The Unmade Podcast - 62: Childhood Homes

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

Tim and Brady discuss bagpipes, the house where you grew up, a Canadian Spoon, rolling stones (not the band), a new Unmade Colonel, and a slew of Sofa Shop covers for our new music streaming service. Go to Storyblocks for stock video, pictures and audio at storyblocks.com/unmade - and maybe find that perfect Tim look-a-like - 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/j6qy2i USEFUL LINKS Bagpipes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes Today's Tim Look-A-Likes on Storyblocks - https://www.unmade.fm/episode-62-pictures Check out Spoon of the Week Pictures - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-week Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0 Euphonium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonium Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE

Thank you. Where's it going to end? Like, I don't know where we go from there. I'm wiping tears from my eyes. Both because it's hilarious, but the bagpipes are inherently moving, inspirational. Yeah. I feel like I should be at, like, someone's wedding. I've heard bagpipes at both weddings and funerals. There's a small danger.

It often works really well. Beautiful when they're actually playing. The trouble is it's a little bit undermined by the sound at the beginning and at the end. For instance, at the beginning, there can be the sort of, you know, pumping up the bellows to get them there, which, as you can, you know, undermines the solemnity of the service. It's like hearing the sound check. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, like, like, you know, sometimes I have to get one.

But also the other one is you get to the end of Amazing Grace or whatever, and then it goes, you know. So it just needs a little edit at the beginning and the end. So either disappointingly or excitingly, that rendition of The Sofa Shop, of course, on the bagpipes did not come from Scotland. No. No, it's come from Australia. It's come from Sydney. It's come from pipe major David from the St. George and Sutherland Pipe Band.

A real piper. Yeah. Wow. He's in a pipe band. A real piper. Yeah. Wow. He's in a pipe band. He said, dear Brady and Tim, love the show. Your call for the sofa shop jingle in different genres inspired me to give it a go on my instrument, bagpipes. Unfortunately, I was not able to get my pipe band and drum core to get on board. So it's just a solo. Think of it as a lament for the sofa shop.

Gone, but not forgotten. Oh. Tim, I went to the sofa shop gone but not forgotten oh tim i went to the sofa shop yes as you can let's by way of background we are in a apartment in adelaide where i'm staying while i'm in adelaide tim has come and joined me that's why it's a bit echoey it's a bit of a it's a bit of a glass mon glass and metal monstrosity but i went to the sofa shop yesterday and all the signage about the sofa shop that berkowitz had put up saying you know sofa shop by berkowitz and little logos to say this was once the sofa shop as far as i

can tell gone oh erased gone erased from history well i said i said it's the hong kong handover of sofa shops like that you know that handover was done in good faith and we thought everything was going to be as it was and things are changing yeah no it seems like that's uh i wonder if there was some sort of contractual arrangement like and from which end in other words it's like oh we really want to use the sofa shop well don't worry you can sell us the business because we'll keep the sofa shop name there and which way did it go which way did it go yeah they promised to keep the... Or maybe they thought the Sofashop name would keep the people rolling in and now they think it won't or... Yeah, yeah.

Maybe too many people were coming in and asking questions about the jingle and they thought, we just can't handle it. It's time to draw a line. Move on. Move on, yeah. Like how when someone really important dies, they don't announce where they're buried or when like real villains die,

sometimes they also won't say where they're buried so they don't become like a martyr and yeah yeah placed yeah so perhaps that's it they they were getting they didn't want the sofa shop to be a martyr they didn't like a too many tourists people not coming to buy but just coming to watch. Just leaving bouquets at the door. Wreaths. Flowers marking the spot. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if ever there was a time to do that, it's now. With the name gone, totally, it really is the end.

I did go in and speak to some of the staff like you have and talked about the jingle. And one of the guys did say they should never have got rid of that jingle. They should never have got rid of it. It was an icon. rid of it it was an icon it was so good for us like he was like he thought it was a mistake he sounded did he sound angry no i wouldn't say angry just like he he knows it was a mistake because some of those guys are sofa shop guys to the core yeah cut them in half and it says sofa shop like a stick of candy yeah yeah yeah yeah there's a new there's a new uniform but underneath they still bleed, so for sure. Their blood runs velvet.

Pink velvet. Brown corduroy sort of a. Oh, dear. Yeah, it must be hard to go on just to keep serving. It's like people who work in the White House who came there during the Obama years. Oh, such a pleasure to hang and serve with the president. And then suddenly things change and it's like, well, you said you wanted to serve the president, but you've got to keep going. It's, yeah, under that Berkowitz banner. No judgment on the Berkowitz's. I'm sure they're a lovely family business, but, you know, we're Sophie Shop Boys. We always will be. Indeed. Indeed. And they haven't come out

with a new jingle or a better jingle. They've done nothing on the jingle front whatsoever. No, no. So, anyway, just to – we'll do more – obviously, we'll do more Sofashop jingles later in the show because, you know, you guys have been sending in quite a few. Yeah. Quite a few. Yeah. Yeah.

And we'll run through some more later. I wonder if one day we'll have so many versions of the sofa shop, we'll start a new streaming service. Sofa-fy. Spotify and Apple Music. And you know how Jay-Z's trying to get Tidal up going and so forth. It's like, will it last? Will it last?

And suddenly there's a new dog in town. Just playing sofa shop covers. Get the app. Just playing Surfish Up covers. Get the app. Just streaming. 24-7. You never hear the same one twice in a day. No, no, that's right. And other artists, you know, want to be on there.

Madonna's done her version. Can she get it on there, you know? Brilliant. I love it. I love it. Let's work on that. We'll get that going. So, Unmade Podcast.

Yeah. So, have you got an idea? I have an idea, but I know you've been busy all morning, like setting up these microphones and managing the recordings and the sofa shop covers. Have you had time to think of an idea? I have got an idea that's kind of obvious and lazy, but very appropriate to me being an Adelaide. Should I do my idea first?

Well, that's usually my modus operandi, but no, you go ahead. I have got a list of ideas, but I'm just going to put one straight to the front of the queue based on my experience yesterday, which you know about. My idea for a podcast is called The House I Grew Up In. Ah, yes. Who doesn't love talking about the house they grew up in, the first house?

And I had the experience yesterday of going to the house I grew up in here in Adelaide, which I haven't been inside for 30 years. Wow. Yeah. And knocked on the front door and they let me in and they gave me a tour of my old house. It was amazing. It was an amazing experience. But I think a podcast called The House I Grew Up In, you couldn't go wrong.

I don't know how the podcast would work. You just come on and reminisce especially if the house is gone you could take people back to the houses and record them going through the house which i think could occasionally be quite emotional yes yes but i think there's i think there's good podcast fodder to be had where's the house you grew up in oh in uh taralgon yeah and so you were born while your parents were living in that house uh no they they had one just in the very early days a few months after i was born but they bought it when i was still a baby and then i was there for my whole childhood up to my early teens right um it's uh what number was it on the street 52 52 that's a really i was spent like just thinking about 52. 52? That's a really...

I was just thinking about 52 yesterday because I went through a house with 52 on it. And I thought, oh, I'd love to live in a house with 52 on it because 52 was always a special number to me because it was my highest score I made in club cricket for many years. I was just reminiscing about 52 yesterday. Sorry. Stupid tangent. No, that's all right. 52.

It means it stays with you a number like that, doesn't it? We've talked about favourite numbers. 52, it sort of resonates with me. Yeah. I'm not saying I've used it in any passwords or anything like that. But I should have because it stays with you. C.S. Lewis 52 if you want to get into Tim's bank account. I went back and visited mine.

It was only about 15 years after I'd left, but I already had that feeling of it feeling small. How was it for you yesterday? Did you knock on the door and go in? Like they let you in and have a look around? I did. I did. I just knocked in and knocked in.

Smash the door down. Take no prisoners. You sort of go into knocked in. Smashed the door down. Take no prisoners. He's sort of going to automatic. 52 tattooed on his shoulder. I went into automatic pilot, just let myself in, hopped into bed, fell asleep, woke up, had a shower, went out for breakfast. Oh, sorry, everybody. Demanded the residents make you a Milo.

That's right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Everyone who goes back to their family home always says, it felt smaller than's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone who goes back to their family home always says it felt smaller than I remember. So I was completely prepared for that. In my head, it was going to be like, I was going into a Hobbit house and I was going to have to like, lean down to go everywhere. And it was going to be, you know, like a, like a toy house. So because I was so prepared for that, it probably didn't feel too small it felt about normal right but certain things

felt small so my bedroom when i went into that that did feel small and it's now another boy's bedroom and he was in there playing minecraft actually and i looked at it and i thought how can a human live in a you know a cell this small but to me it was a palace with my my tv and my desks and all my all my adventures and the little area where i'd play basketball and my bed obviously and like that my bedroom was like a house in itself with different areas and different like and now i look at it and it's just this tiny tiny cube but the house had changed a lot like obviously they'd done a lot of renovations and there were things were gone and things were there the layout was still exactly

the same but that but it was different some rooms though they just haven't got around to renovating uh so they were exactly the same like like 1970s the same that was very very strange going into those rooms like my childhood bathroom all the same tiles and taps and fixtures and it was like wow that was a real time warp but in some ways the more cute moments were for example in when i quickly looked in my bedroom it was completely different all this wallpaper changed no furniture the bed bed was in the same place but almost everything had changed had you taken down your posters no no no still had uh proclaimers and raiders of the lost Ark and Viv Richards.

No, no, it would have been unrecognisable. And then I looked at the light switch, the little plastic light switch, and I was like, that's my light switch. I must have pressed that a billion times. And it was slightly installed, slightly a kilter, and it was still the same. And the lamp above the bed was still the same. I was like, that was the lamp I had above the bed.

And the other thing I noticed all through the house that really, like, brought back massive deja vu would be, like, cracks in the plaster and the walls. Like, it was like, oh, my God, that same crack is still above the archway and that. So I don't know what it was like for the woman showing me around because I was very grateful to her and i was very like you know effusive about what a wonderful job they'd done and how how they changed the house for the better and you know i was very complimentary but at the same time i wonder what it must have been like as i sort of oh that's the same light switch that's where this happened that's where this happened this was that and like you know in there with almost like a sense of ownership and it's her house yes and i don't know what that dynamic was like but I was very aware of it and I felt like I navigated it carefully yeah you didn't talk it down like oh

you've ruined this oh you've done I can't believe you did that not at all and anything that hadn't changed I was like you know I wasn't like oh my god I can't believe you still got that but it was and I didn't talk too much about the cracks and things like that but i still don't know what it was like here for her to hear my attachment to it this is where our plagiarism used to be this is where this happened and so anyway it was it was wonderful i i remember when i went back to my uh house there was a sense that oh you've chosen to live here and i lived here in you know the 70s and 80s so it's almost like oh you've you've chosen to live here and i lived here in you know the 70s and 80s so it's almost like oh you've you've chosen to live back in the 70s and 80s like it was it's like like i've moved on and you haven't that's right yeah yeah like it is a bit like time travel like i'm going back and

you're like they're obviously living in 2020 as well yeah but not to me for them it was a new house and i've moved into a house my last house was was um like 80 years old you know it's even older than the one i grew up in and and you know but of course i don't think of myself moving back 80 years it's my new house and yeah it's it's funny it's a lovely perspective because you like to think even when you own a house you're really only stewarding it. You're the custodian for a little while, aren't you? If you buy it and then you sell it again, you like to think you own it. But really, you know what I mean?

You're handing it on. Someone else will live in it and make memories. That's so sweet, Tim. Oh, it is. It's lovely. It is lovely. You should be doing like a real estate ad. I'm Tim Hine, Tim Hine Real Estate.

And I like to think we're just stewards of our homes so come to me and buy and sell another one that's right lovely

lovely a lot of memories there's a lot of stuff in there that's right with photos and stuff you could add in to make

the podcast a bit richer but great idea thank you very much it wasn't hard to think of no story blocks bit richer but great idea thank you very much thank you very much it wasn't hard to think of storyblocks this episode's brought to you by storyblocks oh thank goodness for that yeah goodness for storyblocks let's quickly do the essential essentials here storyblocks

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but a little challenge on the side, encouraging the listeners to the podcast to go and find lookalikes of Tim on Storyblocks. It has to be from the Storyblocks library. Now, if you're a member, you can obviously go and look through it. But even if you're not a subscriber, you can go and have a look. So, go to storyblocks.com slash unmade. Use the slash unmade because then they know you came from here. But storyblocks.com slash unmade. Use the slash unmade because then they know you came from here.

But storyblocks.com slash unmade. We've had some sent in. Here's the most recent one we were sent, which I thought was funny. Now, of course, not everyone knows what Tim looks like. So for those who do, send in a picture of what Tim looks like. For those who don't, you can send a picture of what you think he looks like. We've had all sorts of submissions. Oh, really?

The most recent one that came in today amused me because this came from someone who obviously listened to the previous episode where i said oh here's this guy that i reckon looks like tim but he didn't look at what i said what i showed he was obviously just listening to the audio and then he went on and obviously started searching and he sent in a picture of this guy in a Storyblocks video and it's the same guy I picked in a different video oh look at that this guy is like your doppelganger and he keeps popping up look at him I tell you he's a good looking rooster but I don't know if he looks he's like me I'll take it he is sort of a younger you and he's he's wearing denim and you're prone to wearing a

bit of the odd denim jacket from time to time. And he's got a backpack. And you seem to often have a backpack when you're getting around town. My go-to bag around the day is backpack, yes. He's got glasses. Yeah. He's got glasses a bit like yours. Not quite as stylish as the New Yorkers.

The Dieters? No, that's right. No. But that's because he probably can't get them. No. No one can get the New York Dieter. So, anyway, that's right, no. But, yeah. But that's because he probably can't get them. No, no one can get the New York Dieter. So, anyway, that's come in. Of course, people can't just go to Storyblocks and type in Tim Hine because I've not allowed any of my modelling shots to be shared.

Storyblocks is an awesome company, but they haven't got the rights on Tim yet. No, no, not yet. After the competition's finished, I'll release those rights. is an awesome company but they haven't got the rights on tim yet no no not yet after the competition's finished i'll release those rights here's another reddit user who's sent in multiple how many one two three four five six seven eight nine ten different story blocks links to people he thinks looks like you let's just have a look at the first one this person says that i have seen a photo of tim before so this is someone who knows what you look like. All right.

Oh, look at that dude. Whoa. There's no way you are that good looking. Sorry, Tim. Not yet, but I'm still growing. So this picture is smiling young man with glasses, holding hands in pockets and posing. And other than the fact he wears glasses,

he's got dimples a bit like yours, maybe. What do you reckon? That is not me. He looks familiar, but not from the mirror. I think he eats less KFC than you, that's for sure. Oh, indeed. That's what I'd look like if I didn't have KFC. Yeah.

Good looking and unhappy. Lovely. So keep them coming. Go storyblocks.com slash unmade. Excellent service. You should be considering it, especially if you do anything creative that involves needing material, videos, pictures. But also you need to go there for all your Tim lookalike needs. That's right.

It's time. Spoon of the week. That's perfect. What have we got this week? Tim's holding spoon of the week in his hand. I love it when I get to actually see and touch spoonoon of the Week. Oh, yes. Well, Brady, this week we've gone outside of country Victoria holiday spots. Right. Dear. For a bit of difference. Right. Over to, and you're going to love this, civilians, Canada.

It's a Canada spoon. Tim is passing it over to me. Handing it over. Be careful. I'll be careful. Can I describe it? Go for it. Yeah, yeah.

So, the bowl or the scoopy bit. Is that the, yeah, yeah. The bowl is enamelled with a maple leaf, not a red maple leaf. It's sort of an orangey one with green at the tips with the word Canada. And the bowl has a very ornate surround in the metalwork. One of the nicest bowls we've had so far. It is. It actually looks like you've scooped up a bit of cream.

Like it looks like it's got something in the bowl. It is cream-coloured enamel, yeah, with a little maple leaf. Lovely sort of stem and handle all the way along. It's a very well-proportioned spoon. And then the top, the handle, where there's more enamelling, seems to have a, like have a crest shield or logo, which I'm assuming is like a National Seal of Canada or something. I'll look it up in a moment, which is divided into five sections

where it looks like it's got like lions and a harp and leaves and things like that and the word Canada underneath. And the word Canada is in a – I would describe it as an unfortunate choice of font. I don't think it's the best typeface I've ever seen. I can't really describe what it is, but there'll be pictures and video if you want to check it out. But do you know where this came from, Tim? How did this spoon find its way into the Hein family collection

from which we pull all our spoons of the week? I actually, do you remember mum explaining it? I was zoning out at that moment as to why she had... I'm leaving that in oh come on i remember her telling his it was a pen friend wasn't it mum said something about she had like a thousand pen oh yeah yeah that's right this this spoon brady comes from uh mum who had a pen friend neither mum mum or dad ever went to Canada. And I've actually never been to Canada.

But they, mum had a pen friend in her days before she met dad. Right. And this pen friend. Are you suggesting there was some kind of like potential romance in the way you put that or just like? No, no. I wouldn't have thought so. I don't think so. Pen friend was just.

She was probably about 12 or something. Yeah. And this friend in Canada, mum had pen wouldn't have thought so. I don't think so. Pen Men was just... She was probably about 12 or something. Yeah. And this friend in Canada, mum had pen friends all over the place. Yeah. And pen friends for those that have grown up in the computer eras where you write a letter to someone you've never met and they write back. With a pen, which is a device that lets ink flow onto paper. Indeed.

You don't send the pen pen you just send the paper with a spoon it's more spoon friends than pen friends really uh yeah but i don't think you send a spoon every time and mum had one in canada and and obviously she sent one this is the bit i don't understand about the spoon collection i would have thought you collect spoons from places you've been to, but mum and dad seem to have just decided to have them sort of imported from everywhere. If they know someone who's going somewhere, send me a spoon from there. And it's like, well, what significance does that have?

You know what they did? I bet they put them up on the shelf then and, like, bragged to their friends about all the places they'd been and they'd never even seen. Oh, yeah, Canada. I was in Canada. I just don't understand that. It's like, why wouldn't you just go through a catalogue

and say, yes, send me all of these? Every spoon in the world. It's not a memento. It's not a tourist memento then. It's just like, can I get them? Well, of course you can get them. I understand that. But, like, for example, my brother-in-law collects fridge magnets,

or he did at one stage, and it became a thing that when you went somewhere, you would get a fridge magnet for him. That was the present you gave him when you came back. So he had a fridge covered in magnets from all around the world. And he'd say, oh, that was from Brady when he went to Mount Everest. And that was from Fred when he went to... So there is a degree of, there's still a story and an attachment. So maybe it just became the thing you would give to Dawn and Jerry. Like, oh, yeah, they collect spoons, let's send them a spoon. Yeah.

I guess this also was in the era before the internet. So actually getting a spoon from Canada would be relatively difficult to do. This is true. There is a novelty and, oh, we got one from there. And we only got it because someone else went there. Yeah, that's true. I mean, now you can go on eBay and probably buy 400,000 different canada spoons i can't figure out what that crest or shield is you just can't search for canada logo or canada how about canada coat of arms hang on canada coat of arms i'll put

that into the big google there we go that's what it is it's the canada coat of arms there we go i wonder what each of the there's three stars stars. So, obviously, England refers to the- They're not stars. They're kind of like little fleur-de-lis things. Oh, hang on. If I just actually look at the page for Canada coat of arms, all will be revealed. Fleur-de-lis? What the heck is a fleur-de-lis?

Well, that's like a little symbol thing. Sounds like a dessert. It's associated with French, France. It's like a very famous French symbol. So, it's like a, and Canadian, obviously, Canada has its French link. So, that's probably representing the French side. Oh yeah. And it seems to have a harp.

Oh, the, the estuncion is divided into five sections. The first division, the golden lions that have been a symbol of England. The second quarter bears the red lion rampart of Scotland. Oh yeah. Third quarter shows the Irish harp of Tara. And then we have the gold fleur dede-lis for the symbol of France. And the fifth one has sprigs of maple. So, Ireland, Scotland, England, France and maple are the symbolism there.

Oh, that's bleeding obvious historical. Yeah. Which is all that shields ever are. There's lots of other stuff going on there. Go to the Wikipedia page. There's lots of, there's a lot of little detail there they talk about on Wikipedia. If I was designing their shield, I would put on a moose. A moose.

A hockey puck. A hockey puck. Maple syrup. Maple syrup. And a comedy festival. Yeah. Because they're very good at- They do good comedy festivals.

They have a wonderful comedy festival on Twitter. What about Pamela Anderson? She's from Canada. Is she Canadian? I think she's Canadian. Brian Adams is Canadian. Brian Adams on the- I'd put Brian Canadian? I think she's Canadian. Brian Adams is Canadian. Brian Adams on the... I'd put Brian Adams on there.

I would have just Brian Adams' face. That's right. Just have his first real six string on there. Well, maybe that's what this little harp is. Brian Adams' first real six string. Doesn't have any plated till his fingers bled. All right. Brilliant.

Excellent spoon, Tim. Thank you. There we go. Good choice. Safely back into the... Back fingers bled. All right. Brilliant. Excellent spoon, Tim. Thank you. There we go. Good choice. Safely back into the... Back into the vault. All right. So let's...

Tim, do you want to do the honours and spin the wheel? All right. Here we go. So whoever... Who's going to win our unmade podcast souvenir commemorative spoon, which will be made soon? It's Cody is the winner. Well done, Cody.

From... Where's Cody from? Cody is from Calgary in Canada. Well, that's perfect. How appropriate. The Canada spoon, the day of the Canada spoon. This has not been rigged. This is absolutely legit.

It is. Cody from Canada has been chosen by fate among our Patreon supporters to get a spoon. Congratulations, Cody. Well done. among our Patreon supporters to get a spoon. Congratulations, Cody. Well done. Tim, have you got an idea for a podcast?

I do have an idea. Now, as you know, I've been in a slump. Yes. The famous slump. Not that we like to draw attention to it or anything. We're making whole episodes about it now. And you gave me some very helpful mentoring advice, some tutelage around choosing a name of a pop song as an example and being able to derive the idea out of it.

So, I've used your advice to the letter this week. Right. And so, I'm simply going to say the name of the song as the name, although we may think of a better name for the idea that I have. Okay. The song is Like a Rolling Stone, a famous Bob Dylan song covered by loads of people since Like a Rolling Stone, which goes on to talk about open-ended opportunity. You know, it's finally no direction at all. I'm floating on like a rolling stone.

at all. I'm floating on like a rolling stone. In other words, basically hitting the road, having no commitments, no responsibilities, floating here and there, no plans, just seeing where I end up, all of life's ahead of me. And it's that kind of sentiment, right? The saying, a rolling stone gathers no moss, is the meaning of that if you keep on the move and keep doing things, you won't accumulate bad things? I think that's what the meaning of it is, yeah. This podcast explores the last time when you remember being in a situation where you had no plans, no responsibility. You know what I mean?

Like a little pocket of time. And for some it can be like a lost summer or a summer of 69. You know, those were the best days of my life. Or a particular time where you're between jobs. Let's say, I heard a friend say the other day, you're never truly free unless you resign from one job without knowing what's coming next. Like, you know what I mean?

You're not locked in. It's not just a holiday. You've got open plans. You've got freedom. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? A moment like that where it's like, where am I going? So, at my three weeks at

the moment in australia where i can just do what i want when i want and have kind of no commitments that doesn't count because at the end i am going home and getting on with work and i guess so but it's it's a like i let me give you the example i always think back to this one particular moment when we were on a road trip up at um on the gold coast when we famously went to movie world and had our big fight at movie world famously and and it was just like a big fight we did it was desperately trying to have a joyous time in this ridiculous theme park angry with one another but it was i don't even remember that part. Tell me about it later. Jeez, it was so funny.

How big fun it made me feel. That's a podcast idea. That's a Netflix series. You just exploded at me in the car. And we didn't make up until we got home. I'm sure you deserved it. Yeah. Sounds like we went to Ikea.

There's nothing worse than going on a roller coaster with someone when you're angry with them. Like, that was great. Yeah, it was. We had a great time on the roller coaster at SeaWorld, though. That was a good day. Yeah, SeaWorld was a great day. SeaWorld was a good day. Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

It was the Movie World day, which had storm clouds. I'm sorry I don't remember that, because my memory is thinking the roller coaster at Movie World was really great. The roller? Nothing wrong with the roller coaster. It was just you, you. Anyway, we went on this road trip up to Queensland. That's right.

And I just remember, and it wasn't that that was so amazing or so glorious, but it was this one quintessential moment when I was laying by the pool at the hotel we were staying at. And I remember laying next to the pool on the deck chair thing and suddenly thinking to myself, I have literally no commitments or responsibilities in my life whatsoever. This is back before marriage and before I really got into the vocation. Sounds like we were having a marriage with our fight at movie world.

I decided that's it, Brady. I broke up with Brady and I had no commitments in the world. I do remember one other time when I was living in a share house with someone and you and I had some words or something like that and we hadn't seen each other for a few days. And he walked in and looked at me and says, have you and Brady broken up? You have to understand, people, that Tim can be very frustrating

and sometimes needs to be told off. Brady can be very bossy and controlling. Anyway, Tim, enough of that. Get on with the next one. All right. So you were by the pool. You just suddenly felt the road. And was that a – when you were sitting by the pool

and you had that realisation, was that a positive moment or a scary moment or, like, was it a warm feeling or a – At the time, it didn't feel too dissimilar like it's not like i had many commitments you know like part-time job i hadn't really worked out what i was going to do with my life i wasn't in a serious relationship but i just remember sitting there going i have like literally nowhere else to be and nothing else to do i have nothing there's a it's a little bit empty like it's a little bit oh like you know does it even matter at all like but um i do think back on it because life since is full of big responsibilities and big commitments and yeah

that's what that's how you build a life you know that's what you have you have relationships and and all sorts of responsibilities but i have looked back when those responsibilities have felt a bit overwhelming and thought that was such a funny moment 25 years ago wherever it was yeah you know what i mean with no like literally like that's just an astounding thought to have so i was wondering talking about those moments when you were like you know what i'm truly open at this point i think that that's a like a rolling stone your rolling stone moment i like it i like it. I like it. I also like the use of the term, I wasn't in a serious relationship, which is what guys say when they can't get, like,

any care would give them any attention. I wasn't in a serious relationship at the time. Actually. Like it was a choice. I'd even just broken up with my mate. I had no relationships. Unfortunately, that meant I had no way to get home so i think we made up pretty quick we had to make up before we got back to the car park at movie was that the car park where i crashed the car where i yes yes on the way out, yeah, yeah, which was a bit of schoenfrod for a moment.

Yeah, you were happy. Tim was loving it. Although, yeah, I hit that other guy's car, but he was like some surfer dude. He was like, no worries, man, don't worry about it, and just drove off. There was like no consequences. Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah.

He didn't care. I think maybe that broke the ice and we sort of, you know, got back on the same track after that. Then I let Tim in the car and we drove off. Tim was walking behind. Tim was tied up in the boot. He didn't actually see the race. Oi, Mr. Grumpy.

Please, please don't call the police. They'll ask who that guy is thumping in the boot. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Good idea idea like a rolling stone i don't know if i've ever had that rolling stone um because i went into works i guess i went to university for a year which was kind of a bit aimless but it didn't feel carefree it's a funny moment it's sort of an empty moment in a way but it's a funny little moment but i i often think about that time i guess when you have plans but they're not there yet like you often talk about that time when you you know what you had your cadetship at the advertiser you knew that was

coming but but it was at the end of summer or something like that so it was like you you know what i mean like a playful time where you didn't have to feel the pressure to get a job or anything because you know it's up ahead and it's locked in and yeah it's like a little little moment of um freedom and sunshine and so forth absolute freedom which you know when you start having families and kids and that you know is now quite distant into that time will come again but it's quite distant yeah that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah and it's very dangerous to go searching for it when you've got proper responsibilities yeah nice idea not a bad title either i don't know if I'd call it Like a Rolling Stone. I think I'd probably throttle it back to Rolling Stone,

but something, yeah. Nice. Good idea. Good podcast idea, Tim. Thank you. He's back. He's back. He's back.

He's back. Yes, he's back. I'm now retiring, undefeated. I'm done. Mic drop. He's backfeated. I'm done. Mic drop. He's back in form. Yes, yes. Shall we go for some Sofa Shop covers?

Yes, yes, indeed. To celebrate. To celebrate. All right. The Sofa Shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. Sofa Shop, yeah, come and drop in. We have a sofa designed for you. I'm going to start this with a story about someone that listeners may remember. You may remember, obviously, Tim, as you know, works at a church.

And when we were recording one day, one of his members of his church walked past and we sort of roped her in to be my co-host for a few fun minutes. That was Katrina. Yes. And turns out Katrina is a very impressive, talented young woman. And one of her talents is music. She's even a member of the band at Tim's church. And I went to Tim's church last week just because I wanted to, you know, see him preach and see the building and things like that.

And during the church service, there's a little moment early in the service where the young children are kind of dismissed to go to Sunday school. You know, they say, okay, okay, kiddies, it's time to go off to your Sunday school. And there's a few moments pause while the kids get up and go to the adjacent room where the Sunday school is. And so that's not this kind of awkward silence. The church band plays a little bit of music, just normal lighthearted music to sort of fill the airtime while the children leave the main hall of the church. And I didn't know it was coming, but when this happened at church, Katrina, who happened to be on a piano, played the sofa shop

music, the sofa shop theme on the piano. And I was just sitting there and all the kids got up and started walking out and suddenly like the ivories were tinkling along to the sofa shop I couldn't believe it I was so excited like I wanted to jump out of I was fumbling with my phone to try and record it but I wasn't quick enough and then I was looking at Tim who was at the front of the church like with his back to me thinking oh he's going to look around and give me a wink or a smile nothing I was looking up at Katrina I didn't know if katrina knew i was there obviously she did in hindsight but i thought she might look at me and give me a little wink out in the audience but nothing it was just completely straight and the children are welcome to leave

for their groups That was the highlight of the service for me, along with your sermon, of course. Your sermon was all right, but the sofa shop was brilliant. I went on to preach about the moral importance of the sofa shop. So anyway, thank you, Katrina. That was a fun moment in the service. And we met afterwards, and she's a lovely person. But prior to that, she has also sent in some SofaShop submissions.

Yeah. Now, I said that she was a talented woman. She certainly is because she has sent in six different instruments. She plays all sorts of instruments. Incredible. Crazy. Yeah. So we'll play.

We won't play all of them in their entirety, but we'll play a little tiny bit of each one so people can have a taste. First of all, the euphonium, which I didn't even know what a euphonium was until I saw her playing one in your church the other week. It's a big horn metal instrument, isn't it? Yes, it's a brass instrument. It's a brass instrument. Yeah, one of those things.

So let's play a little bit of Euphonium Sofa Shop. What do you think of that one? In terms of euphonium covers of the sofa shop, it's one of the better ones. It's in the top three. If that's not impressing you enough, Tim, how about a bit of Irish tin whistle? You've got a bit of Irish tin whistle, don't you?

I've got many CDs of it. Yeah. I don't like Scottish tin whistle. No. But Irish tin whistle. Here we go, Irish tin whistle. What does that conjure up for you? Oh, like a fair outside a medieval castle.

Oh, yes, yes. I was thinking that. Or just walking through the woods towards the magic fireway tree. That's right. Yeah, I like the medieval castle though, the fair. Yeah. All right, this one Katrina describes as an out-of-tune recorder, as if there's any other type.

Here we go. That brings back some flashbacks to my sister's year of playing the recorder in the bedroom next to mine. And a recorder pierces the... Pierces the soul. In every corner of the house. There's no escape from the recorder, is there? There is none. The recorder will track you down.

That's right. I remember being at school and everyone in the room having a recorder, you know, along with their stationery at the start of the year. So everyone carries it around in their pencil case. You go to music class and there's, you know, 30 recorders all going off at once at different times. And I just think this music teacher, the patience. Just for you, Tim, I'm going to stack 30 tracks of Katrina's recorder

on top of each other. We'll have a listen. We're getting some good ones now, though. No offence to the early ones, but I think Katrina was just warming up there. Yep. Let's have a bit of violin. I mean that's classy Oh yeah Yeah

No question That's classy Coming into her own there Yeah Talk about multi-talented How about some piano accordion Talk about being played outside a fair. Oh, well, yes. Now she's just showing off.

Yeah. And finally, we have the ukulele. And this time we also have some singing We have a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabric that you can institute. A sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. Ah, lovely. What a catastrophic waste of all that classical musical training. Churning out sofa shop covers.

I mean, that's impressive. She's an orchestra on her own. I know, I know. Incredible. Very good. Thank you. Look, I'm going to put it out there, Tim. She's been on the show.

Yep. She's played the sofa shop in a church. Yep. Live to a crowd. She's probably one of the only people ever to play the sofa shop to a crowd live. During a church service. During a church service. During a church service. She submitted six covers of the sofa shop on six different instruments.

Yep. Unmade Colonel. Wow. What an honour for her. Do you think? I mean, you have to approve it. You always have to face her every week. I'm not sure I'd be willing to veto something like that i i think i think that's well

deserved i think impressive i think she's in i think she's the third uh inductee to the unmade colonel pantheon yes all right well what an honor yeah i mean really yeah what a great day no longer a waste of classical training at all i'll tell you you what, when I go home and make the official certificate and emboss it with the seal, I'll send it to you and you can present it to her in front of the congregation. Absolutely. What a big moment. Yes, yes.

And I'll have it on the pulpit. Then I'll hand it over from the pulpit. On the pulpit 2000. Oh, hand it over from the pulpit. On the pulpit 2000. Oh, yes. Nice. Congratulations, Katrina. Well done. Congratulations to you.

We've got some more covers, though. Unbelievably, we do have some covers that aren't from Katrina. Some have slipped through. Yeah. As hard as that is to believe, let me find them. Some really impressive ones coming from right around the world. Yeah. We have got, seriously, we've got so many, we're not going to get anywhere near doing them all today. So, we're just going to try and do a few each week. So, if you've sent one in and

we're not playing it today, it doesn't mean we haven't heard it and enjoyed it. It just means we've just got to eke them out. Let's start with one that I think is going to be very special to Tim. This comes from someone who has sent one in before. He writes under various names. So this comes from the artist formerly known as Chippendale, who did the country music one, you may remember. But now he's gone for a new hit version of The Sofa Shop by Nick Cave and the Good Seats, he calls it.

Ah, right. I see what he's done there. Instead of Nick Cave and the Good Seats, he calls it. Ah, right. I see what he's done there. Instead of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. And it's called Into My Armchairs. For those of you who know Nick Cave, well, you'll get the joke. And here's the song. The sofa shop is the only stop For the sofa that you need

We have a design just for you Make your fabrics match your curtains too The sofa shop won't cost you what you think it will Don't you do a thing Until you fall Into my own Chess Into my own

Chess Into my own Chess Into my own. Chairs into my own. Chairs. So he's obviously mapped the lyrics onto Into My Arms. Rather than go for the Sofa Shop melody, he's gone for Nick Cave's song, but changed the words, which is a different way to attack the problem. Oh, yes.

I mean, I love Nick Cave, so this resonates with me. I think this is very impressive. Is it a good impersonation for you? I think it's pretty good. I think it's amazing. Yeah, very impressive. Yeah. Because you love Nick Cave so much, you don't see it as kind of like,

you know, and you love the Sofashop so much, you don't see it as like a double desecration or anything? Oh, no, no, no. It's like you get your two best friends together and you have a wonderful meal, you know? It's marvellous. No, I think it's great. It's a tribute. Brilliant.

Well done. Thank you very much. Now, how appropriate that we have this one after Tim spoke at length about Bob Dylan. This comes from Alf. Hey, guys. Massive fan of the podcast. I found this old version of Bob Dylan covering the Sofa Shop song. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the hard work you guys do. That makes the Unmade podcast a thing. So thanks for all that hard work you do, Tim. I know how hard you work on it. Well, that's all right. Here we go the sofa shop, yeah, come on, drop in We have the sofa designed for you Choose your fabric, match your curtains too, yes you can

The sofa shop, it ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. There's no moment in any of these tributes that sound more ridiculous than that moment when they sing Choose your fabric, match your curtains That's when it just becomes so bass, isn't it? That is incredible, that is incredible, isn't it? That's really great

He does make choosing your curtains to sound like a defiant 1960s moment We will all get to one day match our curtains with our sofas. That's right. Don't let your parents choose your curtains. You can do it. You choose your curtains. Break free. You.

You. That is brilliant. I love it. I love it. Well done. Well done to you. How about this one, Dem? You up for a bit of blues?

Not usually, no. No? Oh, we'll skip that one. No, let's hit... We've got... Hello, Pastor Tim and Dr Brady. I am from Canada, so I can't not mention that. More specifically, Steinbach, Manitoba.

It's already quite cold here, getting below zero degrees at night, and I'm sure the two of you don't have that issue in Australia. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so I thought I'd put together a sofa shop interpretation in a blues chord progression. It's not as wonderfully recorded and edited as many of your other submissions, because I don't have any equipment at home for that.

I hope you'll still enjoy my humble phone recording on the keyboard in my basement. From Tyson. The sofa shot is your only start For the sofa you need The sofa shot, hey, come on and drop in We've got a sofa inside for you Choose your fabric matching curtains too

A sofa shot ain't gonna cost what you think it will Don't you do a thing until you see the soul for sure Dyson doesn't sound like he's got the blues at all. He sounds quite happy, doesn't he? You reckon? Hmm. I'm pretty impressed by that, though. Like, for him, he's, like, apologising.

Oh, sorry, this is just something I've done in the basement on my phone. If I had made that, that would be, like like the greatest thing i'd ever made in my life that's well done yeah that's good talent thank you all right let's have a couple of more out there ones this one is uh dedicated to craft work hi guys the title says it all i got inspired to make a craft work themed cover nothing oozes technology and stark futurism like a nice comfortable couch so the connection seemed only natural here it is couch work under my alias visor 5000 from the netherlands he's from the netherlands you have connections with the Netherlands, don't you? Some fair... Oh, yes, my dad's Dutch.

Oh, yes, yes, your dad. I always forget that. Your dad's Dutch. Here's Vasa5000 from the Netherlands doing a couch work. ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ ਸੋ Thank you. That should be released. That's magnificent. It just was. That is brilliant. Yeah. Yeah. I like a bit of craft work, and I tell you, that's good.

Yeah. I like that more the more I listen to it. I do like the little chord bit. Oh, there are layers to it. No, that's good. I like that. All right, let's continue. This one comes from Jeven from Bournemouth. I hope I'm not too late to join the party.

You're never too late to join the Sofa Shop Party, Jevon. But I would like to present my submission for the Sofa Shop Covers project. It's a project now. After hearing the fantastically high calibre of the entries so far, I decided to take inspiration from a film franchise that I think we are all particularly fond of. I give you Sofa Wars. Thank you both for making one of my all-time favourite podcasts.

Keep up the good work. Here's Sofa Wars. ¶¶ That's great. I kind of like how at Star Wars each character has their own theme. Like, you know, there's Leia's theme and Anakin's theme and Luke's theme. They have the players when they come on. Like, when is the sofa shop theme used in Star Wars? Whenever they're sitting on a sofa, I guess. When they they're shopping for a sofa where there's some good sofa moments like in return of the jedi i always envied the emperor his sort of lovely swivel sofa that he

has there or when even in jedi when they're planning the um they're planning the attack and they're sitting in that kind of 70s bowl like where they're all like sitting on sofas like planning the final attack and stuff like that. Yeah. In the original Star Wars, they go into the, is it the cantina? Is that what it's called? Yes. And sit down in those little booths.

Yeah, yeah. Those round booths. And even when Obi-Wan takes Luke back to his place, like to, you know, sits him down and he pulls the stuff out of the trunk, you could play a bit of sofa shop at that moment as well. These are all moments they could have used the Sofa Shop theme from Jevon. I like it. Oh, nice.

I wonder if, wouldn't it have added a lot to Star Wars if Uncle Owen bought, like, the droids off the Jawas and a sofa as well? Choose your droids and match your sofa too or something? I have to go to the Tashi station to buy some sofas some curtains too hey uncle arman what what about that brown one what about that brown velvet one we'll take that brown velvet one too oh that's great uh all right let's do let's do one more this is one of my personal favorites it's not like an impersonation or anything it's just it's just one i really like it comes from

kenneth hi tim and brady i study songwriting and production at lipa in liverpool however i'm actually from norway i've listened to your podcast since you started, and I still really enjoy listening to you two guys. I thought I'd try my hand at tackling the daunting task that is a cover of the Sofa Shop jingle. So here's my fairly simple acoustic contribution. Hope you enjoy it. Take it away, Kenneth. The Sofa Shop is your only stop for the sofa you need.

This shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. This sofa shop, yeah, come on, drop in. We got a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabrics, match your curtains too. Yeah, this sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. I'm reading a biography of Paul Simon at the moment, and I think that's a little bit, there's a bit of Simon and Garfunkel in there,

some lovely folk, lovely constructed, beautiful, clean playing. I just really like his voice. I just really like his singing voice. I just find it very pleasurable to listen to. Yeah. I can't think who he reminds me of, but there's something there. He does sound a bit like a couple of, particularly early on, he does sound a little bit Scandi.

Like I can kind of tell he's from Norway. But just, yeah. It's unique. I like it. Lovely work. Sign that man. Come on, someone out there listening. Well, this has been a discovery.

We've highlighted it. We are. We're the kingmakers. We're the colonel. The colonel Tom Parker of Super Shock. So there we go. You can unmadefm at gmail.com is the way to get in touch with Tim and I. Send in your covers.

We're not begging for them because we've certainly got plenty, but we still keep sending them in because we'll keep playing them. We still want to launch that streaming service. That's right. Yes, we're going to need about 30,000 more. I think we're going to get there at this point. Yes, thank you, everyone. Thank you to those who have sent them in gone to the hard work well done don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop