Two Things Big Trev Isn't Allowed To Do

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I saw something weird and I want to run it by.
You don't know what a swagman is.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, up until about half an hour ago, I thought
it was a type of.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Car holden swagmen.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, then I was corrected. That's a sagman totally different.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Now, back between the ninethh and twentieth century, this used
to be an Australian like transit worker that used to
go from farm to farm or station to station looking
for job and food and working.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
So carrying their swag.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Carrying their swag, so they'd have like back in the day,
they'd have a billy which was an old can that
they'd boil water in. They'd have like a backpack and
a dilly bag which was a like a you know
my Hessian sack that I've got. Yeah, they keeps all
their personal gear in there. They'd have like a sleeping
bag or something, and just everything that they need they'd.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Just carry and they'd just walk and they just walk.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I thought I saw one the other day, well, like
a swagman, right as I was traveling along and I
had Breezy and my boys in the car and we
were traveling along, and I thought I saw one. I said,
that was a swagman, and she goes, I think it
was just someone who's trying to look for somewhere to sleep,
like like someone homeless. And I was like, no, I'm

(01:13):
pretty sure that was a swagman. Can I go back
and give him my sandwich? Because I had a sandwich there?
And no, we're too busy, And I said, no, I
can just do a you tune up here, and I've worked.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
At all that.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
She goes, no, darl and you can't do that. Got
the boys in the car, got me in the car,
and no, you just can't. There's two things on my
leay to do, like stop and pick up hitchhikers because
I used.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
You got a bit when I like it was traveling work,
Like when I was living Blinger there used to be
a lot of hitchhikers trying to get rides up to
Byron Bay and stuff and that have signs yeah, and
I like pull over and go, I'm only going down
the road, but I can take it as far as
where I'm going, like Kingscliff or whatever. And then yeah,

(01:59):
and they ombregas you can't do that. You can do
that in where you're from Breaking Hill it's nice because
you know people be right pick up random strangers and
taken down the road because.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
You don't know who they are.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's also illegal.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
It is still yeah, can do their kids? And why
are you driving?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So you didn't go and give him no your sandwich? No,
you said there were two things you're not allowed to do.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm not allowed to give that random for the
people that I don't know hit double. So that was
the double yeah, because you and it was bear sandwich.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Ah right, I can buy you another sandwich, but you
wouldn't let me do it.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I can see why have you ever done stuff like that?
I've done it before, like not picked up people. No
I do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I should drive someone home today today today there was
a lady.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
You can tell her. Let's heart there.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I had my dad in the car and this lady
did not look well. She would have been I don't
know older, let's just say older than you. And she
looked like she was having a bit of trouble breathing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh no.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So her husband was buying a scorn at the bakery
and I said, are you're okay? Do you need to
lift somewhere? And she said yes, just down the road,
and so she got in the car and I drove
her and her husband down the road. That's not bad.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's not good either. What do you mean? I put
the windows down so she could breathe out like a
puppy on her Well, he was eating his scone.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, he didn't need it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
The milk good though. That's why I put the windows down,
because I was going to steal his gone.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
As mate, that's gone. But that's all Mosley picks up
random strangers at.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I wish she had a conversation first, and didn't I
have a conversation with the people when when I was
doing it back then? Now are you going? Where are
you going?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Was it a swagman or not?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know. I can't. I don't know. Like I
wasn't allowed to go back.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I could have been hipster.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Mate could have been walking to work. Oh he could
have been too. But they look really scruffy. As I said,
it could be a hip I'm pretty sure I was
a swaggler. We've got no closure, none.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Man, But that's where I grew that's the era I
grew up in. I'm pretty sure I think it was Dave,
Oh my goodness, and he played the harmonica, yes him.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
These two are potty trained.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's a shame so much that comes out of their house.
Morah and Big Trev