The Unmade Podcast - 155: Toys, Tasmania and Mr T

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

Tim and Brady discuss Christmas gifts, discontinued items, racing games, Tasmania, favourite colours, toys, and Mr T.Even more chat in the latest Request Room episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/119994844Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFMJoin the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/Catch the podcast on YouTube where we often include accompanying videos and pictures - https://www.youtube.com/@unmadepodcastUSEFUL LINKSMicro Machines as discussed by Brady - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_S1_ZQsHc (I think this is it - I recall it looking slightly better)Episode 44 in which we discuss Tim’s discontinued glasses - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/episode46The Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel - https://youtu.be/csATriX8Ed0The Size of Tasmania - https://mapfight.xyz/map/tasmania/The Tasmanian Devils football club - https://tasmaniafc.comPictures of Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-weekSome of the toys we discussed - https://www.unmade.fm/episode-155-picturesMr T in a Toyota ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXQzZSRvHDwCatch the bonus Request Room episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/119994844Information about getting the Request Room into your podcast feed (for patrons) - https://bit.ly/3uQWhNz

This is our first recording after Christmas, always a big day in the, uh, the Christian calendar. I believe it's the big man's birthday. It is. Yes. He always gets very excited as we all do on our birthday. How did that go down? Did you put on a, put on a bit of a show at the church, put, get all the bells and whistles out. It was lovely.

It was lovely. There's it's always great when a few Christmas carols, you know, make it into the service leading up to Christmas. And then it's really great. We had a wonderful service like, you know, the week before Christmas with kids and carols and candles and all that kind of gear. It's magnificent. And lots of like guests that, you know, come to some people only come to church around Christmas time. Oh, yeah. So that's really lovely as well. And then then we have like a midnight candlelight service where it's all dark and that's really cool and that kind of finishes right on midnight. So that's that you know that it's like happy Christmas, you know, and then you go home and then come back the

next morning. Well, half of them do half what we have half the congregation isn't there because they've gone off on holidays. But then it's the other half it's filled up with people that you only see that day every year. Yeah. So it's, um. Do you recognize or remember any of these people or are they like, if you only see them once a year? Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, I do. There's some people in our local neighborhood that only come to that midnight one every year. And so you see them there.

And then there's some people you just see, you know, generally maybe on Mother's Day or Father's Day or something like that sometimes as well. Or at Christmas. You don't go up to them and say hey you should come more often you know this is this is like this is a recruiting opportunity. Well you don't think yes but of course no one likes to be recruited do they Brady so I just say it's great to see you which it is. No but if I make a video that goes viral and gets millions and millions of views that I don't normally get I hope some of those people might subscribe and watch my other videos. Hope but you don't like go visit them and say hey I heard you liked my video and would you like to come back you know like they're welcome it's great to see you we're always here I always throw something in like that at the end we're here every week 10 o'clock if you want to come programs during the week. I see what you're doing it It's tactical. Yeah, I see. I see it. I see what you're doing. You're playing them. You're playing them like a cheap guitar.

Playing it cool. Treat them mean. Keep them keen. Yeah, I know it. Passive aggressive. We don't want you to come. Don't come. You know? Or not. Or like you've got the place all done up for Christmas, like looking amazing. And you say, you think this is good, you should see how it looks in March. It's brilliant. Now, more importantly than all this religion stuff, Christmas presents. Christmas presents. Yeah, well, I mean. How'd you do? Did you get anything?

Did you get any good ones? Oh, look, I got the guaranteed RM Williams gift card from Mum, gift voucher. Nice. So that's, uh, I'll be able to update my belt, which is, which is, you know, does a pretty heavy job throughout the year and is able to take a well-earned retirement, goes to the hall of fame able to take a well earned retirement. Yeah. Goes to the hall of fame. So that's a belt update.

The only thing working harder than my belt is my top button. I'd have to say. What do you look for when you go shopping for a belt? The exact same belt that I bought last time that I liked from R.A. Williams. Yep. I have my belt. It's funny you should say that. We will come back to that with my idea for a podcast.

I've got a good idea for a podcast that I think everyone is going to like and it's going to resonate with. So you got a voucher from your mum. What about from the fam? I've got some lovely little sort of trinkets and things. We got a really cool character from The Muppets. I've forgotten his name. The Swedish Chef, because we've been loving YouTube clips of the Swedish chef so we got a lovely little cool figure of him to sit next to the oven that was really cool. Yeah I like that I have to say there was there was some controversy that happened in the house like.

I decided a couple of months ago that I was going to buy the girls an Xbox. And so that's a pretty big deal, right? And I felt really quite excited because I think it was going to be a real surprise for them. So I went and bought it and took it over to my mum, Mrs. Hine, right? To hide where the presents get hidden under mum's bed. Well, actually delete that bit over in her apartment under her bed. You said it twice. I feel like I want you to delete. Girls if you're listening to this, that's not quite true. Don't look under the bed. So I bought the Xbox, hit it over there, felt really good, found a couple of games, you know, there was one that was only available in Wai'ala. So I had to

contact our recent Wai'ala, recently married Wai'ala, civilian friends to go out and buy that one and post it down to me because I couldn't, I couldn't get it. What the hell? An Xbox game you can only get in Wai'ala, the absolute sticks city in the north of South Australia. It was it was it was deleted, like recently deleted, and I wanted to have the physical copy to wrap up. So it was like the last disc in South Australia, that kind of deal. So Jake and Beck came to the party, so they posted it down to me. So nice.

Got it. Brilliant. Yeah, lovely connection. You don't have to own them these days, days do you don't you just download all the games why did you want the disk so much well I wanted I wanted the because it's a gift because it's like oh okay that kind of something to unwrap that's right and and so it was like oh if you've got this that means we're getting you know the full Xbox or something so what I did was I wanted to buy a big box put this little game right at the bottom and fill it full of all sorts of other stuff you know like newspaper and crap so they have no idea what it was anyway so this is big conspiracy happening on happening.

And then a few a couple of months ago my oldest girl finish school and so I've been giving her some other jobs and tasks and teaching her how to do some stuff including related to our finances. jobs and tasks and teaching her how to do some stuff including related to our finances. Yep. So she was sorting out some, some, um, doing some reconciliation with some invoices and bits and pieces. Yep. And that's been really, really helpful. A month before Christmas, we're having a conversation around the TV about presence and looking at presence. And then suddenly she drops a bomb. I know what we're getting for Christmas. Yeah. And I said, no, you don't. She goes, I do. And I'm like, no, you don't know you don't. And she goes, it was in the invoices.

And I looked at her and I could tell, I could tell from her face that she was telling the truth. And I went back over to the invoices that I know she'd processed and what, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, oh, no. Oh, man. Security lapse. So you got done for a forensic accounting. That's right. That's right. I got audited by my daughter. So anyway, she was good. She was, she was good enough to keep it to herself. Like that was just her and her mother and myself talking.

So from her other sister until Christmas Day. So it was a massive surprise to her other sister. And it was a joyful surprise, but basically because it was more of the, I've been looking forward to this knowing what I'm getting happiness rather than the, oh my God, I can't believe you've got that for me. Happiness. I can't believe the level of access you were giving to your daughter there, letting her go through your finances. Why? I don't believe the level of access you were giving to your daughter there letting her go through your finances.

Why? I don't know. It just seemed like I know you. I know you all say like, you know, they're on your phone all the time and stuff as well. I don't know. I'm just, you know, I don't know. Well, we have to the way our finances work, we have to, you know, sort out a bunch of things and claim them and record them and all that kind of stuff.

And it's a it's a pretty menial task. And she was doing it choosing from the invoices and expenses and stuff stuff. Yeah, it was totally my bad for just absentmindedly, I did actually think of it, it's like, oh, I've got to keep this secret. And you know, the other thing I did when I was buying the Xbox, I didn't want to be caught in the gaming store. And so I because we have like a find my phone thing, you know, where you can see what other people are. And if sometimes when we're shopping and we're in different parts of the city, it like always you know mum finished down at you know what's the name yet and gonna come up to here. So I actually turned my locations off to just walk into that building to go buy the game then came out turn my location back on feeling totally like James Bond like hey they got no idea what I've been doing. And then I got home and just handed the receipt.

Ah, blew it. Anyway. Unbelievable. How's the Xbox going down? Cool. Yeah. Well, we played it for a couple of days and then we went away on holiday. So since we've come back, there's been quite a bit of Halo slaughtering going on, sniping

each other, playing side by side. That's been quite a bit of halo slaughtering going on sniping each other playing side by side that's been quite a bit fun yeah yeah is this these are the same daughters that would destroy it when you hit a kangaroo but they don't mind shooting you in the head in halo oh they are unbelievable with a sniper rifle like it is they've become someone else i don't know what's going on it's unbelievable the slightest little bit of blood in a movie or something and there's like a little nervousness Then we get on there and then it's like in your face dad like it's What do you like a halo Well, I like to think that I'm pretty good at it. Like I've played it before, you know and all that whereas they're relatively new

To it. They've played a little bit on holidays and stuff But you know, I've been playing I guess I'm not a gamer but you know I had I thought I had game so we when we started I was a little bit like well I'm just gonna go easy here make sure they feel included you know bang I'm dead bang I'm dead again bang I'm dead again it's like 25 kills to 9. I'm like This is alright. This is I'm gonna have to this is not on so they are very good at it and Yeah, yeah. Yeah, suddenly that happened. What about you man? What'd you get for Christmas? What I got I got lots of nice presents for Christmas got some nice wellies

Some nice welly boots your gum boots some nice manfume. Oh Right. Yeah, nice. Do you have a particular individual sniff or do you get given a variety of things? Whatever my wife decides each Christmas is gonna be my scent for the year is what my center So this is my new scent for the year. Yeah What was last year's scent? I can't remember. It had a gold bottle. Right.

Yeah. This year's has got a black bottle. It smells really nice. She knows best. Nice. But yeah, it was great. It was great. And, you know, obviously the first time with Edward understanding Christmas and, you

know, Santa Claus and Father Christmas, it was, it was, it was fun. It was fun. He just loves opening presents. He loves opening presents more than the presents themselves, but a good time was had by all. Although we did get ravaged by sickness over Christmas. So, well, after, especially after Christmas, I'm only just coming out of it. I've been not very well for a while, but other than that, Christmas was good. Everyone in England has been sick this Christmas. So it's kind of like, you know,

right. Well, I've got a couple in my family that are unwell at the moment now too. Having just come back from holidays, which is a shame for them. Let me tell you about my idea for a podcast because you've said a couple of things already that show me why this is a good idea. Right. All right. My idea for a podcast is called Discontinued and this is a podcast where people talk about things that they want to get but they can't because it's been discontinued by the manufacturer. Ah, right. This is an eternal problem. You talked about how you get the same belt all the time at RM Williams.

One year you're going to go in and they're going to say, we don't make that belt anymore. Yeah. You talked about this Xbox disc you wanted. They're not making that game anymore. This is the bane of my wife's existence because she's a, she is a, I think it's fair to call her a consumer. Right. And, and she, but she'll get something she likes and she, she's very particular and so she wants, she has this perfume from years and years ago she loves and they discontinued it and then it just becomes her like life mission to find it somewhere secondhand or some

store that still got it and things like that and she always seems to be trying And then it just becomes her life mission to find it somewhere, secondhand or some store that's still got it and things like that. And she always seems to be trying to buy things that she loves, that she wants to get another one of that have been discontinued. I also have this problem in life. I'm finding it sometimes with Lego sets at the moment. I find out about some Lego set that was discontinued and I want to get my hands on it, but you can only go to the secondhand market or you just can't get it and I think loads and loads of people have things in

their life that they want to get or they particularly want to get again and they can't yes because of the bane of discontinuation just chime with you oh yes it does yes because I'm very much the person who finds the thing and I lock in and that's my thing for life you know. Yeah. Yeah that's that's that's absolutely me so I get really frustrated. I had this I've got this like black kind of like a thin windsheeter thin top that I like to wear that keeps me a little bit warm but not too warm and I like how it looks on me and I like the style and the cut of it and and I it's still okay it's still good now but I'm like one day this is not going to be wearable anymore and I love this so I want to get another one discontinued I

even I spoke to the manager of the company that makes it he was like yeah he said I love it too but we didn't sell many of them. And so we've stopped making them. Gutted. The one I've mentioned before, which is very, very important to me is my particular glasses frames, which you might recall, I put out a call through the podcast to try and find them. The last ones worldwide. And I ended up finding one pair in Asia, which are a slight variation of the, yeah, that's right. the data New Yorkers and I've even gone to a very very very deep blue rather than the black because that was the one that

I could source but I'm on the last pair now and once these are gone I'm going to have to make a massive life decision about what you know different frames I'm going to have on my face. My wife likes this perfume so much that isn't made anymore that she even contacted like a company that specialises in trying to make replicas of perfumes you like, like you send them a little sample and they will like get out the chemicals and try and try and replicate it for you. So this is how does one get around discontinuation.

So I think it'd be a great podcast where people just come in or send in things that they just want to they want another one why do you love it so much what have you done with it how have you used over the years what have you done to try and find another one. Yeah how can we help you find another one there's a few avenues we could explore here is a podcast. Can I say one one in particular came up which is related to the Xbox not just the game I was mentioning which you can download these games but what I've found is they've stopped making a particular type of game and that is a car racing game that you can play sitting on the same couch with someone else. What I've found is that whole genre which you would think was a bleedingly obvious genre, they don't make them anymore. You have to have, you can only play online someone who has their own Xbox. So like the Formula One game, it's not like I sit down with my daughter

and go okay split screen here we go let's race. It doesn't do it, it doesn't do that at all. Is that because they don't like split screen games for car racing anymore? Well I don't know why, why does the discontinue but they've stopped making them so on the switch you can play like Mario Kart, right? And we do that, you know, all the time. There's nothing on the Xbox that does that you have to go back to this old generation this game called I think it's called Forza and it's like version seven or something which again is discontinued. And that's the last game that's you know that that where you could split screen and race someone that you sitting next to you so to having a friend come over sit next to each other and play a car racing game. Doesn't happen anymore and I think it's because they want that kid to sit at home and buy his own Xbox so they make more money and I think that sucks because that takes something that could be fun and relational and makes it like at a distance you know it's not the same. I remember um the

Formula One game on PlayStation that I had many many years ago and this was before online gaming and they they made it so you couldn't split the screen and that but you could play it on one PlayStation but no no I think you need two Playstations actually but you also play it on one PlayStation, but no, no, I think you need two PlayStations actually, but you also had to have two TVs and you had to like link them in a special way. Like, so like to race against your friend in that formula one game. And this was, and most, this was back when we had TVs that were like cathode ray tube TV. So they were two, two TVs was like massive, heavy boxes. Yeah. Yeah. And we'd have these two massive TVs back to back and you needed like a degree in electrical engineering to hook them up together to make it work so that was a problem even for me back in the day. Oh that's crazy well I just please gaming designers just

like design a really cool racing game where you can have like two or four people racing against each other. That's brilliant fun. And Mario Kart is a massive game on the Nintendo Switch. I just don't know why PlayStation and Xbox don't do it. And I don't know. I can't believe I know so much about this now. Is there a Micro Machines game? There was a Micro Machines racing game that I always found a really fun party type game and multiple people could do it.

What's what's Micro Machine? What was that? Micro Machines was um you were racing well Micro Machines mini cars and you would be racing on things like kitchen tops and things like that so it's quite cute you'd be driving around on a kitchen top in these little hot rod cars like amongst all the breakfast cereal on the knives and forks but the way that worked I think you could have up to eight players or something like that. But if you fell behind everyone else who was racing, it was like a top down looking racing game. If you fell behind the people who were racing, you fell off the screen.

You were out until everyone else had fallen off and then it would start again. So it was a different way of doing multiplayer racing. That is cool. That's great. Well, can I, let me ask if that game exists, can someone let me know and contact the show and if there's a really, whatever is the, if I'm missing it somehow and the helper person, you know, at the shop where I buy this stuff in Adelaide, you know, if

they're missing it too. Oh, so you've asked, you've gone into the shop and said, I want a racing game where we can just both play it on the TV. And they said, there's nothing. I do. I go in and I talk to the 12 year old person then say and said, I want a racing game where we can just both play it on the TV. And they said, there's nothing. I do. I go in and I talk to the 12 year old person and say, look, I'm a middle-aged dad who's got no clue, but just once we just want to race. Right.

And what can we do? And they go, oh, you know, I don't, you know, and then they mentioned lots of things that I don't understand. And then they, but in the end, they basically say, nah, you can't do it. No one really does it anymore. And so if I'm missing something let me know but otherwise gamers get to it I can't believe that Formula One would have a race where you can't actually race someone that's that seems crazy to me.

Well you can just not on the same TV. I know I know it's like siblings sitting down together people sitting down friends that that blows me away. Back in my day it was nothing like that. No, we used to play this memory pleased to play this really cool ice hockey game where we'd face off and all that. Oh yeah. That was on your little. That was on my end.

That was on a Nintendo. That was on a super Nintendo. I think it was an EA Sports hockey game. EA Sports in the game. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. That had about five pixels and TV only had two pixels and chased them around. That was pretty funny. So discontinued.

There's been another thing that was discontinued on me was a really nice diffuser scent that I had in my room. You know, you get those diffusers where you put the those like sticks in them and they make there was one that just had a lovely smell in my room for ages and ages and I'm like oh that's wonderful it finally ran out so I went to buy it again gone discontinued so frustrating frustrating sometimes food you like gets discontinued like at shops or uh you know like at a restaurant some some meal you love at a restaurant one day you go and you want to order it again. No, sorry, we don't do that anymore.

What? Gone. Denied. Discontinued. How frustrating it is. It feels like it's personal, doesn't it? It feels a bit like you're personally offended. Because it's like a judgment on you as well, because obviously it wasn't popular enough for them to keep making it. But you liked it. So it's like, what does that say about you?

Does that say that you don't have good taste or you have really good taste or I don't know. Exclusive taste. Other people have bad taste. Yeah. Mmm. It's a bit of a judgment call on you. If you could call back something, something that comes back. Oh, that's a good idea.

The Adelaide Grand Prix. That was just that. That would be cool. I would I would love that. Oh, I don't know. Is there some well the Wendy's are they still doing the Wendy's hot dog? Yes, Wendy's. That's what I would that I knew they were always forgetting something. I mean that's going out of business.

That's different to discontinuing. Wendy's didn't stop the hot dog, did they? They just shut down Wendy's altogether, didn't they? This is the Adelaide Wendy's, by the way, people, not the American Wendy's that you're thinking of, the burger joint. No. There's an Adelaide ice cream store called Wendy's. Ice cream and they do hot dogs on the side, but the hot dogs are the real deal for us.

There's one left at Mitcham and I think they're closing down. I've heard that but which is a travesty. They've certainly closed them in the city. Well that's I mean that's a really good idea, discontinued because I think people feel passionate about it. I think they really do. It's not just in a restaurant, it's not like just being a Karen in a restaurant where you're like, oh I can't believe you don't do that anymore. But there are substantial things that you rely on. I tell you one more that I thought of country, you know, I wear just black t-shirts and country road used to do a nice black t-shirt, a really simple black t-shirt country road is an Australian

brand with a V neck and they don't do that anymore. They only do the rounded neck and the rounded neck feels like I'm being choked. I can't handle that. So I wish they would bring them back very, very simple, plain black t-shirt with a V neck. Hey everyone, I've since checked and yes, we did discuss the idea of discontinued items in episode 46 when Tim talked about his glasses, but nowhere near this level of detail. I'll put a link down in the notes if you want to go and listen to that.

So you don't have to email me or mention it in the comments. Okay. Hearing us talk about it now, right? Hearing me talk about a diffuser scent that I wish still existed and you talking about a black t-shirt with a V-neck that you wish still existed. Maybe this isn't such a good idea. Is this a bit boring? No.

Is it a bit niche? Is it a bit too specific to the people involved? I think you have to Well we're not exactly discussing, we're not discussing like, you know, medicines. Cheap cigarettes, they're discontinued, they're all expensive now. Why is that annoying? Like, yeah, we're not playing for sheep stations here in our examples. generally have most stuff that we need that's for sure. I don't know I feel like I spend a lot of my life talking with my wife about things she wants to buy that have been discontinued which is why it kind of chimes with me because she's always like you know especially uh like uh stuff for the little boy so like Edward wears like he'll have a brand of sneaker that is really nice. But obviously he goes through them so quickly because he's growing and he's a little boy.

So we'll be like, oh, let's get him another pair of those, but a size up. So often these things have been discontinued and you can't get them anymore. Like baby clothes and baby stuff. So that's, that's another place where we're really finding it comes up a lot. Well, well, to me, like inside, even though these feel my trivial commercial things inside that frustration is the fact that I don't think you want to have to do. I have to spend more mental energy now sorting out what another one is, or what's a good one or best one, you know, cause I do a bit of thinking, okay,

what's ethical, what's good price, what's quality, what's going to lie, you know, all that kind of stuff. And then you go, right after frigging start from square one again, you know what I mean? Like, I had that locked away, didn't have to think about it, walk in, grab it, you know, and now you have to do the mental energy, you have to do the research again. It could there are other things that could be discontinued too. I'm thinking, say you went to a theme park when you were a kid, and you take your kids there later, I want to take you to this theme park and take you on this roller coaster that I used to love.

And you go there and they're like, oh, no, we haven't got that roller coaster anymore. We haven't got that ride anymore. There are things like that that can be discontinued as well. That can be heartbreaking. I think as you get to our age as well, you start looking back at things you loved and wanting to revisit them. And they're more likely to be discontinued because it's longer ago. So maybe that's another reason it comes up. Because WHS standards of work health and safety means that what we were doing was really illegal or something. Like riding in the back of a station wagon, just laying down. That's been discontinued. It has, yeah. That was so much fun sitting in the back of cars without seat belts.

Yeah, that's right. For pretty good reason. I have to say one more example is is and this is a bleeding obvious one is that when you're really into a TV program and then it's discontinued I you know I'm watching a show at the moment it's called the Americans which is about Russian spies living in suburban America my wife loved that show oh well I tell you I'm really loving it I'm the only one in the house kind of watching it, and I've been watching it over these holidays. And I'm into the last season now. And, and I'm starting to feel feelings of like grief, like sadness, like at the start of the final season, there was this little montage with, you know, this sad song about catching up since the last

season. And I started Oh, my god, this is this this is, oh my goodness, this is going to be my last trip around with these guys. And you know, then we're going to say goodbye and it's going to end. And I can feel that feeling coming up already. That's more frustrating when a show gets axed and they haven't completed the storyline. Oh, and it just gets like, it just gets axed unexpectedly. So they were like, they had a, like a five season plan and it gets axed after two seasons because no one's watching it except you. And then you're like, Oh, that's like at least like with a lot of shows that you

love the end like the West Wing or Breaking Bad or the Sopranos, at least they like have a chance to end it and give you some closure whether you like the end result but yeah but like so when they get when they get axed unexpectedly. Like that's a real rug from under your feet. Like the Heights remember the Heights we took that there was one season and then it was gone. Yeah. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no Yes, that's a throwback to the civil of a Talk to an angel. How do you talk to? perfectly fantastic show and Gone dream show for you. You like made for you basically basically They say a bunch of people sat in a room and said there's this guy called Tim Hine

Who lives in Adelaide Australia and we want to make a show that he's really gonna like Hmm, let's throw some ideas around and I think the Heights is what they came up with. Like, I want Beverly Hills 90210 meets like. But they're musos. Yeah, they're in the band. But they're musicians and they play songs, original songs all the time. And like, oh, OK, yeah, yeah, I hear you. It was made for you. That is what it is.

I don't think I watched it. I loved the song, like, because the song, the theme song became like a big hit in Australia. How do you talk to an angel? I judged people that liked the song because it became a hit song. I'm like, I don't think people know where this is from, because the show was like, blink and you'll miss it. And so, yeah. The Heights.

Bivoli Hills, 90210, but they're in a band. Yeah. With a dash of Melrose Place. but they're in a band. Yeah. With a dash of Melrose Blake. And they're a bit sadder. Yeah, there's a bit of lament, a bit of serious stuff going on. Their lives aren't superficial. It's not like they're just going around crying about the fact that their favourite black t-shirt isn't available anymore or anything like that. No.

Their favourite diffuser scent. shirt isn't available anymore or anything like that. Their favourite diffuser scent. Shout out to all the people out there that can't get their favourite diffuser scent. Thoughts and prayers. I'm thinking of writing a song with Bob Goldoff for you. Diffuser. I'll go it off for you. Diffuser. How about we do something we haven't done for a little while?

It's time for... Spilled Out The Week! That's right. Just when you thought it had been discontinued, it had been, I mean it had been, I mean, it had been imposed with things like moon of the week and other sort of toilet break ideas, but it's back. It's back. Here we have a spoon.

Now this is chosen from the collection. No gift spoons, it's not come from someone on holidays. From the Hine family collection, bequeathed to Tim at the passing of his father. Yes, that's right. And I've picked it out and this is a beautiful, elegant, dainty little spoon and it's appropriate that's little because it's come from a little island known as Tasmania. Which is actually a massive island when you think about it.

It is a large, in terms of islands, it's a large island, that's right. But seeing it's right next to Australia, it feels small. Like when you look at lists of the biggest islands in the world, it like, it comes up on it, like it's a big island. I wonder what the comparable mass between it and New Zealand would be. Oh, New Zealand's way bigger than Tasmania. Oh, you reckon? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, I guess so, yeah. Maybe even equivalent to one of, yeah, there's two islands. Don't contact me, New Zealand. It's Zealand so Brady's done your job for you there no need to get no need to get defensive let's have a look hang on let's have a look at the air so Tasmania people is an island off the south coast of Australia it's its own state it's a whole state of Australia as well most people probably know this I'm just going to have a look at its area I wonder hey also compare it to Hawaii I wonder what it's like compared to Hawaii, although I know there are multiple islands in Hawaii, aren't there? Tasmania is bigger than Switzerland. Wow.

Twice the size of Belgium, three times the size of Israel. It's almost exactly the same size as the Republic of Ireland. Yeah, right. Here's a question for you, Tim. How many times do you think you could fit the island of Tasmania inside Australia itself, the rest of Australia? Oh, one, two, three, four, five, up that way, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, probably the same again in Western Australia. I'm gonna say like 25 to 30. 115. No way.

Apparently. That's what the internet just told me. That must be true. Gosh. Tell me about the spoon. What's the other spoon? You've got a Tasmania spoon. This is a souvenir spoon from the island of Tasmania

from the Hein family collection. I picked this one out of the collection as I rumbled around because the colors were so striking. It has, it's quite a simple spoon. There's no branding on it from, you know, the house of, you know, Douda or anything like that. Apples. It's got up the head, it's got a,

basically a map of Tassie with a big apple in the middle of it. And Tasmania is famous for its apples. The Apple Isle. The Apple Isle indeed and then it says Tasmania in yellow. It's green, blue, red, yellow. So the colours are strong and they're striking and they're distinct and it's nice and clean and simple. Looks nice.

The prominent, although the apple does look a bit like a strawberry. Right. Down the stem, small scoopy bit, dull colour, that might be, it's quite shiny up the top but more dull down below which means it may have been used. Saw some action. Yep. Yep, for scooping stuff. Are we imagining this was purchased by your parents on a holiday to Tasmania?

Yeah, now I can't remember us ever going to Tasmania on holiday in my lifetime, but I have a feeling mum went before she was married. So she may have purchased it then. Or just cruising for Tasmanian dudes. Yep, or apples. Or apples, more likely apples actually. More likely apples. That sounds more like your mum.

Or it was a gift. It may have been a gift because people would buy mum and dad gifts if they'd been somewhere. I have no memory of it coming into our life. I've been to Tasmania twice. One for our honeymoon and another one for a holiday after that. Actually, sorry, three times I've been to work trip to speak at something. But that was an in and out-out pretty quick one yeah beautiful place magnificent place people raise it rave about New Zealand which rightly so I

hear though I've not been there but Tasmania is similar Lord of the Rings kind of aura it's like New Zealand but without all the New Zealanders so this So lovely. Just swap the sheep for apples. You're about right. Yeah. Marvelous place. Oh, Tasmania is beautiful. Beautiful place. Tasmania.

I remember you went there, didn't you? When we were at school around that age, you were raving about it. Yeah. Nice. My grandmother on my father's side married a Tasmanian and moved to Tasmania for much of her latter life so the first time I ever went on a plane that I can only vaguely vaguely remember was a trip to Tasmania for her wedding. Right. And then we went and visited her on a family holiday later on and saw the sights. Right.

Of the Apple Isle. Of course your wife was born in Tasmania, wasn't she? She was, yes. So she is Tasmanian. She she and very, you know, big news for Tasmanians is that they have recently had a football team created and put into the Australian Football League, which is a big deal. They start in a few years time called the Tasmanian Devils. in a few years time called the Tasmanian Devils. And my wife has bought a membership and bought a jersey that she wears around the house and a sticker that's on her back of her iPhone

and on our car, which gets beeps around the place. So she's very passionate Tasmanian. What, like if a fellow Tassie person sees your car with a Tassie sticker, you'll get a beep where you're like, yay, let's go Devils. Yeah, she does. Yep, yep, she gets a wave and all that kind of stuff every now and then when you see a little hobbit run past.

Hmm. Nice, nice. All right, Tasmania spoon picture in the show notes. Go and have a look. There's a spoon of the week for you. How did it feel having spoon of the week back, man? How did it feel? Do you feel just feel good?

Feels like- Comforting cut warm. I feel like I'm being hugged. Like a warm embrace. Reassuring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is also another tradition around this time of the show is we announce which of our stakeholders our patreon supporters are gonna a little prize, including an unmade podcast souvenir spoon forged here in the UK. We had them specially designed and made. We only

give them out as Patreon prizes. And the spoon this week is going to Shari in New Brunswick, Canada. Congratulations Shari. Yeah. Hang on, hang on, hang on, man, man, can I just interrupt you there? I don't have the guitar to play while you're doing this like the physical guitar, however what I do have is I have a new app that I've downloaded to tune my guitar and on that app you can actually strum the guitar and I wonder if I can play something on my strumming app while you read out. There's a bit of background noise.

Okay, yeah, like a bit of accompaniment. Yeah, that sounds nice. I haven't written a song on it. It's not that kind of thing. I'll put it on Airplay mode so it doesn't beep, beep, beep all over the place. Can you hear that? Just go ahead and read the names man and I'll just play along capturing the spirit of the names. You got it. Alright so let's again that was the spoon is going to shari in new brunswick canada

the key ring is going to jacob in wisconsin congratulations jacob thank you for being a patreon supporter and spoon of the week collector cards are heading to stewart in new south wales Stuart in New South Wales, Linda in Des Moines, Iowa and Chintas or Chintas in Cambridge here in the UK. Nice. Perfect. Oh lovely. Okay, please do support us on Patreon. One of the bonuses you get is you also get to listen to the request room our little bonus show Where we answer questions and do things requested by patreon supporters And we will be doing one of these today after we record this episode and we have some very intriguing questions I'm very much looking forward to Hearing what Tim and I have to say to them so

Brutally honest we are aren't we Brady? Vulnerable, brutally honest. Vulnerable. It's a place of honesty. It's a place where it's like a confessional booth. Yes it is. I do know there is something about the fact that there's that it doesn't go out to the whole world, that it goes out to our crew in that sense that I do feel like I'm a little bit more, I share a little bit more in the request room than perhaps I should or I would have otherwise.

So there we go. Interesting. Interesting. We'll see how that goes today. Considering the stuff we discussed about nose hair and boils in the last episode, you can only imagine what we discussed in the request room. All right, let's let's hear your idea for a podcast here. Oh crap. Yes. All right. So we.

I was hoping lightning would strike somewhere in the midst of our conversation and it hasn't. Look, I have, how long is your list idea now? Is it super long or have you culled it back or used up all your ideas? No, it's long. I've got ideas from like the early weeks of us doing this project so it's really, really long. Mine is too and you know, there's something, the longer it gets, I don't think the quality improves at all. And you know, there's something the longer it gets, I don't think the quality improves at all. I have to say, I do have one here that's been inserted by another member of my family onto my notes without my knowledge. Right. That's just it's an idea called Colourphile where it just says here, go around Rundle Mall asking people what their favourite colour is. I like that. I love that it's specifically Rundle Mall, like as an Adelaide based idea, it's not universal

at all. Oh I know what your favourite colour is, it's British Racing Green. Correct. Correct. Yeah. What's your favourite colour? Do you have one? For the longest time I used to say it was silver, and it probably... so I'll stick with that I guess. If you don't count silver a color, I guess I'll go blue. But what kind of blue?

Uh, like a darker blue, not like a jaunty blue. Not like Manchester City blue. No, not sky blue. More of more of more than Navy type blue. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Navy blue, but with a little bit more vibrance. Hmm. I love

the way you explained that. So there we go. That's an idea right there. And we've just executed that idea and made that idea. Nice. Nice. That's, that's wonderful. That's um, that's been, that was suggested by my cardigan wearing family member. Uh, is that a secret word? Yes. Yeah, that's how obvious it was. Even I could fit that. Was it obvious that I looked down as I said it? And also like it took actually discussing your daughter's mid show for you to remember that you had to drop a secret word. Oh, that's right.

Okay. Well, this would be a timely time to mention also Melbourne. It's a wonderful city. Well, this would be a timely time to mention also Melbourne. It's a wonderful city. It is a nice city. And to make the statement, I can't think of one, which is also what I wanted to include too. Okay.

So there we go. You've been, you have to do secret statements now as well as words. Yes. Well, that's a bit of a joke when someone says, I can't think of one. I say, okay, that's it. I'm putting that in, um in without drawing attention to it. All right I'll go with the idea that's directly under this which is basically my favorite toy. This is this is a list whilst we were in on holiday which was in Melbourne we went along to a fantastic kind of ancient vintage toy souvenir shop. kind of ancient vintage toy souvenir shop. There was stuff there from Star Wars

and from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. There was also stuff from He-Man and Transformers and Barbies and My Little Pony and all the rest of it. It was unbelievable. Did you crack out the wallet? I didn't crack out the wallet. I didn't buy anything, but it was almost like it was too much. It was like that.

And I want that and all. And I always wanted that. If Mr. Miyagi had come in and said, choose like he does to Daniel with the cars. And you could have taken any toy out of that store with you. What would you have taken? I would have taken a really nice looking Optimus Prime. There was a really cool looking Optimus Prime transformer and it's just was... How much was it? Oh I can't remember but

there are everything's between sort of a hundred dollars and four hundred dollars. Okay so not not like jump change you know a proper investment. Yeah yeah yeah it wasn't actually there was a really big Knight Rider that I would have loved as well and I and I and that brought into it just the box brought back more memories than the actual car because I think it's the box that I stared at in toy world all those years ago and never actually got to see the car too much that would be cool too that was brilliant. Having a boy now that you we buy lots of toys for it's really interesting how much nostalgia it brings back for your own toys. And the people who make toys really prey on that as well. Like they bring out retro toys from the era of the parents and they know they're doing it.

Like, you know, here's the telephone I had when I was a kid and here's, and they've made them just the same. Like they've, you know, cause what kid these days is going to have an actual telephone with a hook and a receiver and that they didn't even know what that is. But they still make them because they know the parents will buy them. And like you are insanely loyal and, um, what's the word I'm looking for? Voiciferous and a real disciple for the toys that you liked as a kid to the point of annoyance. Like I had that toy when I was a kid and it was the best toy.

And the toys you had, I didn't even want to hear about. I just want to talk about the toys I had when I was a kid. There's a lot of that in our house. And when you find that rare toy that you both had, oh, that's gold. Because then you're like your kids definitely getting that toy. It's almost like you suddenly feel like your kids childhood will be bereft or inadequate if they don't have this toy. Like, I'll be- how could I dare allow them to grow up without having this thing that I had?

Like, somehow it'll be a, you know, a worse childhood or something because they've not had it the way you feel it. But the way you imprint with toys you had when you were a kid is something pretty strong. What's the one from your childhood that's calling to you now? Look I still have one teddy that I had when I was young. I know teddy's a little bit different to a toy because it's I think I think of it as a different category but I still have one that that I had when I was little that we've still got and it's around kicking around you know the girls bedrooms and stuff and I'm really glad that we've kind of still got that in our life. So there's two categories even in this isn't there there's the one you had that you love and then there's the thing you always wanted but never had.

Coveted. And that in some ways is even more motivated. Oh yes. To spend money on that. There are toys from childhood that my wife didn't get that I talked about on a weekly basis here. Some kitchen she always wanted that she never got. I can't remember what's called now but there.

I love that episode of friends where they date this guy and they keep going over to his house just because he has a collection of toys to play with that they really want to play with. No, is that Friends or is that Seinfeld actually? Maybe it's in both. I thought it was in Friends where the girls go and play at a doll's house at a friend's house with their kid. Well, before we talk about coveting, tell me about what you did have that is like the one. What's the one that's in your head? I did have this I did have this really cool little Knight Rider. And I really,

really love that. Like Kit the car. Kit yeah the Kit night car David Hasselhoff fantastic show in the 80s and I had that and then I lost it and so it has that sort of oh geez I'd love to get it again and then I found it at school with someone else was playing with it and I was sure it was mine and that caused like a fight at school. And it's only with the perspective of hindsight I look back and go actually that was probably just that kids it wasn't mine but the fact that I'd lost mine and then suddenly he had one in my mind I put two and two together and got five.

How did that how was that fight resolved? Like did the kid keep his car or? Yes we were both sent to the vice principal's office it was really serious like it was um grade three or something but we had to go to sit outside the vice principal's office and we're sitting you know how you're both sitting outside an office but you're sitting apart but you can still talk to each other but you're not talking to each other you're both just looking at the floor and then after a while he just looks over at me goes, is my car. And I just remember going, it looks so much like mine. Like, and that's kind of all we said. And then I can't remember what happened after that we didn't get bombing back then you could get a smack at school. This is back then when you could get smacked on the bottom get belted. That didn't happen on this occasion.

on the bottom, get belted. That didn't happen on this occasion. So but he kept the car. You back down or the like the vice principal made a decision? Yes, that's right. He was Solomon and he gave the car to the other boy. And I think he was with the hindsight now at the moment, and then in the time it felt unjust, but with the benefit of hindsight, I think that's the bleeding obvious just thing to do. I think I just lost my car and I was grieving and looking to take possession is now intense the law man that's right but I was saying he was good but I remember the teacher looking at me and saying they make a million of these cars how do you know it's yours and me going but the scratches are the same you know and now I think back and go were the scratches the same. Yes. It looked familiar to me at the time.

I wasn't pretending. I wasn't lying, trying to steal someone else's car. I, it was, but I think I was lost in my grief and not really knowing what was up and down and all the rest of it. Okay. And yeah, I'm only just getting over it now. In fact, I haven't got over it because, because I bought one the other day when I saw, saw one in the shop here in Adelaide.

It was the same one in the shop here in Adelaide. It was the same one in the shop. You went up to the shop and said, this is mine. I'm not paying for this. It sits on the dashboard in our car. Oh dear. What's calling to you? My Lego, my big box of Lego, space Lego.

I loved playing with that. My Star Wars figures, my like, you know, Star Wars figurines, my Luke Skywalker, my Darth Vader. Yeah. My Boba Fett. But and of course they all had broken lightsabers, those little plastic lightsabers they used to have that just came down their arm, which is kind of macabre when you think about it, but they'd always get bent and broken. But the one that's sticking in my head at

the moment is my diecast metal snow speeder from the Empire Strikes Back. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. The snow speeders that took down the 80s. I had a diecast metal one of that and I loved that and I just think snow speeders are a cool looking. They do look cool. Yeah. Yeah. So I loved that. And funnily enough, so that was, that's the toy at the moment that I would just love to have back here right

now would make me really happy. But my neighbors, the Smith boys had the speeder bike from return of the Jedi, uh, that had a little button on the back. And when you press the button, it would kind of explode into three pieces. Uh, and you could put like a biker scout on it and press the button and it would look like it crashed. pieces and you could put like a biker scout on it and press the button and it would look like it crashed and that was a that was a coveting one for me. I'd love going around to their house and just putting it together and exploding it and looking at it and thinking that's a beautiful toy. I wish that was my toy. I never had one. Well if people listening want to get in touch about the toys they loved even better send us a picture even better send us a picture of you with the toy oh yeah go go send us that unmadefm at gmail.com or do it

via all the usual places you can get in touch with us you know how to do it by now we'd love to hear and see some some toys nice idea toys gosh it puts a button you know the one thing in the room I did make an offer on was up high, there was a, what do you call it? Like it's like a sign basically cardboard sign from back when Mr. T was promoting Toyota cars in Australia. Do you remember that? No, I don't. Well this is Mr. T with a Toyota sign and I absolutely remember that and I was about to head off to have dinner with my cousins in in Melbourne one of whom's father used to have a's, what's that worth? And he says, it's not for sale. The boss will not sell it. And I said, what will the price be? You know, like, I'll give you a hundred dollars for it.

And he goes, no, no, no. He's turned down $500 for it. And I'm like, goodness gracious me. Okay. It's just the boss wants to hold onto it, but that was the actual thing I nearly walked out with. Yeah. It sounds like it's the thing everyone wants.

1985 is going to be one terrific year for Toyota and one terrific year for you. What's with the T? Are you jazzing me? No way. Right now on the entire range including Corona, Australia's top selling four cylinder in 84, Toyota has terrific deals. Well? Satisfies me and I'm Mr. T. So see your Toyota dealer now for a tea rippick deal do it Okay, everyone join us in the request room if you're a patreon supporter And if you're not thanks for listening and get in touch about your toys We want to hear about your toys and get in touch about things that are discontinued Love to hear some of your discontinuation stories, too