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August 18, 2025 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The will And Woody Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We're talking to people who shouldn't be alive at the moment.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Kicked yourself last week with a guy called Paul de Gelder.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Wild story Paul de Gelder's Elders. Yeah, Paul, you shouldn't
be alive, my friend.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Why?

Speaker 5 (00:26):
Probably for many many reasons, but the main one that
sticks out is because I was eaten alive by a
ten foot bull shark in Sydney Harbor.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Whoa WHOA crazy story. You can get that all on
the William Woody Podcast. You would go and head over
there right now. Though I need to put a little
bit of a content warning on this. The lifeline number
is thirteen, eleven, fourteen or one hundred, respect if you
need any of those numbers, because you're about to hear
I think the probably the best story I've ever certainly

(01:01):
the most enthralling, probably the most emotional. We laughed during this,
I mean we cried during this, very hard not to.
We spoke to a guy called Nick Yaris, who was beautiful,
as tragic, as insightful, as wise as you would expect
for a man who's been through what he's been through.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
But he shouldn't be alive.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
You shouldn't be alive, Nick tell us.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
Why other than being shot, stabs, strangled, run over by
a car, hanging myself in a prison cell, and a
kind of mayhem. I was sentenced to death at the
age of twenty one for the rape and murder of
a woman I never met in my life. I spent
twenty three years on death row in solitary confinement, and

(01:49):
I escaped from death row at one point in nineteen
eighty five. I was on the FBI's most wanted list
for twenty five days until I turned myself back in
and he put me on death row. Next it's head
Bundy for the next eight months. So me and Ted
became acquainted when he spit on me when I played
with him and taunted him. So and then I went

(02:09):
back to death throw. I got beaten, severely contracted hepatitis C.
I was dying of the illness when I asked to
be executed, and then the twenty fifth hour they gave
me the DNA finally that proved my innocence.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Oh, oh, my god, God, wow.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't think I've experienced forty seconds like that in
my life.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Just hearing all of that, it's truth. Ol mighty nick
I took it on.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
What moore that for you.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
He's got to breathe after hearing that. That is just
like it's like getting hit by a train hearing that.
But there is so much more.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Jennick Jarras podcast is up now. If you want to
get the full podcast, you got to get out of
your car and you want to keep listening to this. Willamoody,
where you get your podcast so you can watch it
on YouTube very shortly as well, William Woody. But yeah,
right now, just wrap yourars around this is nick Yarrison Willimity.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
If we can go back to step one here, so
you are wrongly you are wrongly accused of ripe and
murder of someone you have never met before.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Through the folly of the following incidents. So at the
age of twenty, I was driving the stolen car. I
was a tear away. I wasn't listening to my folks.
I was high on drugs. I got pulled over by
a policeman who beat the hell out of me. He
pulled his gun out. We had a fight, and then
he lied on me and said that I tried to
murder him and all this crazy stuff. So I get

(03:31):
thrown into prison, and a guy that was guilty of
burglar rising the prosecutor's home said that I confessed to
him of the rape and murder of a woman in
the area right so he could get out of his charges.
So I went to trial for the first chargers and
the jury found me not guilty for that policeman lying
on me. So then they started seeking the death penalty

(03:52):
out of vengeance, and he gave me a three day
murder trial, so they sentenced me to die. After the
jury went out for dinner break, they came back and
gave me to death. So I was only twenty one
years old, and the crazy thing was will the courthouse
was struck by light and the day I was sentenced
to death and knocked all the power out, whoa, And

(04:13):
I swear to god, it's in the newspapers and everything.
I was taking upstairs, and I was looking at all
the people in the courtyard below and there was no
sound because no air conditioning or anything, and they were
all looking up at me, and they all started making
noises and stuff. But I heard this thing in my
head said looked them in the eye. So when I
went back in the courtroom, and it's in the newspapers.

(04:34):
The judge couldn't look me in the eye. No one
could look me in the eye, and he sentenced me
to death without ever looking me in the face.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh that's horrible, man.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
If you think that's it's so deep that every member
of the jury that sentenced me to death is now dead.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Whoa, whoa. Wow. You can't make it up. You can't.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
You can't make any of this up.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
So Nikki had twenty two years in prison. What was
that like.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
In solitary confinement?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Insolidate A bit of.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
It was inlid? Yeah, man, twenty three hours a day,
twenty four hours a day, all lockdown.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
How do you deal with that? What is I mean?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I've got so many questions around what's the first thing
that comes to me?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
And you think of that time.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
I found out two things about myself. One, you can't
go against your nature. If you're a loving person, nothing
will change that. If you're a kind person, you'll be
a kind person no matter what. So I read over
nine four hundred books before I turned the journal over documentary.
Each book that I read to my lawyers, and then

(05:36):
I got other prisoners off of death row by doing
their legal work and I helped men that were mentally
ill hang on as best as they could. In total,
I got three men off the death row and four
men out of the gallows themselves. By my efforts. I
was the foremost knowledgeable person in DNA. I was penthals
with Sir Alec Jeffries from Leicester University, who invented the

(06:00):
and A testing.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
For twelve years.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
That man guided me through the process of learning DNA.
Oh my god, I've read all of the world's religions.
I can't tell you the name, but I think you
guys will be clever enough. If I made an avatar
of myself, maybe that person would be now accepting the
role to play me in a major motion picture coming soon.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
If I were an avatar, I think I've put two
and two together at that is okay, Sorry, but I
can actually say the likeness looking at your face as well,
which that is.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
That is awesome and sorry, right, and I can't say anything,
but I just found out and it's amazing that I'm
on the cusp of going from an RV that was
given to me on the Native American reservation to go
on and having housing and finally getting from.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
The devastation that I know. I've been homeless the last
four years.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm just actually speaking of playing you. So you mentioned
this before, but Adrian Brody is currently starring as you
in this play called The Fear of It, and he's
going to do.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
It again and yeah, in next spring he's going to
be bringing it to New York City.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Now Rdrian is doing it because apparently someone sent him
the script and he said, I couldn't get through this
script without crying, so with.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
A crying yeah, I know. I hung out with him
in London. I ain't supposed to say this, but he
took no money for playing me for months in London,
and he gave me that money.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh wow, Wow, this is a gentleman.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
This is a genteel man. Do you understand. Yeah, you
know you don't get paid a lot in the theater anyway,
but he said, Nick, I can't take money from your hands,
and I love you.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Man.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
I went up on stage and I read a fictitional
love letter to the woman that I was married to
in prison. I queued up the song hold on to
Your Heart by man Man, and I walked off of
stage with a beautiful woman telling the audience that I
wanted to fulfilling the hero of my own story, like
in the many thousands of books that I read. I
wanted to have that kanash, that ability to walk out

(08:08):
in that moment. I didn't want to sell books and
hang out afterwards and beat everybody. I went off to
the Londoner and downtown London and had made love to
the woman I was in love with.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Man, Oh, it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Nick, so great listening to that back and just reliving
his energy.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and also the like, I mean, I'm
sure we'll get into this in more parts of this
that we want to play out, and if you want
to get ahead, get to YouTube Will and Woody or
wherever you get your podcasts Will and Woody. But the
extraordinary part of it, which he touched on before, is
just like where he came from to where he is, Like, right,

(08:49):
you had have told him ten years into solitary confinement,
twenty four hours a day by yourself, getting beaten, whatever,
and he really goes into this.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
It really gets very intense.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
The fact that the best actor in the world would
be playing his story on a stage in London like that,
just a human life going through that transition creates something
that I've just never seen on anyone, this sense of
perspective that he has, and this sense of clarity and
almost recklessness. Like some of the stuff he told us

(09:21):
we've had to take out of the chat because it
was just like, that's too much information, mate, But he
just doesn't care. He's just that my life is so precious.
I'm so lucky to be alive and in this position now.
I will tell you anything you like.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
And just to paint the picture, like he had his
top off, he was walking.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Around, he was in front of his van where he
was obviously living.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I don't know where he was in America, but at
some point he put the camera down to his body
and he was like, I'm sixty four years old, look
at this body.

Speaker 8 (09:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I just I loved being around him. He was so contagious.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Beauty can't help it. Hold a mirror up to yourself
as well. Like, I know a lot of people listening
right now, a lot of crap going on your obviously,
and like I feel for anyone who's going through some
awful stuff, but it's so nice listen to that attitude.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, but that doesn't get worse.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Than twenty three in solitary confirmed, and he is still like, well,
I'm going to read nine thousand, four hundred books and
then become a pen pal with the leading scientist in DNA.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, to get myself out of you amazing. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
An awesome chat. You've just heard a little bit of it.
But yeah, William, what do wherever you get your podcasts
or head along to the will to YouTube channel the
videos up there and now, yeah, one hundred, respect or
thirteen eleven fourteen is the lifeline number if that's triggering
it for any of you. Will play more of that
for you guys tomorrow and throughout the week. It's a
wonderful chat. And now I shouldn't be a live segment
that we're running there.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
I'm going to add the soft drink.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Beer darsy no duzy no beer or soft drink based
on the sound of the can opening quick run of
the mats. You get five cans in a row sixteen
hundred dollars, you get ten cans. That's fifty one thousand dollars.

(10:57):
Fifteen cans one point six million dollars.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Wow, wow, wow wow.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
It starts at can one, though ruby can one is
worth one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Do you have a number in mind, Rubes, I.

Speaker 9 (11:13):
Would love minimum four, but we don't know how we're
going to go.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Okay, four would get you eight hundred dollars. Let's go
for can one.

Speaker 10 (11:30):
I was hoping i'd go seconds.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
When you were at the can sounded like today.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Can the same?

Speaker 10 (11:38):
Ruby.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't know what you're referred.

Speaker 8 (11:41):
I want to say beer, but but it's a soft drenkh.

Speaker 11 (11:49):
Well, God has a very weird way of saying what
I was Ruby. You want to say that, but it
is a soft ring, very good Ruby. Do you want
to go home with a hundred? So you want to
go double or nothing?

Speaker 9 (12:02):
We'll go double double.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
M hm, soft drink again.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I can't help you out with the producers are already.

Speaker 9 (12:21):
Very nothing to do with that first one.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
We all heard it, Ruby, We all heard it. Mate.
You can ever? Can you hear it? Stubby Holder? Yes?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
So again, no money there no money in there again,
Let's go to that's clean.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's a real shame. I'm going to give away some cash.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You going, Stubby Holder, something that's good, that's good money.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Christine's called Christine, Hi, Hi, Hi, Christine? You played before.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
Just in my car.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how do you go?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
I think I went okay before, but just then I
thought it also was.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
A soft drink. Let's give it.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
They're Chrispy Bees today, Christine.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I can one?

Speaker 10 (13:13):
I'm going to say Bee by Christy beer.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
There we go. That's a Christy, that's a Chrispy beer.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
That's one hundred dollars for you. You currently have one hundred
dollars in your pocket.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Christine. You can walk away, or we can go double
or nothing.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Let's do the double here, the double, the Passador Blake.

Speaker 9 (13:41):
I'm going to go beer again.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh god, Christine, it was a clinical.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry be holder for you as well. Christine, thank you.
We're taking any more.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
There, guys, producers when you always know they don't want
they just don't want you guys to win.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
At lunchess.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
They also only brought in four cans. This is what
they do, they ship over these lemmings.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, I think still.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Christine almost named my unborn baby after a drug dealer.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'll run you through it. So, so Mini is pregnant.
She's thirty weeks pregnant. Now, very very exciting.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Wow, really getting on there? How are you feeling about it.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I'm just pumped. I'm so excited.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
You know, she's at that stage now where you just
I'm ready for the baby to come out.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, she's starting very sore and stuff, and.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Lots of dad's in your shoes at this time, trying,
you know, off and get all of their partying out
of their system and whatnot. Yeah, for a forty eight
hour bike riding tour through the regional Victorian town of
Bright over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Got pretty wild, got pretty wide, had a few beers
at the pub alcohol free, but had a few beers
at the pub afterwards. Anyway, So naturally, outside of bike
riding trips, we're also throwing.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Around a lot of names at the moment.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
What are going to name the baby? We're throwing things
at each other. And I really liked the name Walter.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh yeah, Walter Walter.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
I like it's an old school name. It's coming around
a little bit. Walter and Walt Walt, Yeah, Walt Walter. Anyway,
my last name is White Law. We White Law, Walter
White Law. Now for me, no issues, no issues.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
There's a very very popular television show called Breaking Bad.
Of course, Now again I'm not a huge fan of
Breaking Bad, but thankfully I told her button push it.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Tommy here, I was like, what do you think of
Walter white Law?

Speaker 4 (15:48):
And he thought I was joking and he was like,
going to name your child after a dude on a
TV show who sold ice? Effectively, I love it, but
like pretty strange man.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
But again, if I didn't have that, because Mim didn't pick.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Up on that either, both of us were just like, Yeah,
Walter Whitelaw, that's that's that's great.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
But a lot of people would have been like cool
man after a deal.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And also they wouldn't have had that chat with you
to you to your face and does that you go,
what a beautiful name.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
And then you walk away and you go those people
are freaks.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, classic behind them anyway, you would have copped a
lot of that and I would have been listening in
and appealing with a lot of those people.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, oh, very good. I think we should play it.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
I mean, there's a joke that's been written in the
in the producer chat bot.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
It's a good joke.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's a good joke. I think does deserve a song hook.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Very good could have had that in the bird sweep
here he comes Walter White lots.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I mean that's why. I mean there's a lot of
reason to throw the baby name around. I mean it's
kind of not really kosher, is it. You don't throw
the name around because you want a bit everyone to
surprise with it. At the end of the day, it's
probably good doing a bit of cross referencing, yeah, just
to make sure you're not going to I don't want
someone to shoot on your name.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Like if you know, tell a friend and you're like, hey,
look this is what I'm thinking, and then they go, well,
I that's a really that's an awful feeling. But you'd
probably rather have that than then look at your kid
and go no. I mean, like you know, you prett
you put your child first there.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
But a lot of the time people don't like a
name is like, oh god, I had I had an
ex boyfriend weeks and he used to sleep with the
squirrel and it's like, nothing to do with my child, impressively,
let's go to sleep in the same bed as I
was Wayne here on thirteen one oh six five.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wine, you've got an example of a name. You don't
think the parents thought it through.

Speaker 9 (17:43):
No, No, I used to work with a fellow. His
name was Matthew King. Right now, He's talking about his
brother one day and he goes, yeah, my brother Wayne,
I'm just like, you're serious. My name is Wayne, And yeah,
nah that's just.

Speaker 8 (17:58):
Could Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Good and hold back. Does that happen?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, I'm in full Yeah, let's go to here and Tony,
you've got a marriage.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (18:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
I don't think you need to be as careful when
you get married, but this woman probably should have. So
my parents growing up had a really good family friend
called Tessa who met a lovely man called Rob. And
when Rob and Tessa got married, they became mister and
missus Rob and Tessa Stickle like testiclest.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Sorry, and is your friends with Tess?

Speaker 8 (18:45):
And my parents were, yeah, parents, did anyone have.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
The conversation that, like, I don't think you can marry
I don't think you can marry mister Stickle.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, he was so lovely, you know, even I remember
him being the loveliest man.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Lovely must have been.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
And he must have compensated immediately known as a ball
for the rest of my life, like he must.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Have be a beautiful man, a gorgeous Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
And for her to know that the rest of my
life I'm going to be known as that. You want
some something coming back? I'm sure maybe he was amazing,
must have been, he must have been. Well, let's go
to Lord Nell here, Lornelle, you went to you went
to Oh bless you. You went to school with a
girl whose parents didn't think for the name?

Speaker 9 (19:28):
I did got did I?

Speaker 12 (19:29):
I went to a school with a girl whose name
was surnamed Dick.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
I missed the missed the first name there. Surname is
always a winner. But what was the first name?

Speaker 10 (19:40):
Crystal?

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Crystal Dick? Is there a game laughing at the surname there?
Or why is Crystal?

Speaker 13 (19:52):
Nothing wrong with Crystal, nothing to do with.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
The first name. You didn't need to give us the best.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
You can't do anything surnames Dick. Just like that's just
the Dick family has to live with that. The whole
family tree has to live with that. I think they've
done a pretty good thing by calling her Crystal.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
So many grenades there, I think they've done really well.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Exactly half the names are gone Christian not just now and.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Not get the phone to goop loll across, love the
Dicky bang, get it on. It's not even clever mate,
there was no joke there wants the first name Crystal.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
That's not a bit.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Let's go to.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I shout out? Can I just say shout out to
all the.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Dicks that are listening surnamed dick, Yeah, shout out, because
some stage in your life it would have been.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Tricky friends with a family of dicks.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
There were four boys before the four dicks, and a
great great guys followed them around. Let's go to Caiden here,
Caden Carden, you've got to work related one.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
I are we?

Speaker 10 (21:02):
Yeah. I was actually in the Defense Force for a
bit in the Navy, and in the Navy you get
called by your rank followed by your last name, yeah,
and joining up you started a semen.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
And we had a bloke from his last name was Stained,
last name was what stain.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
That was the most embarrassing food delivery you ever had,
most embarrassing fart over there, woods.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Straight for.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I was cleaning the disk, mate, thirteen one six y five,
most embarrassing food delivery you ever had. And as I
said before, this could be the shocking interaction that you
had with the guy. I had a friend of mine
who ordered something was a little bit too wasted, passed
out the next morning. It was there when he went
to go and take his daughter for a walk, very hungover.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
But that's last you've been on the door. Well terrifying,
it was still very good.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
You have that old bloody breakfast for your child as well.
Tick tick.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
So look, it can go a number of different ways.
It can be a very awkward process. I think probably
up the top. There is just how lazy people can be.
And there's actually any door dasher who's gone viral on
tik Tak tik.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Takactre trying to take down TikTok really.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Sounding like a boomer now because I reckon that gets
tik taks back in there.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Everyone's forgetting about the tiktak is a mint option, tiktak
on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
I just think that surprise, surprise, a minico, but it's
by the by woods. Because this this guy, this Aussie
door dasher, he's on, he's on Tiktak, TikTok, whatever he's on.
He's posted this video of him with the McDonald's delivery
bag that he's picked up for somebody Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
So you know, already looking a bit sus and.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Then he says, egregious misuse of the door dash product.
I just got mad ten dollars and twenty six cents
to walk eighty meters. So he's out in front of
the macas. He then spins the camera to show the
house he's going to and then back to the macers.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well yeah, I mean a lot of people are saying
he's lazy.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
A lot of people say, you know, you never know
what someone's going through, but ah, yeah, okay, sure, we
know they might be anxious.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
You know, they might be a doomsday prepper. Who knows.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
I prefer to take it to a fun space. That's
just someone weikedly hungover, yeah, in bed, because it's not
so much the walk. I think it's the I've got
to put clothes off.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
It, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
It's like you've got a guy's going to deliver it,
and at that moment, that's the best ten dollars you've
ever spent. You know, Like, sometime, isn't it funny? How
like the delivery fee can either be like, oh that's ridiculous,
I go and pick it up. If you've a healthy
state of mind, sure versus five dollars I'll pay that
any day of the week, right now.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, that's the best five dollars exactly when it comes
down to it, like do I want to pay five
dollars or put clothes on?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Putting clothes on is effort. Yeah, you might have to
rinse your face.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, I mean, you don't get out of bed for
at least one hundred dollars a day would So I'm
just going to throw this out.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I will not do any gigs for one hundred dollars
on record. At least three figures.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Just went through the room.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
My god, well selling me man.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
A friend of mine had a horrific example of an
embarrassing delivery.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
So she was at her boss's work party.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
The boss was putting on a party, right stinking party,
and the chat pretty early on was how early can.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
You do a ghosty from this crap party? Right? She
thinks she pulls off a ripper ghosty.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
She leaves real early, right, like forty minutes in, she's gone.
On the way home, she goes to order Uber eats.
She's like, how good is this? I've got away, like
very early, I'll order my Uber eats. Unfortunately, she set
the delivery address to the boss's house.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
She was waiting for a great embarrassing food delivery story.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
So the Uber Eat struve had to walk through the
party saying Uber Eats for Sarah. Everyone knew that you'd left.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Oh that is great. We'll take that kill if you're
listening Sarah.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Also, I know she didn't want it on air, but Joe,
you had a story in the meeting, and I feel
like you need to be thrown under the.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Bus for it.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (25:19):
I ordered dinner on the weekend and then I went
to the door to grab it and the delivery driver
like mumbled something and I just grabbed the food and
was like sorry, and he said, this is my first delivery.
I just arrived in Australia and I was just holding
the food and just said welcome.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Wow, that's not what you said in the meeting. You
said where full get out and then you closed.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
The door and waved in Australian flag. I'm pretty sure
that's what you said. All right, let's take those calls
out there thirteen.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
As well. Six five was up very early this.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Food delivery stories. Got Mel who's called in? Mel?

Speaker 13 (25:58):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah? Good mate, I've got an embarrassing uber et story.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Oh, I went to my friend's house to visit her
and I rocked up at like twelve.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
Pm and there was an uber order sitting out the
front and I went in and she's like.

Speaker 8 (26:12):
Oh, I fell back asleep.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
And in the bag was a small coat and a
harsh brown which costs like fifteen dollars to get delivered.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
It was ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
And McDonald is at the end of her street.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, this is I mean, Melanie've raised a great point,
because there's going to be I think that is also
a moment where you need to start questioning your life decisions.
Is when the delivery fee is equating to sure the
actual order.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, yeah, and then that's.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, as we were saying before, the reason we're talking
about this is this DoorDash driver who walked eighty meters
to deliver McDonald's to somebody and it was a ten
dollars twenty six delivery fee.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That starts getting interesting, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
I mean, our producer AB's, she's pretty well known for
regularly ordering one cookie on Uber barrets and effectively, I mean,
you let you tell Australia, So how much does one
cookie end up costing you.

Speaker 12 (27:06):
I didn't think it was that bad until I told
you guys, but it was fifteen dollars.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
For a cookie. Fifteen bucks for a cookie. It's really good.

Speaker 12 (27:14):
And I did it like at one point, like three
times in one like a week.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, that's standing. That's the other thing.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
When you're going from the same restaurants, what can be
very embarrassing. And I remember this from a very early
dating my now wife min. We once ordered a lead
of ice cream. Oh yeah, you used to do that
leader of ice curR. And then like two hours later
it's like ice cream and you go, could we go again?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
And then.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
And then we'd oft and go like, I haven't seen
you before. What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You might have the wrong place mate, but we will
take that. Jessica. Jessica, were talking embarrassing food delivery stories.

Speaker 13 (27:51):
Yes, I mean pretty much the same story you mentioned.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
I lived on top of a McDonald's and got it delivered.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Okay, suggest what do you is it that you don't
want to get dressed?

Speaker 10 (28:02):
Jess pretty much, and on a Sunday that's the last
thing you want to do. And for me, it was
a free delivery fee, so I'm paying you know, free delivery.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
You're laughing, free free delivery. I mean you still get
the judgment and ordered if you.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Were living in the McDonald's, it's free delivery, that's breakfast
in bed.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
I disagree because you get the judgment of the delivery
guy who's just some stairs. Was there was their judgment
from the delivery person, Jess.

Speaker 13 (28:26):
There was always judgment, and they could never find our
house because they were like.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
There's no way, there's no way I deliver this.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
There's just no way that the person upstairs has ordered this.
I got on your jest. You have a willing woody mug?
Are we STI running with will and woody mugs?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Stubby?

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Hold?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I can you hear it here? It's around throw them
out there.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Delivery fee on that one though, Tommy six five.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
We're talking embarrassing food delivery stories. Tommy.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (28:54):
So basically I had ordered pizza from one of the
food delivery services and then the driver work. He actually
drove out of the shop and he pucked up on
the street, but he wasn't moving for about five minutes
or so. I took it, so I took a screen show.
I'm like, just in case, and then he actually ended
up canceling the order. So I said, you know.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
What stuff this?

Speaker 13 (29:11):
I drove to the actual street. Here he is, this
bloke just enjoying his pizza.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Wow, did you say something, Tommy?

Speaker 9 (29:21):
Oh, believe me, I said a lot of things.

Speaker 13 (29:23):
I was actually recording him. I made him send me
the money for the actual food, and I took the
food off him.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
But you took the half eaten pizza out of his hands.

Speaker 13 (29:32):
Half eaten pizza, a fruit on the floor, and I said,
send me my money, and he did and I got reimbursed.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
So Tommy, Tommy is here a little bit of respect
because I've had this situation before. It's very very rare,
I think in the ten or fifteen years that I've
been using a food to the reserves, it's very very
rare that you have the moment when the driver disappears.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
And then so they must have I've always found this fascinating.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
They must have the moment where they pick up the
food because of on the bag stapled where they're either
so starving or it smells so good that they are
like willing to fall on their sword, like this is
my Swan song. This burger is that good that I'm
happy to this is my career ender. This is a
career ending burger for me.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
And you've got to be sure that that's the best
meal you're going to get that night. I imagine every meal
they get that night, they're going like, is this this
is the night? Maybe one more the night ultimate gamble
where you go, I think I'm going to get a
better meal, yes, and then fine.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
And then you're like, that's that's a meal for me.
So Tommy, it was there respect for you? Like were
you like you know what, man?

Speaker 13 (30:28):
I respect that, or to be honest, it was breakfast
time older the Lebanese pizza.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
This really does feel like Jump changed this segment. But
I've been put up to this.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's a good bit. It's a good bit.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I don't know, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
But look, I spent a lot of time on Reddit
too much.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I'm not on any social media apart from.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Redditing up for it with your deaths growing on Reddit, moke, Well.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
You went to the bathroom of the day. Don't make
me defend Reddit.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
But it is the best thing. It's unbelievable. It's the
front page of the Internet. You know, you can.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Curate your feed and you're just going to get things
on there that you're not going to get anywhere else.
I love the fact that it's you know, I think
you either use chat GPT to solve your problems.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Or you use Reddit. Use humans. I'm a human woods
So anyway.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Look, this is a bit, so basically the team have
put me up to.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
It's actually not a paid bit, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I'm not sure not what those sales guys are doing,
but this could be because I love Reddit, and right now,
I'm just going to go that this bit will just
be me presenting to you the most interesting things I
found on Reddit this week.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Right and I'm going to be very honest with you
because I feel like I'm representing the audience here as well.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Let's not let's not bore anyone.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Well, I think the only way through this is the
producers of Designer that you can you will have a
buzzer effected.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
I have it.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
I have a Buzzer's great, and that will move me on. Okay, good,
So I'll just bring up what the title of the
reddit thread the subreddit is.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I need to get technical with you.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
You can move me on if you don't want to
hear it. My favorite rock folk singer father John Misty.
Would you like to hear about the IQ catalog from
the nineteen seventies why Parisians in their thirties are leaving
the capital?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
My god, man, you actually enjoy this.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
This is a good year.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
This is I told you this could go nowhere. What's
a secret you'll take to the grave? But would anonymously tell?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
On Reddit?

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Interested? Interested? Do we have any what's top comment?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Top comment? Yeah? I never actually graduated culinary school. I was.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
My god, I mean, wayter you build us up?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I know there there were some good ones there, but.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't care. You want it lost me? You don't
want to know you lost me.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Okay, this one you will like.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Okay, this is from one of my favorite subrid It's
called Today I Learned or til. When Steven Sigall hosted
SNL in nineteen ninety one, you've claimed he'd never heard.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Of the show before.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Brilliant Love Then and then they had a whole bunch
of sketches of him fighting people, but he refused to
be beaten up, even for the comedic purposes, and instead
he wrote his own skit where he beat up a
bunch of his own stunt men that he brought on
the show just for that book.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Can we watch that?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Where?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Can we watch that?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
You watch them? And then this is I picked this
up in the comments.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I thought you like this one when Nick Cage was
about to host SNL. So it's well known as like
the worst SNL in history. Apparently the Stephen sigal won
great and this is confirmed. When Nick Cage was about
to host SNL, he went to Laurne Michael's.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
He was really nervous about letting everyone down.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
He's like, it's gonna be the He said to him,
it's going to be the worst SNL ever, and Lawn
turns to him and goes, no, that would be Steven Segal.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's amazing. So that's good redditing.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, well, I mean he's got a
bing so yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Good dug a bit anything else I got hages.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Man, I'm gonna keep going so or you can tell
me to stop if you like.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
And I'm interested because the Stephen Sigarwan's got me going. Yeah,
I almost wrapped you up at Parisians leaving powers at
the age.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Of maille If I don't care, all right, Okay, here
we go.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
So Apparently there was something called the Final Experiment in
twenty twenty four, which was an Antarctica exhibition expedition. I
should say, we're flat you.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
No, no, it got better.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I want to talk you about the worst realization you
can possibly have, because it's very cold and wintery and
lots of parts of the country at the moment awful.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
And last night I got into bed.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
It was raining, it was at least zero, and oh no,
the clothes are outside. No no, no, no, feel well,
actually marginally less significant than that.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
I just realized that I'd left the outside light on.
I just feel like, but when you get down, you know,
when you're in bed, you're kind of like you're like, yeah, exactly, exactly,
leave it on. You've done everything.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
You're like, pray that it runs, the bulb runs out.
Just go like right it out.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And then Sam said to me, if you leave it on,
the dog's going to get up.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
And then it's just it's just it's just there's nothing
worse be getting into bed on a wintery night and
realizing you've left anything on or anything open, or just
it's just it's a shocking feeling. And so I tried
to contextualize it for myself.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
I said, look, look.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Well, I mean after I've got out of bed, and
I was winging to some She was like, contextualize it,
like she said to me, there are way worse realizations
to have, And I was like, I started thinking about this.
I'd love to get your thoughts on what this said.
And I suppose they didn't want to six to five
if you want to dip in as well. But the
one that really struck me, which made me feel a
lot better about the situation, was realizing I'd left the

(35:44):
light on was not as bad as realizing that I
hadn't put my lunch order in when I.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Went to school.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh the worst.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Your parents had queued you up with a paper bag
and two dollars fifty to get your pie and your
chocolate big game, which is, by the way, was the
best thing in the world.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
At the time and only on Friday teacher.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
When the teacher turns around and says can who wants
to get the lunch orders, blood drains from your face
and you go, oh god, I've left my lunch money
in my bag.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
And you have that moment you're like, oh, maybe I didn't,
Maybe I didn't.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
You go to your bag and there it is, there's
the two dollars fifty sitting in there. And then the
worst bit is obviously you're starving, so you're like, well,
I'm not going to get through the day.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
I might die here today.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
But so then obviously the teacher then makes an announcement
and goes, okay, everyone, what he forgot to put his
lunch order in again? Everyone, They look at you with
cures like just dagg, It's like you animal, like I
have split my pie now. Sometimes though, interestingly, when you
forget your lunch or.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Two halves of a sausage roll, a little bit of
meat pie.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Yeah, yeah, I've got a little cup of strawberry big
but yeah, shocking realization for me that I'm going to
take it back to the bed if I could.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
The worst realization for me.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Is, you know when you're like you're having a bit
of a late night and you're up, maybe either you're
out or you're watching TV, and you're like finishing off
your movie and like you're doing that thing the couch
where you're like you're you're falling asleep. You're like, oh
my god, I've almost fallen asleep on the couch. But
I'm going to go for the stumble to my bed,
and you do that dark stumbled you're cold and you
kind of like hunched over and.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
I just to make it, just to make it.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
And you get into your bedroom and you remember that
you stripped the sheets on your bed earlier.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
That is a shocking realized. That's a bad realized, and.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Your wife's against the idea. Just let's just go.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Let's just I can't do that.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Animal.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Or even if you've been away for a while and
you come home and you realize that bed sheets, bed
sheets in general, sheets are real.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, that's a good one, actually leaving it, just leaving.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
The home in general, and realizing something can be really bad.
Like you know, when you leave the home and you're like,
even if you haven't left, just you've made it to
the car out the front and that's really annoying.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Thought enters your head where itich is do you lock
the front door?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
I hate that feeling that, yeah, there's nothing I've never
not gone back.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
The tour is locked.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
When you're me because this is bad.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I have the barbecue on for twenty four hours, for
twenty four hours, barbecue on twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Because obviously you know I barbecue, Adam, every.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Man you've got you've got a plumb to barbecue.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
When and I was like, well, I mean that's convenient already.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
That's a great one. That's a very good one.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
One.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Which have been a bad one, but a good one.
You could have blown up your house, could have blown
up me fan exactly right. And that's why I have
a neighbor's style death by sausage. That's why it stays
between us obviously.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, no worries and the rest of Australia right now.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Taking to school, just a few I'll throw out there
when you thought it was jeans for Jean's Day, but
it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
The only kid in school rolling around in your.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Levies sucking awful.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Has a really really shocking moment.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Clothes day when you're not in casual clothes, so you
like you're untacking your shirt a little bit.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
You're like, I mean another one for me. I don't know.
This is traumatizing for a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
But when you used to school swimming and you realize
that you'd forgotten a fresh pair of underwear, oh yeah,
I was a shocking What did you go for that?

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Did you go command? Did you.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
I wet speed out it myself, so I just spent
the rest of my day.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
If you pissed your pants.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
That is bad. That is very bad.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
They are bad realizations I did. I felt very good
last night, though, and I got into bed because I
realized the worst realization. I didn't have this realization, but
a friend of mine had this realization in Thailand. He
thought he picked up a beautiful, thy lady, got back
to his hotel room and realized it was a boy
that was.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Tough for him. Tough moment.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
What did you I think? I everyone heard your keyboard
into there.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
You managed to get that out without infringing. Very good
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