August 31, 2025 • 34 mins
I really hope Julie doesn't read the title of this one... But, I mean - it's actually what's coming up in this episode!!
We talk about some of the things I brought back from Thailand (including a strange rash 😳) and Julie sings a VERY strange song. (Please let me know if you've ever heard it before!!!)
It's a good episode full of nonsense and laughs. Enjoy!
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(00:04):
With Rabbit. Hey, I'm Rabbit.
I record this podcast inside a cute little retro caravan from
1967 that I've tore around all over the place.
Fan podcast with Rabbit. I don't have to be as camera
ready now, no. And yet I am always.
I want my little thing back eventually too 'cause I'm gonna
start using it. Interesting you would say that.
(00:24):
What? What?
Don't pull that face at me. What?
Do you mean what? OK, you know what?
Let's go some updates right awayso.
Rightio, OH. Man, we've got so much to cover
off. We've been spoken in ages.
Well. You've been just, what do you
call it, jaunting all over the. World gallivanting, That's the
way I was, Yes, well, that's what I wrote.
Gallivanting on a jaunt. Yeah, yeah, that's well, you
(00:47):
know, you gotta fill in the arrivals card and you've gotta
put your. Oh, Rivals card, they said.
The rivals card, I'm like how many are on there and.
You have to declare that when you arrive in the country.
Oh, God. The arrivals.
The flight's only 9 hours long. I can't get this thing filled
out in time. Hit the arrivals card where it
(01:09):
says what's your occupation? Yeah, for a long time.
When I. Who are you up?
Against. Oh.
I for a long time, well, foreverwhen I was in radio, I would
have fun with that card. Yeah.
And I'd write all sorts of things on there.
I put a donkey trainer on it once.
(01:31):
A donkey trainer. Yeah, I thought that's.
Fun and I just went, oh, he's accidentally written trainer on
there. Look at him.
That's a half. Never.
I've seen one. He always says that.
So, Sav, she didn't love that I,that I did that.
(01:51):
She fills out all the cards on the thing now and she gets me to
sign them, right. She doesn't trust me, and she
knows better. Fair enough.
Who all my rivals are. Yeah, I guess.
But she drew the line one time when I wrote doctor.
She's like, what if there's a medical emergency?
So I'm not that kind of doctor. I'm just a PhD baby.
I'm a donkey truck. I'm a I'm.
(02:13):
A PhD in ASS training. So yeah, I have been, Oh yeah,
on that last trip to Thailand a couple of weeks ago, I could
have written Gallivanter or a Jaunter as my occupation.
Jaunter, I wrote. I really struggled with it
actually. Yeah.
What do I actually do? Welcome to my life.
(02:37):
I never know what to fill in on that either.
Oh. That's it's interesting.
Sometimes I write because you are.
I mean, you're a cook, but that's funny to write as your
occupation. Yeah, Cook, we're like.
Aren't we all? Well, yeah, most of us cook.
Or sometimes I write author, sometimes I write speaker.
Yeah, what about God? I'd love you to write
(02:58):
influencer. I don't want to be hated before
I even get through customs. Thanks.
Just. Watch them send you off to a
special word. Yeah, straight away.
Yeah, yeah. Come on then, influence me.
Let's see. Let's see what you got.
And hurry up, there's a donkey trainer out there.
I need to get to him next. Sitting train this ass.
(03:26):
I don't wanna fly to Thailand with my occupation being ass
trainer. That's that's not the right
country to do that in. No, alright, well, let me now
take you straight from that. It's a direct link from that
into I picked up this horrible rash in Thailand.
(03:47):
Not not even joking. Far too much information.
No, it's not. I got way more.
I got so much more. Oh, no.
So yeah, What kind? Of horrible no do I what kind of
horrible rash the. Doctor asked me that and I
didn't think about it until no, he didn't ask me.
What kind of horrible rash do you have?
I'm like, mate, I'm pretty sure that's your job.
(04:08):
I don't come in here to tell you.
Actually, I quite often do. When I go to the doctors, I tell
them what I've got because. You've googled.
I've already googled it, yeah. You're just there for the
prescription. Google can issue prescriptions.
He wouldn't need. Doctors.
No, I would not. OK, actually, however, he thinks
(04:29):
I got it wrong. So.
How dare he? It's interesting.
We'll circle back to that and once I've given you.
Here's your new occupation. Ask trainer and MD.
Once I present you with all of the information and the
evidence. Here we go.
You can ask me to diagnose you. No.
I'm just going to tell you, do you choose, am I right or is the
doctor right? Oh, OK.
(04:50):
You don't want me to tell you what kind of horrible rush you
are not. Like take.
Take the quiz I'm. Trying to rush long again.
Listen. Oh boy, I forgot how much I
didn't need this. Take the quiz.
What kind of horrible rash are you?
(05:11):
You are herpes. I don't even know if that's a a
rash or. Call that a rash.
I don't want a blistering cold sore.
Well, this is how you find out that I don't have it.
It's because I don't know. I clearly haven't Googled it.
But yeah, he did ask me. Is it on your genitals?
That's a bit personal. So I think so.
(05:32):
And it wasn't until afterwards that I clicked and went Did he
ask me that because I was in Thailand.
Well, I don't know. What kind of rash was it?
Maybe that's just me being overly defensive because I got a
$19.00 massage at one point. Julie, I hear stories, OK, when
(05:52):
I say, you know, you can get a really cheap massage in
Thailand. I don't know.
For some reason my mind thinks it's going to be dodgy of some
sort. But then again, I think not for
$19.00. Well, I don't know what's the
exchange rate for that kind of massage.
It's 21.56 if you get a good. I do know the exchange rate with
the Thai baht to Australian dollar.
(06:13):
Yeah, well, you would. Well, across that.
Right, but what's it do you know?
There's a chapter in one of my cookbooks called Happy Endings,
just on a completely different topic.
Is it though? No, what?
What's the recipe? Sausage rolls.
Dagwood Dog eggplant lava cake. So he asked me that question.
(06:43):
I said no, it is purely that's kind of like thighs, not even
mid thigh, just a little bit up my thigh, just up past my knees
down to and onto my feet. And then it then it actually
grew up onto back of my shoulders and a little bit on my
chest. And it was these tiny little red
(07:04):
dots that were, I kid you not, the most itchiest itch ever in
my life. Had you been swimming?
Yep, sea loss. That's them.
Yeah, got it. First, go.
Or did you? Because this is what I told the
doctor. Well, yes, I did.
I just got it first go. Yeah, but.
You're the one that brought up herpes.
(07:25):
I never said herpes, I just saidsea loss.
I. I did.
Yes, you did. But so first day, the day I got
horrendously sunburnt. So sunburnt.
What an idiot. Like preaching to the kids about
putting on sunscreen. Now I did lathered up and
everything, Savage just done my shoulders for me.
(07:47):
And then she went back to the room, said possibly Savage
fault, but she went back to the room to get something.
So I jumped straight in the poolbecause I was right there next
to me and was like 30,000,000°. And then so he walked out again
and then tailed off and then went for a walk along the beach
for a few hours. OK.
When got my $19.00 massage and went I'm.
(08:09):
Getting I just. Shout that at me all the time
when I'm walking down the street.
I'm a nickname. Damn it, there's now.
So yeah, after that massage, I was like, man, I am.
(08:32):
I am here every day this week, at least once a day. 19 dollars.
Yeah, amazing. But then I I didn't get one
again until the final day, our second last day, because I burnt
the entire week. My shoulders were so bad.
But on that walk, yes, I walked in up to that deep just passed
the knee just walked in the water.
I came out little red dots all over me.
(08:54):
I went there, did Google it up. It did say sea lice, which are
the larvae of jellyfish. Oh yeah.
And I think now this is what I presented to the doctor, right.
I'm pretty sure that I read thatthey kind of like Burrow in and
then they have their babies and the babies are hatching.
(09:17):
And then you have like, jellyfish coming out, yes.
So that's what I thought was happening in the middle of the
night as I was scratching my entire body.
So. Did you believe when you were a
kid if you ate like the seeds ofthe apple or the orange, the
tree would grow in you and grow out your belly button?
Yep. And chewing gum.
OK, chewing gum because I don't know what happens there.
Chewing gum tree grows or something?
(09:38):
Yeah. But yeah, no, I yeah,
absolutely. I believe that's done.
You tell me these things are going to believe.
Them If you swallow your chewinggum, have you?
Then it gets caught on your tonsils.
Do you have it left or right? Have you ever heard that?
What? Does your chewing gum lose its
flavour on the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says don't chew it, do you swallow it in fright?
(09:59):
If it gets caught on your tonsils, do you have it left it
right? Does your chewer come place it's
favour? Post open we had very different
upbringings, you and I. Do we know?
Oh yeah, we did. Oh, so I've come back with this
(10:23):
thing now. Though here's the weird part.
Didn't affect me for the rest. That pretty much cleared up the
next day. All those little red spots, all.
Those men born, they swam away, and you were fine.
I think they burrowed in, they burrowed in, they closed the
door. So.
That that's where you get Jelly legs from.
Oh my God, I had Jelly legs the other night.
I was walking up the stairs and my legs were like Jelly legs.
(10:46):
That's why they're made of jellyfish now, God.
Damn it. So yeah, I think they Burrow in
and then they, you know, that's them in like in the womb kind of
thing. I guess they're incubating or
whatever. And then they and then so a week
later it was, it was a good fivedays after we arrived.
Awesome last year. And then, yeah, not during the
(11:07):
day, totally fine. But then at night, Oh my God,
the itchiest itch ever. Ever, ever, ever.
I went through 2 full tubes of stoppage, you know that stuff.
Yeah, which is good gear and it normally does the job.
Pause each though. More, Really.
Oh man, it doesn't stop, it justpauses.
I got this other stuff actually as well.
I can't remember what it's called, Eurovac, Eurovac or
(11:29):
something. And I was lathering my entire
body in that. Yeah.
And then. And then when I opened the
second box of it the next day, there's an instructions thing on
it over the top of the. I guess I just threw that over
my shoulder the first time. Oh, maybe I should have a read.
And it's like only use very sparingly and spot little dots.
Do not rub all over. Oh.
(11:51):
My God, I kind of had a bath in it, but I'm fine.
So I went to the doctor eventually.
Yeah, it's pretty proud of that,for starters.
Well, I mean, it's unlike you. Any guy, I think I'm a guy,
there's something wrong with me.And I went to the doctor.
What? Send me my damn award.
I was gonna put it up as like anappreciation post or something
(12:14):
just off myself. How unlike you?
This is how you shall thank me. Yes.
All right, I went in there, Man,I hadn't even thought about how
weird it was. That what?
I mean, it's not weird because doctors deal with it all the
time. But yeah, I had to walk into the
doctor and and go. So I've got this rash.
(12:35):
Well, that's why he asked. Is it on your genitals?
He thought I was just like, I'm not gonna talk about that.
Do you reckon he thought I'd made like, piddle pinprick lit
things all over my legs just so I could get the medication that
would clean up the bit around the web?
Yeah. Well, maybe.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like it looks exactly like this where it is.
So where it is? This is just this is just a
(12:56):
sample. I was prepared for you.
I'm not showing you the real one.
You don't need to say that. It's the same in the other
region. You want to take my word for it,
it's fine. And he said.
And this is where the sea lice burrowing and growing out of my
legs and hatching their babies maybe falls apart.
(13:19):
He said, oh, that's like a like a skin infection there.
And Yep, I'll give you this prescription for this stuff
here. Now that was way too quick for
me. So I said, what do you mean?
Why would there be a a skin infection?
I'd told him I'd be an entire analytic.
Did you go to any like public swimming places, like pools or
anything like that? Yeah, yeah, All right.
Second to last day. We went to spend the entire day
(13:41):
at Andamanda, this giant water park in the pool with thousands
of other people. And when you think about it, I
had little sores all over my legs, didn't I?
From where the jellyfish were hatching.
And so that's where it's it's yes, there's a skin infection
that I got. I got on these antibiotics and
some steroids. You may have noticed them quite
(14:02):
buff at the moment. I thought while I'm on the roids
I might as well hit the gym. It's a 2 for one prescription
and wow that stuff works. Yeah.
How good's medicine? Medicine's amazing, and when you
finally acknowledge that you mayneed some.
That's why I went to the doctor,yeah, to get my prescription for
(14:23):
the jellyfish. For the.
Growing out of my legs 0H the last two nights.
And what a difference sleeping makes.
Yeah 'cause I I could not sleep,absolutely could not sleep.
Just lying there scratching all night.
Oh. Yeah, that's the worst.
So yes, I brought that back fromfrom Thailand with me as well.
Marvelous. Mutant jellyfish and skin
(14:45):
infections. Yeah, good holiday then.
This is episode 201 and you werethere for episode 1.
Well, there you go. No, all the significant numbers.
It's like Taylor Swift doing herthing about the 13.
And how are the numbers? Oh, the numerology around the
pod van? You were here for episode 1.
(15:06):
You're here for episode 201. 200episodes later.
Yeah, funnily enough, the man the pod van running out of power
on episode 1. Where did we do episode 1?
One more the goon. Oh.
That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. And now we're about 500 metres
away from there. We've come a long.
(15:28):
Way come a long way King Gumbo might have Chan have been big
supporters of the pod damn podcast right from the start,
and you get all the stuff from them that you'd expect to You
get plants, you get all the Weber stuff, you get all the
steel here, the amazing principal kitchens, but it's the
stuff that you don't expect. Like this lady comes in and
she's hired a goat, but to clearsome lands and she wanted to
(15:49):
work out a way how to tether this goat.
I come up with an idea of a bit of stainless steel wire between
2:00. He's like a zip line between the
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I don't know. How it turned out.
But she was very happy with the service that she got.
That's what she got and the mighty helpful King Cumber
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dot AU podcast with Rabbit. Oh, it's really pouring.
It is pouring rain out there right now because that's episode
(16:54):
1. Beautiful and sunny.
Yeah, we were absolutely bacon in there and battery died.
Everything died in the pod van. Episode 199 exact same thing
happened. Wow, you've learned nothing.
Absolutely. In all this time, nothing, hey.
This is that we're not video anymore.
Yeah, that's. All these lights on.
(17:16):
We're videoing, but just for like, you know, social media
reels and. Stuff Personal collection, yeah.
Yeah, I just like to watch it atnight.
You talking helps me get to sleep.
Good God that's rude. I.
Was waiting for it to hit. So yeah, just all episodes are
gonna be audio episodes. Going back to that man takes
(17:40):
about four times as. Much you don't need to look at
this when you can listen to this.
It was too much of A laugh. OK.
Yeah, it was a bit. Yeah, well, it brought me down
to earth real quick, yeah. It does.
What a journey though. Hey yeah, what a journey.
From episode 1 from. Wobble to Terrigal.
No, not the natural journey, thefigurative journey.
(18:02):
OK, don't even know if that's the right word.
Figurative. I think it is.
You're the wordsmith in this dynamic duo, yeah?
Yeah, I know, right? Yeah.
Wordsmith has. Shockers.
With words when I was I was funny you say chalkers when I
was in. That'll make sense in about 7
(18:23):
minutes. OK yeah, it's like a 3 minute
story, right? But it's me but.
We yeah, crap on quite a lot so.Let's let's call it seven, OK?
And we'll be lucky if we get to it at that point.
But just remember, you said chalkers and it reminded me of
something. Is it about the castle?
No, when I was my. Favorite lines in the castle?
What? You see why it takes me 7
(18:43):
minutes to tell a story? It's, it's actually, they're
talking about their holiday to Thailand, their honeymoon to
Thailand. Yeah.
And they're talking about how that they're going to Thailand
and they're talking all about the stuff on the plane and the
movie on the plane and the food on the plane.
And, and, and he's like, there'sso much culture in Thailand.
And he goes, yeah, it's chockers.
It's Chockers. That's great.
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I'll tell you who is Chockers over there.
Me. Those buffet breakfasts, they're
the best. Oh, sweet baby Jesus.
Bacon and eggs Nah bro. Noodles and and rice and and and
and Thai food. I'll tell you right now, we
stayed at the fanciest hotel we've ever stayed at.
Amazing. I don't know how it happened.
(19:24):
I must have been in some weird headspace.
Yeah, when I booked. You to go fancy?
Yeah. I had not worked out the amount
we were paying per night until Ithink like the 4th or 5th night.
I was like, this is great. We've never stayed in a place
like this. And then I worked out how much
we're spending a night and I went, that's why, that's why.
And this will never happen again.
(19:46):
But total like 5 star resort. A What was it?
The Marriott? Is that rain?
Yeah, hardcore rain. Doesn't look like it's raining
that hard, no? I know, I don't think it is.
It's. Not the rain, then.
I don't think it is rain. You've broken something.
Me. Yeah, I would say that's your
microphone lead. But if I didn't break it, oh,
(20:08):
that's better. Some would say you diagnosed
that that was that was. Hello, looking out there going,
it doesn't look like it's raining that hard.
Heck, troubleshooting. What's funny there is how long
has that been going? We've just been going poor.
It's pouring down, glancing out the wind.
It's not. It's just static on your mic
lead that may not even come out.Who knows what magical stuff my
(20:29):
processor will do with that. But it was the Marriott Nyang
Beach. What?
Is it, Kiss it, Date it Marriott.
Shoot it. Kill it, Marriott.
Yeah. Kiss it, marry it more.
Kill it. Yeah.
Something like that. Yeah.
So it's right on the beach. Like right on the beach.
You from your room or for starters, from our bedroom, the
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balcony. You just walk straight on the
balcony and you're in the pool. It was a poolside room on on
ground floor. There's all these other people
in rooms up above us, which whenI was.
Had to dive off their balcony toget straight in the pool.
Idiots stop jumping over my room.
When we were booking it I remember looking at one of those
hotels. It's a common thing over there.
You can get the rooms that you just, the pool, it's right off
(21:13):
your off your balcony, just at your sliding door.
And I was like, let's look at the price difference between a
cup being a couple of floors up.And I was like, technically,
like when you're leaving your room, you just jump in the lift
and the stairs, whatever, walk out and you're in the pool.
Why pay that much more? God, I'm so glad we did.
Yeah, a number of times. We just walked out, dipped in
and jumped up in your. Yeah, which you?
Wouldn't bother yet now, yeah. We gotta put a robe on.
(21:36):
Gotta have. Clothes.
They won't be closed again. So yeah, it was ridiculous
thing, but the buffet breakfast was the most insane thing I've
ever seen. How lovely.
I've never, I could not fault itat all.
Yeah, and you tried? I was just remember I was over
there off my ADHD meds, which are a real appetite suppressant,
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so my appetite came back with a vengeance.
Especially at that buffet. We I've only been to Thailand
once in my life, and it was for our honeymoon.
Yeah. It was for a buffet.
We was for the buffet, baby. Oh my for.
A buffet. 30 years ago and even 30 years ago, the buffet
breakfast, yes. I said to sav.
I remember the first morning we I went because I like to go the
(22:22):
a full lap through first. Yeah, yeah.
Look at all my options. And then what I'll do is first
course I'll do the fruit and yogurt.
Second course I do the all the potatoes and egg and sausage and
toast and all that. That's my, that's that one.
And then my third course is all the pastries.
Oh. That's rookie, man.
(22:43):
Excuse me, what? Oh, you mean the Thai food
noodles? And Curry and Oh my God no,
that's all I ate. But on my Recon through on the
first run, I went back to the table and I said to save, you
need to go in that section. Yeah.
And like the chefs were right there in front of you, walk
along and you go have some of those names, those and they cook
them up right in front of you. Put it on your plate.
Amazing. And so she got into some of that
(23:05):
gear. Yes.
I just stuck in my sausages and stuff.
But. That's so funny because that was
Mick and I. He had bacon and eggs at the
buffet and I'm like, why would you eat bacon and eggs?
We can have that at home. I really went for the, I want to
say sauteed, but maybe caramel? I don't they were potatoes, like
roasted potatoes. But Oh my God, so so Yum.
So so so Yum. I fell for them on my holiday.
(23:29):
You fell for the potatoes, so that traditional Thai dish, I go
to culture. I go to Ireland and have
noodles. With culture, you were.
Thanks, you brought me back to the thing so.
How many minutes? That's at least.
Seven, we're way over the seven,I reckon.
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So when we were there, we went to some markets near the hotel.
Yep. And I found all of these.
Oh, man, I posted up a photo of some of them.
I didn't even notice the Gucci sandals that they had there.
Yeah. Was spelt CUGGI, could you?
They were coochies. Yeah, not coochies.
(24:10):
So. Good.
We're not. We're not breaking any laws that
I'm sure no one will notice. Oh man, some of them were like
even closer, like just a a letter off yeah, or something
like that. And I, I meant to grab some
because oh, my thongs got so stinky while I was just getting
wet all the time. And they just they've been
(24:31):
stinky for a while, those ones. But they're the most comfortable
ones ever. I think they're reef brand are
so squishy and nice. Anyway, left them in Thailand.
I was told I had. To they were too stinky to go in
a suitcase. I was not allowed to take them
on the plane, so I've called them a biohazard.
Anything to declare my thongs stink.
(24:53):
Which for our American listeners.
Yeah, not that kind of song, Flip.
Flops. Yeah.
Jandals. Yeah, for our Australian
listeners, Flip. Flop flip flops.
That's what they call them in America.
Oh, no. Australian.
Australian thongs. Americans flip flops?
Yeah. Kiwi.
Jandals handle a jandal and the coramandel, bro.
(25:16):
So I left those there and I meant to go back to the markets
and get some, you know, Kuji ones or something like that, and
I didn't. But then when I got home, I was
very happy to see that my new shoes had just turned up because
I was very excited about this. This is where I get to rhymes
with chockers. Do you know my favorite shoes in
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the entire world? Crockers with.
Sockers, they had so many Crocs RIP offs.
Yeah, they're in. RIP off Crocs.
It's well, well, that's the thing, right?
You look at them and they look identical.
Now, my favorite shoes, they're called Hockers.
Like chockers. Yeah. 7 minutes later, here we
(26:02):
are 70 minutes later. Hawkers.
Have you heard of them? No.
Oh, my God. Julie, you have missed out on a.
Revolution. What are?
They they're shoes and they are like walking on clouds.
They are the most comfortable, incredible shoes.
Now, about two years ago, Gina came in wearing some and went,
Oh my God, you need to try these.
(26:24):
I think we're the same shoe sizebecause I tried them on and I
went, Oh my God, bought some that day.
They're crazy. They're expensive.
But what are they made of? So I cloud I'm pretty sure the
sole is cloud harvested cloud. OK And I looked them up because
I thought it says they're running shoes.
(26:44):
H OK. A OK So I looked them up because
I thought in the running community they're classed as a
running shoe or? What they look like like do they
look like people of a certain age would wear them?
No, no, not at all. When I looked them up, I was
shocked to see that they are highly regarded as a running
shoe and as a like a really highquality shoe.
And you see the price? They're like $280 or something.
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Holy crap. The new ones, Yeah.
Yeah, they're good. Can we get like from Thailand?
Maybe quackers? Stand by I So I got home and my
new hawkers had arrived and I was so excited because I bought
the exact same ones that I bought two years ago They're now
at the Hawker Clifton 10s in themodel mine with the Clifton
(27:28):
nines. I one of the I just wanted the
exact same thing. I knew exactly what I was
getting. I turned up.
I put them on and Julie here they are these are my hawkers.
That's the sit written on the side there.
HAKA. Yeah.
So these are hawkers and they are the most comfortable.
My last ones were black. You reckon they?
Don't go clock. People of a certain age would
wear them. Shut your face.
(27:48):
You are currently wearing socks and Crocs.
I'm. Cold.
How come you get to say, oh, I'mcold and I just have to cop
that? So with my new pair, I wanted
black on black. The black logo on the black
shoes. They're just black shoes, but
they're the most comfy thing in the world.
Yeah. As soon as these arrived, which
I bought online, yeah, I put them on.
(28:10):
I just went. I was really hoping I'd put my
foot in and have that same experience.
Yeah, it's amazing. I didn't, and I thought maybe
that's just because I'm used to my 2 year old ones and I've worn
them in or something. But I really thought when you
put your feet into these things,they're amazing.
And I held them side by side. My old ones and my new ones
identical. Could not find a single
difference. After two days of wearing them
(28:32):
inside the shoe, the name Hockerhad worn off and that hadn't
happened on my 2 year old ones at all.
That's pretty much the only oh and my sock kept sliding down
inside them. It didn't happen with my other
ones which. Just felt.
Weird. So I've been meaning to do this
for about 3 weeks now. I went into athletes Foot where
(28:53):
they sell hawkers and I wore these ones in my new ones and I
said to the bloke, I'm just a little concerned that they this
is what I'm here for. I need to try those on and see
if I get that moment. My God, did I what?
Julie, meet the Fockers. These fake, fake hawkers.
(29:18):
Fockers. He didn't pay 280 bucks for him,
did you? So I think they cost me like
150, but actually, no, the the Clifton Nines, not the new ones,
they're like 190 at the moment. OK, so that was the thing.
They're only $40 cheaper. If they'd been like 80 bucks or
something I would have gone fake, but they're $150.00 from
(29:39):
this massive cloth. I'm going to name the website,
it's called Cranta. It looks like a Sheen type.
So they have clothes, they have shoes, they have all sorts. 100%
guarantee these are fake after Itried the ones on in store.
So they look exactly the same, but then actually take my shoe
off when I when because I had myshoes off as I was trying them
(30:01):
on, the dude picked it up and helooked at the bottom and went oh
God. How long have you had these
though? And I went like two weeks he
goes, I thought you were going to say over a year.
He's like, look, all the lines have come off on the sole and
all the. Yeah.
OK. So it's made so they look fake
and cheap as. They're just like clones to look
at. But they're not in.
Quality. Oh, there's 150 bucks down the
(30:24):
drain. That's a shame.
However, last night I found someone on Facebook Marketplace
locally selling some Hocker Bondi Sevens, which are
apparently even more squishy. And no one ever tells lies on
Facebook Marketplace. I'm going to meet her directly
after recording this episode to try the shoes and her mum bought
(30:46):
them Interstate and they don't or she they don't come to, she
doesn't like them for whatever reason and so they're basically
she can. See if the lines are there.
The the name of the yeah, the lines.
Are there the lines under there?Yeah, I already told her my
messages back. I went, listen, I just got
scammed, Yeah. So I'm coming to try them on.
Yeah, that's what. I'm going after 150.
I'm paying for those ones as well, which is cheaper than
(31:10):
they're just really good. Shoes, John.
Yeah, OK. Honestly I'd I'd tell you to put
these on and and just feel the comfort but these ones are
horrendous. I only wore them as a prop to
show you today and I really justwanted to say meet the Fockers.
Oh my. God are out man.
Well, luckily I didn't get scammed by something else
online, because when I said I wanted to buy it from Timu,
(31:34):
Julie goes. You wanna use mine?
I've got 10 the screen. Oh yeah, yeah.
You see so many of these things pop up in Instagram feed as ads.
Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Facebook. Yeah.
Yeah, and Facebook, it's a magnetic screen.
A selfie screen selfie. Screen it goes on the back of
your iPhone and. Can go on the back of your
(31:55):
iPhone, but it doesn't have to. Yes.
Bluetooth. Yeah.
And so. You can look at it and see for
me for filming. Amazing.
So means you can use a good camera, Yeah, instead of having
to face the front camera at yourself to film content and
stuff like that. And for me, I I won't have to go
round to my. Yeah.
Camera and then and then cut outthe piece of the film where I'm
(32:17):
going. Or use it.
Yeah, but speed it up. Yeah.
So it essentially it on the screen, it mirrors what your
phone is seeing. Yeah.
But if you're in a position where you can't see what your
phone is seeing, 'cause you're on the other side.
And exactly for a situation likehere in the pod van with where
my phone is set up there and recording right now, I can see
(32:38):
it on the screen. So I borrowed Julie's and yeah,
it's amazing. And my one just turned up this
morning 0. From that your one.
That's my one. Yours is charged and ready to go
and in my bag to keep. Oh.
I thought you can say use it at home, you'll get it back one
day. Oh.
You'll get it back with the MasterChef DVDs.
Bugger. Did I Did I ever give those
back? Yeah.
(32:59):
Did I? Yeah.
Oh, Where were they? There was just there was only
the finale that was missing. Oh yeah?
Oh, now I'd never know how it finished.
That's fine, I was just added tothe pile of shit of mine you've
never completed. Your stories.
(33:21):
Your book. My book?
Yeah. Yeah, None of my stories.
Ah well. It's like I'm the never ending
story. Just every, we get to a point in
everything where it's you're just like, but that's another
story and she'll be told anothertime.
(33:41):
I feel like if we ever get to the end, it's we're gonna have
to sort of say goodbye to each other and never see each other
again. Play play like the Seinfeld sign
off song or something and. We'll all just shrug and walk
away. Yeah, each other again.
I actually thought a real funny way to end this episode would
have just been at that moment where you go, here you go.
It's like the never ending storywhere I and then just cut it
(34:01):
there with Rabbit.
With Rabbit. Hey, I'm Rabbit.
I record this podcast inside a cute little retro caravan from
1967 that I've tore around all over the place.
Fan podcast with Rabbit. I don't have to be as camera
ready now, no. And yet I am always.
I want my little thing back eventually too 'cause I'm gonna
start using it. Interesting you would say that.
(00:24):
What? What?
Don't pull that face at me. What?
Do you mean what? OK, you know what?
Let's go some updates right awayso.
Rightio, OH. Man, we've got so much to cover
off. We've been spoken in ages.
Well. You've been just, what do you
call it, jaunting all over the. World gallivanting, That's the
way I was, Yes, well, that's what I wrote.
Gallivanting on a jaunt. Yeah, yeah, that's well, you
(00:47):
know, you gotta fill in the arrivals card and you've gotta
put your. Oh, Rivals card, they said.
The rivals card, I'm like how many are on there and.
You have to declare that when you arrive in the country.
Oh, God. The arrivals.
The flight's only 9 hours long. I can't get this thing filled
out in time. Hit the arrivals card where it
(01:09):
says what's your occupation? Yeah, for a long time.
When I. Who are you up?
Against. Oh.
I for a long time, well, foreverwhen I was in radio, I would
have fun with that card. Yeah.
And I'd write all sorts of things on there.
I put a donkey trainer on it once.
(01:31):
A donkey trainer. Yeah, I thought that's.
Fun and I just went, oh, he's accidentally written trainer on
there. Look at him.
That's a half. Never.
I've seen one. He always says that.
So, Sav, she didn't love that I,that I did that.
(01:51):
She fills out all the cards on the thing now and she gets me to
sign them, right. She doesn't trust me, and she
knows better. Fair enough.
Who all my rivals are. Yeah, I guess.
But she drew the line one time when I wrote doctor.
She's like, what if there's a medical emergency?
So I'm not that kind of doctor. I'm just a PhD baby.
I'm a donkey truck. I'm a I'm.
(02:13):
A PhD in ASS training. So yeah, I have been, Oh yeah,
on that last trip to Thailand a couple of weeks ago, I could
have written Gallivanter or a Jaunter as my occupation.
Jaunter, I wrote. I really struggled with it
actually. Yeah.
What do I actually do? Welcome to my life.
(02:37):
I never know what to fill in on that either.
Oh. That's it's interesting.
Sometimes I write because you are.
I mean, you're a cook, but that's funny to write as your
occupation. Yeah, Cook, we're like.
Aren't we all? Well, yeah, most of us cook.
Or sometimes I write author, sometimes I write speaker.
Yeah, what about God? I'd love you to write
(02:58):
influencer. I don't want to be hated before
I even get through customs. Thanks.
Just. Watch them send you off to a
special word. Yeah, straight away.
Yeah, yeah. Come on then, influence me.
Let's see. Let's see what you got.
And hurry up, there's a donkey trainer out there.
I need to get to him next. Sitting train this ass.
(03:26):
I don't wanna fly to Thailand with my occupation being ass
trainer. That's that's not the right
country to do that in. No, alright, well, let me now
take you straight from that. It's a direct link from that
into I picked up this horrible rash in Thailand.
(03:47):
Not not even joking. Far too much information.
No, it's not. I got way more.
I got so much more. Oh, no.
So yeah, What kind? Of horrible no do I what kind of
horrible rash the. Doctor asked me that and I
didn't think about it until no, he didn't ask me.
What kind of horrible rash do you have?
I'm like, mate, I'm pretty sure that's your job.
(04:08):
I don't come in here to tell you.
Actually, I quite often do. When I go to the doctors, I tell
them what I've got because. You've googled.
I've already googled it, yeah. You're just there for the
prescription. Google can issue prescriptions.
He wouldn't need. Doctors.
No, I would not. OK, actually, however, he thinks
(04:29):
I got it wrong. So.
How dare he? It's interesting.
We'll circle back to that and once I've given you.
Here's your new occupation. Ask trainer and MD.
Once I present you with all of the information and the
evidence. Here we go.
You can ask me to diagnose you. No.
I'm just going to tell you, do you choose, am I right or is the
doctor right? Oh, OK.
(04:50):
You don't want me to tell you what kind of horrible rush you
are not. Like take.
Take the quiz I'm. Trying to rush long again.
Listen. Oh boy, I forgot how much I
didn't need this. Take the quiz.
What kind of horrible rash are you?
(05:11):
You are herpes. I don't even know if that's a a
rash or. Call that a rash.
I don't want a blistering cold sore.
Well, this is how you find out that I don't have it.
It's because I don't know. I clearly haven't Googled it.
But yeah, he did ask me. Is it on your genitals?
That's a bit personal. So I think so.
(05:32):
And it wasn't until afterwards that I clicked and went Did he
ask me that because I was in Thailand.
Well, I don't know. What kind of rash was it?
Maybe that's just me being overly defensive because I got a
$19.00 massage at one point. Julie, I hear stories, OK, when
(05:52):
I say, you know, you can get a really cheap massage in
Thailand. I don't know.
For some reason my mind thinks it's going to be dodgy of some
sort. But then again, I think not for
$19.00. Well, I don't know what's the
exchange rate for that kind of massage.
It's 21.56 if you get a good. I do know the exchange rate with
the Thai baht to Australian dollar.
(06:13):
Yeah, well, you would. Well, across that.
Right, but what's it do you know?
There's a chapter in one of my cookbooks called Happy Endings,
just on a completely different topic.
Is it though? No, what?
What's the recipe? Sausage rolls.
Dagwood Dog eggplant lava cake. So he asked me that question.
(06:43):
I said no, it is purely that's kind of like thighs, not even
mid thigh, just a little bit up my thigh, just up past my knees
down to and onto my feet. And then it then it actually
grew up onto back of my shoulders and a little bit on my
chest. And it was these tiny little red
(07:04):
dots that were, I kid you not, the most itchiest itch ever in
my life. Had you been swimming?
Yep, sea loss. That's them.
Yeah, got it. First, go.
Or did you? Because this is what I told the
doctor. Well, yes, I did.
I just got it first go. Yeah, but.
You're the one that brought up herpes.
(07:25):
I never said herpes, I just saidsea loss.
I. I did.
Yes, you did. But so first day, the day I got
horrendously sunburnt. So sunburnt.
What an idiot. Like preaching to the kids about
putting on sunscreen. Now I did lathered up and
everything, Savage just done my shoulders for me.
(07:47):
And then she went back to the room, said possibly Savage
fault, but she went back to the room to get something.
So I jumped straight in the poolbecause I was right there next
to me and was like 30,000,000°. And then so he walked out again
and then tailed off and then went for a walk along the beach
for a few hours. OK.
When got my $19.00 massage and went I'm.
(08:09):
Getting I just. Shout that at me all the time
when I'm walking down the street.
I'm a nickname. Damn it, there's now.
So yeah, after that massage, I was like, man, I am.
(08:32):
I am here every day this week, at least once a day. 19 dollars.
Yeah, amazing. But then I I didn't get one
again until the final day, our second last day, because I burnt
the entire week. My shoulders were so bad.
But on that walk, yes, I walked in up to that deep just passed
the knee just walked in the water.
I came out little red dots all over me.
(08:54):
I went there, did Google it up. It did say sea lice, which are
the larvae of jellyfish. Oh yeah.
And I think now this is what I presented to the doctor, right.
I'm pretty sure that I read thatthey kind of like Burrow in and
then they have their babies and the babies are hatching.
(09:17):
And then you have like, jellyfish coming out, yes.
So that's what I thought was happening in the middle of the
night as I was scratching my entire body.
So. Did you believe when you were a
kid if you ate like the seeds ofthe apple or the orange, the
tree would grow in you and grow out your belly button?
Yep. And chewing gum.
OK, chewing gum because I don't know what happens there.
Chewing gum tree grows or something?
(09:38):
Yeah. But yeah, no, I yeah,
absolutely. I believe that's done.
You tell me these things are going to believe.
Them If you swallow your chewinggum, have you?
Then it gets caught on your tonsils.
Do you have it left or right? Have you ever heard that?
What? Does your chewing gum lose its
flavour on the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says don't chew it, do you swallow it in fright?
(09:59):
If it gets caught on your tonsils, do you have it left it
right? Does your chewer come place it's
favour? Post open we had very different
upbringings, you and I. Do we know?
Oh yeah, we did. Oh, so I've come back with this
(10:23):
thing now. Though here's the weird part.
Didn't affect me for the rest. That pretty much cleared up the
next day. All those little red spots, all.
Those men born, they swam away, and you were fine.
I think they burrowed in, they burrowed in, they closed the
door. So.
That that's where you get Jelly legs from.
Oh my God, I had Jelly legs the other night.
I was walking up the stairs and my legs were like Jelly legs.
(10:46):
That's why they're made of jellyfish now, God.
Damn it. So yeah, I think they Burrow in
and then they, you know, that's them in like in the womb kind of
thing. I guess they're incubating or
whatever. And then they and then so a week
later it was, it was a good fivedays after we arrived.
Awesome last year. And then, yeah, not during the
(11:07):
day, totally fine. But then at night, Oh my God,
the itchiest itch ever. Ever, ever, ever.
I went through 2 full tubes of stoppage, you know that stuff.
Yeah, which is good gear and it normally does the job.
Pause each though. More, Really.
Oh man, it doesn't stop, it justpauses.
I got this other stuff actually as well.
I can't remember what it's called, Eurovac, Eurovac or
(11:29):
something. And I was lathering my entire
body in that. Yeah.
And then. And then when I opened the
second box of it the next day, there's an instructions thing on
it over the top of the. I guess I just threw that over
my shoulder the first time. Oh, maybe I should have a read.
And it's like only use very sparingly and spot little dots.
Do not rub all over. Oh.
(11:51):
My God, I kind of had a bath in it, but I'm fine.
So I went to the doctor eventually.
Yeah, it's pretty proud of that,for starters.
Well, I mean, it's unlike you. Any guy, I think I'm a guy,
there's something wrong with me.And I went to the doctor.
What? Send me my damn award.
I was gonna put it up as like anappreciation post or something
(12:14):
just off myself. How unlike you?
This is how you shall thank me. Yes.
All right, I went in there, Man,I hadn't even thought about how
weird it was. That what?
I mean, it's not weird because doctors deal with it all the
time. But yeah, I had to walk into the
doctor and and go. So I've got this rash.
(12:35):
Well, that's why he asked. Is it on your genitals?
He thought I was just like, I'm not gonna talk about that.
Do you reckon he thought I'd made like, piddle pinprick lit
things all over my legs just so I could get the medication that
would clean up the bit around the web?
Yeah. Well, maybe.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like it looks exactly like this where it is.
So where it is? This is just this is just a
(12:56):
sample. I was prepared for you.
I'm not showing you the real one.
You don't need to say that. It's the same in the other
region. You want to take my word for it,
it's fine. And he said.
And this is where the sea lice burrowing and growing out of my
legs and hatching their babies maybe falls apart.
(13:19):
He said, oh, that's like a like a skin infection there.
And Yep, I'll give you this prescription for this stuff
here. Now that was way too quick for
me. So I said, what do you mean?
Why would there be a a skin infection?
I'd told him I'd be an entire analytic.
Did you go to any like public swimming places, like pools or
anything like that? Yeah, yeah, All right.
Second to last day. We went to spend the entire day
(13:41):
at Andamanda, this giant water park in the pool with thousands
of other people. And when you think about it, I
had little sores all over my legs, didn't I?
From where the jellyfish were hatching.
And so that's where it's it's yes, there's a skin infection
that I got. I got on these antibiotics and
some steroids. You may have noticed them quite
(14:02):
buff at the moment. I thought while I'm on the roids
I might as well hit the gym. It's a 2 for one prescription
and wow that stuff works. Yeah.
How good's medicine? Medicine's amazing, and when you
finally acknowledge that you mayneed some.
That's why I went to the doctor,yeah, to get my prescription for
(14:23):
the jellyfish. For the.
Growing out of my legs 0H the last two nights.
And what a difference sleeping makes.
Yeah 'cause I I could not sleep,absolutely could not sleep.
Just lying there scratching all night.
Oh. Yeah, that's the worst.
So yes, I brought that back fromfrom Thailand with me as well.
Marvelous. Mutant jellyfish and skin
(14:45):
infections. Yeah, good holiday then.
This is episode 201 and you werethere for episode 1.
Well, there you go. No, all the significant numbers.
It's like Taylor Swift doing herthing about the 13.
And how are the numbers? Oh, the numerology around the
pod van? You were here for episode 1.
(15:06):
You're here for episode 201. 200episodes later.
Yeah, funnily enough, the man the pod van running out of power
on episode 1. Where did we do episode 1?
One more the goon. Oh.
That's right. Yeah.
Yeah. And now we're about 500 metres
away from there. We've come a long.
(15:28):
Way come a long way King Gumbo might have Chan have been big
supporters of the pod damn podcast right from the start,
and you get all the stuff from them that you'd expect to You
get plants, you get all the Weber stuff, you get all the
steel here, the amazing principal kitchens, but it's the
stuff that you don't expect. Like this lady comes in and
she's hired a goat, but to clearsome lands and she wanted to
(15:49):
work out a way how to tether this goat.
I come up with an idea of a bit of stainless steel wire between
2:00. He's like a zip line between the
two trees to the goat. She took my advice.
I don't know. How it turned out.
But she was very happy with the service that she got.
That's what she got and the mighty helpful King Cumber
Minor. Jen, have you been to Guandalin
Bowling Club? They're right there on the
(16:10):
shores of Lake Macquarie. They do delicious meals upstairs
in the Foreshore Bistro and Cafe, which is run by the Dish
Catering Group. So you know it's good stuff and
you can dine out on the balcony looking out over the lake.
It is beautiful. They got the cute little
foreshore kiosk for a coffee andsnacks right by the jetty.
The entertainment's top notch. They got Friday night seafood
(16:33):
raffles and Sunday sessions withlive music in the beer garden.
You wanna find out what's happening at the club?
Check out their Facebook page orvisit guandalinbowlingclub.com
dot AU podcast with Rabbit. Oh, it's really pouring.
It is pouring rain out there right now because that's episode
(16:54):
1. Beautiful and sunny.
Yeah, we were absolutely bacon in there and battery died.
Everything died in the pod van. Episode 199 exact same thing
happened. Wow, you've learned nothing.
Absolutely. In all this time, nothing, hey.
This is that we're not video anymore.
Yeah, that's. All these lights on.
(17:16):
We're videoing, but just for like, you know, social media
reels and. Stuff Personal collection, yeah.
Yeah, I just like to watch it atnight.
You talking helps me get to sleep.
Good God that's rude. I.
Was waiting for it to hit. So yeah, just all episodes are
gonna be audio episodes. Going back to that man takes
(17:40):
about four times as. Much you don't need to look at
this when you can listen to this.
It was too much of A laugh. OK.
Yeah, it was a bit. Yeah, well, it brought me down
to earth real quick, yeah. It does.
What a journey though. Hey yeah, what a journey.
From episode 1 from. Wobble to Terrigal.
No, not the natural journey, thefigurative journey.
(18:02):
OK, don't even know if that's the right word.
Figurative. I think it is.
You're the wordsmith in this dynamic duo, yeah?
Yeah, I know, right? Yeah.
Wordsmith has. Shockers.
With words when I was I was funny you say chalkers when I
was in. That'll make sense in about 7
(18:23):
minutes. OK yeah, it's like a 3 minute
story, right? But it's me but.
We yeah, crap on quite a lot so.Let's let's call it seven, OK?
And we'll be lucky if we get to it at that point.
But just remember, you said chalkers and it reminded me of
something. Is it about the castle?
No, when I was my. Favorite lines in the castle?
What? You see why it takes me 7
(18:43):
minutes to tell a story? It's, it's actually, they're
talking about their holiday to Thailand, their honeymoon to
Thailand. Yeah.
And they're talking about how that they're going to Thailand
and they're talking all about the stuff on the plane and the
movie on the plane and the food on the plane.
And, and, and he's like, there'sso much culture in Thailand.
And he goes, yeah, it's chockers.
It's Chockers. That's great.
(19:03):
I'll tell you who is Chockers over there.
Me. Those buffet breakfasts, they're
the best. Oh, sweet baby Jesus.
Bacon and eggs Nah bro. Noodles and and rice and and and
and Thai food. I'll tell you right now, we
stayed at the fanciest hotel we've ever stayed at.
Amazing. I don't know how it happened.
(19:24):
I must have been in some weird headspace.
Yeah, when I booked. You to go fancy?
Yeah. I had not worked out the amount
we were paying per night until Ithink like the 4th or 5th night.
I was like, this is great. We've never stayed in a place
like this. And then I worked out how much
we're spending a night and I went, that's why, that's why.
And this will never happen again.
(19:46):
But total like 5 star resort. A What was it?
The Marriott? Is that rain?
Yeah, hardcore rain. Doesn't look like it's raining
that hard, no? I know, I don't think it is.
It's. Not the rain, then.
I don't think it is rain. You've broken something.
Me. Yeah, I would say that's your
microphone lead. But if I didn't break it, oh,
(20:08):
that's better. Some would say you diagnosed
that that was that was. Hello, looking out there going,
it doesn't look like it's raining that hard.
Heck, troubleshooting. What's funny there is how long
has that been going? We've just been going poor.
It's pouring down, glancing out the wind.
It's not. It's just static on your mic
lead that may not even come out.Who knows what magical stuff my
(20:29):
processor will do with that. But it was the Marriott Nyang
Beach. What?
Is it, Kiss it, Date it Marriott.
Shoot it. Kill it, Marriott.
Yeah. Kiss it, marry it more.
Kill it. Yeah.
Something like that. Yeah.
So it's right on the beach. Like right on the beach.
You from your room or for starters, from our bedroom, the
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balcony. You just walk straight on the
balcony and you're in the pool. It was a poolside room on on
ground floor. There's all these other people
in rooms up above us, which whenI was.
Had to dive off their balcony toget straight in the pool.
Idiots stop jumping over my room.
When we were booking it I remember looking at one of those
hotels. It's a common thing over there.
You can get the rooms that you just, the pool, it's right off
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your off your balcony, just at your sliding door.
And I was like, let's look at the price difference between a
cup being a couple of floors up.And I was like, technically,
like when you're leaving your room, you just jump in the lift
and the stairs, whatever, walk out and you're in the pool.
Why pay that much more? God, I'm so glad we did.
Yeah, a number of times. We just walked out, dipped in
and jumped up in your. Yeah, which you?
Wouldn't bother yet now, yeah. We gotta put a robe on.
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Gotta have. Clothes.
They won't be closed again. So yeah, it was ridiculous
thing, but the buffet breakfast was the most insane thing I've
ever seen. How lovely.
I've never, I could not fault itat all.
Yeah, and you tried? I was just remember I was over
there off my ADHD meds, which are a real appetite suppressant,
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so my appetite came back with a vengeance.
Especially at that buffet. We I've only been to Thailand
once in my life, and it was for our honeymoon.
Yeah. It was for a buffet.
We was for the buffet, baby. Oh my for.
A buffet. 30 years ago and even 30 years ago, the buffet
breakfast, yes. I said to sav.
I remember the first morning we I went because I like to go the
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a full lap through first. Yeah, yeah.
Look at all my options. And then what I'll do is first
course I'll do the fruit and yogurt.
Second course I do the all the potatoes and egg and sausage and
toast and all that. That's my, that's that one.
And then my third course is all the pastries.
Oh. That's rookie, man.
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Excuse me, what? Oh, you mean the Thai food
noodles? And Curry and Oh my God no,
that's all I ate. But on my Recon through on the
first run, I went back to the table and I said to save, you
need to go in that section. Yeah.
And like the chefs were right there in front of you, walk
along and you go have some of those names, those and they cook
them up right in front of you. Put it on your plate.
Amazing. And so she got into some of that
(23:05):
gear. Yes.
I just stuck in my sausages and stuff.
But. That's so funny because that was
Mick and I. He had bacon and eggs at the
buffet and I'm like, why would you eat bacon and eggs?
We can have that at home. I really went for the, I want to
say sauteed, but maybe caramel? I don't they were potatoes, like
roasted potatoes. But Oh my God, so so Yum.
So so so Yum. I fell for them on my holiday.
(23:29):
You fell for the potatoes, so that traditional Thai dish, I go
to culture. I go to Ireland and have
noodles. With culture, you were.
Thanks, you brought me back to the thing so.
How many minutes? That's at least.
Seven, we're way over the seven,I reckon.
(23:49):
So when we were there, we went to some markets near the hotel.
Yep. And I found all of these.
Oh, man, I posted up a photo of some of them.
I didn't even notice the Gucci sandals that they had there.
Yeah. Was spelt CUGGI, could you?
They were coochies. Yeah, not coochies.
(24:10):
So. Good.
We're not. We're not breaking any laws that
I'm sure no one will notice. Oh man, some of them were like
even closer, like just a a letter off yeah, or something
like that. And I, I meant to grab some
because oh, my thongs got so stinky while I was just getting
wet all the time. And they just they've been
(24:31):
stinky for a while, those ones. But they're the most comfortable
ones ever. I think they're reef brand are
so squishy and nice. Anyway, left them in Thailand.
I was told I had. To they were too stinky to go in
a suitcase. I was not allowed to take them
on the plane, so I've called them a biohazard.
Anything to declare my thongs stink.
(24:53):
Which for our American listeners.
Yeah, not that kind of song, Flip.
Flops. Yeah.
Jandals. Yeah, for our Australian
listeners, Flip. Flop flip flops.
That's what they call them in America.
Oh, no. Australian.
Australian thongs. Americans flip flops?
Yeah. Kiwi.
Jandals handle a jandal and the coramandel, bro.
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So I left those there and I meant to go back to the markets
and get some, you know, Kuji ones or something like that, and
I didn't. But then when I got home, I was
very happy to see that my new shoes had just turned up because
I was very excited about this. This is where I get to rhymes
with chockers. Do you know my favorite shoes in
(25:39):
the entire world? Crockers with.
Sockers, they had so many Crocs RIP offs.
Yeah, they're in. RIP off Crocs.
It's well, well, that's the thing, right?
You look at them and they look identical.
Now, my favorite shoes, they're called Hockers.
Like chockers. Yeah. 7 minutes later, here we
(26:02):
are 70 minutes later. Hawkers.
Have you heard of them? No.
Oh, my God. Julie, you have missed out on a.
Revolution. What are?
They they're shoes and they are like walking on clouds.
They are the most comfortable, incredible shoes.
Now, about two years ago, Gina came in wearing some and went,
Oh my God, you need to try these.
(26:24):
I think we're the same shoe sizebecause I tried them on and I
went, Oh my God, bought some that day.
They're crazy. They're expensive.
But what are they made of? So I cloud I'm pretty sure the
sole is cloud harvested cloud. OK And I looked them up because
I thought it says they're running shoes.
(26:44):
H OK. A OK So I looked them up because
I thought in the running community they're classed as a
running shoe or? What they look like like do they
look like people of a certain age would wear them?
No, no, not at all. When I looked them up, I was
shocked to see that they are highly regarded as a running
shoe and as a like a really highquality shoe.
And you see the price? They're like $280 or something.
(27:06):
Holy crap. The new ones, Yeah.
Yeah, they're good. Can we get like from Thailand?
Maybe quackers? Stand by I So I got home and my
new hawkers had arrived and I was so excited because I bought
the exact same ones that I bought two years ago They're now
at the Hawker Clifton 10s in themodel mine with the Clifton
(27:28):
nines. I one of the I just wanted the
exact same thing. I knew exactly what I was
getting. I turned up.
I put them on and Julie here they are these are my hawkers.
That's the sit written on the side there.
HAKA. Yeah.
So these are hawkers and they are the most comfortable.
My last ones were black. You reckon they?
Don't go clock. People of a certain age would
wear them. Shut your face.
(27:48):
You are currently wearing socks and Crocs.
I'm. Cold.
How come you get to say, oh, I'mcold and I just have to cop
that? So with my new pair, I wanted
black on black. The black logo on the black
shoes. They're just black shoes, but
they're the most comfy thing in the world.
Yeah. As soon as these arrived, which
I bought online, yeah, I put them on.
(28:10):
I just went. I was really hoping I'd put my
foot in and have that same experience.
Yeah, it's amazing. I didn't, and I thought maybe
that's just because I'm used to my 2 year old ones and I've worn
them in or something. But I really thought when you
put your feet into these things,they're amazing.
And I held them side by side. My old ones and my new ones
identical. Could not find a single
difference. After two days of wearing them
(28:32):
inside the shoe, the name Hockerhad worn off and that hadn't
happened on my 2 year old ones at all.
That's pretty much the only oh and my sock kept sliding down
inside them. It didn't happen with my other
ones which. Just felt.
Weird. So I've been meaning to do this
for about 3 weeks now. I went into athletes Foot where
(28:53):
they sell hawkers and I wore these ones in my new ones and I
said to the bloke, I'm just a little concerned that they this
is what I'm here for. I need to try those on and see
if I get that moment. My God, did I what?
Julie, meet the Fockers. These fake, fake hawkers.
(29:18):
Fockers. He didn't pay 280 bucks for him,
did you? So I think they cost me like
150, but actually, no, the the Clifton Nines, not the new ones,
they're like 190 at the moment. OK, so that was the thing.
They're only $40 cheaper. If they'd been like 80 bucks or
something I would have gone fake, but they're $150.00 from
(29:39):
this massive cloth. I'm going to name the website,
it's called Cranta. It looks like a Sheen type.
So they have clothes, they have shoes, they have all sorts. 100%
guarantee these are fake after Itried the ones on in store.
So they look exactly the same, but then actually take my shoe
off when I when because I had myshoes off as I was trying them
(30:01):
on, the dude picked it up and helooked at the bottom and went oh
God. How long have you had these
though? And I went like two weeks he
goes, I thought you were going to say over a year.
He's like, look, all the lines have come off on the sole and
all the. Yeah.
OK. So it's made so they look fake
and cheap as. They're just like clones to look
at. But they're not in.
Quality. Oh, there's 150 bucks down the
(30:24):
drain. That's a shame.
However, last night I found someone on Facebook Marketplace
locally selling some Hocker Bondi Sevens, which are
apparently even more squishy. And no one ever tells lies on
Facebook Marketplace. I'm going to meet her directly
after recording this episode to try the shoes and her mum bought
(30:46):
them Interstate and they don't or she they don't come to, she
doesn't like them for whatever reason and so they're basically
she can. See if the lines are there.
The the name of the yeah, the lines.
Are there the lines under there?Yeah, I already told her my
messages back. I went, listen, I just got
scammed, Yeah. So I'm coming to try them on.
Yeah, that's what. I'm going after 150.
I'm paying for those ones as well, which is cheaper than
(31:10):
they're just really good. Shoes, John.
Yeah, OK. Honestly I'd I'd tell you to put
these on and and just feel the comfort but these ones are
horrendous. I only wore them as a prop to
show you today and I really justwanted to say meet the Fockers.
Oh my. God are out man.
Well, luckily I didn't get scammed by something else
online, because when I said I wanted to buy it from Timu,
(31:34):
Julie goes. You wanna use mine?
I've got 10 the screen. Oh yeah, yeah.
You see so many of these things pop up in Instagram feed as ads.
Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Facebook. Yeah.
Yeah, and Facebook, it's a magnetic screen.
A selfie screen selfie. Screen it goes on the back of
your iPhone and. Can go on the back of your
(31:55):
iPhone, but it doesn't have to. Yes.
Bluetooth. Yeah.
And so. You can look at it and see for
me for filming. Amazing.
So means you can use a good camera, Yeah, instead of having
to face the front camera at yourself to film content and
stuff like that. And for me, I I won't have to go
round to my. Yeah.
Camera and then and then cut outthe piece of the film where I'm
(32:17):
going. Or use it.
Yeah, but speed it up. Yeah.
So it essentially it on the screen, it mirrors what your
phone is seeing. Yeah.
But if you're in a position where you can't see what your
phone is seeing, 'cause you're on the other side.
And exactly for a situation likehere in the pod van with where
my phone is set up there and recording right now, I can see
(32:38):
it on the screen. So I borrowed Julie's and yeah,
it's amazing. And my one just turned up this
morning 0. From that your one.
That's my one. Yours is charged and ready to go
and in my bag to keep. Oh.
I thought you can say use it at home, you'll get it back one
day. Oh.
You'll get it back with the MasterChef DVDs.
Bugger. Did I Did I ever give those
back? Yeah.
(32:59):
Did I? Yeah.
Oh, Where were they? There was just there was only
the finale that was missing. Oh yeah?
Oh, now I'd never know how it finished.
That's fine, I was just added tothe pile of shit of mine you've
never completed. Your stories.
(33:21):
Your book. My book?
Yeah. Yeah, None of my stories.
Ah well. It's like I'm the never ending
story. Just every, we get to a point in
everything where it's you're just like, but that's another
story and she'll be told anothertime.
(33:41):
I feel like if we ever get to the end, it's we're gonna have
to sort of say goodbye to each other and never see each other
again. Play play like the Seinfeld sign
off song or something and. We'll all just shrug and walk
away. Yeah, each other again.
I actually thought a real funny way to end this episode would
have just been at that moment where you go, here you go.
It's like the never ending storywhere I and then just cut it
(34:01):
there with Rabbit.
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