The Unmade Podcast - 60: The Summer of Seven Ducks

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

Tim and Brady discuss country music, jail visitation, slumps, a mystery solved, spoon of the week, tailored suits, marks out of 10, and then some more Sofa Shop covers. Go to Storyblocks for stock video, pictures and audio at storyblocks.com/unmade - a fantastic goldfish selection - https://www.storyblocks.com/unmade Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://redd.it/ita9is USEFUL LINKS Brady's quarantine experience - https://www.bradyharanblog.com/quarantine-diary-index The Green Mile - https://amzn.to/2ZzHZht Greg Chappell's duck season - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOmpq4OHmgM Ian Baker-Finch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Baker-Finch Sunshine Castle - https://sunshinecastle.com Bli Bli - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bli_Bli,_Queensland Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-week The Wedding of Charles and Diana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Charles_and_Lady_Diana_Spencer Pic of the jigsaw Nan did - Brady is very impressed by his memory of it - https://www.unmade.fm/episode-60-pictures Anderson & Sheppard tailors - https://www.anderson-sheppard.co.uk Smells Like Teen Spirit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg Naomi's flute case - https://www.unmade.fm/episode-60-pictures Sufjan Stevens - https://sufjan.com Thanks to today's performers Chip Endale IV, Ben, Han, Naomi, Dylan, and Max.

Sofa Shop Sofa Shop is the only store for the sofa you need Sofa Shop, yeah, come and drop in We have a sofa designed for you Choose your fabrics, match your curtains to you. The sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. There you go, Tim.

You wanted a country version of The Sofa Shop. You'd not just hinted, you'd almost demanded one. I demanded, yes, and I've received. You have, and that was from a civilian recording under the assumed name of Chippendale the Fourth, as in Chip Endale. Yeah. Very clever, Chip. I think that was impressive.

Look, I think that's country. That's certainly country and Western. There's country music and there's country and Western music. And I think that's definitely hint of Western that's in there. What's the difference? Well, Australia has country music and i think other countries do i guess it's more folk music and you know the irish might have that music but when it comes to country and western it's very american and i think it's all in the accent yeah and the fiddles get involved and uh that you can imagine a hoedown you know it's very much i don't even know what a hoedown is, but all right.

But you get the idea, don't you? I'm not entirely sure either. But it is the right word. I'm convinced of it. So when I saw the email and said, oh, look, here's a country version for you, and I clicked on it thinking, oh, not really knowing what was coming, I was so impressed by how much like a country western singer it sounded like the voice like it sounded like a professional country singer i don't think chip is a professional

country western singer but it sounded like it yes yes no no very impressive it's uh and um i think we all like to think we can do a country and western voice if really pushed. Yeah. You don't need much pushing. No. Gentle, gentle nudge. But no, no, very impressive. Very impressive. So we have a bunch more Sofa Shop covers coming at the end of the show like we did last time. There's some real crackers, people, so it's worth hanging around for.

Totally. Absolutely. Very impressive. Yes. I think people are really learning what Tim likes and pandering to his taste. So we'll get to that later. I'm loving it. I'm absolutely loving it. Also, make sure you hang around for Tim's spoon of the week later, because that's also a real, real good spoon. Like absolute top shelf spoon. Oh, yes. Top drawer, I should say.

I almost, that's right. you want to put your spoons on the shelf that's right i um i almost felt i needed to go out and get some white gloves because handling this particular spoon i mean it's it's a real treasure oh it's amazing souvenir i know they're all souvenirs strictly speaking but this is a special scene i don't want to hype it up too much but let's just say there are security guards standing outside Tim's door right now. But anyway, let's crack on with like the normal show. Yes, let's do it. Just for people wondering, I am still locked in my hotel room, by the way, in Adelaide.

Tim and I are both in Adelaide. We're just a couple of miles apart, but I'm still in the compulsory quarantine that you will have heard about on the last special episode. So still another eight days until we get to record in the same room but for the meantime we're enjoying this lack of delay both recording in adelaide it's amazing impressive is do you know what i think would be interesting a podcast conversation done on either side of one of those screens in the visitor's center of a jail you know we made reference last time to you being in jail. You know how they have those little, like you lift up a little telephone thing? Hello.

Yeah. That would be, what if you can get access to one of those just to do a podcast? And maybe the whole point of the podcast would be trying to smuggle drugs to the person on the other side. You probably wouldn't say that up front. No. Oh, you meant doing it in an actual jail. Did you get those drugs? I didn't realise you meant doing it in an actual jail. Yeah, that joke suddenly seems a lot more risky. I thought you meant just setting up a booth like that and having two hosts either side.

If you mean an actual, just for the record, I do not condone the smuggling of drugs into jails. We're clear. We're clear on that. Just in case the immigration, I may not get out of this room otherwise. That's right. That's why the real reason why you're in a hotel. This is what they do with drug smugglers now.

They put them up in nice hotels. I wouldn't describe Australian border forces as, like, particularly jokey, so I don't want them to hear the podcast sort of thing. No, it's a serious matter. But let's say, for instance, they were upgrading a jail, and you know how you sell old furnishings and tables and filing cabinets, and they just said, hey, what are we going to do with these, you know, telephone visitation booth things?

And one came up on, you know, eBay. You could buy it and you could sit on either side. There'd be podcasters all over the world snapping them up. Oh, it would. Totally. There'd suddenly be a glut of podcasts all filmed in those visitation booths. Visitation booths. Oh, not another podcast filmed in a jail visitation booth.

No, that's right. What would you most want to buy if, like, a closing down jail was having a clearance sale? Oh, I don't know. It depends on the jail. Some jails go back, you know, 100 years. So there's some sort of cool ancient-y kind of stuff, you know. But then again, there's not a lot of nice soft furnishings

or anything, is there? Like, it's not like, oh, I'd want to have their old NBA jam machine. It's like, well, we don't have one of those. What about one of the big, you know, barred doors that slide shut, you know, that cliche sliding shut of a jail door? Why don't you get two of them and put them on your girl's bedroom doors so when you put them to bed you then just go at the end of each night good night good night that's right you could feed them that's the thing you feed through as well

isn't it yeah yeah and when they're like not happy with you they like could like uh get a metal cup and rake it across the bars to make that noise that prisoners make when they're not happy oh that's right yeah yeah when yeah that's right it's like you're grounded speaking of of jails the oh hang on this story will be better if i um don't tell it i think the nicest prison guard in history would have to be Tom Hanks in The Green Mile I watched that a week ago and I have a podcast idea based on Tom Hanks in The Green Mile Oh wow, really? Yeah Well, that's one heck of a segue

Well done Tim I wasn't going to do that idea because I haven't fully fleshed it out yet But yeah, so yes, I do know Tom Hanks, prison guard in The Green Mile I wasn't going to do that idea because I haven't fully fleshed it out yet. But, yeah. So, yes, I do know Tom Hanks, prison guard in the Green Mile. And, yes, he's a very decent man. That's right. Apart from that sort of outlier bad guard, they're all just the nicest, kindest guys, aren't they? Oh, yeah.

They make me want to get executed. Death Row would hang out with these lovely guys. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You're right. They're all lovely. What a lovely Death Row that was.

All right. So, was that your story? What was your story? That was my story. I just couldn't remember the name of the film. So, I was like, oh, I don't want to go that. Tom Hanks in that film. What is it?

What is it? So, your story was Tom Hanks was nice in the green mile yeah now why was i telling that not exactly a story full of twists and turns was it it's a are you following the story it's got a beginning a middle and an end. Tom Hanks is nice in The Green Mile. Let's just probably, for any other person, it's a dark and sinister film. It's like, let's make Tom Hanks that guy. And suddenly it turns into this heartwarming tale. Yeah. Yeah.

Cracking film. Cracking film. I may come back to my idea based on the film another time. I'm not going to do it today because I haven't got my other ducks in a row. Oh, okay. What do you do to get your ducks in a row? Like you haven't fleshed it out in your mind. You need to like sit and think, hmm, the green mile. Yeah, I need a good 10 minutes preparation time. No, like Tom Hanks in that film is an example of something and I want to have another five or six examples before I can, you know, share the idea.

Anyway, instead of talking about ideas we're going to do in the future, let's do ideas now. Who's going first today? Who's got a podcast idea to go first? Well, I'll go first. Okay. And I know everyone's disappointed, but I'm going to go ahead. Only because they want to save the best for last.

I can hear a collective, Tim's going. You can hear 20,000 skip buttons being pressed in unison. It's like, skip forward to the ad. Tim's great in the ads. That's his best material. great in the ads that's his best material well this is kind of my point because i was i was thinking about the last uh podcast we did where we did proper ideas not the balcony episode but going back and then the one before that and the one before that and i was thinking you know what i'm in a slump i just i've got to be off i'm in a slump yeah and just, I've got to be honest. You're in a slump.

I'm in a slump. Yeah. And then as soon as I admitted to myself that I was in a slump, suddenly it hit me a brilliant idea. Yeah. A podcast idea called In a Slump, where we tell stories. You have people on who are either in a slump who can who can do great things and are either in a slump or have recently been through a slump and talk about how they came through it how they lost their mojo where where they think it went yeah what started happening

what circumstances and then how they came out the other side. How did they find their form? You've had another idea like this, haven't you? Like, wasn't there one called, like, Had It Lost It or something? Like, you know, where we talked about Robert De Niro? Did I? Sorry, man. The slump continues. Damn it.

This was going to be my way out of the slump. This idea. It's just perpetuating the slump. It is slightly different from that idea because in that one, I think you were talking about people that were once good that aren't good anymore. Yeah. Here there is a redemption story. I think so, yeah.

Because you could talk about how they got out of the slump. How did they find their form again? That's kind of, yeah, yeah. People get – because you could talk about how they got out of the slump. How did they find their form again? That's kind of – that's it. I was thinking more sports people for this because famously, like, form slumps occur with great people, people who can bowl or can bat or can pitch, you know what I mean, who just suddenly for some reason can't anymore. They lose it and you wonder, what is going on?

And they're just in a massive slump. There's some famous ones I know in cricket history where great batsmen just suddenly are getting out very, very early rather than making the hundreds and fifties that they normally do. And you're just like, what on earth is going on? And then suddenly they make a century and it's glorious again. and it's glorious again. I think one of the most famous ones in cricket was a very famous and great Australian batsman called Greg Chappell who in the early 1980s had this run of ducks. A duck is when you get out for zero in cricket.

It's called getting out for a duck. And he got like seven or eight and loads of them were in a row during a streak of innings and he was just getting duck after duck after duck. It's in the air, and he's gone. Out, courted mid-wicket. Well, that's a tremendous blow there from Australia. Chappell out straightaway for Norton.

Courted mid-wicket. Well, two ducks for Greg Chappell. People thought, is this guy ever going to score a run again? And he's one of the most prolific run scorers in Australian cricket history so that was a that's an often referenced uh batting slump Greg Chappell's run of ducks and he's gone first ball that's his fourth consecutive duck there was one in the 90s as well wasn't there with um Tubby Taylor through he just went through a whole period even though he was the captain and still in the team because he was such a good captain, but just couldn't bat to save his life.

How long did that go on for? Do you remember? Was that years? I'm just looking at something here. It was during the 1981-82 season. He had run a seven ducks, including four in a row in 15 internationals. And he's bowled him.

Greg Chapp chapel gone. Cheaply once more. And yet another duck against his name. Have you ever gone through a sporting slump, Tim? Well, yeah. It's called your life. It's, look, since I won the medal at the swimming carnival the swimming carnival swimming carnival champion yeah i remember it yeah i never won it again so no it's true that's

true perhaps this is just still you know the lost it maybe the redemption's up ahead maybe i will i thought maybe you just retired while you're on top that's another way of saying it yeah i feel like you can lose lose, you can for a while lose your confidence in a particular area. I've done it with like things like lecturing and with meetings and things like that, even functional things around the office. You know, you're making your case for something and people aren't buying it or, you know. Can you have like a sermon slump at your church where you feel like you've given like, you know, three bad sermons in a row? I haven't in this last year that I've been at this particular church.

Right. I think I have in the past, though. I'd like to ask your parishioners before I completely accept that. But yeah. Oh, no, let's just move on. Has he been in a slump? Yeah. It's funny.

I've had a preparation slump where sometimes you have lots of ideas, oh, this, that and the other, and I've certainly had times where I'm like, oh, man, you know, what's going on here? I just can't see anything. But generally you just sort of, you know, you plod a bit and things come together. Yeah. And that would be interesting to talk through with great sportsmen. How do you go

back to first principles? How did you find it again? Golf is definitely a sport where this happens, where a player can just kind of lose their swing and suddenly just can't play golf very well. Or can't putt. I think they call it the yips when you can't putt very well. Yeah. And you'll go and you'll employ like a swing doctor, they call them, to help get your swing back, get yourself out of a slump. Some golfers can get it really severely. Was it Ian Baker Finch who had a really bad problem with his swing or his putting, the Australian golfer? Yeah. And he retired in the end, didn't he? He just lost it, I think, and just gave it away. And it went into commentating and so forth. Greg Norman famously gets it at the, was it the US

Open where he, that's a little bit different though, isn't it, getting last day nerves and just blowing it. You're on the cusp of something great and you just can't pull it off. Oh, yeah, he used to get that at the Masters, I think. That's like more choking. Choking, yeah. Choking is different to slumping, yeah. It's a bit different, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah. Like not being able to deliver at that final important moment, yeah. It must be incredibly frustrating, particularly at the height of fame it's a very public failure when you feel like you're doing exactly what you've always done and yet previously it was bringing you greatness and you were performing the best in the world and then suddenly it's not doing anything for you you must just wonder where on earth what's going on it's and they say it's all it's all up here you know what i mean it's a mental thing and you must um the more anxious

you get it the more worse it becomes it's a problem even podcasters get it indeed and i'm in a form slump i am and i i just don't know what to do but the more i think about it maybe we need to get you to the pod doctor. Oh, wow. Yeah, like a consultant. Maybe. Are there pod doctors? We could bring in a consultant, help Tim lift his. I don't think you're in a podcasting slump.

It's an idea slump. It's an idea slump. And do you know what happens? You know you talk about I think people in these slumps, they try to overwork it. They start practising more and more and more and more. And I think that's to say I start doing preparation and that's always a bad sign. If I'm preparing for the podcast, like if I'm researching,

oh, it's not good. The one thing you're not doing is going through that spreadsheet with all the previous ideas we've had to check what's been done. Oh, that's the one bit I need to do. That's the bit I always forget to do. i think that's not a bad idea timmy like i said it's a bit similar to a previous one but it is different you've given it a good simple name which is a good start and i was going to call it ian baker finch but the ian baker finch story greg chapel's Summer of Seven Ducks.

In a slump. In a slump. Good name. Good name. Well done. Thank you. Thank you. I'm relieved to have pulled off the name.

The Summer of Ducks is a good name for a podcast, though, I have to say. Anyway, sorry. Summer of Ducks. It's very good. Yeah. Where are you going to go with that? The summer of seven ducks. Let us do an ad for today's episode sponsor. And Tim.

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Yes. Storyblocks. Storyblocks are Yes, again. Magnificent. They return. Yes. Storyblocks. Storyblocks are never in a slump. In fact, Storyblocks, which is this online archive of stock video, images, and audio that you have unlimited access to, to download and use in your projects, they got me out of trouble just this week because, as you know, I'm stuck in a hotel room and I desperately needed footage of goldfish swimming in a goldfish bowl from various angles. Even if I was at home, that would have been hard work to organise.

I would have had to found someone with a goldfish in a bowl that I liked. Oh, we've got a goldfish. Well, that's no good because I'm locked away, so I couldn't have even filmed your goldfish. But... Oh, but we could have filmed it and sent it to you. Tim, you're not helping me sell Storyblocks here. Sorry.

Actually, our goldfish isn't available, so you should go to Storyblocks. Your goldfish is not royalty free. But also, let's be honest, Tim, like you are a skilled person, but I've learned that photography and filming is not one of your skills. I'm just in a slump. I would not have wanted your goldfish footage. It would have been bad. So what I did was I logged onto Storyblocks,

which has an absolute bounty of magnificent goldfish footage. I downloaded it. I put it in my video. It was all done in seconds. It's now on YouTube. Thank you, Storyblocks. You are saviours when it comes to needing stock material media at the last moment. Go to storyblocks.com slash unmade.

If you're going to check them out, storyblocks.com slash unmade. If you use the slash unmade, they'll know you came from here. Use Storyblocks. Don't use Tim or his goldfish. No, no, not available. Spoon of the week. Oh, I love spoon of the week. Now, last week, Tim shared the fairy tale castle spoon.

It was a bit of a mystery. The civilians have been on the case, though, and I think we know where Fairy Tale Castle is now I'm 95% sure I know Well, do tell We believe, I don't know if Tim agrees I don't know if you've been following this or not, Tim I know you've been busy this week

But we believe that Fairy Tale Castle As depicted on last week's spoon May in fact be what has been renamed Sunshine Castle In the small Queensland town of Bly Bly. I actually thought it was Blee Blee, but I went and did some research and found out it's pronounced Bly Bly. And how do you spell it? B-L-I, B-L-I, two words, Sunshine Castle. So, I wasn't sure how to pronounce it. So, I actually went to a whole bunch of real estate videos because in Australia, every time anyone sells a house, they make a YouTube

video about the house, like the real estate agent does saying, look at this amazing house in, you know, southern suburbs of Adelaide. So I went and looked at all the houses for sale in Bly Bly and that's what they were calling it. This two bedroom home with a swimming pool here in Bly Bly, were calling it this love this two this two bedroom home with a swimming pool here in blah blah there you go okay from the website it says the sunshine castle is a medieval themed museum tourist attraction and function venue this sunshine coast attraction promotes history encourages education and facilitates unique celebrations built in 1972 as the Fairy Tale Castle to only display fairy tale depictions and dolls, it now offers an insight into an era of European history. The castle aims to bridge the gap between the medieval era and the Sunshine Coast's history with a modern and innovative

business approach. That is one hell of a bridge to be gapping. That is a bridge. Medieval Europe and the sunshine coast of Queensland. Connections you never knew existed. Well, I actually, I'm looking at this on the map now and I can see that it's located very close to the bligh bligh water sports complex which i wonder if actually may have more successfully connected with medieval sunshine castle you're definitely more on brand having a water sports place in queensland than you are having a norman medieval medieval castle but anyway we're going to the sunshine coast to um and so are there like

poker machines and like a dance floor inside sunshine castle i don't know i think it seems to be very much a wedding venue oh yes when they say facilitates unique celebrations i think they're talking weddings but yes have you figured have you spoken to your mum have you found out whether or not whether your dad has been to Bly Bly? Yeah, I think he has. I think he went to – I saw that this was in Queensland, and Dad went on a trip to Queensland in the 80s on his own. He went up to see some relatives and I –

Just went to visit a few water sports parks on his own. That's right. He got a few medieval castles. sports parks on his own that's right he got a few medieval castles and it was um yeah very much a historical trip you know going around some of these unique historical areas he he so this that's when he would have got it he would have just come back with a with a bag full of spoons really which explains why there's so many spoons from queensland there's a few different ones even though we'd never been there i'd never been there as a kid. First time I went to Queensland is on our legendary road trip.

That's a whole other podcast. Well, let's talk about medieval castles. Wow. Talk about long, boring stories by Tim. Brilliant. So it looks like we've solved the mystery with help from the civilians and confirmation from Tim due to other related Queensland spoonage. Yep, yep, yep.

So, yep, I think we can lock that one. Case closed. Case closed. Cue the Law and Order sound effect again. Bring him in all right so that means it's time for a new spoon of the week tim what have you got well brady this week i've got a truly special spoon yeah and this and i'm gonna i'm just gonna carefully pick it up here you sent me a picture of it earlier and it knocked my socks off. Wow.

What we have here, it's a sort of a double barrel spoon in that it has- Double header. It's a double header. A double header. Yeah. Yeah. It's got, it's like a figure eight. That is two circles up the, well, I call it the handle.

What's it called again? The- That end. Is it? Oh, what's that end of the spoon called? I haven't got my T-shirt to hand to check it. Not the scooping end, the other end. It's basically where you have like the enameled picture,

the ornate part down at the end of the handle, at the holding end, yeah. Instead of the usual single kind of oval with an enameled picture, we have two stacked on top of each other. Two. Tim said a figure eight. I prefer to refer to it as an infinity symbol. Oh, yes.

The way to know the description of, like, if you are holding the spoon up and you are holding it north-south and the scooping end was down the southern end. We're talking about what's up the northern end. We've got a double-headed northern spoon. And with two people. And they are Prince Charles and at that stage Lady Diana Spencer. This is a commemorative spoon. Now, I was thinking it may have been for the engagement of Charles and Diana until I looked more closely because it refers to her on the back as Lady Diana Spencer, her maiden name, not Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, right. So this way of being made beforehand. But then it goes on and gives some more detail about St. Paul's Cathedral,

where they were actually married in 1981. And it has the date. Did they not marry in Westminster Abbey? No, no, they didn't. They married at St. Paul's. Her funeral was at Westminster Abbey. Right. And Fergie and Andrew were married at Westminster Abbey.

And William and Kate were married at Westminster Abbey. And William and Kate were married at Westminster Abbey. But, no, they were married at St Paul's. Look at you dropping church knowledge bombs like no one's business. Don't tell me about royal weddings. Literally, that's it. You've got the lot. That's all I know. So this was made after they were married then?

Well, no, because I think once they set the church and the date, I think they start pumping out stuff. So I think this might have been made in anticipation of the big day because they're likely to sell a lot more merchandise leading up to than afterwards. Yes. Do you know my abiding memory of Charles and Diana's wedding was, it's like one of my earliest memories,

like one of my earliest vivid memories. How the hell were you invited? Well, you know, I'm kind of a big deal. Obviously, I couldn't make it over. I couldn't take up the invitation, so I decided to watch it on TV as a young boy. Oh, yeah. My family watched it. And whenever there was a big event on the TV, my grandmother, affectionately known as Nan, who you know very well. Nan's a bit of a legend in our adventures. She came around to the house to watch it with us. And she had, she was quite into jigsaws at that time. She had a commemorative Charles and Diana jigsaw puzzle

that was massive. And she had this big board that she was doing it on while watching the wedding. So for the hours leading up to the wedding and then during the wedding, Nan was doing a Charles and Diana jigsaw puzzle. Oh, was it, was it, that's marvellous. That's marvellous.

So was it complete by the end of the wedding? Like did she bring them together? I can't remember. I remember what it looked like. You know, I remember it was like, I remember it had a lot of sort of sky blue colouring to it. And I think the two of them were separate in ovals, much like on your spoon, but left and right rather than Charles on top of Diana. Oh, yes. I don't know. I don't know for how long I can talk about this jigsaw puzzle.

I looked at it as a young boy and can hardly remember, but that's probably about the length of it. When the Queen, like 10 years later in 1992, when the Queen had her famous Annus Horribilis and announced their separation, did Nan come around and start, like, dismantling the jigsaw piece by piece? I don't know. I don't know what... Yeah, I don't know what happenedling the jigsaw piece by piece? I don't know. I don't know what happened to the jigsaw later.

She didn't keep them after they were complete. I think she just mashed them up and put them back in a box. Okay. Presumably your dad was caught up in royal wedding fever to have bought this spoon. Oh, this would have been mum. This would definitely have been mum. So your mum did buy the spoons too. Your mum was a gatherer of spoons also.

It wasn't just your dad's collection. Well, this is hard to describe. Certainly mum was the passionate one, but dad had all the cash. Right. He was the gatekeeper. Yeah. If mum had any cash, it would have been because dad had given it to her, which generally was for the shopping each week or something like that.

That's just how it worked back before cash cards and in patriarchal families. Gender equality, yeah. So dad would have paid for it, but it would have been on mum's request. Look, mum has an enormous amount of, sorry, not an enormous amount, because I know there are big collections, but when you go to mum mum's place you can still see she's got like the woman's weekly magazine you know like a woman's magazine and um from the commemorative edition she's got like a little program a book and you know colored pictures and all i see where that i see where the hoarding gene came from i'm not the only only one hoarding Prince Charles memorabilia.

So when your dad passed away a number of years ago now, did your mum just go ballistic on the spoons? Yep, they were up on eBay before the funeral was over. You just salvaged a few. They used to be in their old house. I actually was the, I became sort of the spoon man after that because they were all up in the house on racks through all the way down the hallway.

But then about a year after Dad passed away. Was that the hallway leading towards your bedroom? Yes, yes. I do remember them now. It's coming back to me. On the left, were your bedroom? Yes, yes. I do remember them now. It's coming back to me. On the left, were there some? Yes, yes. Yep, yep.

So your shoulder would have brushed past them. Yeah. You were fully appreciated. Years later, we would be making podcasts about those beds. Yeah, I remember looking at them going, oh, they're cool. And we were cleaning up the house about a year later when mum was selling to downsize to her current little flat. And I just kept them. I just grabbed them.

Oh, no, these are cool. I like them. Yeah. And, yeah. You're cashing in on them now. Oh, man. I certainly won't be getting rid of them. Content.

Spoons equals content. This one has nothing down the scooping end, I should add. I would have thought there was room there for... The bowl. The bowl, sorry. Very plain bowl. Well, it's very top heavy or bottom heavy, depending on what you want to call that end where the royal couple are.

It's a very different balanced spoon. All the action certainly up that end and very plain down below. And on the back, though, interestingly, it says made in Australia. So I don't think Charles and Diana personally oversaw this one. No. I think this may have been developed by someone else. So mum may have got it on the black market. Who knows?

Is it authorised? Is it an authorised spoon or is it just like, you know, someone cashing it on the black market Who knows Is it an authorised spoon Or is it just like you know Someone cashing in on the wedding Yeah well People wouldn't do that though would they His Royal Highness This is quite a spoon

This must be one of your favourites It is I think yeah I actually went looking for this one I was like I know there's a great one in here Oh there it is So I waded past quite a few I think, yeah, I actually went looking for this one. I was like, I know there's a great one in here. Oh, there it is. Yep, yep. So I waded past quite a few small townships. Not to hype up future spoon additions too much there, Tim. Oh, no, there are other very unique ones coming up as well,

particularly related to the bicentennial of Australia, which is when souvenir makers in Australia went absolutely ballistic. Does that mean we're going to have like Spoon of the Week's going to have its own like subsection, Spoon of the Week Bicentennial editions, and it'll be like a run of Bicentennial spoons? A series within a series within a series. Special 1988 series. Yeah, there's some particularly corny souvenirs That were released that year

Can I just say Two observations about these pictures About their majesties I hope you did a little bow as you said that Diana has an enormous amount of hair here Like it just must be said Even though it's sort of a short haircut She manages to fit

It's sort of in a bowl swirling sort of thing, an enormous amount of hair. That's just one observation. Second observation is Charles, he wears a suit well, it has to be said. The man can wear a suit. And even here, it's got a lovely cut. I know they're sort of tailored, but I always admire the way he wears a suit. He just looks – he looks – Rich people have nice suits.

Like, I think I've – I don't know if I've told this story before, but I obviously used to work for the Murdoch family in newspapers. And one time Lachlan Murdoch, who's Rupert Murdoch's son, who was running the Australian operations, came to talk to us in the newsroom. There was, like, some changes happening to business. So, it was a big deal. So, he came to announce what was happening with this restructuring. So, he walked into the newsroom and he wasn't wearing his suit jacket. He was just wearing a business shirt, like with rolled up sleeves.

I don't know if he was wearing like a tie. If he was, it was just kind of loosely done. So, he was just looking kind of really casual. Yeah. And I didn't hear a word he said because all I could do the whole time he was there was stare at his shirt and think, how can a shirt fit a human being so well? I've never seen a business shirt look more magnificent on a human than

Lachlan Murdoch's shirt he wore to the newsroom. It was incredible because we were all wearing business shirts in the room and there was me and my, you know, whatever, Roger David, like, you know, off the rack shirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And some polyester tie probably. And he just looked amazing. It was ridiculous. I've never looked as good as he looked that day just walking in in his business shirt to tell us about restructuring the business.

Oh, that's great. Beautiful. There's nothing like a nice shirt. That's nice. I know for a fact that he gets his suits from Anderson and Shepard, which is like a Savile Row suit maker. And I've walked past there and gone. This is Prince Charles now, not Lachlan Murdoch.

Oh, indeed. Yeah, yeah. This is Prince Charles. I've walked past and gone, oh, jeez, I'd love a suit. They do. They look lovely. But they take months and months to pull together. And probably a couple of pennies.

Yeah, yeah, and a little bit of money. But I think they go up to the – I've seen it on a documentary. It was mentioned once. You know, we go up to see Her Majesty at the castle and take some samples and, you know, he goes, that one and that one, and then they cut them right and, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, he wears it well on a spoon.

That's what I'm saying. Even on a tiny little spoon. That's right. All right. So the last thing we have to do for Spoon of the Week is do the spin of the wheel to decide a Patreon supporter to receive an unmade podcast souvenir spoon, which is still in production. Production has moved on. The design's been approved and we're in the kind of more manufacturing phase now. Can I just say, it looks amazing.

The design is phenomenal. We haven't released it yet have we no spoilers well no i won't say anything except to say i was i was blown away really i'm talking bicentennial standards like that i'm not joking oh that's coming from a man who does a section called spoon of the week on a podcast, so that's fine, Bruce. And so the next lucky recipient will be... Preben or Preben? Preben from Norway. You will be receiving a spoon when they are finally manufactured and thank you for your support.

Thank you for your support. Congratulations, Preben slash Preben. Time for another idea. Oh, it's time for an idea from me. Oh, phew. I don't know how original this is. I'm sure things like it exist, but the way I'm thinking of it, I think, is a bit different. Before I tell you, let me get you in the mood for it.

Right. Presumably, at the moment, Tim, you are in your office, sitting in an office chair. Correct. What would you give that chair you're sitting in out of 10, as a mark out of 10? I would give it a five. A five? What did you have for breakfast this morning? I had toast.

Toast. What would you give that toast out of 10? Well, we've got a bread at the moment that's not my favourite type, so I would give it about a six. Okay, a six. Now, have you been to Paris? Yes. Magnificent city. What would you give Paris out of 10?

Look, Paris was ruined 10 years ago. It's not like it used to be. Not as like it was in the 20s. What would I give Paris out of 10? Paris is, I want to say a 10 out of 10, but I'm trying to think there are flaws in Paris. The subway is pretty dirty, but look, it certainly deserves to get a higher rating than my chair or my breakfast. Right. I'll give Paris a nine and a half out of ten.

Okay. So my idea for a podcast is called Out of Ten. And it's just a podcast where the hosts just mark everything, everything out of ten from the most mundane, banal things in their life through to the most magnificent things in the universe, like what would you give Jupiter out of ten, with no reference to one another in any way, a kind of crazy arbitrariness, where you could

just talk about what you've done today, like every interaction you've had, everything you've eaten, everything you've seen, everything you've thought, everything you've done, every bit of work you've done, through to submissions from listeners saying, oh, what do you think of this? What do you think of that? And you just mark them all out of tan. You give it, obviously, to make it an interesting podcast, you give it a bit of chat and a bit of banter and stuff like that and talk about why you're giving it the mark you do.

But also, over time, you will just be creating this epic list which could sit on your podcast website of every single thing in order, like ranked in order out of 10. You could just go down this epic list where things like Paris are ranked alongside the toast that Tim had for breakfast in September 2020. Like, out of 10. Yeah, that's good. I like it.

I like it a lot. So, let me ask you this, all right? So, I'm in a bit of a slump. What would you give my idea out of 10? Today's idea? Yeah. I would give that a a six a six well now are you comparing it what's a 10 out of 10 is it 10 out of 10 your idea or 10 out of 10 my best idea or the the best idea that could

ever be thought of i would i am not sure that we've had a 10 out of 10 idea that immediately springs to mind. I imagine I would be a harsher marker than you just in general because of our personalities. You're a bit more of a positive, optimistic, forgiving guy. I'm a lovely guy, yeah. Yeah, you're the honest guy. So I think getting marked by me is tougher than you. Maybe if we did the show, like we would both mark each thing out of 10

and then we'd take an average oh yeah so so so my cynicism and negativity would be cancelled out by your like positivity and optimism so that would be the fairest thing to do maybe split the difference yeah but uh i think i just think it would be it's just a really fun device to talk about anything and everything you know in a fun way. It's lovely because you can enter into a critique of something, like the film and all that kind of stuff, but it's just a marvellous way to have to nail your colours to the mask on a number.

What would you give it? Yeah. And part of me also thinks that I wouldn't allow – I'm undecided about this if I was making it for real. Part of me thinks I wouldn't allow halves or quarters or decimal points because there is something funny about uh just having these 10 values you can use so that sometimes you will get like you know uh some meal you had ranking the same as like you know a city like paris like i do like that but another part of me

thinks having a more granular marking system will allow for more fun rankings, more on my thing, beat your thing, my city, beat your city. There'll be less ties because ties will be less fun. You know, if you, if you were an Australian, you'd want to know what, how the hosts had marked each city. So having a more granular grading system will allow, like, you know, cities to beat each other more easily. Yeah. But I don't know. But another part of me thinks it's funny to just have to say a round number

because, you know, it's humorous. The difference is that it's always a little bit boring. This is from someone who's read an enormous amount of album reviews in, like, Rolling Stone over the years. They'll do, like, a big cover story and then they'll cover the album and then they'll give it like three out of five and i'm like that doesn't help me three out of five is like yeah it's okay like i don't it's it's an it's an it's like a non-ranking so i almost wanted to be more specific and that's why a website like pitchfork is really helpful that gives like a 7.6 and a 9.3 for an album. It's like,

ah, adds a little bit. You can actually be harsher and more specific about it. So, otherwise you end up giving, oh yeah, Brisbane, you know, four out of 10. I think you're being generous there. But anyway, so we're speaking on a Monday. I know you gave a sermon yesterday at church. Yes. What would you give your sermon yesterday out of 10? Honestly, I would give it a six and a half, seven out of 10. See, we're far more harsh on ourselves than we are on other people. True.

If someone else gave the sermon, I would be giving them a, oh, no, that's a good eight. But you're held to a higher standard. You expect more from a pro like you. Well, that's right. For another, for a mere mortal, sure. I mean, for other ministers, it would probably be the greatest sermon they ever gave, but

I just wasn't, I wasn't feeling it. That is true. That reveals a really interesting dynamic that being harsh on yourself is actually a way of congratulating your ultimate capacity, isn't it really? That's terrible. So we're also speaking at 6pm. I know you haven't gone home yet to see the family, so it's not complete.

But as it stands, today, what does your day get out of 10? Like for effectiveness, efficiency or enjoyability or? What does the day get out of 10 is all I'm saying. All right. What does the day get out of 10? Seven. Got lots done. Had a good team meeting, doing a podcast My idea wasn't bad Good spoon

My idea got a six, good spoon Storyblocks is awesome You know, it's sort of in there What does that Charles Diana spoon get out of 10? Oh, I think that's about it Look, because there's nothing down the scooping end, I think it's stuck on a- You refuse to call it the bowl, don't you?

Because I'm going to change the conversation on this. Okay. What does it get, sorry? Yeah, it's missing a bit down below, but it's pretty good otherwise. So it gets an eight and a half. And I've got a learned eye when it comes to spoons. You are, yeah. You are quite the spoon connoisseur.

I had Eggs Benedict for lunch. That was a highlight. Out of ten? What do you give that out of ten? I'd give that a, I'd still give it only an eight and a half. I think most things are eight and a half out of ten if they're pretty good. Right. So eight and a half. I think most things are eight and a half out of ten if they're pretty good. Right. So eight and a half is good.

Eight and a half is I'm not going to criticise it in any way, but it's not exceptional. That's right. Because something, yeah, what would push? I've got a cap at eight and a half. What's happened that I would give more than eight and a half to? My friend sent a pizza to my room a couple of nights ago this was rod who i used to live with so he sent a um he sent the pizza that we always used to order

when we lived together as housemates from the hyde park pizza bar yes barbecue chicken pizza and i tell you what i now know why we ordered it so often it was was magnificent. It was like, I haven't had a pizza that good in years. I'm going to give that a nine. A nine? A nine. Wow. What's wrong with it? Why did it lose a mark? Oh, you've got to, because you've got to leave room for improvement for everything. Can you give anything then, a 10? There are things I'd give a 10. Like, for example, I would probably have given Paris a 10 as well. While Paris is flawed, like you said, like when you're comparing it with other cities and what it has to offer, like, you know, cities in the world you want to go to,

it's going to have to be one of the top ones. And even its flaws are part of its charm. Yeah, yeah, exactly. A city, yeah, you kind of bake in a lot of floors into a city as just part of it. So I'd give Paris a 10. What would you give Adelaide? I'd give Adelaide 11. No.

I was wondering how long into the podcast it would take for someone to give something an 11. We haven't even made it and you've broken the rule. Yeah. podcast it would take for someone to give something an 11 we haven't even made it and you've broken the rule yeah adelaide i think is i think it's a pretty good city but there are flaws as well but on average i love melbourne melbourne's my home city and i give that pretty high and then i go there again and i go oh hang on i'm in the car the whole time oh wow this taxi journey is really long so you do get a bit nostalgic and look at things through a particular lens yeah but living in adelaide all day every day man i give it i give it a nine out of ten i love it yeah yeah yeah for convenience it's got everything you need it's got beautiful weather it's got the beach and the hills right there it's got amazing wine

and food yeah um you're here well yeah it's gonna it's gonna up to nine and a half when i get out of my prison cell that's right and then you'll leave it'll slip back to a seven anyway there we go that's my idea for a podcast that's a good idea i like it what do you give my idea out of 10 i give it pretty high i think this is an 8 out of 10 idea yeah i in fact it's maybe even a 9 out of 10 9 9 out of 10 because it's it's meaningless like i love that you don't you haven't linked it to a particular historical event or it's just it hangs in midair as an abstract idea. That's the beauty of it. You just never know what's coming.

That's right. Yeah, it just lives there and exists there. It would drive people crazy to listen to. Like, they'd be so mad. Yeah. How can you have just given Melbourne a 7 out of 10 when you gave, like, you know, the toilet paper in your bathroom an 8? Like, so, like, it'd be sweet like that like you know the toilet paper in your bathroom at 8 like so

this is what we needed when we were we were talking about the indifferent kfc experience i had because of my refined palate in that area um i was what i was essentially saying is look this is a 5 out of 10 and that's just not acceptable. It's just not acceptable. What's the highest a KFC has ever gotten to? I once had a ten out of ten and it's only happened once. Yeah. And, I mean, usually it's a nine. You know, you're just looking forward to it and you love it.

Just a nine. Just a nine. But there was one. It was back at our old place and we were just having, you know, just sitting around as a family. And I just remember tasting. This is amazing. This is amazing.

This is really, it was exceptional. What outlet did you get it from? From the local. This was on Bel Air Road in Mitcham. And gosh. Yeah, no, they were pretty solid performers, I tell you. Maybe they got in some fancy French chickens that week. French hens.

That's right. For one week only, they had a 12th herb and spice. That's the X factor. That's right. Did you comment on it at the time? Did you say to, like, your fellow diners, this is incredible? I did. I did.

I said it out loud. I said, this is awesome. How awesome is this? This is beautiful. This is exceptional. Were they in agreement? People were largely indifferent, I think. They're pretty used to me just sort of being a little bit effusive

in those moments. Yeah. But that was, it sticks in my mind as a 10 out of 10. Right. And every now and then I think, am I going to get one of those again, you know? It keeps you coming back. The question is, did you lick your fingers?

Oh, I'm sure I did. It was finger licking good. Yep. Yep. is did you lick your fingers oh i'm sure i did it was finger licking good yeah yeah the sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need the sofa shop yeah come and drop in we have a sofa designed for you choose your fabric match your curtains too the sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will

don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop all right it's time for more uh sofa shop covers yeah i have to say this whole process of civilians sending in their own efforts at playing the sofa shop in different ways has been a double-edged sword. It has made me realise how incredibly talented people are. And it's made me realise how incredibly untalented I am. Oh, right. Okay. It's a funny analogy, that, isn't it?

Because a double-edged sword is just an even more handy sword. Like, it's... Yeah. Double-edged sword is, you know, like, well, I can cut this way and that way. It's not like it's good and double-edged sword is you know like well i can cut this way and that way it's not like it's good and bad i can eat i can eat my kfc twice as quick you know two buckets that way and back this way it's a double bucketed meal are you ready for our first one yeah yeah yeah these are great so this comes from ben in lancashire.

Dear Brady and Tim, here is my contribution to the growing anthology of sofa shop covers. I've named it Smells Like Real Leather for reasons that will hopefully become obvious upon listening. Given Tim's love of 90s music,

I hope that this cover version and its admittedly dodgy titular pun are both to his satisfaction. Here we go. The sofa shop is the only stop for the stuff that you need The sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in We have a suffering time for you Shoes, your fabric, match, your curtains, too The sofa shop Hey, guy, guys Would you thank me well?

Does she do a thing until you see the soul of the shop? Soul Bar Nice. So, Tim, this is obviously a very familiar tune to children of the 90s or teenagers and adults of the 90s, I should say. Yeah, this is a unique take, just blending it right in, a mash-up is a unique take. Just blending it right in a mashup with a particular song. Do you want to tell, for those who haven't figured it out,

do you want to tell them what it was? Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Yeah. Not everyone knows that song. Oh, okay. Yeah. You don't believe me. 10 out of 10 song. Is it a 10 out of 10 song, Smells Like Teen Spirit? It's a very good song, it's a very catchy song And it's got some lyrics that have become iconic It's not a 10 out of 10 album as a whole But it is a good album, it's a good old-

Alright, no, I gave you too much rope Now you're talking about the album Let's get back to the cover Let me go through some of the songs on the album apart from this one What do you think of ben's take on it by merging it with the sofa shop uh look and like i said so 10 out of 10 for creativity yeah yeah seven eight out of 10 for execution yeah yeah pretty clever i think it would have been better if he got to the sofa shop part sooner i think it was like it was more like two songs bolted together at times. I would like it to have had a sofa shop feel sooner.

Because when I was listening, I was thinking, when is this going to turn sofa shoppy? And it did very much towards the end in a very good way. But I think there was too much wasted time. And ad jingles were all about getting to the cell nice and quick. That's right. That's right. Particularly with a tune as strong as the sofa shop exactly exactly you've got to let the lyrics do the heavy lifting yeah yeah okay this next one is uh max from london dear brady and

tim i hope i'm not too late to the party but when i heard about the idea of sofa shop jingles i immediately started having ideas unfortunately i was very busy over the last few weeks preparing for my final exams at the Royal College of Music in London. So he's raising our expectations there. Well, I reckon. Where I am a percussionist. Having now completed them successfully, I got around to making this, the idea that stuck in my head the most. the idea that stuck in my head the most. As a cricket fan, and knowing that you are also a cricket fan, Brady,

I thought about using the theme tune to test match special, the BBC's cricket commentary program, as a basis for a sofa shop arrangement. The original theme is actually called Soul Limbo by a band called Booker T and the MGs. Oh, yeah. As a side note, I would love to know if this is only a British thing or if Aussies too immediately think of cricket when they hear this song. When used as the introduction to a day's play,

little bits of commentary from the previous day's play will be interspersed into the music. So I couldn't help but add a few little snippets of commentary about your favourite player, the legend that is Geoffrey Dujon. I hope you enjoy this and I hope you're enjoying being in Australia, Brady. God knows I'd love to get out of the UK for a bit right now. All the best. Keep up your lovely timer of the ball is Dujon. Lovely shot by Dujon.

He has played some magnificent strokes so far in this innings. 100 for Geoffrey Dujon, very fine player and this has been a great innings. So, Tim, does that sound familiar to you? This song's very famous in England because when the Test Match Special radio show is on, whenever they have coverage of the cricket, even if they have it on TV, they play this tune. So it's immediately, it's the equivalent of hearing the Channel 9 cricket commentary tune for English people. I don't think it's familiar to me, but it suits perfectly what it's for. So you're immediately, it sounds familiar almost immediately because it does its job

so well. But yeah, it sounds very crickety. I'm sure any English cricket fans will appreciate the cleverness of what Max created there. And thank you for the little Jeff Dujon clips as well. Loving the way they're branching out now, the civilians, on these tunes. Just moving beyond standard genres into these interesting mashups. No slumps here.

No. No. So, Tim, this next one comes from Naomi. Naomi says, I'm from canberra australia and have been listening to the podcast since it first began thank you naomi uh when my sofa shop pin arrived in the mail a couple of weeks back i mentioned that i had attached it to my flute case as i felt given how the sofa shop seems to be inspiring for music production that was the most appropriate place for it. Someone replied,

you know what you have to do now. And while I was originally going to work on an arrangement for different instruments, I decided to do a simple one for the flute. Quick interjection here, Naomi, you are allowed to submit more than one version. I'm not sure if anyone has made an arrangement in Walt's time yet. So I went for that. Perhaps you could enjoy a gentle dance around the kitchen with your wife or simply lie on your sofa and enjoy what I hope is a relaxing rendition. The backing track is electronic and I played the flute. It has been a learning experience for me to work out how to best record the flute when I don't own a microphone to merge tracks together. Thank you for all you and Tim do in making the most cheeriest podcast I've ever come

across, Naomi. P.S. let me know if you would like a photo of the pin attached to my flute case, and I can send one through. And obviously, I got Naomi to send one, so we'll include that in the notes as well. But here's her flute version of The Sofa Shop. Thank you. ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത� There we go. I thought that one had a little sort of an elevator waiting room sound to it, very peaceful, very calming. Well, elevator, that's a bit harsh, I think. But you mean to say that it's pleasant background sort of music. Is that what you're saying?

Charming. Yeah. Do you know, she refers to waltz time. Do you know what waltz time is? Yeah, it's time to do some waltzing. That's right, correct. No, I don't. What number is, it's something over something,

and music timing and all that is a bit of a weakness of mine. What does that mean, waltz time? It's three-four time instead of four-four time, so, yeah. What does that mean, three watts happen in four watts? It's every bar has three beats. So it's one, two, three, one, two, three. Instead of rock and roll, which is one, two, three, four. You know, it's one, two, three.

And you can see people dancing, you know, that one, two, three, one, two, three. But where's the four in that when you're just counting to three over and over again? No, but that's what it is. It's three, four times. So there's three beats per bar instead of four beats per bar what's a bar uh an arbitrary sectioning off of the music which which is like a paragraph or a sentence in writing you know what i mean like it's an arbitrary you're making no sense to me your money for nothing rendition what timing was that in that was very abstract seven eight timing which is very hard to do.

You started using complex numbers in that one. It's never been. Yes, it's half numbers. Seven and a half. Yeah. Three i plus seven over the square root of two. Speaking of which, our next one comes from Dylan. Dylan says

A new sofa shop version just for Brady Seriously Tim, don't listen I know that my saying that only makes you more interested But stand tall Anyway, it's a bit crude But hopefully there is some value to it If I'm lucky, maybe someone with more skill Has beaten me to the punch

Thanks for the show, Dylan The sofa shop is your only stop For the sofa you need the punch. Thanks for the happen, Tim. I'm sorry. You knew it was coming. Well, see, did you notice the timing, though? Oh, geez, that's exquisite. It's good. It's good.

Yeah. Beautiful. That's very clever. Yeah. No, nice work. Very well done. It's good. Yeah. Beautiful. That's very clever. Yeah. No, nice work. Very well done. Well done. You sound so sincere.

I was talking to myself. Patting myself on the back there. Well done. Now, getting to this mashup. That's kind of all that stuff over the top just takes away from the purity, doesn't it? You don't sing to Mozart. That's right. Okay.

Last but not least, Han or Han? I'm not sure if it's Han Solo or Han Solo, but it comes from Han. Hi, Brady and Tim. I hope you're both well. I'm an American from Los Angeles and have recently graduated from New York University where I studied communication and entertainment business. I'm currently back home in LA trying to find a job in the film industry, although that is understandably hard at the moment. So I've had lots of free time to listen to the Unmade podcast and make some music. I play flute, piano, guitar, and I occasionally try my best to sing as well. After hearing Tim Yearn for a country style sofa shop last episode, I decided to give it a go. Sufjan Stevens is one of my favourite

musicians, so it was really fun trying to emulate his style. Here's my rendition of a Sufjan-esque cover. It's definitely more folksy than country, and I'm in no way doing justice to the incredible voice and talent of Sufjan Stevens, but it was really fun to make nonetheless. I hope you enjoy it, and keep up the great work on the podcast. We have a sofa designed for you Choose your fabric, match your curtains to The sofa show ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa show. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa show. I think this is a 10 out of 10. I thought you'd like this one.

I thought you'd like it a lot. Really beautiful. Yeah, yeah, that's great. I'm a big Sufjan Stevens fan as well. Yes. Yeah, I think he's done a superb job here. That's a hauntingly beautiful version. You got that one?

Are you going to put that one into your playlist rotation for your drives around Adelaide? I think he's able to find things in the sofa shop theme that we've not seen before. Layers, deeper layers. Like what? Oh, I can't go into it now. We've run out of time. Maybe he's pushing into sofa bed territory here.

Whoa, wow. No, this is lovely. It's very much like Sufjan's album, Carrie and Love, which I love. And, yeah, I think he's done a really lovely job. Yeah. Beautiful work. Very impressive. Well, that is ending on a high.

Thank you, everyone. We are unmadefm at gmail.com if you want to send in your own submission. You are a talented bunch of people. That is for sure. We are enjoying what you are creating. Yeah, they are. They're very, this is, I really enjoy these. Yeah. This is very good.

Very impressive. Do you have a particular style? You know, you asked me, I wanted a country style. Do you have a particular style you want to hear? Yeah. What would I like? I would, there are a few things I'd like. I'd like someone to make like, like an 8-bit computer game version.

Yeah. What else would I enjoy? I wouldn't mind another sort of, a few more sort of techno-y dance music ones because there's something kind of ridiculous about the euphoric sort of nightclub dance versions using sofa shop. So although we've had something kind of in that way, I think there's room for more. Something with a bit more of an 80s feel to it as well like an 80s pop kind of feel yeah but i'd also what i'd really like is more uh like i'd like a greater range of instruments you know let's hear some instruments we haven't heard yet we haven't i don't think we've had like pure violin bongos brass yeah a bit a bit of

trumpet a bit of saxophone a bit of sexy oh, a bit of sexy. Oh, a sexy saxophone mix. Oh, yeah. That'd be good. A bit of Kenny G. Yeah. Is that what you want to hear? Look, I didn't want to have to ask, but I'm surprised your church band hasn't got on the case yet.

Oh, well, that's true. Yeah, they could get in. We've got a bit of brass and stuff and piano. Yeah. Well, I'll just let that hang out there and I know a few of them listen. Right. And just see what comes up. Let's just see how they're led.

And then what you could do is get them to play it like in like a service on a Sunday morning and teach all the congregation the words to the sofa shop and you could have the congregation singing it. Get a big community choir. Yeah. Major theme. Yeah. There you go.

Rule nothing out. Sofa shop is the only shop. Yeah. Sofa shop. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa show