June 22, 2025 • 33 mins
People have talking about really copping the winter blues lately. Do you need a laugh or 2? Here you go!
Julie’s back in the Podvan and somehow we cover everything from what people always say to tall people, to my dodgy hacked chairs, to GTA5 life lessons and a bit of how to get backstage at a racetrack.
Just a bit of classic Podvan banter.
Get bonus episodes and more for $10 a month at http://podvan.com.au/members
Let’s connect! ⬇️
Facebook | Instagram | FB Group | Podvan Website | YouTube | TikTok
This is a Podvan Media production.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:03):
Podcast with Rabbit. I'm Rabbit.
I record this podcast inside a cute little retro caravan from
1967 that I've tore around all over the place.
My fan podcast with Rabbit. If I go sideways, is that
helpful? I mean, what we could do is no,
it's not sideways. Look what you're doing.
There's literally a monitor there so that so you can see
(00:25):
what you're doing and I and I think if you saw what you were
doing, you'd change ways, no. I'm upside.
Down. You don't need to lean left or
right. No, that's not forward is what
you're. What are you doing?
I'm making myself upright on thescreen.
Am I the right way up now? Oh.
I get it, but it's not recordinglike that so you just look
(00:45):
crazy. It's only the monitor that's
sideways. Though you are sideways, I'm the
correct way. Tell me about your problems, but
we don't have that long this. Couch sucks.
It does. I know it's so uncomfortable
when I had. Is that what you sleep on?
No, I'll sleep on the floor. Oh, it's all comfortable.
When I had Kath, the 101 year old in here.
(01:07):
Oh. Did you give her the company
chair? Yeah, only person ever.
And I sat over there and went, oh, that's horrible.
It is horrible. That's an Ottoman that we had
like already inside, just like astorage Ottoman feels.
Like a storage Ottoman, Yeah. Yeah, and.
Not made for comfort, made the story.
What about the backing though? What do you?
What's that like? Well, Sav did that, so it's very
(01:28):
lovely, but it's horrible. She made that too much.
Well, I mean, the seating insidethe pod van was made this way to
fit inside here. So this chair that I'm sitting
in was a massive it had a big curved back on it.
It's probably about twice the depth that it is, and I hacked
the living daylights out of it. I mean, you could have just got
a different chair. No, Julie, you don't understand
(01:50):
how big chairs are. I think I do.
Mean No, you don't. I'm all about chairs.
I know chairs more than anybody knows chairs, pal.
I spend most of my day in a chair.
But you think, Oh yeah, put a couple of chairs on it.
So my original idea was it was going to be a couple of chairs
like my one facing each other just like that.
Or maybe. Yeah, but we'd all be up in each
(02:11):
other's knees. Your knees, You couldn't.
Yeah, your knees would be. Pressing if you interviewed Mick
in here. Oh yeah, I know.
I mean tears. It has been in here.
Hang on. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh, my other two. Well, all three of my boys are
quite tall, but the other two? What do you really say?
2 is one of them. Not as tall.
Yeah, Paddy. No Joe.
(02:33):
No, Tom. Yeah, well done.
You've run out of options. Gus.
No, he's a dog. Joe and Paddy are both 6 foot 6
and Tom is the short one. He's only 6 foot.
Yeah, Nick, once you get above acertain height, you're just
tall, right to me. Yeah, OK.
My daughter's the next. Friend's foot 7.
(02:55):
No, he's not. He is, is.
She liking the Guinness World Records or something?
No, he employed someone taller than him once.
No, he. Did he employed someone an inch
or two taller than him and he said.
Like, on purpose. Like that was the reason why
they didn't have anything else going for them.
It's like, it's like, wow, you're tall.
(03:16):
No, but he's never been able to say to anyone ever.
Yeah. Oh, you're tall?
It's funny when people of of mixheight or around mix height meet
each other they always have a conversation about.
It's like it's so weird to look someone in the eye.
Do they really? Yeah.
I thought they would cop enough of it from every other person on
the planet that sees them and goes, oh you're tall.
(03:37):
Totally, but not from the same perspective.
It's like whoa. And they gaze lovingly into each
other's eyes and, you know, skipoff holding your heads.
And he shouts down to you. Hey Julie, this guy's so mild as
me. Hang on, I'll call you.
Have you got the two way on you?It's the only thing that will
(03:58):
cover that distance between the two of you.
Correct. Or a string phone.
Tiana, my daughter, she's 15. I mean, I'm not telling you, I'm
telling others in case I don't know.
All these boys in her year are like 6 foot 26 foot 4.
That's the age I think Mick in one year in high school grew 30
centimetres in one year, no? Mm hmm.
(04:21):
Like you'd be able to, if he satstill for long enough, you'd be
able to watch it happening. They.
Should have sat him still and just did.
Like a time lapse, yeah. Oh my God, for the year, just
hold yourself sitting. In a chair.
Anyway, he's stunting my growth now, yeah.
That'd be a funny one, just to go and ask tall people like the
things they hear and not accepting.
Whoa, you're tall? Yeah.
(04:42):
No, but. The other gags the.
Weather like yeah. Weather like that, you know.
Is the air a bit thin? See, those are the ones that
come to my mind straight away. I wonder if there's any more.
Do you? Play basketball.
Oh yeah, you. Must play basketball.
Yeah, I don't understand when tall people don't play
basketball. I also don't understand when you
do fruit. We got a thing coming up soon
(05:03):
and I asked Julie if she could come and she replies via text
saying, oh, this will sound likea really bad excuse but I'm
catching up with my basketball team from with my old basketball
team from down in Sydney. She's.
Like fake fake, fake, fake, fake, fake made-up.
OK, she doesn't wanna come. So you used to play for the
(05:27):
Kings? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In this alternate reality. If you look back at their own
old videos on the scrappy littleunit running around in Brian's
ankles just picking up the lost people.
Guard, obviously I. I don't know what that is.
You don't. You What do you mean you're a
basketball player? You're going you're still comp.
I didn't know the rule it. Was obviously pretty big for you
to go to a catch up with your old basketball team, which not
(05:52):
even real. That's like Mick saying he's
catching up with his old team. Needlepoint.
Grip. Now I'm catching up with the
Limbo club. He used to be the pole.
He. Just hold his arm out and.
(06:12):
He gave me down a bit. He.
Put his arm out and he would just walk straight under.
That's why he lost the gig. It was all too easy.
The easiest limbo in town. What?
What else have you got, Meg, that you could pop out?
That people could? Oh.
My God, this visual for your morning.
(06:35):
OK, far out. That took a turn, yeah.
Not an unusual one to be honest.Yeah, we always end up in the
nether regions. And if anything, what took us so
long? I mean, we're 5 minutes.
Isn't that funny? So what sports he used to do in
your youngest? He did basketball.
I did some indoor bowls when I was. 12 like 10 pin.
(06:58):
No like like outdoor bowls but indoors.
Indoor lawn bowls. Yeah, yeah.
It's like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They used to have that set up atHornsby RSL Club.
Exactly, Yeah. You'd go down to celebrations,
you'd have a few dollar drinks, Yeah.
And they'd. Set it up inside and.
Yeah, there was a big. Wide green carpet that goes down
(07:20):
the. Yeah, down the whole thing.
Yeah, yeah. I represented my school, Julie.
I'm unsurprised. 'Cause no one else did it.
Oh, what a strange one. What happened there just to?
Bowl it and then run along afterwards going like this.
No, why not? You're confusing this with
skating. That's not skating, that's lawn
(07:41):
balls. You want to.
Run after it, encouraging the ball.
On there is it not? I wasn't gonna go there, but
thank you. There's a reason no one's
running after it. Pop their hip out.
That's a very strange thing, isn't it?
Like to look back at and go, what the hell was I doing at 12
years old? Yeah.
Yeah, indoor, long what I. Mean a teacher that suggested
(08:04):
it. Maybe.
I mean, I did 10 pin bowling forsport as often as I was allowed
to. Yeah, because it was inside and
it was air conditioned. Yeah, I didn't have to.
Music plan and to. Run.
Yeah. Didn't have to get changed, only
the shoes into those clampy things.
Funny school sports Jordan when he 'cause he went to Gosford
High and which is just chock a block full of nerds.
(08:27):
Like, no, he says it. I mean, oh, it is.
Call it what it is. It's a selective high school.
Yeah. I don't think of nerds as a bad
term. See, that's my thing.
Yeah, look. I as I am one I.
Got in trouble for for that oncebecause because I knew that Joe
sort of considers himself a nerdand all his friends nerds and I
(08:48):
accidentally oh, used the wrong term.
Apparently nerds is fine. Geeks.
No. Oh.
Oh, I get that. Yeah, I understand.
I'll accept that that was. Oh ow.
Yeah, when I. When I geeks call us that, yeah,
I'm so sorry. Do you?
Remember in the 80s? Revenge of the Nerds.
Vaguely, I probably didn't watchit 'cause it would have been too
(09:12):
close to. I mean, I'm not vengeful.
I. Don't get it?
What is this, a documentary? All the the jocks in the school
always, you know, bullying the nerds and then the nerds use
their nerdy brain powers to fight.
Back Oh if the nerds only new you just gotta give it a few
years. You'll get revenge just by
natural selection. Yeah, you'll get revenge by
showing them your bank account. Yeah.
(09:33):
Exactly. Revenge of the Nerds, let me
just bring that up for you. Haha now I've always been like
I'm quite the closet nerd. Oh, I've said that to you
before. And you reckon closet how?
How deep is this closet? Pretty shallow.
Is it got a glass door? Oh.
Man, I well, you mean the serverrack?
I love nerding out on stuff on computers.
(09:57):
I know. I know I was.
Doing some, I like to call it coding last night, but it's not,
it's just, no, it wasn't. I just I was putting something
up online and I needed to use HTML to, to do it.
And I was like, oh, this is fun.I'm trying to remember.
So how do I make something a link?
And so that I've gone the, the, the I don't know all the terms.
Yeah, I've gone the sharp left bracket, you know, the pointy
(10:18):
one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, less than. Yeah, uh huh.
And then I've gone a space href and then harf and that's telling
it you're making a link and thenyou use the power and then the
open quote and then the actual website address you want it to
go to close quote. Then you put the text that you
want it to see. close bracket slash a bracks like is this.
(10:42):
Supposed to be interesting. I'm going to save that.
Just use it all over the place. I'm going to save you as a meme.
You're gonna be a GIF I'm gonna send to people when they text
(11:03):
me. They're just gonna get Julie
back. Go look confused.
Look on the face. Is this supposed to be
interesting? This is it's going on for quite
a while. It's funny, but there could be,
like, someone, like as smart as me listening.
I mean, probably not. Finally, I like it.
Yeah, yeah. But there could be.
And they go, oh God, he knows his HTML.
Or yeah, there's someone. Going Does he edit these
(11:25):
episodes? Surely that would have gone.
I'm ongoing. Those commands and those prompts
would probably start a war. Yeah, don't.
Do this, kid. Yeah.
I mean, as I was saying, I know there was stuff I was getting
wrong, but I was just sort of, I'm doing that.
I don't care that I'm getting stuff wrong.
I'm gonna keep talking. Thing, yeah, but with
confidence. Yeah.
So the other day, always with confidence, Yeah, always with
(11:47):
confidence. I the other day Tiana and I were
up at the Karting Championships up in Newcastle.
Yeah, I think go karts. Oh, cool.
She wants to be a Ferrari F1 mechanical engineer.
That is the goal. And so a friend through the
podcast, actually, Taylor, I've never I've never met Taylor yet.
We've spoken back and forth a bunch of times over messages.
(12:09):
She she has her own podcast. Taylor talks motorsport.
She's just mad into motorsport and stuff.
She's done this program girls ontrack and all this sort of
thing. And so she's been messaging with
T back and forth, like giving her advice, putting her in
contact with people. Tiana's been emailing.
Yeah. Starting the journey, you know?
Yeah. Nice.
And so Taylor was going to be upthere on this day.
(12:31):
She said you guys should come up.
So went up there, had no idea how massive this thing.
Yeah, like they'll get like 500 entries and this like it's like
V8 Supercars, Yeah, but a lot smaller.
But still there's like the massive trucks and things like
in the paddock out the back at V8 Supercars and stuff.
They have tents full of mechanics working on carts and
(12:53):
stuff. Yeah, it's amazing.
I have no idea is. It there's whole worlds out
there that you don't know about,aren't there?
Yeah, whole worlds. When we first got there, we're
watching the first race going around as we turned up and look
at these ones, I'm going, they look little, but I know the
carts are little. Are they?
They're not men. They can't be like what's on my
glasses. Yeah, nine years old and they
(13:14):
have 7 year olds doing it. And these things are fast, man.
Wow. And they're in full race suit
and everything. Demons, yeah.
With sponsors. Oh my God, and.
They're all walking around in the in the paddock, out the back
and everything with their race suits on like down the way.
Wind. Did they get like a bottle of
lemonade to shake up and pop? Don't know, that would be great.
It's. So.
(13:34):
Good. Yeah.
And then they go up to these ones, they're KZ twos that when
they're coming down the street, they'll be doing over 100K an
hour. Yeah.
And then they take this first corner at City an hour.
Pretty much your butt is on the road. 100K an hour.
It's. On the road?
No, no, no. They're the ones right this.
Is the problem this is this is how flawed you will be by it.
Not only will your jaw be on thefloor, your butt.
(13:56):
Is. Well, it's close enough to it
anyway. Might as well, yeah.
So I mean, you know what it's like being that close to the
ground, going at your speed. I meant to being 100K an hour.
But you're right. Yeah.
There's just so many. There's a whole other world out
there that you don't even know the stuff that's going on.
Yeah. I felt that way when we went and
did blacksmithing. It's like, yeah, like this is in
(14:18):
my area. It's only a few kilometres from
my house. So there's just all this
knowledge. There's centuries of knowledge
wrapped up in this craft, and I knew nothing about it.
Yeah, I walked in this door. Have you been to Guandalin
Bowling Club? They're right there on the
shores of Lake Macquarie. They do delicious meals upstairs
in the Four Shore Bistro and Cafe which is run by the Dish
(14:41):
Catering Group saying 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 4 shore
kiosk for a coffee and snacks right by the jetty.
The end of same. It's top notch.
They got Friday night seafood raffles and Sunday sessions with
live music in the beer garden. You want to find out what's
(15:01):
happening at the club, check outtheir Facebook page or visit
gwendolenbowlingclub.com dot AU King Kumper Mitre Chan have been
big supporters of the Pod Dan podcast right from the start,
and you get all the stuff from them that you'd expect to You
get plans, you get all the Weberstuff, you get all the.
Steel. Gear the amazing principal
kitchens, but it's the stuff that you don't expect like we.
(15:23):
Had an elderly lady come into the store and she brought her
remote control from her television and she didn't know
how to get it to work. And we opened it up and saw that
she just needed new batteries. And then she told me that her
husband had recently passed awayso he was the one that did all
that stuff for her and she didn't have anybody around to do
that so she needed us. So we took batteries out of the
(15:45):
packet and put them in the remote and we helped her out and
made her day. That's what she got.
And the mighty helpful King Campbell, Minor Gen.
I was hanging out with the grumpy ginger guys the other
day. With wool and yarn.
I would. Love to teach you how to
crochet. Oh.
Yeah, Oh yeah, they don't think they haven't tried.
(16:08):
OK, don't have the aptitude I don't have.
The I don't know. I need an.
I need an. Interest.
I need a result and I need a really I mean.
You need a result. Of all the bloody things you can
do, crochet gives you the fastest and the most satisfying
result ever. Absolutely.
I'm not that. I'm not wearing my crocheted
scarf today because I could justput it in your face, do you?
(16:31):
Crochet. No, you don't.
No, you don't because I was justthinking about this this morning
going Julie should get into crocheting.
I could take her out and meet the grumpy ginger guys.
Have a look in their store. Yes, I crochet.
No, you don't. I make.
Blankets. I make Squares.
I make scarves. Do not.
(16:52):
You are making this up. I'm not.
Making this up. I'll accept the basketball
thing, but I'm not accepting thecrochet.
You've chosen the wrong side to be on the.
I didn't know, I still don't totally understand crocheting.
I know it's different to knitting.
You use a hook instead of needles, yes.
And you only use one, you don't use two.
(17:14):
Right. Yeah, it's easier is it than
knitting. Oh, look, I think it is because
I if you drop a stitch when you knit, it's gonna unravel your
whole thing. Oh, yeah.
Get something wrong in crochet. It's really easy to sort out.
Yeah, just go. Don't.
Don't just keep going. I just knit.
One Pearl, one that's. No, you don't.
(17:35):
You don't even know what knitting and purling is.
I know why I started talking about Tiana and the go karting.
OH, because it's because I've been sitting here going.
Why did I start talking about the go karting?
Because of the one way I just said I just knit 1 Pearl 1.
So it's the things I say with confidence.
Yeah. And if you say it with enough
confidence, then other than you most people will just.
(17:57):
Oh, OK. He must really know about
listening because he knows PURLImean when I say knit 101 I.
Know I do these things. Yeah, no, you don't.
You hook. You're a hooker.
An old pro, you might say. Oh bro, no, just amateur,
amateur hooker I because they I wrote in a WhatsApp chat with
(18:20):
the grumpy ginger guys. I I threw in a bit of yeah, just
been doing a bit of knit 1 Pearlone and they're.
Not full of them, no. They wrote back PURL.
So see, I know that and now I can go on with confidence.
When we went up to the go karting place, been talking with
a friend that I've I've met there, randomly bumped into
(18:41):
someone there. Yeah, he races as well as if I'm
not going to go for his team anyway.
You know what they're called? What?
What? What's a team?
I would go for rabbits. Good.
Just purely based on the name. You'll get it.
We'll play 20 questions if you want.
All Blacks. Good.
I don't wanna play 20 questions,anything but that.
(19:03):
For those who don't know, we played a game with 20 questions
and the Patreon page and it wentforever.
It was over an hour it. Was terrible.
Yeah, the Harleys. Good, that's three.
You'll get it fueled. By gluten fueled by gluten.
OK, well that's a weird one for no, this is fun because someone
else has probably shouted at their car stereo by Okie.
Dokes. What are you doing?
(19:24):
You're going further away from Core me.
Idiots. Geeks alright, just think like
stuff that I'm really into. But what was?
That get out of a search history.
(20:00):
Oh boy, I like big butts and I cannot lie.
It's like with confidence. Technologies, it's.
Like you don't even know me. Oh, come.
On I've named everything. This has gotten almost hurtful
actually now. Dad jokes.
All right, now you're just seizing an opportunity to say
(20:22):
hurtful things about me. close. Yeah, you've literally made me
something to do with this as a present.
Cakes. No, and I want it back because I
want to put it up here in the pod van top.
Guns. Ding, this is team up there at
(20:44):
the Go Gardy thing. They're called Top Gun Yeah
colours are red and black. Ohh, my gosh, that's my
Crusaders colours. It's just it's perfect.
And then old mate of mine walks up and I'm like, Oh my God,
you're at the Top Gun team and all that.
From there, he says, can I have a look back through the through
the pits and everything, go through there and have a look.
As we walked off to go and do that, I said to Ted, do you want
(21:05):
to do it? Like we are absolutely not
allowed in back there, I wouldn't think.
And I said to her, you got to walk with confidence.
We are meant to be here. Yeah.
In fact, it's no big deal. Yeah.
You can't skulk around peering around corners to make sure no
one's watching. You, I said, do you, do you
have, do you have a clipboard? Because that's the.
Dudes with clipboards. Yeah, and ladders, I said if
(21:26):
they if you spot a ladder, let me know.
I'll throw it over my shoulder. Anyone walking in with a ladder?
Yeah, and well. They're here to fix something,
yeah. You don't wanna interrupt 'cause
it's something high and it may fall on my head if I don't let
them through. Security standing on the door of
something. If someone came walking up with
a ladder, they would just open the door.
There you go, buddy. Yeah, A. 100%.
I guess you're here for. Yeah, for fix and high things,
(21:47):
yeah, that's an important job, yeah.
So that was that was what that was.
That's why I went to there is just the just do stuff with
confidence, Yeah. OK, I don't.
Question it well NIT 1 Pearl 1 you know a Harith a.
Harith, it's the. Coding.
It's HTML, Julian, you're not paying attention.
HTML. I've got acronyms too, you know,
Go on. FML.
(22:10):
GFY. Well it's not a common one.
That one. WTF, Why the face?
Oh, yeah, Yeah. What I was thinking this morning
actually, that we could do an episode where we just bring up
difficult memories from our timeon the radio and stand out
things from the brekkie show that we remember.
(22:31):
OK, like, I'll go straight to you.
Learning to drive a manual car. Yeah.
Oh God. From the car.
Blocked that. Thanks for really.
Raising Wait, so all the things I bring up are gonna be hurt for
once? Probably.
If that's an indication of the content, you're gonna.
Raise, did you have sail off theCrowne Plaza?
Yes. Yeah, thought so.
Terrifying. I didn't.
(22:51):
Do that one I got right out of that 10.
Yeah, well done. Yeah, I don't know how me
dangling above. And the worst part was, yeah,
like after having to go backwards off the roof, that is
the most counter intuitive thingI've ever done.
MMM. There.
I'm like standing on the roof ofthe Crowne Plaza.
I've wriggled out of panel that they've taken off the roof.
Yes. And I'm standing there with my
(23:13):
back to the void in a harness, of course, But he goes, you have
to lean back. I'm like, I'm not leaning.
Aren't you? Yeah.
There's this footpath. Your whole brain is just
screaming at you. Yeah, you will die if you do
that. And then 10 or 20 metres from
the top of the building and it'slike, we're just gonna hold you
there 'cause we wanna get you coming down on the radio.
(23:35):
We've gotta go to ads in the news.
I remember that ads in the news dangling.
You're looking at about 8 minutes.
Just hang there dangling. With a harness, 'cause I'm the
idiot that's gotta be on the radio as I go down.
Yeah, they had a drone going allthe way around me and I'm like,
if that gets too near my rope, it's gonna chop at.
Yeah, and probably be just beingflown by someone from the radio
(23:58):
station, really. Jack, I think it was new.
I think it was the first time he'd ever done it, the first.
Drone ever bought Yeah ever madelike.
Yeah, how sharp are those littleblades?
Really sharp. They'll they'll certainly cut a
rope. Yeah, and don't worry about
that. Definitely.
I watched a clip the other day and God, I loved it.
This lady, she's standing right on the edge of a well, no, walks
(24:19):
to the edge of a, an actual Cliff.
Mm hmm. And just standing there, arms
open wide. She's strapped onto the front of
a dude and they're about to basejump, right.
Doing do. I didn't even know they did
tandem base jumping, but this thing is like, like it's in the
canyons somewhere in America. Yeah, is.
That the one where they've got their like those squirrel wings
and you hold your head not. Like don't think you can tandem
(24:41):
those. That would definitely mess with
the aerodynamics of I love watching Wingsuit Oh videos.
No, it makes me want to vomit. Yeah.
I think I want to do it because I've done it in like playing Far
Cry on on the Xbox, like flying down through the mountains in a
in a wingsuit. But you're not what you You just
(25:04):
got a joystick in your hand and that's all.
But I'm very good at it. The same as I think I, I said
this to Tiana with the cart day thing as well.
I was watching everyone going around and that and that's just
like, this is one of those things I and I don't know if
everyone does this, but there are certain things where I just
think maybe I'm amazing at that and I just I just haven't like I
could be see a world champion. Maybe how differently we
(25:27):
approach life. It's like you look at something
and go, I reckon I'm amazing at that.
I genuinely. Things and go, oh, I don't think
I'd be very good. Oh no, I think I could fly a
helicopter with like, just I, I've done a lot of it in Grand
Theft Auto. Do you think you could also
steal cars? Yeah, really had a what?
(25:48):
I've done it so many times in the game.
It was my favorite thing to do was go round and rob convenience
stores and then steal a car fromoutside in that and.
Kill people, right? No, no, it was my policy was
nobody got hurt. OK, so.
You are so. Full of it when we used to play
(26:11):
when I used to play GTA5 all thetime years ago might have even
been GTA4 because it was back when Jordan was little little.
Yeah and he's 20 now he turns 21and end of this year crazy town,
his 21st is coming up and but when he was a little ill and we
wouldn't let him on games like that.
Absolutely not. Of course not, but.
Race psychopaths like yourself. You wanna bring him in and let
(26:34):
him have a go at driving one of the cars around town?
Yeah, so, so, you know, if you're not stealing a car in
this game, like ripping someone out of the car and then taking
their Porsche or something, you're losing.
Points or something? You're not doing it right.
Yeah, game is so funny. You can have your own cars in
your garage and you can just drive around town and stuff.
As soon as you do something, accidentally run someone over,
(26:56):
or hit, you know what's going wrong.
Are you finally in the game? It is on and the cops are
chasing you and stuff and and then you have to break into a
military thing and steal a fighter jet and fly around.
Such a fun game, but I would letJordan have a drive of my car so
he's there on the on the joysticks.
And if he accidentally hit someone, what?
(27:18):
It sprays blood all over the windscreen and he's being chased
by the car it. Never happened, Julie, because
Jordan became, I think, the first person in the history of
GTA5 to stop at traffic lights. You're doing it wrong, son.
He would drive up the intersections and then stop and
I'm like, what are you doing? He's like the light's red.
(27:44):
Yeah. Oh, good, good.
Well done. Well.
Yeah. Just don't take him.
Didn't teach him to drive. What are you doing the light red
Keep? Going yeah, that's right.
Remember when I was younger and you were screaming at me to just
go through? Yeah, and it doesn't matter if I
hit the guy, I can outrun the car.
Doesn't matter, he'll respawn. You get another life.
(28:08):
Have you seen the movie Free Guy?
No. Oh, it's so good.
No, you should watch it in. The Venn diagram of movies that
you've watched and enjoyed and movies that I've watched and
enjoyed would be two circles on opposite sides of the roof.
Is it even a Venn diagram? It's just headlights.
That's right. It's 2 circles spaced apart by a
couple of metres. Uh huh.
(28:29):
Alright, so you wouldn't have seen the accountant or the
accountant too? Oh I love those.
As my mum would say, high body count, that's what your.
Mum would say oh you. Don't know about that, she.
Likes the whole Oh my. God, it was the funniest thing
ever when my mum said that through to me.
All you'll like this movie, Highbody count.
I didn't know my mum used phrases like high body count,
(28:51):
but she does. She loves a good shoot em up
action movie. Wow.
Yeah, yeah, like the John Wick movies and stuff like that.
Gosh, loves them. OK.
I mean, she does have a a violent streak in her if you've
ever seen your. Scars to prove.
Oh. You see her watching an All
Blacks game or something? Oh yeah, she's throwing stuff at
(29:12):
the TV. Wow.
Yeah, OK. Which is real commitment and I I
like that. But free guy?
No, I reckon you, I think you'd like it.
It's pretty harmless. It's basically around a guy
who's, you know, when you're playing these video games,
there's NPCS. Is that like NFTS?
(29:32):
No, with you know NFTS and you don't know NPCS, you want to do
20 questions? No, I'm worried I'll say
something terrible. Yeah, get yourself cancelled
over just trying to break down what an NPC is.
Yeah, yeah. It's non playable characters so
that all the other characters inthe game that you aren't but you
(29:55):
have interaction with and stuff,you know, OK, so like in a
particular game, like it's in Grand Theft Auto, it's all the
other people driving the cars around.
It's their convenience store owner that you're going in and
robbing and stuff. What?
About the dogs Can you pick the dogs?
Oh, there's a whole website. Do you know about that?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Can you do it in GTA? I don't know actually, but
there's a website. Yeah, yeah, that, that tells you
(30:16):
a list, the dog, all the banks. Pet, not Pat Yeah, yeah, an
American one, but yeah, all the games and people just go through
games and just stop down in the middle of their quest to see if
you can have the dog. Or and then put it on this
website. That's righty now in this free
guy movie it's all centred around.
It's Ryan got Reynolds. Yep, one of them.
So. Ryan, he's.
(30:37):
One of these non playable characters in a game, I think
the city is called Free City. Yeah.
And I think he figures out that he's because every day is
exactly the same to them. These characters, you know
anything, if you start a level again, you'll get the same guy
walking down the street buying his coffee.
Or what a clever concept. That's funny.
(30:57):
Yeah. Wow.
Just every day is is exactly thesame.
Sort of Groundhog Day in a game.Yeah, I think you'd like it.
You played a bit of video games back in the day.
What was the? Putt Putt saves the zoo.
But butt butt tried to save the very fish.
All right, Well, you've got to go because you've got to go and
see a man about solar panels. Yeah.
(31:20):
And and the thing you getting more, no, I don't fully
understand what this appointmentis.
I just know that they tried really hard to make it.
We've got the solar panels. Did you buy some solar panels on
Teemo or something? They've arrived and this guy's
here to install them, No. No, they're installed and and
it's not a cleaning thing because they've been to clean
them as well. But it's an appointment.
(31:40):
But the lady wanted so bad for me to have this appointment.
She rang me a lot and so I made the appointment and now he's oh.
No, they got you. I what?
Though I've already got the solar panels, they've already
scheduled for the. Cleaning you're doing, remember.
When the roofing people were on all the time about, you know,
we're doing your, your roof has been identified as needing a
respray and we're in your area. Oh.
(32:02):
OK. Well, my answer was just like,
oh, I think they must have the wrong house.
We've got colour bond. OK, OK, thanks.
Bye. Oh.
OK. 'Cause I get a lot of solar
panel places calling and one of them is the one that we've dealt
with and the rest I just go, hey, we just had that.
Yeah, they're great. Thank you Call.
You just missed out on the job. I was talking to someone just
the other day and she was sayingshe can get like 30 calls a day
(32:24):
from all these something. Her mobile number is the
business number, so it's fully listed and everything.
Got to answer unknown numbers, yes.
Oh, what a night could. Be a customer, I get pretty much
0, which is incredible. And I've had this phone number
since mobile phones were invented.
Yeah. At the moment I've got to answer
all the unknown numbers because I'm dealing with some some
tradies doing some different bits and pieces, so if I don't
(32:46):
take a call I could miss something important.
Like, well, you don't know what it is, though.
Yeah. Look, you've got all these
tradies doing things I don't know what.
I turn up at home each day and there's another one there.
Yeah. Come in.
Yeah. Alright, I don't know if I
booked them 'cause I rang them or because they rang me and
said, hey, how about you when you get your roof spray And I'm
like, yeah, I think I think so. I think so.
(33:07):
It's like I can't get up there. There's a plumber out the back
and the sparky's doing this thing and there's a guy
installing solar panels. Yeah.
Podcast with Rabbit. I'm Rabbit.
I record this podcast inside a cute little retro caravan from
1967 that I've tore around all over the place.
My fan podcast with Rabbit. If I go sideways, is that
helpful? I mean, what we could do is no,
it's not sideways. Look what you're doing.
There's literally a monitor there so that so you can see
(00:25):
what you're doing and I and I think if you saw what you were
doing, you'd change ways, no. I'm upside.
Down. You don't need to lean left or
right. No, that's not forward is what
you're. What are you doing?
I'm making myself upright on thescreen.
Am I the right way up now? Oh.
I get it, but it's not recordinglike that so you just look
(00:45):
crazy. It's only the monitor that's
sideways. Though you are sideways, I'm the
correct way. Tell me about your problems, but
we don't have that long this. Couch sucks.
It does. I know it's so uncomfortable
when I had. Is that what you sleep on?
No, I'll sleep on the floor. Oh, it's all comfortable.
When I had Kath, the 101 year old in here.
(01:07):
Oh. Did you give her the company
chair? Yeah, only person ever.
And I sat over there and went, oh, that's horrible.
It is horrible. That's an Ottoman that we had
like already inside, just like astorage Ottoman feels.
Like a storage Ottoman, Yeah. Yeah, and.
Not made for comfort, made the story.
What about the backing though? What do you?
What's that like? Well, Sav did that, so it's very
(01:28):
lovely, but it's horrible. She made that too much.
Well, I mean, the seating insidethe pod van was made this way to
fit inside here. So this chair that I'm sitting
in was a massive it had a big curved back on it.
It's probably about twice the depth that it is, and I hacked
the living daylights out of it. I mean, you could have just got
a different chair. No, Julie, you don't understand
(01:50):
how big chairs are. I think I do.
Mean No, you don't. I'm all about chairs.
I know chairs more than anybody knows chairs, pal.
I spend most of my day in a chair.
But you think, Oh yeah, put a couple of chairs on it.
So my original idea was it was going to be a couple of chairs
like my one facing each other just like that.
Or maybe. Yeah, but we'd all be up in each
(02:11):
other's knees. Your knees, You couldn't.
Yeah, your knees would be. Pressing if you interviewed Mick
in here. Oh yeah, I know.
I mean tears. It has been in here.
Hang on. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh, my other two. Well, all three of my boys are
quite tall, but the other two? What do you really say?
2 is one of them. Not as tall.
Yeah, Paddy. No Joe.
(02:33):
No, Tom. Yeah, well done.
You've run out of options. Gus.
No, he's a dog. Joe and Paddy are both 6 foot 6
and Tom is the short one. He's only 6 foot.
Yeah, Nick, once you get above acertain height, you're just
tall, right to me. Yeah, OK.
My daughter's the next. Friend's foot 7.
(02:55):
No, he's not. He is, is.
She liking the Guinness World Records or something?
No, he employed someone taller than him once.
No, he. Did he employed someone an inch
or two taller than him and he said.
Like, on purpose. Like that was the reason why
they didn't have anything else going for them.
It's like, it's like, wow, you're tall.
(03:16):
No, but he's never been able to say to anyone ever.
Yeah. Oh, you're tall?
It's funny when people of of mixheight or around mix height meet
each other they always have a conversation about.
It's like it's so weird to look someone in the eye.
Do they really? Yeah.
I thought they would cop enough of it from every other person on
the planet that sees them and goes, oh you're tall.
(03:37):
Totally, but not from the same perspective.
It's like whoa. And they gaze lovingly into each
other's eyes and, you know, skipoff holding your heads.
And he shouts down to you. Hey Julie, this guy's so mild as
me. Hang on, I'll call you.
Have you got the two way on you?It's the only thing that will
(03:58):
cover that distance between the two of you.
Correct. Or a string phone.
Tiana, my daughter, she's 15. I mean, I'm not telling you, I'm
telling others in case I don't know.
All these boys in her year are like 6 foot 26 foot 4.
That's the age I think Mick in one year in high school grew 30
centimetres in one year, no? Mm hmm.
(04:21):
Like you'd be able to, if he satstill for long enough, you'd be
able to watch it happening. They.
Should have sat him still and just did.
Like a time lapse, yeah. Oh my God, for the year, just
hold yourself sitting. In a chair.
Anyway, he's stunting my growth now, yeah.
That'd be a funny one, just to go and ask tall people like the
things they hear and not accepting.
Whoa, you're tall? Yeah.
(04:42):
No, but. The other gags the.
Weather like yeah. Weather like that, you know.
Is the air a bit thin? See, those are the ones that
come to my mind straight away. I wonder if there's any more.
Do you? Play basketball.
Oh yeah, you. Must play basketball.
Yeah, I don't understand when tall people don't play
basketball. I also don't understand when you
do fruit. We got a thing coming up soon
(05:03):
and I asked Julie if she could come and she replies via text
saying, oh, this will sound likea really bad excuse but I'm
catching up with my basketball team from with my old basketball
team from down in Sydney. She's.
Like fake fake, fake, fake, fake, fake made-up.
OK, she doesn't wanna come. So you used to play for the
(05:27):
Kings? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In this alternate reality. If you look back at their own
old videos on the scrappy littleunit running around in Brian's
ankles just picking up the lost people.
Guard, obviously I. I don't know what that is.
You don't. You What do you mean you're a
basketball player? You're going you're still comp.
I didn't know the rule it. Was obviously pretty big for you
to go to a catch up with your old basketball team, which not
(05:52):
even real. That's like Mick saying he's
catching up with his old team. Needlepoint.
Grip. Now I'm catching up with the
Limbo club. He used to be the pole.
He. Just hold his arm out and.
(06:12):
He gave me down a bit. He.
Put his arm out and he would just walk straight under.
That's why he lost the gig. It was all too easy.
The easiest limbo in town. What?
What else have you got, Meg, that you could pop out?
That people could? Oh.
My God, this visual for your morning.
(06:35):
OK, far out. That took a turn, yeah.
Not an unusual one to be honest.Yeah, we always end up in the
nether regions. And if anything, what took us so
long? I mean, we're 5 minutes.
Isn't that funny? So what sports he used to do in
your youngest? He did basketball.
I did some indoor bowls when I was. 12 like 10 pin.
(06:58):
No like like outdoor bowls but indoors.
Indoor lawn bowls. Yeah, yeah.
It's like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They used to have that set up atHornsby RSL Club.
Exactly, Yeah. You'd go down to celebrations,
you'd have a few dollar drinks, Yeah.
And they'd. Set it up inside and.
Yeah, there was a big. Wide green carpet that goes down
(07:20):
the. Yeah, down the whole thing.
Yeah, yeah. I represented my school, Julie.
I'm unsurprised. 'Cause no one else did it.
Oh, what a strange one. What happened there just to?
Bowl it and then run along afterwards going like this.
No, why not? You're confusing this with
skating. That's not skating, that's lawn
(07:41):
balls. You want to.
Run after it, encouraging the ball.
On there is it not? I wasn't gonna go there, but
thank you. There's a reason no one's
running after it. Pop their hip out.
That's a very strange thing, isn't it?
Like to look back at and go, what the hell was I doing at 12
years old? Yeah.
Yeah, indoor, long what I. Mean a teacher that suggested
(08:04):
it. Maybe.
I mean, I did 10 pin bowling forsport as often as I was allowed
to. Yeah, because it was inside and
it was air conditioned. Yeah, I didn't have to.
Music plan and to. Run.
Yeah. Didn't have to get changed, only
the shoes into those clampy things.
Funny school sports Jordan when he 'cause he went to Gosford
High and which is just chock a block full of nerds.
(08:27):
Like, no, he says it. I mean, oh, it is.
Call it what it is. It's a selective high school.
Yeah. I don't think of nerds as a bad
term. See, that's my thing.
Yeah, look. I as I am one I.
Got in trouble for for that oncebecause because I knew that Joe
sort of considers himself a nerdand all his friends nerds and I
(08:48):
accidentally oh, used the wrong term.
Apparently nerds is fine. Geeks.
No. Oh.
Oh, I get that. Yeah, I understand.
I'll accept that that was. Oh ow.
Yeah, when I. When I geeks call us that, yeah,
I'm so sorry. Do you?
Remember in the 80s? Revenge of the Nerds.
Vaguely, I probably didn't watchit 'cause it would have been too
(09:12):
close to. I mean, I'm not vengeful.
I. Don't get it?
What is this, a documentary? All the the jocks in the school
always, you know, bullying the nerds and then the nerds use
their nerdy brain powers to fight.
Back Oh if the nerds only new you just gotta give it a few
years. You'll get revenge just by
natural selection. Yeah, you'll get revenge by
showing them your bank account. Yeah.
(09:33):
Exactly. Revenge of the Nerds, let me
just bring that up for you. Haha now I've always been like
I'm quite the closet nerd. Oh, I've said that to you
before. And you reckon closet how?
How deep is this closet? Pretty shallow.
Is it got a glass door? Oh.
Man, I well, you mean the serverrack?
I love nerding out on stuff on computers.
(09:57):
I know. I know I was.
Doing some, I like to call it coding last night, but it's not,
it's just, no, it wasn't. I just I was putting something
up online and I needed to use HTML to, to do it.
And I was like, oh, this is fun.I'm trying to remember.
So how do I make something a link?
And so that I've gone the, the, the I don't know all the terms.
Yeah, I've gone the sharp left bracket, you know, the pointy
(10:18):
one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, less than. Yeah, uh huh.
And then I've gone a space href and then harf and that's telling
it you're making a link and thenyou use the power and then the
open quote and then the actual website address you want it to
go to close quote. Then you put the text that you
want it to see. close bracket slash a bracks like is this.
(10:42):
Supposed to be interesting. I'm going to save that.
Just use it all over the place. I'm going to save you as a meme.
You're gonna be a GIF I'm gonna send to people when they text
(11:03):
me. They're just gonna get Julie
back. Go look confused.
Look on the face. Is this supposed to be
interesting? This is it's going on for quite
a while. It's funny, but there could be,
like, someone, like as smart as me listening.
I mean, probably not. Finally, I like it.
Yeah, yeah. But there could be.
And they go, oh God, he knows his HTML.
Or yeah, there's someone. Going Does he edit these
(11:25):
episodes? Surely that would have gone.
I'm ongoing. Those commands and those prompts
would probably start a war. Yeah, don't.
Do this, kid. Yeah.
I mean, as I was saying, I know there was stuff I was getting
wrong, but I was just sort of, I'm doing that.
I don't care that I'm getting stuff wrong.
I'm gonna keep talking. Thing, yeah, but with
confidence. Yeah.
So the other day, always with confidence, Yeah, always with
(11:47):
confidence. I the other day Tiana and I were
up at the Karting Championships up in Newcastle.
Yeah, I think go karts. Oh, cool.
She wants to be a Ferrari F1 mechanical engineer.
That is the goal. And so a friend through the
podcast, actually, Taylor, I've never I've never met Taylor yet.
We've spoken back and forth a bunch of times over messages.
(12:09):
She she has her own podcast. Taylor talks motorsport.
She's just mad into motorsport and stuff.
She's done this program girls ontrack and all this sort of
thing. And so she's been messaging with
T back and forth, like giving her advice, putting her in
contact with people. Tiana's been emailing.
Yeah. Starting the journey, you know?
Yeah. Nice.
And so Taylor was going to be upthere on this day.
(12:31):
She said you guys should come up.
So went up there, had no idea how massive this thing.
Yeah, like they'll get like 500 entries and this like it's like
V8 Supercars, Yeah, but a lot smaller.
But still there's like the massive trucks and things like
in the paddock out the back at V8 Supercars and stuff.
They have tents full of mechanics working on carts and
(12:53):
stuff. Yeah, it's amazing.
I have no idea is. It there's whole worlds out
there that you don't know about,aren't there?
Yeah, whole worlds. When we first got there, we're
watching the first race going around as we turned up and look
at these ones, I'm going, they look little, but I know the
carts are little. Are they?
They're not men. They can't be like what's on my
glasses. Yeah, nine years old and they
(13:14):
have 7 year olds doing it. And these things are fast, man.
Wow. And they're in full race suit
and everything. Demons, yeah.
With sponsors. Oh my God, and.
They're all walking around in the in the paddock, out the back
and everything with their race suits on like down the way.
Wind. Did they get like a bottle of
lemonade to shake up and pop? Don't know, that would be great.
It's. So.
(13:34):
Good. Yeah.
And then they go up to these ones, they're KZ twos that when
they're coming down the street, they'll be doing over 100K an
hour. Yeah.
And then they take this first corner at City an hour.
Pretty much your butt is on the road. 100K an hour.
It's. On the road?
No, no, no. They're the ones right this.
Is the problem this is this is how flawed you will be by it.
Not only will your jaw be on thefloor, your butt.
(13:56):
Is. Well, it's close enough to it
anyway. Might as well, yeah.
So I mean, you know what it's like being that close to the
ground, going at your speed. I meant to being 100K an hour.
But you're right. Yeah.
There's just so many. There's a whole other world out
there that you don't even know the stuff that's going on.
Yeah. I felt that way when we went and
did blacksmithing. It's like, yeah, like this is in
(14:18):
my area. It's only a few kilometres from
my house. So there's just all this
knowledge. There's centuries of knowledge
wrapped up in this craft, and I knew nothing about it.
Yeah, I walked in this door. Have you been to Guandalin
Bowling Club? They're right there on the
shores of Lake Macquarie. They do delicious meals upstairs
in the Four Shore Bistro and Cafe which is run by the Dish
(14:41):
Catering Group saying 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 4 shore
kiosk for a coffee and snacks right by the jetty.
The end of same. It's top notch.
They got Friday night seafood raffles and Sunday sessions with
live music in the beer garden. You want to find out what's
(15:01):
happening at the club, check outtheir Facebook page or visit
gwendolenbowlingclub.com dot AU King Kumper Mitre Chan have been
big supporters of the Pod Dan podcast right from the start,
and you get all the stuff from them that you'd expect to You
get plans, you get all the Weberstuff, you get all the.
Steel. Gear the amazing principal
kitchens, but it's the stuff that you don't expect like we.
(15:23):
Had an elderly lady come into the store and she brought her
remote control from her television and she didn't know
how to get it to work. And we opened it up and saw that
she just needed new batteries. And then she told me that her
husband had recently passed awayso he was the one that did all
that stuff for her and she didn't have anybody around to do
that so she needed us. So we took batteries out of the
(15:45):
packet and put them in the remote and we helped her out and
made her day. That's what she got.
And the mighty helpful King Campbell, Minor Gen.
I was hanging out with the grumpy ginger guys the other
day. With wool and yarn.
I would. Love to teach you how to
crochet. Oh.
Yeah, Oh yeah, they don't think they haven't tried.
(16:08):
OK, don't have the aptitude I don't have.
The I don't know. I need an.
I need an. Interest.
I need a result and I need a really I mean.
You need a result. Of all the bloody things you can
do, crochet gives you the fastest and the most satisfying
result ever. Absolutely.
I'm not that. I'm not wearing my crocheted
scarf today because I could justput it in your face, do you?
(16:31):
Crochet. No, you don't.
No, you don't because I was justthinking about this this morning
going Julie should get into crocheting.
I could take her out and meet the grumpy ginger guys.
Have a look in their store. Yes, I crochet.
No, you don't. I make.
Blankets. I make Squares.
I make scarves. Do not.
(16:52):
You are making this up. I'm not.
Making this up. I'll accept the basketball
thing, but I'm not accepting thecrochet.
You've chosen the wrong side to be on the.
I didn't know, I still don't totally understand crocheting.
I know it's different to knitting.
You use a hook instead of needles, yes.
And you only use one, you don't use two.
(17:14):
Right. Yeah, it's easier is it than
knitting. Oh, look, I think it is because
I if you drop a stitch when you knit, it's gonna unravel your
whole thing. Oh, yeah.
Get something wrong in crochet. It's really easy to sort out.
Yeah, just go. Don't.
Don't just keep going. I just knit.
One Pearl, one that's. No, you don't.
(17:35):
You don't even know what knitting and purling is.
I know why I started talking about Tiana and the go karting.
OH, because it's because I've been sitting here going.
Why did I start talking about the go karting?
Because of the one way I just said I just knit 1 Pearl 1.
So it's the things I say with confidence.
Yeah. And if you say it with enough
confidence, then other than you most people will just.
(17:57):
Oh, OK. He must really know about
listening because he knows PURLImean when I say knit 101 I.
Know I do these things. Yeah, no, you don't.
You hook. You're a hooker.
An old pro, you might say. Oh bro, no, just amateur,
amateur hooker I because they I wrote in a WhatsApp chat with
(18:20):
the grumpy ginger guys. I I threw in a bit of yeah, just
been doing a bit of knit 1 Pearlone and they're.
Not full of them, no. They wrote back PURL.
So see, I know that and now I can go on with confidence.
When we went up to the go karting place, been talking with
a friend that I've I've met there, randomly bumped into
(18:41):
someone there. Yeah, he races as well as if I'm
not going to go for his team anyway.
You know what they're called? What?
What? What's a team?
I would go for rabbits. Good.
Just purely based on the name. You'll get it.
We'll play 20 questions if you want.
All Blacks. Good.
I don't wanna play 20 questions,anything but that.
(19:03):
For those who don't know, we played a game with 20 questions
and the Patreon page and it wentforever.
It was over an hour it. Was terrible.
Yeah, the Harleys. Good, that's three.
You'll get it fueled. By gluten fueled by gluten.
OK, well that's a weird one for no, this is fun because someone
else has probably shouted at their car stereo by Okie.
Dokes. What are you doing?
(19:24):
You're going further away from Core me.
Idiots. Geeks alright, just think like
stuff that I'm really into. But what was?
That get out of a search history.
(20:00):
Oh boy, I like big butts and I cannot lie.
It's like with confidence. Technologies, it's.
Like you don't even know me. Oh, come.
On I've named everything. This has gotten almost hurtful
actually now. Dad jokes.
All right, now you're just seizing an opportunity to say
(20:22):
hurtful things about me. close. Yeah, you've literally made me
something to do with this as a present.
Cakes. No, and I want it back because I
want to put it up here in the pod van top.
Guns. Ding, this is team up there at
(20:44):
the Go Gardy thing. They're called Top Gun Yeah
colours are red and black. Ohh, my gosh, that's my
Crusaders colours. It's just it's perfect.
And then old mate of mine walks up and I'm like, Oh my God,
you're at the Top Gun team and all that.
From there, he says, can I have a look back through the through
the pits and everything, go through there and have a look.
As we walked off to go and do that, I said to Ted, do you want
(21:05):
to do it? Like we are absolutely not
allowed in back there, I wouldn't think.
And I said to her, you got to walk with confidence.
We are meant to be here. Yeah.
In fact, it's no big deal. Yeah.
You can't skulk around peering around corners to make sure no
one's watching. You, I said, do you, do you
have, do you have a clipboard? Because that's the.
Dudes with clipboards. Yeah, and ladders, I said if
(21:26):
they if you spot a ladder, let me know.
I'll throw it over my shoulder. Anyone walking in with a ladder?
Yeah, and well. They're here to fix something,
yeah. You don't wanna interrupt 'cause
it's something high and it may fall on my head if I don't let
them through. Security standing on the door of
something. If someone came walking up with
a ladder, they would just open the door.
There you go, buddy. Yeah, A. 100%.
I guess you're here for. Yeah, for fix and high things,
(21:47):
yeah, that's an important job, yeah.
So that was that was what that was.
That's why I went to there is just the just do stuff with
confidence, Yeah. OK, I don't.
Question it well NIT 1 Pearl 1 you know a Harith a.
Harith, it's the. Coding.
It's HTML, Julian, you're not paying attention.
HTML. I've got acronyms too, you know,
Go on. FML.
(22:10):
GFY. Well it's not a common one.
That one. WTF, Why the face?
Oh, yeah, Yeah. What I was thinking this morning
actually, that we could do an episode where we just bring up
difficult memories from our timeon the radio and stand out
things from the brekkie show that we remember.
(22:31):
OK, like, I'll go straight to you.
Learning to drive a manual car. Yeah.
Oh God. From the car.
Blocked that. Thanks for really.
Raising Wait, so all the things I bring up are gonna be hurt for
once? Probably.
If that's an indication of the content, you're gonna.
Raise, did you have sail off theCrowne Plaza?
Yes. Yeah, thought so.
Terrifying. I didn't.
(22:51):
Do that one I got right out of that 10.
Yeah, well done. Yeah, I don't know how me
dangling above. And the worst part was, yeah,
like after having to go backwards off the roof, that is
the most counter intuitive thingI've ever done.
MMM. There.
I'm like standing on the roof ofthe Crowne Plaza.
I've wriggled out of panel that they've taken off the roof.
Yes. And I'm standing there with my
(23:13):
back to the void in a harness, of course, But he goes, you have
to lean back. I'm like, I'm not leaning.
Aren't you? Yeah.
There's this footpath. Your whole brain is just
screaming at you. Yeah, you will die if you do
that. And then 10 or 20 metres from
the top of the building and it'slike, we're just gonna hold you
there 'cause we wanna get you coming down on the radio.
(23:35):
We've gotta go to ads in the news.
I remember that ads in the news dangling.
You're looking at about 8 minutes.
Just hang there dangling. With a harness, 'cause I'm the
idiot that's gotta be on the radio as I go down.
Yeah, they had a drone going allthe way around me and I'm like,
if that gets too near my rope, it's gonna chop at.
Yeah, and probably be just beingflown by someone from the radio
(23:58):
station, really. Jack, I think it was new.
I think it was the first time he'd ever done it, the first.
Drone ever bought Yeah ever madelike.
Yeah, how sharp are those littleblades?
Really sharp. They'll they'll certainly cut a
rope. Yeah, and don't worry about
that. Definitely.
I watched a clip the other day and God, I loved it.
This lady, she's standing right on the edge of a well, no, walks
(24:19):
to the edge of a, an actual Cliff.
Mm hmm. And just standing there, arms
open wide. She's strapped onto the front of
a dude and they're about to basejump, right.
Doing do. I didn't even know they did
tandem base jumping, but this thing is like, like it's in the
canyons somewhere in America. Yeah, is.
That the one where they've got their like those squirrel wings
and you hold your head not. Like don't think you can tandem
(24:41):
those. That would definitely mess with
the aerodynamics of I love watching Wingsuit Oh videos.
No, it makes me want to vomit. Yeah.
I think I want to do it because I've done it in like playing Far
Cry on on the Xbox, like flying down through the mountains in a
in a wingsuit. But you're not what you You just
(25:04):
got a joystick in your hand and that's all.
But I'm very good at it. The same as I think I, I said
this to Tiana with the cart day thing as well.
I was watching everyone going around and that and that's just
like, this is one of those things I and I don't know if
everyone does this, but there are certain things where I just
think maybe I'm amazing at that and I just I just haven't like I
could be see a world champion. Maybe how differently we
(25:27):
approach life. It's like you look at something
and go, I reckon I'm amazing at that.
I genuinely. Things and go, oh, I don't think
I'd be very good. Oh no, I think I could fly a
helicopter with like, just I, I've done a lot of it in Grand
Theft Auto. Do you think you could also
steal cars? Yeah, really had a what?
(25:48):
I've done it so many times in the game.
It was my favorite thing to do was go round and rob convenience
stores and then steal a car fromoutside in that and.
Kill people, right? No, no, it was my policy was
nobody got hurt. OK, so.
You are so. Full of it when we used to play
(26:11):
when I used to play GTA5 all thetime years ago might have even
been GTA4 because it was back when Jordan was little little.
Yeah and he's 20 now he turns 21and end of this year crazy town,
his 21st is coming up and but when he was a little ill and we
wouldn't let him on games like that.
Absolutely not. Of course not, but.
Race psychopaths like yourself. You wanna bring him in and let
(26:34):
him have a go at driving one of the cars around town?
Yeah, so, so, you know, if you're not stealing a car in
this game, like ripping someone out of the car and then taking
their Porsche or something, you're losing.
Points or something? You're not doing it right.
Yeah, game is so funny. You can have your own cars in
your garage and you can just drive around town and stuff.
As soon as you do something, accidentally run someone over,
(26:56):
or hit, you know what's going wrong.
Are you finally in the game? It is on and the cops are
chasing you and stuff and and then you have to break into a
military thing and steal a fighter jet and fly around.
Such a fun game, but I would letJordan have a drive of my car so
he's there on the on the joysticks.
And if he accidentally hit someone, what?
(27:18):
It sprays blood all over the windscreen and he's being chased
by the car it. Never happened, Julie, because
Jordan became, I think, the first person in the history of
GTA5 to stop at traffic lights. You're doing it wrong, son.
He would drive up the intersections and then stop and
I'm like, what are you doing? He's like the light's red.
(27:44):
Yeah. Oh, good, good.
Well done. Well.
Yeah. Just don't take him.
Didn't teach him to drive. What are you doing the light red
Keep? Going yeah, that's right.
Remember when I was younger and you were screaming at me to just
go through? Yeah, and it doesn't matter if I
hit the guy, I can outrun the car.
Doesn't matter, he'll respawn. You get another life.
(28:08):
Have you seen the movie Free Guy?
No. Oh, it's so good.
No, you should watch it in. The Venn diagram of movies that
you've watched and enjoyed and movies that I've watched and
enjoyed would be two circles on opposite sides of the roof.
Is it even a Venn diagram? It's just headlights.
That's right. It's 2 circles spaced apart by a
couple of metres. Uh huh.
(28:29):
Alright, so you wouldn't have seen the accountant or the
accountant too? Oh I love those.
As my mum would say, high body count, that's what your.
Mum would say oh you. Don't know about that, she.
Likes the whole Oh my. God, it was the funniest thing
ever when my mum said that through to me.
All you'll like this movie, Highbody count.
I didn't know my mum used phrases like high body count,
(28:51):
but she does. She loves a good shoot em up
action movie. Wow.
Yeah, yeah, like the John Wick movies and stuff like that.
Gosh, loves them. OK.
I mean, she does have a a violent streak in her if you've
ever seen your. Scars to prove.
Oh. You see her watching an All
Blacks game or something? Oh yeah, she's throwing stuff at
(29:12):
the TV. Wow.
Yeah, OK. Which is real commitment and I I
like that. But free guy?
No, I reckon you, I think you'd like it.
It's pretty harmless. It's basically around a guy
who's, you know, when you're playing these video games,
there's NPCS. Is that like NFTS?
(29:32):
No, with you know NFTS and you don't know NPCS, you want to do
20 questions? No, I'm worried I'll say
something terrible. Yeah, get yourself cancelled
over just trying to break down what an NPC is.
Yeah, yeah. It's non playable characters so
that all the other characters inthe game that you aren't but you
(29:55):
have interaction with and stuff,you know, OK, so like in a
particular game, like it's in Grand Theft Auto, it's all the
other people driving the cars around.
It's their convenience store owner that you're going in and
robbing and stuff. What?
About the dogs Can you pick the dogs?
Oh, there's a whole website. Do you know about that?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Can you do it in GTA? I don't know actually, but
there's a website. Yeah, yeah, that, that tells you
(30:16):
a list, the dog, all the banks. Pet, not Pat Yeah, yeah, an
American one, but yeah, all the games and people just go through
games and just stop down in the middle of their quest to see if
you can have the dog. Or and then put it on this
website. That's righty now in this free
guy movie it's all centred around.
It's Ryan got Reynolds. Yep, one of them.
So. Ryan, he's.
(30:37):
One of these non playable characters in a game, I think
the city is called Free City. Yeah.
And I think he figures out that he's because every day is
exactly the same to them. These characters, you know
anything, if you start a level again, you'll get the same guy
walking down the street buying his coffee.
Or what a clever concept. That's funny.
(30:57):
Yeah. Wow.
Just every day is is exactly thesame.
Sort of Groundhog Day in a game.Yeah, I think you'd like it.
You played a bit of video games back in the day.
What was the? Putt Putt saves the zoo.
But butt butt tried to save the very fish.
All right, Well, you've got to go because you've got to go and
see a man about solar panels. Yeah.
(31:20):
And and the thing you getting more, no, I don't fully
understand what this appointmentis.
I just know that they tried really hard to make it.
We've got the solar panels. Did you buy some solar panels on
Teemo or something? They've arrived and this guy's
here to install them, No. No, they're installed and and
it's not a cleaning thing because they've been to clean
them as well. But it's an appointment.
(31:40):
But the lady wanted so bad for me to have this appointment.
She rang me a lot and so I made the appointment and now he's oh.
No, they got you. I what?
Though I've already got the solar panels, they've already
scheduled for the. Cleaning you're doing, remember.
When the roofing people were on all the time about, you know,
we're doing your, your roof has been identified as needing a
respray and we're in your area. Oh.
(32:02):
OK. Well, my answer was just like,
oh, I think they must have the wrong house.
We've got colour bond. OK, OK, thanks.
Bye. Oh.
OK. 'Cause I get a lot of solar
panel places calling and one of them is the one that we've dealt
with and the rest I just go, hey, we just had that.
Yeah, they're great. Thank you Call.
You just missed out on the job. I was talking to someone just
the other day and she was sayingshe can get like 30 calls a day
(32:24):
from all these something. Her mobile number is the
business number, so it's fully listed and everything.
Got to answer unknown numbers, yes.
Oh, what a night could. Be a customer, I get pretty much
0, which is incredible. And I've had this phone number
since mobile phones were invented.
Yeah. At the moment I've got to answer
all the unknown numbers because I'm dealing with some some
tradies doing some different bits and pieces, so if I don't
(32:46):
take a call I could miss something important.
Like, well, you don't know what it is, though.
Yeah. Look, you've got all these
tradies doing things I don't know what.
I turn up at home each day and there's another one there.
Yeah. Come in.
Yeah. Alright, I don't know if I
booked them 'cause I rang them or because they rang me and
said, hey, how about you when you get your roof spray And I'm
like, yeah, I think I think so. I think so.
(33:07):
It's like I can't get up there. There's a plumber out the back
and the sparky's doing this thing and there's a guy
installing solar panels. Yeah.
Popular Podcasts
United States of Kennedy
United States of Kennedy is a podcast about our cultural fascination with the Kennedy dynasty. Every week, hosts Lyra Smith and George Civeris go into one aspect of the Kennedy story.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com