Two In The Think Tank - 254 - The Sugarbird Lady

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

No, she's not a comic book hero or a woman who delivers birds and sugar. But Robin Miller is an Australian legend, and one that not many Aussies know about! This is the story of the incredible life of Robin Miller; The Sugarbird lady.Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodCheck out our web series: https://www.youtube.com/user/stupidoldchannel Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dicks-robin-elizabeth-10016http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/miller-horatio-clive-horrie-7586https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Miller_(nurse)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_Puff_Derby_(1947)https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/news/sugar-bird-lady/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-08/robin-miller-the-sugar-bird-lady/7010418https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2018/12/the-sugar-bird-lady/https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/medicine/display/93353-robin-miller-dickshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Air_Derby

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Potential savings will vary, discounts not available in all safe and situations. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planet broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Hello, Dave. Hello, Jess. Hello, Matt. Hello, Dave. What a pleasure to be here. Making your acquaintance today. Oh, Matt, we've known each other for years. Oh, am I using that phrase wrong? I think so, but I could be wrong.

It's pleasure to re-equaint with you. Matt, I talked to you two days ago. Oh, yeah. I thought you looked familiar. Ha, ha, ha. How's everyone going now, Jess? And Dave, you're both 30. You've turned 30 since, well, Jess, you turned 30. As the last week, Seb, so you came out, Dave, you've turned 30 since.

How does it feel? I feel old. You feel old? You look like shit. Yeah. I'm really taking a downward step here. So when I was a kid, and I'd probably told this at some stage, but when I was very small,

I used to wake up on my birthday and look at my feet because I thought I would have grown, right? Because I was like, well, a five-year-old is bigger than a four-year-old, obviously. I didn't understand how gradual growth was. And I feel like, Dave, you've kind of, you've done exactly that. You've gone from 29 gorgeous, young, fit, healthy, probably looking the best you ever looked.

Tamarind. 30. My God, you do not look well. Oh, I look down at my feet and they look like shit. Yeah, they're like wrinkly and great. They've changed. I don't look at the painting in your attic though, Dave. You're just looking hot. Thank. They've changed. I don't look at the painting in your attic though Dave. It is looking hot. Oh, they're hot.

Cute. Thank you. Don't tell anyone about that. Don't want to get stabbed. Hey Dave, as it is your birthday week, how about you do the honors? Now's the 30 year old. I think you're finally ready to take the reins and explain how the show works. Thank you for your trust.

Here we go. Well if you haven't heard the show before, all you need a little refresher, what we do here is we take it and turns to report on a topic often suggested by a listener. And whoever's designated to be the report give her the go away, do a bit of research. They bring back that research and present it to the other two who have no idea what they're about to talk about and to get on the topic.

We start with a question and Jess, it's your turn to ask a question. And now you're 30, have you remembered to actually write one? No. As you were talking, I was like, oh no, I was looking at my report. I thought, I knew I forgot something. I was putting the finishing touches on this report like an hour and a half ago. And then I was like, look at me. I'm ready. I've got time to go have some lunch and I forgot to write a question. You've deep-dived into anyway. So you've been swimming in it. So you can come up with a question for it really quickly and I think you'll have done that now.

So what is this week's question? Who was known as the Sugarbird Lady? So that's Sugarbowl Lady. Sugarbird lady. So is that perhaps Sugarbowl lady? Oh Dave, we know you don't know what a sugarbowl is, but surely you know what a sugarbird is. Angela lands Berry? No. Oh, I mean, you said that with semi-confidence, so I was like, maybe this is right. I don't think we're going to get this one, Jess.

No, and this isn't one that I knew of either. And it actually hasn't been suggested by any patrons, but I discovered this story when scrolling through Facebook and saw a tick-tock video about this topic and I thought, that sounds interesting and I did a little Google and here we are. Is this some sort of dance number then? It's not a dance number. Well, yeah, the Sugarbird lady gives, it could even be like a spy kind of story, couldn't it?

Do you have any early ideas of what about like where it's set, for example? It sounds like a world war two French thing to me. Okay. So what's your name in? Sugar what? Sugarbird lady. Sugarbird lady. to me. Okay. So what's what's what's her name in sugar what sugar bird lady sugar bird lady in my head it was going to be something like she was just a cook from a neighborhood and she you know she'd walk around she'd have birds all over her and sugar as well she'd be she'd go sugar for a bird and then she'd she'd either swap you sugar for a bird or bird for a sugar. She'd do it in both ways.

She had both. She's a sugar bird lady. She's the vice swap sailor of sugar birds. Yeah. No, sugar and birds. Sugar and birds. Sorry, yeah, either. That's fine. We pay cash for sugar and birds. Well, we pay sugar for birds and birds for sugar. So we had system. Do you reckon they'd still swap birds for birds for sugar. So we had system. Would they do you think they'd still swap birds for birds? Like if you had I'll give you three small birds for that big bird. Oh she she will make a deal. If the deal is in her favor she'll make any deal. Yeah great. What about sugar for sugar? That seems to be pointless doesn't it? Well it would same pointless if the only deal she'd make is you know either equal amount of sugar if she's getting a better quality of sugar

or the same quality of sugar, she'll take more sugar off your hand. So I would only work if you were trying to get rid of some sugar. Well, I mean, we've built a rich tapestry, but unfortunately none of that is even vaguely close. Oh, come on. This is the story of the Sugarbird Lady, whose real name was Robyn Elizabeth Miller. Robyn, and name is the bird, yeah. Yeah, I know, it works.

She was born on the 8th of December in 1940 in Western Australia. Bit of background on the very... I was definitely picturing the Sugarbird Lady to be at a Cockney English run. Woman. Women to be husband too. She's very different to that How did you move your mouth to the side of your face? But it was also beautiful. Do you think Dave? Persexy exorcist. Terrifying. My mouth moved away all the way around my head, but my head didn't move. I guess it's... Anyway, a bit of background to start with on her

very impressive parents. So her mother was Dame Mary Durak, who's an author and historian known for writing the Australian classic, Kings in Grass Castles. Are they reheard of Kings in Grass Castles? No. They shouldn't throw grass stones there. No. That doesn't work, does it? They should not.

But I had to write in that it was an Australian classic, because when I looked up the book, it was like, oh, it's an absolute classic, and I was like, yeah, of course, we all know who up the book, it was like, oh, it's an absolute classic. And I was like, yeah, of course, we all know who work. Oh, yeah, yes, yes, sorry. So did you say grass-carrying? Dane Mary Jew. Yes.

Yeah. I'm on board. I remember it from my childhood. So Mary, her mother was born in Adelaide, but grew up on cattle stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. And from a young age, she and her siblings were in charge of running the cattle stations,

and Mary learnt from the local indigenous women everything from how to cook to how to muster cattle. This is in the late 20s and early 30s. So this is a long time ago. Then she went on to write a hugely popular column in the Western Mail and wrote several novels, one of which, keep him to country, she adapted it into

a one act opera, which was one of the first of two operas to be given an evening performance at the Sydney Opera House. Oh wow. This is the Dame. Yes, this is the Dame. This is Robyn's mother Mary. I don't know. I just, as soon as you said Dame, I assumed opera.

I don't, why are all these opera people end up being Dame's? Yeah, I don't know. This has got to be Dame's for other reasons, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, that of it. Why are all these opera people end up being Danes? Yeah, I don't know. This has got to be Danes for other reasons, doesn't it? Yeah, that's it. I can't think of any. I can only think of Dame Nelly Melba. Yeah, and there's another opera singer. Thank you, Slee.

And opera singer. There's a Danes Mary Gilmore on the $10 note. That's the only one I can think of. So there you go. And she was an opera singer. And I think she was a writer. All right, Dan, whatever your name was, Mary Gilmore. Yeah, I reckon she probably wrote operas.

Yeah, yeah. But she couldn't sing, but she could write my god, because she wrote it. I just looked her up. She got the her Dame ship for, in recognition for leading women in new Australian movement and as a rider of verse, stories and essays. Ah, cool. There you go. I've found this page of Dames and there's heaps of Dames that are for other things.

Barrel borough repair, in recognition of service to women's affairs, for instance. That's a great name. Barrel borough repair. That's got a borough repair. That's one of my favorites that I've heard. That's fantastic. Fantastic. Barrel Barrupe. That's one of my favorites of Earth. That's fantastic. Fantastic. Anyway, yes, so that was Robyn's mum, Dame Mary Jurek.

So what about her dad? Well, his name was Horatio Clive Miller. Wow. I've also seen Horace, but I think it's Horatio. He was known as Hori anyway. And he was born in Ballarat here in Victoria. He trained as a mechanic, but he had an interest in flying. And eventually went to England hoping to break into the aviation industry

as it was just starting to boom. And he got a job with... Sopp with aviation company as a mechanic. And through his role there, he learned to fly. And then World War I broke out and he returned to Australia and trained as a fighter pilot. And many, many years later, he sort of started his own aviation company. It was called the McRobbets and Miller Aviation Company.

They bought three new planes, they had a couple more pilots and he was the managing director, chief pilot and chief engineer of this company that he created. He was doing everything. He's just putting on a different hat, running out the back. So the company baker.

Honestly, that Google calendar would be a nightmare. So yeah, he also opened a flying school in Mount Gambia in South Australia and he also won a Sydney to Perth Centenary Air Race, which had a prize of £1,000. And this is back 20s, like a long time ago. So that's a lot of cash. Yeah, that's one of the longest flights between capital cities in Australia, right? Brisbane, a perth, it'd be the longest, I suppose.

So that's back then, I imagine that would have been a pretty full-on flight. Yeah, huge. And definitely not the longest flight we're going to talk about. Right. Okay, so it's a plain thing. Sugarbird. Sugarbird. So those are her parents. That's sort of the family that she is, she's born into, is some very impressive, ambitious people. So when Robin was born, her mother's family still had the sheep and cattle stations that had

made them very well known in Western Australia. Apparently, they had around seven million acres. I can't really compute that. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what an acre is. Is that like a state? Is that like all of Victoria or something? You also have to remember, especially for people not from Australia, that Western Australia takes up a third of the whole country. It's fucking huge. You know, it's so tiny.

Like Australia is the second, Australia. Victoria is the second smallest, right? And if you look on a map, and you have to drive from Melbourne up into like the top corner where Mildjuri is, that's like a seven hour drive. And then you look at the size of Western Australia, you're like, holy fuck, it's huge. How big did you say Bob, because apparently, I've just Googled it, the state wheelie of Invectoria is 6.359 million hectares.

Yeah, no, they had seven million acres. So they had more, they own more than big than Victoria. Wait, the Victoria was hectares, right? Okay. Yeah, I just said I just Googled how many acres in Victoria Australia says 6.359 million. Right. Okay. I just said hectares because my brains are an idiot. The land they own is bigger than Victoria, the state that we live in. That's insane. Hang on, I think that's the population. You stupid goog, like that. It comes...

Yeah, now that's population for sure. I think we can categorically say it's a big bit of land and they're probably extremely wealthy from it, right? Yeah, I would say so. They're running several cattle stations, I've got sheep stations. Obviously she's a very famous and successful rider and also her dad runs an aviation company. So I think they're doing pretty well. And at the aviation company, he's got seven jobs, so that's like seven salaries. Yeah, exactly. That's how I assume it works, yeah.

So Robin and her two brothers and three sisters grew up spending time on cattle stations and had a strong connection to Northern Western Australia and the indigenous communities there. Also growing up with a pilot dad, a Horry passed on his love for the air to his daughter, Robin. But when she finished high school in Perth, flying was not considered to be an appropriate career for a lady.

Oh. Ladies don't fly. What are you talking about? You can't. You get your periods and it's a mess. Oh no, you can't fly. What about the flying nun? Exactly.

Oh, what does that mean, Dave? Could she be a nun? She changed everything. You know the flying nun, the TV show? Yeah, yeah. With Sally Field. Is that? Yeah.

Sally Field was a flying nun. Yeah. Right? Huh. We're all learning today. That is a, I, that vaguely rings about what a, what a wild idea for a TV show. Yeah, it's absolutely. Would it be fair to say that that was from back in the day?

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. So, and that was from back in the day? Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah. So, and this is also back in the day. This is like the early 60s. So this is, you know, options for women will like teacher, maybe admin or nurse. And that was about it. Aviator, it's a pilot. No, I mean, why would you, what a silly job for a woman.

But if you'd waited, she'd waited to the late 60s, 1967, the flying nun would have taken off literally, and then that would have changed the game, sadly. Yeah, everyone would have been like, well, hang on, if nuns can fly, I guess so too, can women, just am trying to figure it out. Yeah, doing the maths on a blackboard about it. Yeah. Too cute. So she trained as a nurse at the Royal Perth Hospital and graduated in 1962 with the state

nurse's medical prize. And by 1964, two years later, she was a triple-certificated nurse at Sadance Hospital in Perth. I looked this up and I think it's the equivalent of being like a registered nurse but also having midwifery or psychiatric qualifications. So she's like a double degree kind of thing, you know. Well, midwifery is a word. Such a good word. Midwifery.

So yeah, she's a very qualified and very, she's very good at her job. She's a good nurse. Alongside this though, with the help of her father, she also acquired her private pilot license, you know, for smaller aircrafts. And she was encouraged to then go and get her commercial pilot's license as well by a man named Harold Dix, who at the time was the director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. So I would assume there's similar services in other countries, but the RFDS was established

in Australia in 1928. It's medical and emergency assistance for those that live and work in remote Australia. So they've got planes and they'll fly a doctor to you. Especially when you're growing up on a farm of seven million acre farm, you probably don't have, you know, your local GP around the corner. Right, of course. Yeah, you wouldn't, that would be a long way away. Yeah, I mean, it would take a couple of days to cross your own property, you know.

Yeah, so she, she went and got her commercial pilots license and yet still despite her qualifications and that her father was the managing director of an airline, she could not get a job flying because it wasn't seen as appropriate for a woman to be a pilot. Even though she had all the qualifications, she even applied for a role at her father's company and she still wasn't successful. Oh no. Can't even get nepotism. Come on. Get an interview with your dad. I'm afraid we're going to go with the other one. Sorry. I'm so sorry.

It seems like her dad was very supportive. I mean, he was, he helped her get her her first, like her private pilot's license. So I'm guessing she wasn't interviewing with him but I do like to imagine she wasn't. He was like, no, sorry. I just, I don't have any evidence that you can fly. I'm sorry. Even though I taught you as a small child, they drive home together in the car. It's very awkward.

Yeah. All right. Fine. Well, she flies the home. Well, he's like, start up the plane. I've just got to interview a few more people. I'll be out in a second. So in order to do what she wanted to do, she was going to have to think outside the box and make an offer that no one could refuse. Because in 1967, there was a second polio strike that hit Western Australia.

So in Australia, there were major polio epidemics in the late 30s, early 40s and the 1950s, and the first vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk. It was called the Salk vaccine. And then it was sort of overtaken by another vaccine that was created by Sabin, and it was an oral vaccine. It was made 10 years later in 1962. And it took over from Selkuk, because it was cheaper to make and easier to administer. And that brings us back to Robin Miller,

because although the polio vaccine had been around for more than a decade, distributing it to the very spread out rural communities in Western Australia, in the north of Western Australia, was providing, was a significant challenge. So she approached the Western Australian Department of Health to ask permission to fly to northern Western Australia in order to carry out a vaccination program. They couldn't argue with her because she had a very unique set of skills. She was a highly qualified nurse and a pilot, so she was a two in one. She was like, I can do it. I can just fly myself

up, give them the vaccine, pop back home. So they agreed and next she needed a plane. So I mean, you could probably go to your dad who owns an airline, say, oh, could I borrow a plane? But instead she borrowed money and she bought herself a little Cessna 182 Skylane, which is like a little four-seater light airplane. And on the 22nd of May 1967, Robin Miller took her first flight of many to remote areas in Western Australia. She would have been about 26 at this point, and over the next few years, she covered 43,000 air miles visiting remote communities.

How many acres is that? A lot. A lot. I think. A lot. I figured out, it's weird that you can't just find out easily how many acres are in Victoria, but I've converted it from a kilometer squared. It looks like it's 58 and a bit million hectares. So they basically, they own a little trunk of Victoria.

Right, a big, still a big area. It's still huge, yeah, yeah, it's still very big. Still bigger than our houses. Yeah. Eric and bigger than our houses combined. Nah. All right, come on. Nah, that's great.

How big can a cow station be? Yeah. How many cows do you actually need? Honestly, that's another thing I've always been very confused by when people say like 10 head of cow. How much is a head? I don't know. I think it's depending on how many heads of the cow has.

If it's a normal one-headed cow, that's one head of cow. It gets confusing when you got the double-headed cows. Right, so it could be 10 head of cow, but that's actually only five double-headed cows. Yes, exactly. Or one 10-headed cow, confusingly. Oh god, that would be a real mess of the cow. I'm glad that I didn't do it in stomachs. We got 800 stomachs of cow. Yeah, I'm bad at the four times tables. I was wondering why you'd gone quiet for a bit there. That makes sense, but I'm glad we got to the bottom of it.

So yet, we healed in his own blackboard. He's like, I'm sorry. You're wondering why the abacus was in the room with tick tick tick tick. I just love that sound. I love that sound. So she's covering. I love that sound. Oh yeah, it's so soothing. When I was a boy, that's all we had.

Do you remember when they invented calculators? Yeah, it was a big day for me. Yeah, wow. And then when they invented those scientific calculators, where you could put games on them and play Tetris or whatever, that was too bad I was already well and truly out of school by then. But I didn't need to sleep it. You went in for yourself. You went in for yourself a scientific calculator and put some games on it.

Yeah. Hidden the shed for a bit. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, big deal. Most people bought seagars but you bought a calculator. Baby steps. Yeah, you got it, easy. So anyway, yes, she's covering in sane distances, just flying by herself.

She'd treat children with a Sabin vaccine in sugar lumps, because the sugar was used to sort of mask the really bitter taste. Okay, we're talking real Mary Poppins sort of tactics. Yeah, just give them all a little lumps of sugar. And she built some really strong relationships with the communities she would visit, which were mostly Aboriginal communities. To her patients throughout the Kimberley and the Pilbara, Robin became the Sugarbird Lady, a name that stuck throughout her entire life. There was a brief break in

the middle of this project, because in November of 1967, Harold Dix, who remembers the director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, he asked her to co-pilot a beach craft baron from Oakland, California back to Perth for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Obviously, they were buying the plane or, for some reason, and they're like, can you go and bring it back? So she asked for leave to do that, and they were like, yeah, sure, go for it.

So she took temporary leave from the immunization project and she undertook what would be the first of nine ferry trips during her career. Another one was in 1968 when she flew solo and brought a single engine horizon from Paris to Perth. So she's done a lot of long distance flying, ferrying planes all over the world. Right, but they won't give her the job flying for the company, but you can fly the plane back to the country further

than you'd be flying for the company. So someone else can fly for the company. That's so weird. I think it's kind of because, well, a fair bit of time has passed now as well. So like, when she finished studying with her nursing, it was like 1962, but the time she with her nursing, it was like 1962. By the time she's doing this, it's like five years later. Maybe they'd been a bit of a shift or

she was because of her work. She was being acknowledged as a good pilot. So was there a big cultural shift in the 60s? I don't know. I don't know, either. I'm guessing. It started with the flying 9 1967 which actually is 1967 the summer love that changed everything nice I was being ironic there was a big cultural shift in the 60s wasn't there? then went everything changed black and white TV went to color people grew their hair out long women were allowed outside everything changed in the 60s the Saints won a grand final with a. It was a different world.

They were allowed in playing. All the other rules were broken. Yeah, everything changed. So anyway, she comes back from these varying trips. She completes the immunization program in October of 1969. Nice. Nice. After single-handedly administering over 37,000 doses of vaccine.

Single-handedly, my goodness. 37,000 doses. That's amazing. Yeah. And like we said, flying 43,000 miles, which is 69,000 kilometers. I think you should count them in arms, arms of vaccine, right? 1600, arms of vaccine needles.? Six hundred arms of vaccine needles. But it's not needles.

It's sugar. Sugar. Oh, okay. Well, that, I was wondering how she got the sugar in the needles. Because I would, you know, grinds, all these little grinds getting coming out the little needle end. That did seem pretty wild to me. This is while you were looking up hectares.

There was a new vaccine that came in that was oral. And that's, it was cheap and to make an easy to distribute because you could just put it in a sugar lump and give it to someone. Yeah, well, I heard that bit. That's how I knew about the sugar. So it's wild that it was getting in the, down through the needles like that. Yeah, imagine a child is panicking because of a needle,

because so many kids hate needles, but you're like, don't worry, mate, don't worry, there's sugar in here. You're gonna love it. Yeah, don't worry about it. So we have to make the needle really big and wide to fit these, because we use raw sugar as well, which is the grainiest of all the sugars. Don't worry, starburst flavor, this needle, you're gonna love it.

We'll give you a lollipop after the shove up your ass. I just haven't figured it out yet. I just hadn't figured it out yet. They'll get there eventually. That is incredible. A 37,000 administered dose is wow. Yeah, just flying by yourself. And so, also in 1969, she

was awarded a couple of different awards. One is the Deployment of Merit by the it's an Italian association there, national in Femmari. I'm one eights just telling if you want me to have a go at that one. So you know, so you'll know I nailed that.

What? And the following I don't actually just it was just telling if you want me to have a go at that one. So you know, so you'll know I nailed that. And the following, I took actually just, it was just like, Nanny's not, Nanny used to say. Yeah. I wonder why she didn't go by Nona and why she still does it, because she's still alive. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Maybe to ask her. Yeah, maybe we'll. Hmm. In 1970 as well, she received the Nancy Bird Walton Award as Australia's woman pilot of the year.

A woman pilot of the year, that's so good. They still award that? I don't know. I'm not sure if that's still going. Because they still, it's funny. They do it for acting still. They split it up between men and women. Yeah.

You think, like, I sort of get it with sports because, you know, swimming managers generally bigger and stronger. But for acting, I don of get it with sports because, you know, swimming manages generally bigger and stronger, but for acting, I don't know if that necessarily helps you out. So I wonder why they don't just go best actor. Yeah, and I suppose like with sports, you're in different competitions, different leagues. So you're not playing against each other, so it's not really all that comparable, but then yeah, you're right, acting. It's like, well, they were in the same the same movie. Yeah well I think it would be unfair though because Merrill Streak would never let a man win again. So yeah and the Academy is dominated by old

men as they've told us on the Academy Award episode. Yeah that's right. They probably just go hey we need a man's category so men still win some stuff. Yeah we need something. Men need a win, okay? But yeah, it seems funny that there's a woman's pilot or what. I imagine that's probably defunct now. I would guess so, I'm not 100% sure. But yeah, that was in 1970, so who knows? I'm also not smart enough to really have an opinion on such a thing.

So I don't know what I've been brought it up. No, but it is a bit weird. But I don't know if it's still going on. There's probably some reason that that makes sense. Maybe is there? I don't know. Jess, you're the expert on flying. I know. So because she built a unique rapport with people living in Western Australia's most remote regions,

Robin was soon offered a position with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, because originally she's doing this immunization project just by herself for the health department. Now the Royal Flying Doctor Service are like, you should come work for us. Yeah, we like to make a no-brainer. I could like to make a margin on this work you're doing. Yeah, exactly. So unlike the majority of her predominantly male colleagues, Robin could do it all. As a pilot and a nurse, she often flew solo

and she even serviced her own aircraft. Thanks. She did it all. Who was it her dad who did every role in his company? That just runs in the family. Yeah. She's like, I got it. So, yeah, quite often what would happen is you'd have a pilot flying a doctor out

and they'd sort of work in tandem. The pilot wouldn't do much of the doctoring, I'll be honest, and the doctor probably wouldn't do a lot of the piloting. They really had, they stayed in their lanes, you know, that Robin sort of does both. So, but she was also like this glamorous, she was beautiful, very charming. Oh, you hate to hear that.

But yeah, I'm like, I'm already impressed. Surely she's at the very least she's ugly, you know? I know. I hate it, I'm already impressed. Surely she is at the very least she's ugly. I know. Now it's unfair. I hate it when you meet someone who is drop dead gorgeous and lovely and smart and you're like, fuck you. I'm happy for you to have two of the three. Exactly.

You can't have all. You can't have them. You can be really nice and beautiful and an idiot, or you can be ugly and smart. You know, you just can't have it all, but she did apparently. I think you can. Speaking from personal experience. No.

Well, I guess you do work in TV. You've probably met a few people like that, though. I've got it all. Damn, man. So, yeah, this combination of a glamorous young woman and a life of adventure brought her a lot of attention. And her sister, Patsy, said an interview, she wanted to be definitely feminine in the

flying world, even though she did a lot of heavy work. She pushed the plane in and out, did a lot of her own mechanical work and so on, but she was good looking and very, very charming to meet. She became extremely well known throughout the North at this time, also for administering treatment for eye diseases. So it's like, she's well-known because she's gorgeous and so smart and so nice, but also because she's helping,

she's saving people as well. In a spare time, she cured blindness. LAUGHTER Anyway, she was also a netball champ and really got squashed. Best and fairest every year. She also knitted, she had a whole range of knitwear that she sold every winter. For charity. And charity, yeah.

Don't know the little. Honestly, she was a pain in the ass. Oh my goodness. So she was always on call and flew in all types of weather, responding to a range of emergencies and coping with difficult or frightened patients. She was tall, fair and elegant. She was conscientious, cheerful and popular. And reacting to those who expected her to don men's clothing, she wore skirts rather than trousers on her flights.

Which is funny because you usually hear it the other way around where people are sort of like, well, that lady should be wearing a skirt and she's like, fuck it, I'm putting on trousers. In this instance, you would go pants are probably a bit easier for getting in underneath planes to service them. She's like, no, no, I'll check, well, where would I want? And I like that. Yeah, just doing in the opposite of what people say, no matter what it is they say.

Oh, honestly, Sugar Lady, it'd be crazy for you to wear like a space suit. That would make no sense. I'll show you. Oh, really? See them are really. That'd be crazy, wouldn't it? That'd be crazy. She can't read, she can't steer the plane. She's like, okay, I'm wearing a space suit. I just like the, like, just wear whatever the fuck you wanna wear, who cares?

Oh, that's what I like. I don't, yeah. Oh, skirts do sound great, especially as the weather's starting to turn here in Melbourne. It's something turn more summary. I think, do I have the balls to wear a skirt? I probably don't quite yet. I don't honestly you'll you'll like it for about 20 seconds And then you'll get slightly hot and the chafing will start and you'll want to kill you with a skirt

I thought the point of it would be that it would keep you nice Oh, maybe I'm thinking of like more of a flowy summer dress still really they okay, well you've talked me right out of it Well, cuz cuz what's what's in between your legs is you walk there, nothing. Well, speak specifically about that. So it's just chaf. Right. Okay. So the pants stop chafing. And that, yeah, right. Okay. Interesting. Well, you've turned me right around. I always assumed it would be a dream.

I would absolutely encourage you to give it a go. It can be quite nice and do little spins in it. That's fun. Oh, that's fun, that's fun. Do some twirls, yeah. I'm a recent convert because of the lockdown. I just bought a pair of tracksuit pants. I've now got two, are you certainly the ones?

So now I can wear them every day. And yeah, I'm starting to wear them out of the house. They normally just be around the house thing. It's absolutely changed my life. I used to wear jeans every day and I don't know if I will do that every again. I think I've put jeans on two or three times during this lockdown probably for our live streams and that might have been about it. And every time I put them on I was like, what the fuck are these pants? Why do these exist? I can't breathe. Who invented these? Were you wearing one you had?

These are dads. I can't breathe. Where chains go? It's been a while since I've worn these. Is this right? How do I look? Oh, look straight, but are they slipping? You're fully nude. I'm a bit below. This feels like a genus. This doesn't feel quite right.

I can't put my finger on. It's a bit breezy. A little bit breezy. Anyway, so, yeah, she's getting lots of attention and praise because she's good at her job and she's very nice. And in 1971, she followed in her mother's footsteps and she wrote a book, which is an autobiography called Flying Nurse. Ah.

Similar to Fling Nurse. So close. And it gave a very lively account of her career up until that point. This might be one of my favourite stories, which I only found in one article, which was written on LinkedIn by the CEO of Royal Flying Doctor Services in Western Australia. His name is Graham Marshall. And I don't know why this story isn't like the first thing everyone's talking about.

Because it says, on one occasion, Robin was flying a pregnant woman when the patient went into labor. She put the plane into autopilot and delivered the baby in the back. No! No! No!

No! No! No! Are you serious? Yeah. When mother and baby were both safe and well, He's serious. Yeah. When mother and baby were both safe and well, she returned to the cockpit and landed the plane. Now with three people on board instead of the two that had started the journey. Because she's doing it by herself. Normally it would be a pilot flying along.

Doctor on her side would be in the back with the patient. No problem. Robin is both. so she puts the plane in and that's the only place I was able to find that story. And I only knew of it because of this TikTok that I saw that told that story and then I didn't see it in anything I read and I was like, well, this is madness. Was that TikTok wrong? And then I googled it and this is all I found. But I had to really search for this story. That feels like, yeah, it feels like. And that's all I have. I have no other information. That's a pretty good soul. Although the head of LinkedIn. I was thinking the head of flying doctor service. Yeah, also TikTok. I imagine she did it at all wearing some sort of a ball gown as well. Yeah, I would

imagine so yeah. She's on the way back from receiving an Academy Award on a Rory. And I also, I picture her doing it without being flustered in any way, just sort of like. Oh, absolutely. Oh, Labor. Well, ideally this would have happened on the ground, but I'll just flick it into autopilot. All right, if you're long enough.

Alrighty, we go, let's go deliver a baby. These things happen pretty quickly as a general rule. So I'm sure that it shall be a problem. Tell me about the contractions, what are the gaps or whatever they say? Like she's just riffing, she doesn't even fully know. Some of our contractions, I'll figure this out. She's got a book in one hand. She's taking a sip from her coffee as she's chatting to me.

One hand's got a book called Giving Birth 101, the other hand, a martini. Yeah, midwifery for dummies, she's got in one hand. I forget she's a nurse. She probably had a handle on it. But yeah, I think I think she did know what to do. She's quite good at being a nurse as well as quite good at being on pilot. Yeah. So really, if anyone was to be in this situation, you'd hope it'd be her. Yeah. Honestly, I think she's the perfect person for this job.

Do you think she's also doing the pilot's voice? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to have to put this into order pilot. All right, take care of something on the back. We have a pregnant woman on board. You see, and I got a little bit of a baby, so across Czech, Iindor, I prepared the Camindor for landing in one birth. We, uh... One birth? Dave, the whole time I was writing this report, and not once it crossed my mind, that it would open up the opportunity for the captain's voice. Sorry. So that was a genuine thrill for me.

It was an opportunity. How'd you take it? A lot of... A lot of voice. She would have been, uh... we got a pregnant woman on board. Uh... That's you, you're the passenger. She would have been, we got a pregnant woman on board. That's you, you're the passenger. So you'll be aware of this anyway.

I just wanted to go through the particles. She's part of the book. She's part of the book, it's nothing else. If we've got any more babies joining us on this flat, we just want to say, welcome to the world. Yeah, I mean, some cute like that. I love. Yeah, I would maybe summon a cute like that. I love chucking in a cute thing at the end of it. Yeah, I love it.

I love it when they say, and if Melbourne's home view, welcome. Yeah, that's the last time. After a long journey, that gets... Oh, you start to cry for sure. Is that... Yeah. That is my home captain. I just hear, I've been... And if the Australia's home to you, then Bloody Gooday.

Good on your chin. I'm having a bloody good frothy and we'll do it in soon. Good night, cheers. And cheers and good night. Good night. Good night. So beautiful. You're Australian language.

Wallaby kangaroo, cookabara, cingo. Flat-a-puss. Yeah, it's her tower. Australian language. Wallaby kangaroo, cookabara, dingo. What a post. Yeah, to tower. M.C.J. John Howard's eyebrows. You know, all the things that make Australians feel really patriotic. Brown Brown. things of like Australia feel really patron. Brian, Brian.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. So yeah, she's, she's flying for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She's delivering a baby midair. In 1973, she marries Harold Dix, director of Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Right. She becomes Robin Miller Dix. Right, and she was, he gave her one of her first big jobs that she hadn't given herself, right? Plowing the plane back home. Yes, that's right. Yeah, and he was the one who, even before that, encouraged her to get a commercial license as well. Oh, that's nice. So he acknowledged early on that she was shooting. It is interesting, Jess, so she couldn't get the pilot job at early on because she didn't have a dick, and now she's got dicks. So, it's all coming together for her. Yeah, that's what it takes, you know, you've got to have a dick in this world.

So that same year she and another pilot named Rosemary Dair Piers. Oh my gosh. That's a name. To compete, that's a name. They were sponsored to compete in the 1973 all women's transcontinental air race across the United States. This is a, she just packs so much into a year. So this race has been happening in some form or another since 1929. The first race happened because in the early days of flying

there were very few women pilots in the United States. And so they became acquainted with one another during air meets and air radios and like any kind of events and expos and stuff where everybody would meet, they would all get to know each other. So during the 1929 National Air Races and Air and Nautical Expo, they held the first women's air race to qualify. Pilots had to have at least 100 hours of solo flight, which included a minimum 25-hour cross-country flying. These are the same rules that applied to men competing in national air races.

And so for the very first race, back in 1929, there were 20 competitors, including Amelia Air. Oh, I was wondering if she was going to be involved, that's sick. Yeah, it's wild. There's also an Aussie in that first one named Jesse Miller, no relation. Not to me, to Robin Miller. Oh, so I honestly went straight to you. I was like, every Jesse or Jesse, you have to say that just in case. No relation. No relation. It is a family name. No relation. No relation. No relation. It is a family name.

No relation. So one of the qualifications was that the aircraft would have to have horsepower appropriate for a woman. This is back in the 20s. One of the aviators, his name was Opal Kunz. Her 300 horsepower travel air was deemed to be too fast for a woman to fly, even though she owned it and flew it So she had to find a less powerful aircraft for the right doesn't make I don't know if your gods picked this up

But that doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense. They're like no no no no honey. Oh sweet heart No, it's just your husband's plane. Did you accidentally bring the wrong plane? Oh Honey are you okay? You be scared, a bit powerful, isn't it? I was gonna dumb. I, my initial thought was that when you said that they needed horsepower appropriate for a woman, I'm like, oh, the old sexist world, they're like,

women aren't fast enough, we need to give them extra horsepower. Because like, I'm fast enough. How do you think you, do you think they have to pedal or something? them extra horsepower. Cause like a fly. How do you think you, do you think that to pedal or something? No, I just sort of, you know, I mean, I just in their old, old sort of outdated minds that that was their like, they don't add a fly like the big boys. We better give them some extra juice. Obviously it was the other way around. But then they're not giving in planes that are not powerful enough to actually get off the ground.

Yeah, they give them paper plates and they're like, you have fun girls. Like the, that becomes way more dangerous. The early Olympics, they're like, oh no, all right, all right ladies, you can swim your, you can swim the same distance, but you gotta do it in the paddling pool. Yeah, very good.

You have to run up and down the pool. Don't want you to do it in the paddling pool. Yeah. Very good. Enjoy it. You have to run up and down the pool. Don't want you to do it. Do we? Oh no. Yes. Anyway, I find that very funny, but they're like, oh no, this plays too powerful with you. And she's like, that's my plane.

That is one of the- I flew it here. What are you talking about? I'm flying right now. You're a passenger on my plane. I'm flying into now. You're a passenger on my plane. I'm flying into this start line. So the name Pow to Puff Derby or Derby was this humorous called Will Rogers.

He referred to it as the Pow Puff. I'm gonna say Derby, Pow to Puff Derby. And that name kind of stuck. Pow to Puff Derby. I'm not kind of stuck. Powder puff derby. I'm not, I don't really get the joke, but. Yeah, it's a puff derby. I love it. Yeah, I know it's fun.

Oh, no, it's not funny. It's humorous. It was a humorous. Is it powder puff like one of those things you'd use for makeup maybe? Oh, that's funny. Now I get it. Now that I get it, I think it's even funnier.

Yeah, it's very funny. So it's stuck. This is like back in the, in 19 I think it's even funnier. Yeah, it's very funny. So it stuck. This is like back in the, in 1929, it stuck and then the race kind of, it was like on and off for a little while and then it sort of started to be more, it was like an annual thing and it was just called the powder puff Derby, Derby. I found an article from the 1973 race. So this was an article in Sports Illustrated. And it looks like this was kind of,

well, in the pages that I saw, there were no boobs. Oh, I don't know if I just didn't see the right pages. But anyway, so this is an article written about it. It says, the only trouble with the race is its title. In this day in Liberated Age, Pada Puff Derby seems a touch too contrived and cute for such a serious challenge. I love that it's saying in this Liberated Age and that's 1973. Yeah. I love that because I don't feel like we've come all that far.

Says still the country's foremost women pilots are stuck with it, but are stuck with it by tradition and copyright. And away they went last week, 184 competitors on a 2,543-mile transcontinental dash that proved to be anything but puffy. This year's Derby brought 104 planes to the starting line at Paloma Airport in Carlesbad, California.

The pilots ranging from young daughters to seasoned grandmas came from as far afield as Australia, South Africa and West Germany. And there was not a won't somebody help poor little old me posture in the bunch. That was a really hard sentence to read. And there was not a won't somebody help poor little old me posture in the bunch. It was a really hard sentence to read. And there was not a, won't somebody help poor little old me posture in the... Yeah, that's clumsy phrasing. Yeah, no damsels in distress. It's weird that... In this group. I don't know why they would be expecting anyone to be like that in this race that they've chosen to be in.

Well, yeah, I know. I think they're just going a bit too hard of like, the name is quite patronising. These women are tough. And I know that. I believe that. I think they're leaning going a bit too hard of like, the name is quite patronizing. These women are tough and I know that, I believe that. I think they're leaning in a little too hard to like, I think women are great. Yeah, okay, man. Yeah, it gets to the point eventually where you're not mentioning the gender at all is what shows that it doesn't matter, not overdoing these gals at tough.

Yeah. Well, they're not bloody little girls anymore. Yeah, okay. So it goes on to say, the toughest part of the whole race is deciding when to fly and when to wait, said competitor, Ginny Richardson, finding a good tailwind and riding along with it is the secret.

And there were plenty of opportunities to make such spot decisions this year between Carlsbad and the Finnish line at Elmira, New York. There were eight timing checkpoints, three of which you must stop at, which all planes had to land, even if only for a short black break. The planes also were restricted to flying between sunrise and sunset, and could set down for the night, only at designated fields. So it's like over several days,

and there's a lot of rules. That's interesting. So yeah, you'd be, if you don't make a certain checkpoint by sundown, you're screwed. Or you, or you just, they're like, you can't take off from me, you won't make it to the next one in time.

Or you just like, I tried to understand how it worked. There was like handicaps in place for each type of plane and how fast it could go. And it was, I'm a bit confused by it, but yeah, maybe it was just that you would have to, maybe you would penalize time wise. I'm not sure how it kind of worked. Unfortunately, this was the only thing I could find about it. And it's hard to read.

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Potential savings were varied. This count's not available in all safe and situations. So a couple of the powder puffers had more adventurous trips. This is still from the Sports Illustrated article. So as approaching Albuquerque in a Piper Cherokee, Shirley Wine Tart, a youthful looking grandma from William's Sport, William's Sport. Williamful looking grandma from Williamsport. Williamsport. Williamsport. Had a fuel tank switch failure.

The engine quit and Solar West Wyntart made a landing atop a 1100 foot ridge, buckling the nose wheel and putting a few dents in the Cherokee, but none in herself. And then there was another one that says, heading into Waterloo, Iowa, wonder Cummings and co-pilot Ava Carmichael, ran out of fuel and landed in a cornfield four miles short of the airport. The farmer rushed out and thanked the flyers for devastating his $2 a bushel corn

instead of a nearby field of soybeans, which are selling for $7. That's a guy who's a real glass of full time. Thank you, right? Thank you so much. My slightly less valuable crop. That's the guy who's a real glassar full type. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. My slightly less valuable crop. And he said that before he even said, are you okay? Yeah, he was like, oh, thank you.

I love albuquerque. You mentioned it before. Albuquerque. It's only ever comes, I don't know anything about it, but it comes up in going past albuquerque. You had bugs, but I need to need to say, I should have turned left at Albuquerque. Yeah, that rings a bell for Bugs. It's a fun name for a city.

It's fun to say. Albuquerque in New Mexico. So, love it. So again, sorry, still from this article. But despite the long grind, the race still managed to come down to a final feminine twist. Eight of the two woman teams wearing matching flight costumes would step out of their aircraft in El Mira looking quite splendid and everything from orange hot pants to Robin Hood mini skirt outfits

in bright green silk clothes. And then they get judged on their outfit? Ha ha ha ha ha. So it's a flying race, but also Miss America. This swim suit comment is not the end. Oh my God. I think this was just like something they did for fun, which I quite, if that's the case, then I like it.

If they're made to do it, I hate it. Yeah. But if they're just doing it for a bit of fun, and they're like, let's dress up, I love that. Love that. Let's remember that my friends and I had a country club themed Zoom cocktail hour the other day, and we all dressed up for that.

Love that. It was our choice. No one forced you to do that. No one forced you to do that No one forced me to do that. I did it. Well, I don't think you would have enjoyed 1973 Jess because I was just forcing people to have cocktail hours on Zoom all the time God the 70s anyway, this is another fun fun point to Marjorie Robbins of Los Angeles and Shirley Thorn of La Canada, California. La Canada, in California. Anyway, had pasted a card with the code word,

GMPL on their dashboard. There's a checklist reminder of what to do when coming in for a landing. The first full letters, concerned gas tanks, undercarriage, fuel mixture and propeller pitch. The final letters stood for Put On Your Lipstick. LAUGHTER I was like, lipstick, not landing gear, lipstick.

Yeah, lipstick on. And they remind each other, Shirley, lipstick. Oh, thanks, Marjorie. That's lovely. So there were 184 competitors, including these two friends from Australia, racing 2,543 miles across the US and Robin Miller and Rosemarie Dipiers across the finish line in sixth place. Oh, great. There's like 104 planes and they came six. That's great. That's awesome. So good. So she's achieved a lot But now I need to prepare yourself for some bad news. Where did your heart finish?

Many many decades earlier The ratio was in No, no, what was that? That was in 1929 No, no, no. Wait, what was that? That was in 1929. Oh, do you? This is 73.

Yeah. I'm keeping up. But yeah, I do need you to prepare yourself for some bad news now. Oh, no. All good things must come to an end, that bad? But around the same time of this flight, while her notoriety as a pioneering female aviator was still growing, Robin discovered a malignant melanoma on her leg, which was promptly surgically removed.

So, but remember she wasn't just a gun aviator because she was a highly trained and experienced nurse, so she knew her shit. And her sister, Patsy, said, I can remember her saying to me, if they've got it all, then I'll be all right. But if they haven't, then I've got about two years. Patsy said her sister knew she was flying on borrowed time, and she was absolutely right.

Because sadly, on the 7th of December 1975, the day before her 35th birthday, she passed away in South Perth and was buried in the Catholic Rites in the Broom Cemetery. She was 35. She did all that in 35 years. I was thinking that, yeah, obviously my master's been too good today, but I was assuming, for some reason, my head, she was in her mid 50s or something by this point. She did all that by 35. Wow. Yep, wow. Yeah. That is so sad. Mid to late 20s when she was off flying by herself to rural areas to administer the vaccine. Then she's early 30s when she comes six in this race across America. It's absolutely

insane. This is a sister again. She says, I just remember her as a deer and affectionate sister who was always there for all of us and the wider public, of course. She gave her life to the service of others. Pretty amazing. After her death, Robbins has been harrowed, set up a $50,000 memorial foundation to help nurses get flying licenses. He also published a book called Sugarbird Lady, which came out in 1979, based on Robbins' manuscripts and detailed diaries that she had always kept. She published a couple of books there as well. She was also posthumously awarded the Paul Tessandia Diploma, which is awarded to those persons who have served the cause of aviation

and private and sporting aviation in particular by their work initiative devotion and or other endeavors. So she's a nice big award. And she was also given the Brabazon Cup from the Women's Pile Association of Great Britain. So a couple of awards came in for her as well. And just finally too, from Graham Marshall again, he's the CEO of the Western Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service. He says, Robin Miller dicks embodied the Royal Flying Doctor's tradition of innovation and equality.

In her short life, she revolutionized the opportunities for women in the aeromedical industry and refused to be held back by the limits of gender expectations and stereotypes. She excelled in roles that were traditionally seen as male and proved that women can be just as accomplished as men, if not more so. And he says, today, Robbins plain proudly overlooks the flying doctor base that it once called home. Position to permanently saw through the sky, it's an enduring symbol of what women can achieve,

inspiring a new generation to believe that if Robbins did it, maybe they can too. So that's nice. Well, that's great. What a tribute. Yeah. And apparently there's like a couple of roads that near the airport in Perth,

that there's one named after her. It's like sugar bird lady laying or something. And then another one's named after her dad as well. So real pioneers. But yeah, I just thought that's like a local hero story that I did not know. Yeah, me or other. And that she packed a lot into a very short life.

Amazing. That's great. And so the TikTok that set this all off, was that just like a little, a little account of her life? And you just wanted to look more into it. Yeah, it was maybe like a minute, but it was just like she, you know, she was a nurse and a pilot and she flew around giving the vaccine and she delivered a baby and then she died at 35 and I was like, what is this person? That's crazy. She did so much. She did a lot.

So yeah, that's my report on Robin Miller, the super bird lady. Yeah, great one. So good. It's weird when there's Aussie hero stories and you're like, we're normally like, there's certain Aussie heroes that you know so much about like, we're normally like, there's certain Aussie heroes that you know so much about just because we can be over proud of things sometimes. And then occasionally ones come over, come in like that

and you're like, oh the fuck is this not told all the time in school? Or whatever. Yeah, why haven't we heard of it? Maybe she's more well-known in Perth. I'd love to hear from people in Perth who maybe have heard that story. Hopefully she's, I don't know, more well-known in Perth. I'd love to hear from people in Perth who maybe have heard that story. Hopefully she's, I don't know, more well-known there,

but yeah, I had never heard anything. So pretty cool. Well, it's cool. The fair few more people know about it now. So that's cool. Yeah. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Wopper.

My absolute pleasure. I know it's two more people who now are aware of her story. May and Greg who's sitting next to me. Greg, social distance. Greg, come on. Get out of there. Well that brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show, the Patreon Shoutout section, which we kick off with the fact

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That's right. We just put out the most recent edition and I was about the all-star cast film from the early 90s, 20 bucks. So that was... Yeah. Which we had fun reviewing that. Yeah. Yeah. And one of those all-star cast is the young and hot Steve Buscemi. I don't think I was aware that Steve Buscemi used to be hot.

I didn't know it funny. I mean, that's what's podcast all about educating. I've always been aware. But if you get involved on the Sydney show on Berg level, you have to give us a fact to quote, or a question. And I read them out on the show. Don't pre-read them. It's all part of the fun.

First up, we've got Nick Moyer. Nick Moyer has given us a question, but he's also given himself the title of Headphone Jockey for the Dooh-Go-On Network. Now, does that mean anything to either of you? Well, we've all got phones. Do you think he's riding the phone? Like a horse jockey or we're talking like a disc jockey?

I was thinking like a disc jockey, something. So he's just playing Spotify or whatever off the phone. Yeah, I'll be fine. Well, that's my job, Nick. But I'm happy to work underneath you from now on. Now that you've given yourself the title, I was head phone jockey. And next question is, what have been your most weird experience at a job? What has been your most weird experience at a job?

Okay. Dave's got better answers for this than I do. I'm pretty sure. One definitely comes to mind, and that is the time that I used to dress up as characters for kids birthday parties. You talk in clown, cowboy, superhero, pirate, that kind of stuff, but then every Christmas, actually it was just two Christmas in a row.

I was invited to be Santa Claus at multiple birthday parties in Christmas functions, and it was always a bad idea because this was 10 years ago, so I was even thinner than I am now. So I weighed about 50 kilos, 19 years old, looked about seven, and I would put on a fat suit, but it was just the stomach. So the arms were still very thin, legs still pins. And most people would humor me when I arrived, but one party I got to on a Saturday night, it was for a chicken farming company. And there was some pretty tough people in the crowd, I got to tell you.

And when I got there, the first thing I hear is, you're not fucking Santa in front of the crowd. Kids there, it's like, mate, I'm not here for you, I hear the kids. Yeah. You're not Santa. That's so obvious to you. And adults like mate, no kidding. You know, you think, yeah. The egg San has rocked up to your work,

chicken dinner or whatever it is. Give me a break. Yeah, you thought you deserved the real Santa. Really? If he said, I, San, you're looking a bit thin or something. I think that's a bit of fun maybe. That usually, that's what I would get,

like a couple of cheeky parents. So wouldn't tip off the kids with that, be like, oh, San has lost a bit of fun, maybe. That usually, that's what I would get, like a couple of cheeky parents. So I wouldn't tip off the kids with that, be like, oh, Santa's lost a bit of weight. Good on you mate. It's not like that. And you'd be like, haha, very funny. Yeah, good on you, Santa, bit on a low carb diet.

I'd be a good on you. I'd be like, yeah. Feeling good, huh? Yeah, clearly I'm just a first-year drama student trying to pay the bills of fuck off anyway. Yeah. And then long story short, I shouldn't have just been terrified of the parents

because the kids did not give a shit. And there was some older kids there, 13 or 14. And they basically, they followed me to the car park and pretty much beat me up. They were like punching my legs and trying to steal my stereo out of my hands and stuff. It was a nightmarish experience. And I got to the car and I took off the suit. And I sat there for about half an hour just trying to decompress and as I drove away from the car park

which I was parked about a hundred meters away. They'd been waiting on the playground out the back and they were all waving yelling, bye Santa! It was a real nightmarish experience. Oh my god, don't worry, those kids are all in jail. Or dead. Wow, that does sound bad. I'm imagining you can top that though, Jess. What have you got? No, I've got, well, I mean, so the question is we're right. I've had lots of weird stuff in call centers and stuff like that, but I don't, I can't really think of anything off the top of my head. This is what's hard about these, some people give us fantastic questions that if I had time to think about, I might have good answers,

but sometimes when it's just like, here's a great question, I'm like, ha, I can't think of anything particularly weird that's happened. Obviously I've had odd customers, but I don't think they're really story worthy. I can't even think of anyone that was weird now. Is the guy from your bit about working at Bond's The Helicopter Guy? Is that real?

Yeah, that's true. That's weird. That was weird. When I used to work in a big shopping centre, there was an Apple store across from us, and whenever they would release a new iPhone, people would camp out in the shopping center for the night before and line up. And so one time a guy came in and he said, he was like a really rough looking guy.

And he said, excuse me, I'm like, yep, how can I help? And he goes, what the fuck is going on out there? And I went, oh, yeah, no people are lining up. He has a new iPhone that comes out tomorrow. And he went, oh, that's fucked. And I went, yeah, yeah, he's a bit odd, isn't it? Anyway, anyway, yeah, he's a bit odd, isn't it? Yeah. Anyway, you got a tie.

I was like, I wasn't the manager anything. I was like a three, I see, which is not a real position. But basically, when the manager and assistant manager were out, I was in charge. And I was in charge at the time. And I made an executive decision to just say, no, we're not actually. So I'm the three I saved this part. Well actually I think I think I told him to Go tell him to apply online. It's okay. That's all online now. Yeah, I got the CEO of bonds this fun

I hope so that's fucked day Anyway, and he was just like casually leaning on some of our Products and stuff. It's like yeah cool. I was like, what are you doing? That's fucked. Can I have a job? So yeah, that was a bit weird. Thank you for remembering that for me, Matt. I'm really appreciate it.

Great work, Matt. I should, I really should have some weird, and I'm just like you, Bob, and I'm just not, the one that's come to mind isn't that weird, maybe. I was way back in the day, I was working as a trolley boy at a supermarket. And I'm pushing trolls out on a Saturday. And apparently this group of guys came into the bottle shop and all had jumpers over their

hands and just grabbed bottles of spirits under the jumpers and just walked out. And the manager of the store made a bit of an error here because he just, he put together a group of supermarket workers to follow after them. And on the way through, he grabbed me as well. So we all followed this gang, gang is strong, but group of guys off the supermarket property around into an alleyway where they met.

You're not allowed to do that. He made such a bad decision. It was obviously such a bad decision. And then when, so there was like five or so of these guys, they got around the corner, met a van of more guys. So we're, there's like seven of us, we've come around, we're absolutely outnumbered. And we're all, you know, minimum wage workers in the supermarket. And then yet, and one of the guys, one of the guys in this group pulls out a knife and he goes back the fuck up. And

then the, the store manager, who was, I think he was a fill in store manager. He'd later on his face is like, well, I fucked up so proudly then. But he was like, we're gonna get this ball. I just took a bunch of young kids around to an alleyway to get this ball. So he pulls out, this guy pulls out an often,

he goes, get back on the other side of that fucking road. So he's pushing us all back and the managers like, all right, I've realized that we're probably not getting the bottles back now. He's saying, all right, we're going, we're going. One of the guys from the supermarket was standing up and this sort of the, I guess the alpha guy of this group comes up to him and he just punches him in the face.

No, not the manager. The one of the other guys, he just punched him right in the mouth. And the manager's gonna hate, we're going, we're going, so we're back in a way. And then we turn around, and then I think it was the littlest guy of the, the, the thieves group, ran up and clocked me in the side of the clock me in the side of the head. in the side of the, clock me in the side of the head. I guess, you know, to be being pretty tough and maneuver, he picked out the smallest guy as I was like 16 or something. What the fuck?

This isn't crazy. It's not a weird story, isn't it? Yeah. Were you injured? I had headaches for a few days, but yeah, I think I recovered okay. Are you on work cover because that manager fucking made you do that? That manager fucked up so bad.

It's so beautiful. You're not supposed to, you're not allowed to like follow them out of the stores. If you think someone's stolen something and they've left, you're like, you're fucked. Yeah, it's gone. But you don't take a pack of kids to an alleyway where there's a van of more people waiting. Why do the two of them get punched?

Tell me that guy got fired immediately. No, he did. I think he could, because none of, I mean, I imagine it would have been bad for him if any of us took it further. But I got the next day off work and then I, you know, I never brought it up again. I think everyone just sort of, if anyone made a big deal out of it, I probably would have no police involvement after that. Oh, no, the cops came down. Yeah, the cops did come, actually. So I have to give an statement and stuff. So the other guy that got punched in the face, he was a young kid. Yeah, it would have been like 18 or something. So imagine him going home and

he's got blood all over his face and his parents are like, what happened at your shift at the supermarket? Yeah. And he said, oh, I got punched. That is, Matt, why have we never heard that story before? That is why? I don't know, I guess so to you. It is a bit of a wild story. But I just kept getting crazy at that one, to be honest. Yeah. I'm trying to think. I hope that answers the question. Yeah, hopefully that covers what you're after there. Nick.

I'm trying to think other ones. I yeah. But if that one does the job, then we'll take it. All right, thank you Nick for that question. The next one comes from Michael D. Rizzi. D. Rizzi, he's given us the pronunciation there. D. Michael D. Rizzi. And he's given us a fact.

Love a fact. Sorry, his title is definitely not a virgin. Oh, it sounds like something a virgin would say. It sounds really quickly. Not a virgin. Definitely not a virgin. No one brought that up. So yeah.

Now it sounds like you definitely are. Well, I wonder if this fact is going to make him seem like he needed to be pretty defensive. That's funny. A defensive. So he's given us a fact, and the fact is my 14 year old dog, Twina, it's a fun name for a dog, was having some trouble walking recently.

The vet found that he had an enlarged prostate and that getting him neutered could help him save, I could help save him from the rainbow bridge. It did. It's like he's a puppy again. You could say that he was suffering from toxic masculinity. This is the rainbow bridge of euphemism for heaven. Yeah.

Yeah, I haven't heard that before. Yeah, the right, but all good things, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, all good things. That's true. And if, I mean, the rainbow bridge doesn't sound all that bad. That sounds quite nice. It's quite like rainbow. It's called the colors.

Thank you so much for that fact, Michael. D-reze. That's great news about tweener. That is great news. And what a great, I've never heard of that. It's a dog number on tweener. A tweener. tweener is great.

The next one comes from Roy Phillips, whose title is the now senior junior from the band Junior Senior. He's offered us a fact. And the fact is yellow tennis balls were the idea of David Attenborough when he was the controller of BBC 2 as he thought they would look better on TV. Before that they were either black or white, white, Roy, are you fucking with us?

Don't, Roy, you better not be fucking with us. Because if not, that's really amazing. That is an amazing fact. I've never heard that before. We did it, David Atber, episode. Did we mention it on that? We probably, it'd be embarrassing if we did. Yeah, but I mean famously we don't

retain much. I say way it's mostly me. Oh my god, it's definitely it's definitely been yeah, apparently it comes up on a lot of a lot of websites. Well, great fact. Thank you so much. I'm going to be bringing that one out. I reckon. That's a great fact. Holy shit. How have I not heard that before? Amazing fact. Can you read it again? Yellow tennis balls were the idea of David Atbre when he was the controller of BBC2. As he thought they would look better on TV. Before that, they read the black or white. Black or white.

And they probably would have been black and white broadcast, right? So it would be perfect. Yeah, exactly. Fascinating. Maybe we did mention it. Oh, now I'll go back and listen. Well, I'm going to go back and listen. I'm going to go back and listen. I'm going to go back and listen. I'm going to go back and listen right broadcast, right? So yeah, exactly. Yeah fascinating. Oh, maybe we did mention it

Oh now I'll go back and listen. Well, we'll never know. We'll never know. Oh, well, that's wild. What a great fact That's great fact. Oh, this has been this has been a very successful round of fact-quotal question. Oh, yes loving all of these And finally the final fact-quotal question this week comes from Daniel Headley, who has given himself the title of resident dickhead of do-go-on. Oh, okay, excuse me. And excuse me. Sounds like you and I have been usurped, Jess. Oh, you are the resident dickhead.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, I see. All right, Daniel. Well, okay. Okay. Oh, I can't see. All right, Daniel. Well, welcome. He's sort of he's come in and he, you know, in in a jail scene, you shift the biggest guy. Yeah. Yeah. In the same dickhead, the biggest dickhead. You out dickhead. And he's done that. He's done that. I think I mean, just calling

yourself that is such a dickhead move. So he's really proved himself early. Yeah, he's done it. He's living up to the name. Let's hope his question really cemented his position. And the question I had cemented him. His question is, how much wood would a wood chuck chuck

if a wood chuck could chuck wood exactly what a dickhead question. What an absolute dickhead question. Well done, Daniel, you dickhead. You massive dickhead. Oh Wow, because here we were Matt weren't we being a bit defensive? Yeah Give himself a chance to shift the biggest dickheads in the present and oh boy did he out dickhead us? I'm I mean at woodchuck is I

Imagine if it's a real animal, it's like a beaver or something, is that right? Is a woodchuck or is a woodchuck a job? Woodchuck. In my head I was sort of pictured a, oh, that's a groundhog. Yeah, okay. So yeah, they're kind of beaverish looking,

I don't reckon I could chuck a little wood at all. I'm saying. I'm gonna say 11. 11? I'm gonna say 11. 11? I'm gonna say three twigs. Oh wow. Okay. Dave.

I say four logs. Whoa, okay. How big are these logs? Oh, small logs, chief. Sit down. Like as in firewood kind of stuff. Yeah, they're already in pre-chucked, to be honest.

Pre-chucked wood. But they just chuck it a little bit more. They just feel like they did something. To be honest, they take all the glory of these little wood chucks, little fuckers. Yeah, yeah, little decads. Finally, it's the etymology of the name wood chuck is unrelated to wood or chucking. It's stem, this is from Wikipedia, it stems from an outgoing, quinn, possibly Narragona set name for the animal, Wuchak, Wuchak. So it's like a, it's just the, the original older name for them. It's sort of morphed out of that, I think.

And it's been anglicized to Wuchak. They go. The more you know. Yeah, that's cool. That's a great fact. I mean, you go. The more you know. It's how I read it. Yeah, that's cool. That's a great fact. I mean, you didn't give us that fact. You go, we got there via your dickhead question, Daniel.

I hope you're okay with us leaning into this dickhead thing. But I mean, you did, you did. You started it. You started it. You started it so far. So we'll finish it. But actually, Jess, I kind of think we're being dickheads to him now. So Yeah, but he started it dad

Thank you so much Daniel Roy, Michael and Nick fantastic fact quotes or questions And if you want to get involved in that you go to patreon.com such to go and pod get involved in there On the Sydney Shamburg Luxemomorial level and yeah yeah, for all those people that we've read them out, it's time for you to put another one in. You get to keep giving them. Every time you have one read out on the show, go back to that form, give us another one and go again. Do it again.

And that goes for the people of recent weeks. So there are, there's a few people who haven't filled one in lately. Get on it if you want to, no pressure. And that takes us to our other shout out patrons shout out. Section Jess number comes up with a bit of a game. This is for members on the shout out level or above. I think the shout out level is the DB Cooper level.

Associate producer. Asked broad. It's on the ask broad. Is that right? I think that might, yeah, no, I think that's the voting level to be honest. It's clearly written out on their website if people check it out. I'm on there now, it's the Asprod. Get on there.

Damn it. See? Maybe, Daniel, I am the real Heddinger. I think you'll find. I was about to tweet you that, yes, so. That's great cave in. I actually did it. I did it. I was about to tweet you that, yes, so. I'm going to go, okay, I'm in. I actually, I did it.

I did it. No one ever believes me. It's only because we ask every time, because we can never remember that I think we've checked enough times that now I'm like, no, it's not David Cooper. Okay. So, anyway. Between the David Cooper level, you, that's, anyway, it doesn't matter. anyway, but on the the way Cooper level you that's made

anyway, it doesn't matter. It's explained on the website. If you go to patreon.com slash do go on pod. The Cooper is bonus steps. Right. So we will thank a few of you on the on that level and above now. And just normally comes up with a little game. We give you everyone a title or some some

sort of a thing. What do we do? This week? I'm thinking two jobs that they combine. Oh, right. Right. Because she was a nurse and a pilot. Coming in nurse. They can have the flying nurse. They can have the flying nurse.

They can have the flying nurse. It doesn't have to. Well, yeah, no, two jobs they combine. Yep. All right, great. Well, if I can kick it off, I'd love to thank from Inverlock in Victoria, Australia, which is 58 acres big. No, 58 million. 15 million acres big. Gee, that's a big difference. I'd love to thank Tim Bola.

Tim Bola. Okay. Dave, do you want to do a one-two? I'll do one and you hit me with another one. Okay. So Tim is a post-e. Is also a professional darts player. Yes, so he delivers the mail. But he throws the mail and then throws a dart afterwards and it pins to the door. Oh, that's awesome. So it can never get wet.

Yeah. Because I assume your door is. It never gets wet. Yeah. Because I assume your door is under some sort of shot. Yeah, it's been awning. You're full, it's not. Get, put an awning above your door. It's ruined. It's ruined many packages this way, but letters. Letters, I look cool.

Yeah, people are getting like a birthday cake centaur. It's just a hole in the door. The dart, innit? Everyone in my last lap top. Thanks a lot, Tim. Tim's out. It wasn't people who were putting needles in strawberries. Tim was just trying to deliver them.

Absolutely. Everyone in my last patch of custard, I ordered. Pouch. You ordered a custard patch. I ordered custard by the patch, how do you get it? Of course. By the way, thank you so much Tim. I'd also love to thank from West Babylon in New York.

Wow, that sounds cool. Teresa, Jacino. Alright Matt. You know you two do a one two. Alright, Teresa is a factory working dog catcher factory working dog catcher. She catches the dogs in the factory. She catches the dogs in the factory. If a dog is loose in your factory, Teresa, who do you call?

Yeah, she knows the way around factories. How do I work? She's a sort of... She works as a mechanic in the factory, sort of a mechanical engineer. She keeps everything working in the factory. And then she actually designed a, like a conveyor belt for catching dogs. So at the front of the conveyor belt, it's got a dog trait. So it's like a decoy one. She's built the whole factory.

And but there she's built one extra one for catching dogs. Because there's a dog issue in this factory. And I know what it is about West Babylon factories. Is it a dog food factory? Hey Jess, what does this factory make? They make dog food. That's why they're confused. So one of the conveyor belts has got dog food on it to entice dogs.

And the other ones just have dog food on them. Oh, wow, what a nightmare. But she somehow to raise this built it in a way that it works. What a nightmare. All right. What a nightmare. And my final shout out this week is for from Norwich in Norfolk, home of a part, partridge. Uh-huh.

I'd love to thank Benjamin A.E. Philby. Oh, great name. Double, double metal initial. Okay, Jess, Benjamin is a DJ slash. The wrist. That's cool. The classic combo. He keeps the key.

Exactly. I mean, let me turn around here. But also, you know, like people are at clubbing, they're loving his remixes, but also a little bit tired. Yeah, right. I call a boy, I don't know how much more of his remixes, but also a little bit tired. Yeah. I call a boy, I don't know how much more of this I can handle. I'm going very tired. And he's like, hey, do you want to hang out a little more?

I'll make you a double espresso. That sounds nice. I wonder if you know Alan Parker. Let me just change the track here. All right, now I'm ready to go. And then also the frothing of the milk actually kind of adds to the atmosphere. Right. Very cool.

And yeah, he remixes that frothing sound that it makes into the big sick drop. Wait till the froth drops, all right. Ben Walson's, I'll be in the club. So there are my three shout outs. Do you want to have a go just a day? I'll have a go. I'd love to thank from Ipswich in Great Britain. Elizabeth Harris.

Okay, okay. Elizabeth Harris. All right, Elizabeth Harris. Jesus, I hope my brain came up with factory work. You lost some. Yeah, come on. It could be anything in the world. I went, all right, I'm going brain came up with factory work. I lost some. Yeah, come on. It could be anything in the world. I went, all right, I'm going to think of something amazing.

All right. Jiro copped a pilot. And bank teller. She drops off your money for you. Yeah, that's right. Money delivery. That's what people are working towards. I'd like to withdraw $300.

She's like, go home. I'll be there in 15 minutes. I just look up and just stop ring above the house. They're like, I could just take it now. I feel like, no, no, it's part of the service. Go home. What's a gyro, Coptar? I think it's one where I know from ductiles.

I think there's a character called gyro and he flustered, if I made up gyro, Coptah, gyro. I don't know, but it sounds fun. I think it's just like a, it's a helicopter that never quite. I don't think they got as popular. Auto gyro.

Yeah, they're like little one man looking helicopter things. Oh cool, well that's little one man looking helicopter things. Oh, cool. Well, that's all you need for delivering money. It's a type of rotocraft that uses an unpowered roto in free auto rotation to develop lift. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, I feel a bit stupid for asking, actually, that's so obvious. For their cool work and things.

Oh, boy. Oh, James Bond used one and you only lived twice. Very cool. Ah, okay. Okay. And so that's what Elizabeth's using to deliver cash. Yeah, James Bond used one and you only lived twice. Very cool. Ah, okay, okay. And so that's what Elizabeth's using to deliver cash. Yeah, that's right. She bought Sean Connery's whole one. She like throws it out and so like the money flutters ever. It looks very cool, but it's actually quite impractical.

And people are like, hey, that's my money. Yeah, although actually maybe it's like super wealthy people order it to be showered in money. Like she turns up at their very fancy party, they're having a garden party, then maybe not a garden party, maybe it's like a rave, and then she just drops money and everyone's like,

woo! Maybe it's like that. I think that's exactly like that. Me too. Thank you Elizabeth. And I'd also love to thank from Copenhagen. I'd love to thank Fabian Peterson. Ooh.

Fabian Peterson is a really great name. And Fabian is in makeup manufacturing. And watch repairs. Oh, nice. I just looked at my desk and I watched with thinking. I watched repair shops are already people. They are one of those shops that do so many different unrelated things

they'll cut a key they'll fix your boots yeah really so they'll put batteries in anything yeah so you know we say combining two jobs really Fabian's doing like eight and one of them is makeup. Is he manufacturing the makeup? Yeah, yeah.

Right. I've gone back to manufacturing. What on a one my head's in manufacturing the day before? Well Fabian, you're leading the way. You've added a new industry to your already bustling industry. Oh wow, we can do absolutely anything. Fabian, congratulations. And also, I'd love to thank, finally,

from Denver, Colorado. I'd love to thank Scott Robinson. Okay, Scott is an Elvis in personator and... Nugget, gold nugget, explorer. LAUGHTER Well, at least it wasn't manufactured. Gold nugget, explore. So, yes. Is the Elvis manufactured. Gold, got, like, nuggets. Explore.

So, yes. Is he Elvis V. Pans for Gold? Gold painting Elvis. He's a local cook from the community. He's a local cook. But the thing is that, like, he's very successful as well. He's found millions of dollars of gold over the years. So, you can't really be like, well, can I give a success?

Yeah, he's doing it. Yeah, no, he's not a cook then, he's eccentric. Yeah. On your Scott, he did become... We do, everyone knows, you go, from we do eccentric if you went once you become rich. All right, I'd like to take a time now with a few more names. And I'd like to thank, first of all,

from Finden, South Australia, Karen Gayedo. Karen Gayeedo. Karen Gayeedo. Wow. Karen. Okay. Okay. Uh, chicken flyer. And she sells salt lamps. Okay. What's up? Again, I am looking around my room a bit.

Yeah, and I had a, I don't Wikipedia page open for gyro gear loose, the character from DuckTales. And I tend out easy chicken, so. So you're sorry, Karen, we've not really nailed it for you, but that's a mess. It's not all gold. It's all gold panning Elvis, isn't it? Gold panning Elvis was great.

Yeah, let's try again. Let's try again. Let's try again. All right, okay, I'm gonna get my Let's try again. Let's try again. Let's try again. Let's try again. All right. Okay. I'm going to get my head out of manufacturing. All right. Karen is. She's a lift operator. And Flora's.

That's good. That's a good comment. So like big flower installations for events. Yeah. She's got to use a scissor lift to get them up. And she doesn't have to get someone in to do that. She can do it herself. She can do it all herself.

So that's why she's the best in the biz. Because people are like, oh wait, I don't have to pay you extra to hire someone. You can do it all. Wow, Karen. Wow. Wow. That's what they say. Now look. Now look Karen. I'd like to thank now from St. Louis, Missouri, or Missouri.

Christopher Loushke. Christopher Loushke, that's great. Jetsky, writer. That's my name's, oh. Jetsky writer and a barber who specializes only in beard work. Okay. So if you're out. Okay.

Oh no, I just thought hairdresser but then I thought let's just try and make this a little bit more specific. Okay. Love that no, I just thought hairdresser, but then I thought, let's just try and make this a little bit more specific. Okay. Love that. Love a specialty. So, so, and so it was jet ski. I said jet ski ride, I like that's a joke,

but jet ski delivery person. Yeah, but he'll like, yes, and he'll deliver himself to cut the ends. But you have to live, obviously, on the ocean or B at sea, to cut the, or Venice. To B at sea. You must be. to come to you. Or Venice. To B.F.C. You must be at C for my service.

To be honest, he's been a bit, he's been a little C lately, but in a good way, it means he's got a lot of work. That's great. What are you Christopher? On your Christopher. And finally, I would like to thank from Oakdale, Minnesota. Actually Dave, just quickly, isn't Missouri, that's a, that's got heaps of likes. Does that make sense?

Yeah, I guess so. Dave you did it mate. Because you can, you can ride a jet ski from one like to another. Yes. It is jump. Yeah. How hard can it be? If I've got a heaps, there can't be one that far away.

If it's, I've seen the first two sets of these, the Ozarks and if that is factual, there's eight lakes everywhere. They get around on boats and stuff, so. And hopefully Jetskies. And Jetskies, yeah. Obviously, yes. But I would like to thank from Oakdale, Minnesota, Tim Kaiser. Oh, kick it with the Kaiser.

He's a chili pop pepper. He's competitive chili hot chili Eater. Okay, and he also services vending machines. Does both. Yeah, he's doing them all. That's good. Which means access to snacks at all times. What a dream. Love that. That's, Graeme. So he's always training. He's training, and also a world champion in the Chiliating. Yeah. Wow.

And there's big money in obviously Chiliating too. So he's like, he's doing very well, but really it's vending machines and he's passionate. Yeah, that's the side gig. Just for fun, and also for snacks. Yeah, exactly. Oh man, that's a good job. That's a good job. That's a fun job. Snacks. Do you think they keep like pretty detailed inventory of the snacks or?

No, I don't reckon. I mean, you can't count cans of soft drinks surely. Too hard. Too many. Too many. Ugh. No one is in the triptage club again this week. It looks like there might be some members inducted next week, though. Do you still want to give a quick, because there's obviously still plenty of people in there from this week. Do you want to give us some more Derbs, Cocktail and the Band that's performing this week? Yep, so this week, snack wise, we're having Aeroplane Jelly.

I love it! Yes! Oh, Aeroplane jelly is for me. Served in little aeroplane-shaped spoons, and you get fed by an older woman who says, here comes aeroplane. And you go, honestly, this theme's going a bit far. Don't you think I'm an adult? I can feed myself. I'm loving it. And she says, I'm so sorry. I've been paid to be here. And if I don't do it, Jess will yell at me. Please,

Jess, have you been reading my dream? It told me. Is it, why, are you dreaming of me yelling at you? After feeding me, aerobite, Jess, it's been... I mean, we've got a different airplane, it's been. Cocktail wise, we've got Cosmos. Yeah. There's a pink line from Sex on the City. That's right. A classic vodka, cranberry, delicious. And Dave?

Well, as for musical actors, we've actually got someone who featured on last week's Woodstock episode. We've got Carlos Santana himself featuring Rob Thomas. Oh Can you believe That's right and they're just playing that song smooth Over again, I think maybe my top 10 least favorite songs all time But I keep requesting matchbox 20 songs and Rob refuses. Santana played Black Magic Woman. I like your changed Rob. I'm sticking with smooth. This is this is smooth.

No stop. Dave could I request that the band also backing the band. I think you mentioned briefly last week. They also played it with stock. They're very influential band, the band, with a great name. Wow, there you go. Okay, so take a load off, Benny, take a load for free, take a load off, Benny. Put your load right on, put your load right on, put your load right on me. Is that the band? Well, we'll not be playing that song. We'll be playing smooth. Honestly, without new inductees, we've made this week at the lounge an awful place. Sorry, sorry about that. You're being forced fed by an old woman and there's only one song playing.

All right, well that brings us to the end of the episode. What a fun time we've had in the Patreon lounge this week. If you want to get involved, you have a patreon.com slash do go on pod. Thanks for listening all the way through. There is no pressure. If you've been listening and hating it, then next week, please stop at the end of the report. There is no pressure at all. Dave, where can people find us? I think you'll find us on our social media is at DoGoOnPod on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. There's links to everything at dogoonpod.com. And if you are craving more podcasting content, Dave does a great book, podcast called Bookcheat. It's loved the world over. He takes a classic book and he breaks it down for you with a couple of funny and fun guests and it's a real good time. The most

recent ones have been about Tequila Mockingbird. That's right. And this week, just yesterday, I put a new one on King Lear, but a Shakespeare. The one that everyone in the, when isolation first started was saying, well, he wrote that in, in isolation during the plague, which is only half true. But anyway, still listen to King Lear. I've also brought primates back for a little limited run where Evan and I are going through the umbrella academy episode by episode. We're doing two of those a week. They're a bit shorter episodes and yeah that's been a lot of fun. We're gonna do that and then probably go into season two as well and listen now we're still doing the most popularly voted for 80s rock albums. The most recent one is about... Well a couple of the one one back was Nine Inch Nails as they blew

album, then the most recent one. Well, actually the one that will be we just recorded but it's coming out next week is about Dyer Strikes, their album Brothers in Arms. And then the one after that is one of Dave's favorite bands. So I'm going to ask him to be involved. Okay, I wanted which one that's going to be, but we'll find out when you all find out because he hasn't mentioned this to me before. Anyway, I think that brings us pretty much to the end of the episode. Jet followed Jess on Instagram. She's trying to get to that 10,000 follow.

I really am. Just fucking do it. If you don't have Instagram, just make one and follow me and then I don't know. I don't eat the app. It's annoying. Everyone listening right now, follow Jess on Instagram. She'd smash that thing, but a few of you are listening go, no, fuck Jess Perkins.

She doesn't deserve that. I don't know what I did to deserve that because I'm an absolute fucking delight. Just follow her on Instagram. Oh, I don't have Instagram. We'll get Instagram. Get it. Come on. It's gorgeous. Okay. Fuck. Okay, fucks. What a slug. You know, like giving joy?

What's wrong with you? Nah, good on you. You suck. You suck. Follow me. And if you had fallen asleep listening to this episode and just got working up by that, welcome back. And get up here for a walk.

Do something with these new fan hours. We've given you a gift. You're welcome. But we'll see you next week. It's paying a pleasure. And as we always say here on Do You Go On Jess. You get a I like a replane jelly. Hey, my week.

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