Like.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
You used to be able to.

Speaker 8 (48:14):
Well, in Sydney, though, it's almost impossible. And the drop-off,
you can just go, they all get out, that's one thing.
But the pick-up is just too convoluted, too hard, too stressful.
Don't ask me to pick anyone up from the airport.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
And what sort of enraged me a bit when you said,
it's a red flag, don't you love your family if
you don't pick them up from the airport? Gemma, you
went to Edinburgh recently.

Speaker 17 (48:34):
Yeah, Mum and Dad, they dropped me off and picked
me up.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Did they?

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Yeah, yeah, they did. And you're only gone for three days.
I know.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
I know.

Speaker 17 (48:42):
I said to mum, well, you don't. And it was
6 a.m., like, the pick-up.

Speaker 12 (48:44):
It's 6 a.m.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
It always is.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Were they throwing streamers?

Speaker 6 (48:48):
No.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
No.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Wow. And how far do you live from the airport?
About an hour?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yeah, yeah. Duh.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Have you given your dad the bottle of whiskey yet?

Speaker 17 (48:58):
No, that's on the weekend.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Oh, okay. Gee, John, gird your loins. He won't get
cirrhosis from drinking it because it's a thimble.

Speaker 8 (49:07):
Picking up anyone from the airport, does this pass the
pub test?

Speaker 9 (49:11):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Damnation.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Everybody.

Speaker 6 (49:14):
Best money.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Extra cash.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
I need money.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Jonesy and Demanders.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
You're a fool. Ten questions, 60 seconds on the clock.
You could pass if you don't know what to answer.
We'll come back to that question if time permits. You
know the question's right. You win $ 1, 000.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
You can make it $ 2, 000 by answering a bonus question,
but it is double or nothing.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Edward is in Oakford. Edward, maybe we could talk to
you about picking up people from the airport.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Do you do it, Edward?

Speaker 13 (49:38):
Do I do, do I do, what, the airport?

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Do you pick people up from the airport?

Speaker 13 (49:43):
Oh, jeez, well, if I have to, yeah, but that's
all the way up on Kanoa.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
But Perth Airport's pretty good. Oh, no, they've got the
new thing now. You've got to do the same thing
as you have to do in every other state.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Except for, like, Hobart. That's good.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
I reckon dropping people off is one thing. Picking up
is too much of an ask. All right, Edward, let's see.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
We're feeling a bit guilty, Edward.

Speaker 8 (50:01):
Because, yes, we're wondering if we're just curmudgeons who can't
be bothered picking up friends from the airport.

Speaker 13 (50:06):
Well, that's pretty rude, I think.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Now we're curmudgeons.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Now we are curmudgeons.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Edward, we want to give you $ 2, 000.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
Let's see what we do. First of all, you're up
for $ 1, 000. Ten questions, 60 seconds. Do say pass if
you're not sure.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Edward, okay?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Because you might be able to come back.

Speaker 13 (50:22):
Yeah, no worries.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
All right, Edward, here we go. Question number one. What
colour is our $ 10 note?

Speaker 11 (50:25):
Blue.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Question two, what type of animal was Dora the Explorer's
best friend?

Speaker 13 (50:32):
Dora the Explorer's a monkey.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Question three, what body part do we hear with?

Speaker 13 (50:40):
Our ears.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Question four, Julie Goodwin won which Australian TV show? Us.
Question five, what does a fish breathe through?

Speaker 13 (50:50):
Its gills.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Question six, Dog Days Are Over is a hit by
the band Florence and the.

Speaker 13 (50:57):
Machines.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Question seven, what's the opposite of stale?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Fresh.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Question eight, how many events are in a decathlon?

Speaker 13 (51:06):
That would be ten.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Question nine, how many children do Kurt Cobain have?

Speaker 13 (51:11):
Oh, jeez. I actually don't know. Let's go with two.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
He only had one.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
You could have passed.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
Oh, bugger me. He had one legitimate one.

Speaker 8 (51:24):
Well, Edward obviously has some information he'd like to share
with the class.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
And do you know Julie Goodwin? She won MasterChef.

Speaker 13 (51:31):
I literally wrote that down and I went, when you
were going to come back to it, that's what I.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Was going to say.

Speaker 6 (51:37):
Oh, flops.

Speaker 13 (51:37):
I really only missed out on Jericho Bay.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
And I think you did really well with George the
Explorer's friend, the monkey.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
The monkey. Edward, you're our guy. We'll pick you up
from the airport any time. I would pick you up
from the airport.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
I would, Edward.

Speaker 16 (51:48):
Oh, and I would love that.

Speaker 13 (51:49):
Can you take me to a bar straight away?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Straight away.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Obviously, yes, do it. Well, thank you, Edward. Thank you
for playing.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
If you'd like to be a part of Instagram, jonesydemanded.com.au
and our pub test, picking up people from the airport
or our Jonesy Demanded giant curmudgeons. Jam Nation. The pub test.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Pub test.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Let's pass the pub test.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
If something sounds unlikely, then it should fail.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
The pub test.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Yeah, the pub test.

Speaker 12 (52:14):
Doesn't pass the sniff test.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Stop it.

Speaker 12 (52:16):
It's not helpful.

Speaker 8 (52:17):
We first started talking about picking up people from the
airport because of a Reddit thread that I saw. A
man and his wife living in Australia, two hours from
the nearest town.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
They've just had a baby. His parents are visiting from
overseas to meet the baby. They're flying in and they
expect him or maybe the entire family to drive a
four-hour round trip with a newborn baby or to leave
the baby at home with the mother and abandon her
for four hours.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
Tired, sleep-deprived parents, to pick them up from the airport.
They said they were confused, they didn't want to drive,
they didn't want to take public transport. So it made
us think about, even on a smaller scale, picking someone
up from the airport, are we curmudgeons because we don't
want to do it?

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Dropping off, happy to do it, it's easy. Picking up
is really hard.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I would never expect anyone to pick me up from
the airport, although I do when, not expected, but when
I go to the Gold Coast to visit my mother-in-law...
My sister-in-law comes and picks us up. But Gold Coast
Airport there at Koolangatta, it's rock star parking. Straight out
the front. You literally get off the plane.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
It's so hard in Sydney.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
It's great.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
You have to park, walk 100 miles, pick someone up,
pay an enormous amount of money.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
It's like you're on Ninja Warrior.

Speaker 8 (53:31):
So this is the pub test today. Picking someone up
from the airport, does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 5 (53:37):
It applies to me perfectly because I'm literally on the
way home now to get in the car to go
pick up my mum and sister from the airport. I
think it does pass the part test because I would
go and pick up my parents and anyone regardless because
it's just what I do.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
I live 20 minutes from the airport and I always
offer to pick people up and drop them off but
I would never expect anyone to do it for me
because it's usually out of the way and it's inconvenient.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
So I think if they offer, definitely say yes.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
I wouldn't ask.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Look, I have no issue with it. I think it's
quite an interesting discussion. I pick my daughter up all
the time. It doesn't bother me, and it depends how
you do it. Organise the time she arrives or who arrives.
Meet them there at the table parking and pick them up.

Speaker 18 (54:23):
I hate picking up anyone from the airport, but I
just think two hours away or the four-hour return trip
is far too long. I think that the parents should be.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
Catching an Uber Mate, I live 25 minutes from the airport,
so I'm the go-to guy to pick up.

Speaker 11 (54:39):
I worked at the airport for 30 years.

Speaker 13 (54:41):
I know every nook and cranny.

Speaker 15 (54:43):
I've never paid for parking there and never paid to
pick people up.

Speaker 10 (54:47):
My dogs are probably going to get noisy because they're
about to get to the beach. We have a bus service,
and it's called the Gold Bus Service, but we call
it the Nobody Loves Me Bus, and if anyone's going
to or from the airport, we just drop them and
pick them up as the Nobody Loves Me Bus. OK. Dogs,
you really are ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
The nobody loves me bus.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Dear me.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Our pub test tomorrow. Jonesy and Amanda, are they big
curmudgeon red flags?

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Maybe we are.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Righto, you two.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
That's enough.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Well, tomorrow is tick-tock-tucker.

Speaker 9 (55:20):
Ooh.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Don't eat between now and then, Brendan.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I will put myself on the supermodel ice cube and
sunflower seed diet.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Not too many sunflower seeds, all right?

Speaker 2 (55:30):
If you want to hear more of this, jonesyandamanda.com.au.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
And we'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Good day to you.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
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Speaker 12 (55:42):
See you next time.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Let's get the hell out of here.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
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