The Unmade Podcast - 69: The Non-Revolving Restaurant
Episode Date: December 19, 2020Tim and Brady discuss The Beatles, a KFC movie, notices, overhead projectors, Mrs Hein's AMA, a list reading, bed time, Fat Cat, a challenging ad read, Spoon of the Week (including our Unmade Podcast ...Spoon at last), some iconic Adelaide locations, incomplete projects, and The Corrs. Go to Storyblocks for stock video, pictures and audio at storyblocks.com/unmade - https://www.storyblocks.com/unmade And the video for our A-Z game can be found here - https://youtu.be/adqdw3z4wWQ Hover - register your domain now and get 10% off by going to hover.com/unmade - https://www.hover.com/Unmade Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://redd.it/kgixcl USEFUL LINKS Thanks Joe for today's cover and check out many of our Sofa Shop Covers here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNeH_Kpl1ZgpeiNeJ-oiAQ Here's the trailer for Recipe for Seduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55fudJSUvE featuring the sexy Colonel Sanders, and we have since found the whole 'mini movie' here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0e7Bj_7T3k Mrs Hein's AMA - ask me anything - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44984920 The latest Patreon list reading - on YouTube only and anyone can view it - https://youtu.be/nSo3gnvCWyg Fat Cat goes to bed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kZwsFZZ-8 Try the Storyblocks A-Z challenge - https://youtu.be/adqdw3z4wWQ Unveiling of the Unmade Podcast Spoon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44927984 Pictures of all Spoons of the Week, including today's - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-week Glenelg, Adelaide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenelg,_South_Australia Glenelg on Mars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenelg,_Mars The Old Gum Tree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Gum_Tree The Buffalo - https://www.thebuffalo.com.au/hms-buffalo-replica/ And news of it being demolished - https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSAdelaide/videos/buffalo-ship-at-glenelg-to-be-demolished/340261019916421/ The Revolving Restaurant - https://indaily.com.au/news/business/2020/05/11/revolving-restaurant-rebirth/ The Corrs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrs Sagrada FamÃlia - https://sagradafamilia.org/en/
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Hey everyone, quick pre-show message.
In today's episode, there's an unusually high number of things that relate to videos and
images that you might want to look at while you're listening.
So I've put links in the notes, but also you might want to watch the YouTube version of
this episode where all the videos and images sync up with what we're saying.
You can find that on the Unmade Podcast YouTube channel, or again, a link in the notes.
All right, let's begin.
In Adelaide there was a shop called Berkowitz, but everybody knew the name was wrong.
And all the people who come along can't stop singing the song.
Stop singing the song The Sofa Shop
Is the only stop
For the sofa you need
For the sofa you need
The Sofa Shop
Yeah, come and drop in
On Halifax Street
Or maybe somewhere else
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 so that sofa shop cover comes from jo, who's a multiple contributor, Tim.
That's remarkable, wasn't it?
I mean, really, that's incredible.
Are you familiar with the work of the Beatles, man?
Do you go back that far?
I know them.
I am familiar with their work.
My dad was a big, big Beatles fan.
My dad was around when the Beatles formed.
Your dad was around when actual Beatles formed in evolution.
Joe, who composed the song, said,
I was digging through my own dad's cassette tape collection and found this old relic.
It seems to be an early demo of the Beatles' Penny Lane, but with different lyrics.
I don't know why they decided to change it, but it's certainly a tragedy it was never released. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks again
for making such a great show. I do visit KFC every time a new episode comes out, so the anticipation
is twofold. Hope you both well. Joe. I like that she set it up with a bit of a bit of a narrative too that's nice work i think joe's a boy oh oh well
thanks joe i'm just so used to the other joe who's uh yeah colonel joe who's a lady colonel joe yeah
yeah indeed yeah that's marvelous work because it's penny lane obviously and yeah which famously
was released like as a single and and should ended up on Sgt. Pepper's, which would have improved a great album even more, but didn't.
I like it.
I like Penny Lane.
Do you get a KFC every time a new episode comes out?
Or do you double up and get a new KFC every time you record one and then when it's released?
I'm kind of, I do it in the reverse order.
That is, it's the one night of the week I don't get KFC.
You get your endorphin rush from the show so you don't need the kfc i switched somewhere along the line and i have kfc
every night except when an episode comes out so that i find that motivating for us to record more
because you know like it's good for my health just to resist and hold back.
By the way, thank you to every single person on Twitter and Instagram who contacted us to let us know about this new KFC romance movie.
I think it's on some like Lifetime channel or something. with this channel and they've made this romantic film about like a young muscle-bound Colonel
Sanders having like, you know, racy romance-y type meals in Boone. And we've seen the trailer,
but we haven't got our hands on the actual film yet here in England or Tim in Australia. So,
if anyone's got a copy of the whole film that can help us watch it, we want to watch it and
review it for you all. But so far, we've just had tantalising glimpses of the trailer.
How awesome would it be to sit down with some
KFC and watch a film about the Colonel? That would be
amazing. That would be truly something. He has a secret recipe that's
going to change the world. Harlan claims to have some secret recipe. A secret recipe?
Is that guy playing the Colonel the guy that was in Saved by the Bell?
He looks like him.
Oh, he does look a bit like him.
And I think he does some hosting of some, you know,
like sportsy sort of shows as well, like eSports or something like that.
He's popped up somewhere else on some documentary I've noticed.
I'm going to look him up.
Mario Lopez.
Yes, it is.
Yeah, it's that guy.
Wow.
Oh, look, that's two very impressive credits under his belt.
Like, how could you improve on Saved by the Bell?
I know.
Play the Colonel in a racy romance movie.
Saved by the Bell.
I know.
Play the Colonel in a racy romance movie.
I guess they had Michael Keaton did the founder, you know, the history of McDonald's. And that was a very successful film.
It's quite an intriguing film, too.
So I was always wondering whether they would do something about the Colonel.
I didn't know they'd go this kind of angle, though.
This is really something else.
Who the hell are you?
Harlan Sandersers the new chef
it's uh it's quite something anyway watch this space i'll put a link to the trailer in the notes
for the episode but we'll uh we'll try and talk to you about the film time for a bit of uh
housekeeping i don't know we always call it housekeeping is that the right name at in your
church services when you do that little thing at the start where there are messages about, you know,
there's a new lock on the toilets and we're having a meeting on Wednesday and stuff like that.
Like, you know, just like basic stuff, like, you know, that you have to do that's not about church.
What do you call that?
Like those messages?
We put a lot of it in the community update email, you know, about when the kids club's happening and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
But the- and a link to like last week's sermon, that sort of thing.
But if it's mentioned in the church, we call it notices.
There's a few notices of stuff that's going on.
Don't forget, you know, the Christmas services this week at this time and that kind of thing.
Should we call it notices then or should we call it community update or civilian update?
Civilian update.
Yeah, yeah. Civilian update? it notices then or should we call it community update or civilian update civilian update yeah yeah civilian update i think we call it housekeeping because it's kind of clearing stuff out the way before we can get down to business but yeah we never seem to really get
down to business no i mean we're like 70 episodes in and we still haven't got down to business
what is our business i don't know i don I don't know. But I do have some notices
or some civilian updates. Notices. I like notices. You know what you should have is a nice PowerPoint
slide to go with your notices. I have to say, like when I came along to your church, because,
you know, I don't go to church that much these days. So, I haven't sat through many church
services. One of the big disappointments was the use of PowerPoint.
Why was that disappointing?
I don't know.
Because you remember.
Yeah, it's just like I like to think of churches as old fashioned with full of like stained glass windows and nice wooden pews and things like that.
And seeing PowerPoint in that environment just jars.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm sorry.
Look, to be honest, I actually quite agree with you.
I don't like a big, like churches are very high tech now.
You have multiple screens and images and moving images
and all that kind of stuff, like a rock video clip or something,
you know, like a pop, you know, like if you go to see Justin Bieber,
you know, screens and everything everywhere.
But ours is an older building and I like to play to that.
So at the moment we're not using it at all.
Like, for this Christmas season, we've like, get rid of the screen,
let's print it out old school style with lovely artwork.
Yeah.
So, you should come this month, man.
All right.
Well, I'll tell a great – I'll quickly tell a great story.
Apologies if I've told this on the podcast before because I tell this story
all the time, but it's one of my favourites.
And it's about our good mate, Chris, who seems to come up on the podcast more than we do.
But when he was a youngster, he used to go to church
and it was in the days of overhead projectors.
They would all sing their songs at the start and sing along.
And someone had the job on the overhead projector
of changing the transparencies that had the lyrics to the songs,
the words to the songs, so everyone could sing along.
And obviously, the songs would change,
so you'd have to put a new transparency on,
or maybe the song was quite long and required multiple transparencies
to keep up with the lyrics.
And he used to sit at the back of the church,
and obviously you would see the shadow of the person's hand
go over the projector as they change the transparencies.
And for many, many years, he thought that giant hand up on the wall was God telling
all the people what song they were supposed to be singing.
This giant hand of God, now you will sing this song.
That is awesome.
That is awesome.
That is wonderful.
Yeah.
Of all the things God could be doing in church,
he's like, he's been given that job.
It's like, you're an overhead projector this way.
It's a big job.
That is wonderful. That is fantastic is fantastic yeah there you go i read i read the other day another little church story i read the other day a guy
was saying that they they they were singing some like it's like a really old-fashioned
lovely hymn which had the the line at the end you know make me forever thine you know which
is the old-fashioned king james way of saying forever yours so make me forever thine, you know, which is the old-fashioned King James way of saying forever yours.
So make me forever thine.
But someone, the E had dropped off the end on the PowerPoint.
Make me forever thin.
That'd get me going to church.
Well, that's it.
He says, I just raised my hands and sang with more gusto than I'd ever sang.
So back to our notices.
Just to let people know, a couple of episodes ago,
we featured Mrs. Hine in our Wholesome episode.
And since then, a little thing that we did off the podcast,
but we did over on the Patreon page,
is Mrs. Hine agreed to do an Ask Me Anything.
So we taught her what an Ask Me Anything was. And a bunch of Patreon supporters posted questions for her
that she answered. So if you would like to go and see them, you don't have to be a Patreon supporter.
That page is unlocked so anyone can look at it. It was just the patrons that were asking the
questions. But if you want to go and see that kind of Q&A, I will put a link in the notes.
That was very good fun for me because I spent a couple of nights
texting your mum all sorts of questions and then waiting for her answers.
Very enjoyable.
Yeah, and how proficient was mum on the text with you, man?
Was that an easy...
She was all right.
No, she was all right.
She was good.
It took her a while and she didn't use punctuation the way I would,
but that doesn't mean she's wrong.
I do think she found it a little bit exhausting though
because on the third night she texted me and said,
oh, I'm really tired, Brady.
I just need to go to sleep.
I can't do it.
So I said, oh, I think you've done enough.
She probably had a hard day like buying carrots or something.
Yeah.
Well, you know she's always on the lookout for glazed ginger.
That's right, yeah.
Up and back, up and down, up and down Marion Shopping Centre.
It's always fun.
We always talk about, with Mum, about her ability to walk somewhere.
So if it's like, okay, Mum, we're going to go to the movies or something
or we're going to go to the football, and then she's like,
oh, I don't know if I could walk all that way.
And I'll say, but Mum, you go to Marion Shopping Centre,
a big Westfield shopping centre, and you walk back.
You do laps of the place, right, shopping.
I said, so I always measure things for her like it's two Marion
Shopping Centre lengths.
And in her mind it's like, oh, I can do that.
That's how Olympic running races should be measured.
mind it's like oh i can do that that's how olympic running races should be measured who won the three marion shopping centers this year
if there is just one reason to go along and have a look at those q and a's on the ask me anything
it is because mrs hein shared the recipe for her ginger cake, her Dutch ginger cake.
She gave that away quite freely.
I thought we would hold on to that as a bit of a family secret.
No, no, she's no Colonel Sanders.
She's open source with the herbs and spices.
He has a secret recipe that's going to change the world.
Harlan claims to have some secret recipe.
A secret recipe?
Coincidentally, Mum's Dutch ginger cake also has 11 herbs and spices.
That's why it has such an interesting taste.
And just another thing to let people know about that they can go
and find elsewhere that they won't find in the podcast feed,
and that is our second ever Patreon list reading.
This time it was my turn, but Tim joined me.
You can go and check that out.
Again, there'll be links and a link on the YouTube channel, reading this time it was my turn uh but tim joined me you can go and check that out there again
there'll be links and a link on the youtube channel and there's a bit of fun and joking
around beforehand and during and after so it's a bit like it's a bit like a normal episode you
know good fun but with vast tracks of me attempting to read names in between so do go and have a look
you did a great job you were very smooth oh thank. Here's a little taste of what it sounds like so you know what you're in for.
William Schneider.
Niharika Prasad.
Andrew Canyon.
Sophie Morris.
Cold underscore ankles.
And there's also a little bonus section where Tim does some Donald Duck voices.
Preben L. Madsen.
Richard Doyle.
But it's good fun, so go and have a listen if you like.
And that is the end of Notices.
What's our next song?
Oh, no, wait, hang on.
Yeah, we've got to wait for God to tell us with his giant hand.
Giant hand and the overhead projector.
Some of our listeners may not know overhead projectors,
but they were everywhere for a while, weren't they?
We had them in classrooms, and it's how teachers would stand there
and give us notes, writing it on that clear, is it cellophane or what is it, you
know, that would put it up on the screen?
It's not cellophane.
Cellophane's like light and crinkly.
What is it called, that stuff?
I don't know what that plastic's called.
I wonder if there were people who thought like the future would be everyone would have
overhead projectors in their pocket, like miniaturised overhead projectors on their wrists,
like visionaries thought that everyone will have their own personal
overhead projectors in the future.
How wrong they were.
All right.
Podcast ideas.
You go first.
I've been carrying this thing for a while, so why don't you go first?
You've been carrying it, yeah.
All right. Well, I have got some good ideas, but I haven't gone
too far from the path today because hot on the heels of my idea in the last episode,
where I did my wake up call idea, I want to do a podcast called The Bedtime Podcast.
And this is kind of the opposite of what my idea was last time. Last time, my idea was
people talking as soon as they wake up. The bedtime podcast is a podcast recorded
after you've gotten into bed. So you're all snuggled up maybe with your hot drink or your
water and you've pulled the blankets over yourself and you're all warm and you're just reflecting on
the day. And then you just do a quick little call, maybe, you know, quick call to your co-host and you just talk about your day. How was your day? How are you feeling?
You've got, it's sort of very peaceful, relaxing, and it's kind of just a full stop
to the day. A little chat between you and your listeners at the end of the day.
And a lot of my inspiration for this comes from childhood. Do you remember when we were kids, Channel 10 used to,
I don't know what time they did it, was it seven or eight o'clock?
I don't even know.
They would show this 30-second clip of Fat Cat going to bed.
Do you remember that?
No, because I grew up in Victoria in Melbourne, so it's a bit...
Didn't you? It was Fat Cat.
So Fat Cat, for people who don't know, was like a children's TV show.
And Fat Cat himself, I think Fat Cat was a man,
was a person in a giant cat suit.
You know, so kids loved Fat Cat.
Fat Cat and Friends, the show it was called.
But what Channel 10 did, I think, as a bit of a community service
and to help parents persuade kids to go to bed,
was at the same time each night like
during the ads before that grown-up tv show started there would be this little clip with
nice bedtime music and like the host of the show who i think was patsy bisco would be putting fat
cat like to bed and he'd be getting in his giant bed and in his cat suit and she'd be putting the
blanket on him or something and and there'd be like nice music and it would be getting in his giant bed and in his cat suit and she'd be putting the blanket on him or something and there'd be, like, nice music
and it would be explained from the TV that it's bedtime
and that's why Fat Cat's going to bed.
And I think parents could then use that to their kids and say,
oh, look, see, Fat Cat's going to bed, so now you can go to bed.
We would now like to remind everyone
that some of the programs to follow
are possibly not suitable for children.
So from all of us here
at channel 10 it's good night girls and boys so it was just it was just this sweet thing that was
done every night and i used to love it like i used to it was a real like totem pole it was a
landmark of the night and i like the idea of the bedtime podcast being that it's something you
listen to every night maybe it just recaps the news of the day.
It could be very personal, like what the hosts did today.
Or it could just be, oh, what was in the news today?
Or what's going on in the world?
Or you could adapt the idea and you could have guests and you talk to them as they're going to bed.
I think there are lots of different ways you could do the bedtime podcast.
That's true.
That's true.
Pillow talk would be another name for this.
Maybe a little bit too obvious.
It also might be a little bit racy.
I don't know.
It might give people the wrong idea.
But unless it's a racy podcast.
With Fat Cat.
If you want to veer away from my Fat Cat idea.
Just to clarify as well, you mentioned Fat Cat getting into bed in his catsuit.
Just to clarify, it's not like Fat Cat got into a catsuit.
Fat Cat is the catsuit.
Yeah, but for people that haven't seen it, for people who've never seen Fat Cat,
I want them to picture what it is.
And it's like it's an adult in a giant catsuit getting into bed.
That's right.
It's not like a four-legged small cat getting into its basket. It kind of has this kind of humanoid getting into bed. That's right. So, you know, it's not like a four-legged small cat getting into its basket.
It kind of has this kind of humanoid getting into bed look about it that would help persuade
the kids.
Like Donald Duck doesn't get into a duck suit.
Like, he is a duck suit.
Like, he is.
I know.
Oh, look, I found Patsy Visco.
Did you ever see these fat cat going to bed?
Have you ever even seen it?
I don't.
I didn't watch it.
I used to watch fat cat. So, I know know fat cat used to watch it lots and lots i didn't like it a lot but it
was just kind of on in the morning as a very young kid yeah i have a vague memory of this was not a
regular thing that i would watch but i think i have i know what you mean i think i've seen it
before on some nostalgic you know remember when sort of show or something yeah more research is
going to be done into this. I'm going to find.
Here it is.
SAS 10.
That's Adelaide.
1984.
Yeah, this is it.
I found it, man.
I found it.
All right.
Do you want to see it?
Yeah, yeah.
Send it.
Just make sure I'm sending it to you and not my wife, because that will be hard to explain.
Patsy Biscoe, she was sort of like a host that went off to become quite big, didn't
she?
Oh, yeah. She was like a children's musician as well. She was sort of like a host That went off to become Quite big didn't she Oh yeah
She was like a
Children's musician as well
She was quite a good guitarist
Oh yeah Fat Cat's not being put to bed
By Patsy Biscoe
It's by like a mother cat
Who is this mother cat
I don't know
I don't know
Fat Cat like reads
For like about 10 seconds
And then like just
Goes to sleep
But he kind of looks like
He's passing out
Because he puts
Because Fat Cat's eyes Don't close, the big plastic eyes don't close,
the actor has to put their big paw over the eyes.
It's quite weird.
Because it would look weird if a fat cat just lay in bed
with his eyes wide open.
Who is this mother cat?
So they went and got another cat suit made just for this,
but we never see fat cat's mum on any other occasion.
Well, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
There's lots of questions to be answered here.
But anyway.
Were you a bigger fan of Fat Cat than you were of Humphrey Bear?
No, I would say I was more a Humphrey Bee Bear guy than Fat Cat.
But I did like a bit of Fat Cat too.
And if you don't know who Humphrey is, just Google that.
He's a bit of a legend.
We'll have all the links will be in the notes, people.
It's going to be an absolute smorgasbord of links in the notes today
for weird stuff to watch.
There you go.
Bedtime, the bedtime podcast.
Look, can I say, I think this is a pretty good idea.
Can I just say, there's one thing that marks conversations
like this at night, though, and that is kind of long pauses.
You know, like you sort of go, oh, wet today or something like that
or rainy and you go, yeah.
And then you sort of go back to reading your book or whatever
and there's a lot of, hmm, hmm.
And it's like, and then there's a lot of remind me comments.
Like, remind me to X, Y, Z.
Remind me to do it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
And like, what time are you getting up tomorrow?
What are you getting up?
It's like, oh, I've got so-and-so.
Oh.
All right.
Yeah.
All right.
Remind me to get eggs.
Remind me.
Well, the podcast could be that if you want.
That's just like long pauses, yeah.
Or since the invention of the iPad, I think 90% of going to bed conversations are a wife on realestate.com going, oh, this one looks nice.
There's also banned subjects, any subjects that cause anxiety
or could prevent sleep.
So you would never say, I'm a bit worried about that leak in the bathroom.
Like that's not to be brought up at 10 o'clock at night.
That's right.
Yeah, the to-do list is done.
It's closed.
We're not adding to it.
Or you can add to it for tomorrow.
But can you send me an email reminding me to do that?
That's one comment that I often see.
Oh, have you heard about that axe murderer that's been breaking into homes lately?
Who's that guy at the foot of the bed?
It's like, not now.
Yeah, it's not a time for jokes and pranks as well, I've learned.
So, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cool.
All right.
Nice idea.
Job done.
Job done.
It's time for Storyblocks, who are the sponsor of today's episode.
And, Tim, I've got a special brilliant idea
for this Storyblocks section
that we're going to do in just a second.
I have devised a game involving Storyblocks,
but before we do, I have to do the essential bit
so people know what Storyblocks is
in case they're first time ever listeners.
Storyblocks is a great online resource.
It's a library of stock footage, pictures, audio,
a huge amount of material that you can use in your creations, whatever you're making. You pay
a once monthly fee and you can use it all royalty free. Go to storyblocks.com slash unmade to check
it out. Make sure you use the slash unmade so people know you came from here.
Now, Tim.
Yes.
To demonstrate the amazingness of this library of material,
I have done something.
I've made a little game, a little thing that I'm going to spring on you now.
You don't know what's coming.
Now, people who are listening,
you can either just listen to how this unfolds or you can play along as well. And I will include the links so you can do so. So, Tim, what I've done is I've made a short video called the A to Z
of Storyblocks. And what you're going to see is 26 videos, 26 video shots that I've taken from Storyblocks.
And each one has a letter, A, B, C, D, all the way through the alphabet.
So, in the top left corner, you will see a letter of the alphabet and they go in order, alphabetical order.
And you'll see a video and you'll have a few seconds looking at that shot.
And I want you to tell me what the word is that starts with that letter.
So the first thing could be an aardvark and there could be an A at the top
and you just have to say aardvark and then you wait for the next shot,
which will be the letter B and there'll be a shot of something starting with B.
Make sense?
So I'm simply describing, saying what I see.
Is that right?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
It's like, you know, see the picture
and see if you can guess what the word I'm trying to convey is.
Most of them are very easy.
A couple of them may not be.
I don't know, you know, because I made it.
It's obvious to me.
I don't know how easy this will be.
All right, so Tim and I have both got the video ready to run.
You might want to have it ready to run as well.
And Tim, on the count of three, when I say three,
we'll both press play.
So we won't stop here.
I'm just going to say it, then it'll move to the next.
It's going to say it.
And so if there's one you don't get, the pressure's on
because you might have to pass if you can't get it in time.
There's no pausing.
High pressure.
Okay.
High pressure.
Okay.
When I say three, you press play.
One. All right. Okay. High pressure. Okay. When I say three, you press play. One.
All right.
Two.
Three.
Apple.
Yeah.
Brain.
Yes.
Crocodile.
Well done.
I don't know.
Elephant.
All right.
Feet. Elephant. All right.
Feet.
Grease.
Hippopotamus.
Ice.
Ice water.
Jesus.
Koala.
Lights.
Or LED. I don't know. Lights. Or LED.
I don't know.
Noodles.
Owl.
Potato.
Quill.
Roof.
Surfing. Or surf. Surfing.
Or surf.
Tunnel.
Udder.
Is it the Vatican?
I don't know, wilderness, is it?
Xylophone.
Yoke.
And zipper.
There you go.
How fun was that?
That was great.
I could keep going.
Let's do more letters.
Don't stop at 26.
It's a pity.
It's a pity.
I could just make these for you all day. And I could, Tim, because there is so much incredible footage on Storyblocks.
No matter what you're looking for, they're going to have it.
So you're saying there's more than 26 bits of video on Storyblocks.
There most definitely is.
Shall we go through the ones you didn't get?
Yes.
So you didn't get D, that was the skyline of Dubai.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
I've been to Dubai, but only in of Dubai. Oh, right. Yeah.
I've been to Dubai, but only in the airport, so, yep.
L, you said lights, which I thought you might have said.
I was actually looking for lasers.
Oh, I think I switched it to LED.
Yes.
Yeah.
Slightly more specific, but wrong.
M, you didn't get, that was the Milky Way.
Oh, of course.
W was a witch.
She had a broomstick.
She had a woman in the hood with her broomstick.
It was like wilderness or wind, I even thought,
because it was a bit shadowy.
Storyblocks.com slash unmade.
Anything you want.
Knock yourselves out.
Maybe you could make your own A to Z from Storyblocks material and send it to us and we'll get Tim to give it a go.
Yes, yes.
I'd love it.
That's a fun game.
It's like...
As if you're not going to go home and play that with your daughters tonight
using my hard-made video.
Oh, no, that's perfect.
That's lovely.
That is one minute and 18 seconds taken care of tonight.
That's right.
No, no, no.
We'll do it twice.
All right.
Tim might need to do it twice.
I think the girls will ace it.
I'll give it another go.
That's right.
So I can do this.
Oh, come on, girls.
That was the Milky Way, you idiots.
All right.
Thank you, Storyblocks.
Well done, Storyblocks.
All right, Tim.
Talk about burying the lead.
We have got something huge now because it is time for...
Spoon of the Week.
And, Tim, before we get to your Spoon of the Week,
I have a Spoon of the Week because the moment has arrived it's here
it's in my hand i'm holding it now i'm holding the display box for the unmade podcast
souvenir spoon which i'm now opening
oh it's in my hand you are so. What a thing of beauty it is.
I know you've only seen pictures so far.
Yours are in the post, but tell me your thoughts.
Well, I think it's one of the truly great achievements of humankind.
I mean...
Engineering.
Indeed, indeed. It should be in a museum.
It's a bit understated.
Understated?
The bottom half's understated.
The bottom half's understated.
The crown, the colours.
It's marvellous.
It really is.
I wouldn't say it's overstated.
No, no, no.
It's regal.
Regal?
I think it's bloody fantastic.
Something that Marie Antoinette would have used?
Maybe I'm looking at it slightly with proud parent eyes.
I don't know because it was such an ordeal.
But, like, I just can't see a flaw in it.
I look at it like, oh, and I get all misty and doe-eyed.
It is something beautiful.
It is.
It's funny that you can just have something like this made of such infinite beauty and it'll last forever.
That's the funny thing.
You make something, it lasts forever.
It'll last a thousand years.
It'll outlast us.
It will.
So nine of them have been sent to lucky Patreon supporters and another one will be sent today.
We'll do a spin of the wheel shortly to see who's getting it.
But first, Tim, let's have an actual Spoon of the Week.
Well, Brady, it's a very exciting spoon this week.
And I think in particularly personally for you,
but I also have a very strong personal connection to this spoon
as well. The spoon tonight is of Glenelg
in South Australia which is a beach
town on the coast near the city of Adelaide
I would call it more a suburb. Yeah I would call it a suburb of Adelaide
But it's sort of the primary beach location,
and that is it's got that sort of little boulevard
where they sell fish and chips and an ice cream.
It's got a jetty, you know, a pier.
It's that kind of place, and a beach.
And it's got a little bit of historical significance too.
So up the top end, what do you call the top end again
where your hand goes? Well, the handle, I guess that's it.
It's the famous ship. It's made like a shield
and it has the buffalo. Now, remind me
Brady, having grown up in here in Adelaide, this is an early
explorer, is that right? Or is this what immigrants came on?
What's the significance of the
buffalo maybe it was governor hein marsh's ship but the first british governor that came to south
australia to like proclaim the state you know uh to be a new colony maybe that was his ship i think
and they they got off the ship at glenelg proclaimed in 1836 that this was a new British colony.
And shortly after, Adelaide was kind of, you know, situated nearby, you know, a number of miles from that particular location.
Adelaide has since expanded to envelop Glenelg.
But Glenelg is where they landed and proclaimed the colony of South Australia,
and I believe the buffalo was the ship.
Is that why we have Proclamation Day?
Is that right?
It is, and that's also why our basketball team's called the Adelaide 36ers
because it was 1836.
I did not know that.
Oh, that's great.
There you go.
Every day's a school day.
They should be called the buffaloes.
And down the scoopy bit is a painting.
I love this when they do a little painting inside the scoopy bit.
And this one is the old gum tree.
Now, again, I don't know, but I know on Proclamation Day,
like the premier's down there, What's this bent over gum tree?
Well, I don't believe it was bent over at the time.
Maybe it was, but that was the,
that distinctive tree is where the proclamation happened inland a bit.
So that's like the site of proclamation.
So it's the location where the colony was officially kind of proclaimed
and the ceremony was held.
So the old gum tree at Glenelg is like, you know,
this historic, has forever been this really historic site.
And the tree, as you say, is sort of bent over.
It's not really alive anymore.
And now it's under like a roof.
They've built a big shelter over it now with corrugated iron to protect it.
But it's still this sort of, you know, historic South Australian site.
Like the old gumree was pretty legendary.
I've only been there a few times myself.
It's like hidden away a bit, but it's like a pretty cool place to go.
It's like a, you know, Adelaide icon.
Where is it?
It's obviously near Glenelg.
Yeah, it's in Glenelg.
It's sort of set back in the suburbs a bit in Glenelg.
I've never been there.
No, it's just like amongst a bunch of houses and stuff.
It's in a park, you know, a little public park
surrounded by houses. It's like in suburbia. But yeah, you should go there.
I'll go and have a look. Yeah, take the kids. Sounds exciting. That's right.
So it's bent over all the time. It's not like they bent it over to make the proclamation
and then, you know, it's been... I don't think so. I think
the tree was upright. I've just gone onto the Wikipedia page, and it says the tree itself,
probably a red gum, had died by 1907.
Its decayed outer surface was encased in concrete in 1963.
All right, so that's like a concrete casing of the tree by the looks of it.
So, I don't know if it was bent over in that way when they did the proclamation
or it was just a nice-looking tree.
It's like, where should we do the proclamation?
Well, let's do it next to this old, this bent tree,
which looks like a bit of an arch, I guess.
It does look, compared to other trees, a little bit interesting.
All right, so that's there.
Yep, yep.
This is actually quite a high-quality spoon, I think, though, on the back.
Like, I think this has got Australian-made silver-plated.
So it's actually silver-plated, which is lovely.
So this is a –
I think it's one of the best spoons you've chosen so far.
Of course, I'm particularly partial to Glenelg because I was born in Glenelg.
I was born at Glenelg Community Hospital.
So I'm a Glenelg boy.
Grew up supporting the Glenelg footy club, the Tigers.
I'm surprised you're not mentioned on the
spoon here man you you don't feature at all well I mean well I think the old gum tree is just like
code for me isn't it like you know that's just what I'm known around town as it is Brady the
old gum tree it is half of a bee on its side I guess yeah it is there is a man standing under the tree with a blue shirt.
Perhaps that's supposed to be you.
Possibly.
I don't know.
He's not wearing, like, soccer playing gear or anything like that,
but it could be you.
So, growing up near Glenelg, like, Glenelg,
from the perspective of being a kid, is kind of like a fun place to go, right?
So, in Melbourne, it's a place called St Kilda.
And, you know, it's like where you'd go on a day off, a day out.
Yeah.
Was because you live nearby, was it that exciting to go to Glenelg?
Was it your local hotspot or?
I mean, I was a couple of suburbs back from Glenelg itself.
I mean, you could drive there in five minutes,
but to me that still seemed a long way away as a kid.
It was still a fun place to go. It was still a. But to me, that still seemed a long way away as a kid. It was still a
fun place to go. It was still a novel place to go, but it was less novel than going into Adelaide
City Centre. That was a rarer thing to do. Going to Glenelg, you'd probably do once every two or
three weeks, maybe. And then going into Adelaide City Centre is something you'd do every couple
of months, maybe. Right, right. I forgot the name of the term, but Glenelg,
what is it when a word reads the same forwards and backwards?
A palindrome.
That's right, yeah.
Well, Glenelg is a palindrome as well.
So that's another novel.
Also, one of the areas on Mars where one of those rovers went,
they kept naming the areas where the rovers were going,
got called Glenelg as well.
So for a while there was all this talk about the latest picture from Glenelg on Mars when the rover was taking pictures.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah.
So, that got me pretty excited.
Do you know how this spoon came to be in the family?
Just, you know, just accumulated by your mum and dad?
Oh, look, it's very unsurprising.
Glenelg features heavily in our family history, primarily because it's near where Dad, when he came out from
Holland with his first family, you know, they lived near Glenelg and they were, Dad like came
to support football at the Glenelg Tigers that you mentioned before. And that's why years and
years later when he'd married again and had me living even in another state, I became a Tigers supporter of Richmond, you know,
an entirely different team in the Victorian League
because of Dad's passion for the Tigers as a young immigrant.
Oh, well done, man.
I was worried you weren't going to shoehorn Richmond Football Club
into this section, but you've done it.
You led me there.
You led me to water.
That's right.
So Dad loved Glenelg.
And, you know, there's that drive down Glenelg with all those big high pine trees.
Yep.
Collie Reserve.
Right, okay, yep.
And dad remembers them being – he used to talk about them
when they were very small trees.
As a kid I was like astonished as if that was hundreds of years ago.
When your dad was around, the old gum tree was just called the gum tree.
That's right.
The sapling. That's right. The sapling.
That's right.
The proclamation sapling.
Your dad planted the old gum tree.
We should have your dad so old jokes.
Your dad's so old he planted the old gum tree.
Your dad's so old he sold the buffalo to governor hindmarsh
hey you know there was the buffalo replica that was a restaurant down at glenelg um i do yeah
look i'm assuming it's a replica because it was a replica yeah the other day it was just like
torn down.
Yeah, it was.
Do you know, like for people who don't know,
there's this little kind of marina area for boats down at Glenelg and they built this replica of the old Buffalo ship,
the famous ship that Governor Hindmarsh used,
and they just put it in the marina and it was like an onboard restaurant.
It was a restaurant in the water.
And do you know what? I never once set foot on it. And to me, it was like an onboard restaurant. It was a restaurant in the water. And do you know what?
I never once set foot on it.
And to me, it was like a dream.
It was like the paradigm of fine dining.
And I dreamed of one day being able to go to the restaurant
on the Buffalo at Glenelg and it never, ever happened
and it never will now.
No.
Well, I saw it the other day when it was half torn down.
You know, the guys are just sort of, you know, dismantling it.
I went, oh, I wanted to go there.
And then I think back over the hours.
Even years ago when I lived here, when I was younger,
the hours upon hours upon hours we spent down at Glenelg.
You know what I mean?
Just getting fish and chips, getting a year.
Never once taking the time to go to the Buffalo.
But now it's gone.
I was like.
You know the other place at Glenelg I dreamed of going and eating?
Hang on, can I guess?
Yep.
Yep.
The restaurant that rotated around at the top of the building?
Is that right?
The revolving restaurant on top of the tower.
And, again, I don't think I ever went there, but I just remember as a kid I would look at that tower,
which was probably, I don't know, what, eight storeys high or or something but to me it was like you know a skyscraper and i knew there
was this restaurant at the top that spun around like and you know i've been to revolving restaurants
now and i know what they're like but to me it was spinning at like a thousand revolutions per second
and i and i would say to mom and dad how do they keep the soup in the bowls when it's moving so fast?
To me, it was like the Gravitron.
It was moving so fast.
It's like a record player on top of a building.
Yeah.
People were like pressed against the walls.
It was moving so fast.
Now that I've been to revolving restaurants, they're somewhat more disappointing.
But I don't think I ever went up there.
I don't know.
I did.
I did.
I don't mean to brag, but I had a lunch, formal lunch at the top.
Pastor Peter, a man that we know, took me for lunch as a young man,
and he took me there to encourage me and encourage me to become a minister and stuff.
That's when a boy becomes a man when he goes to the revolving restaurant.
There is one slight flaw in this story,
and that is it wasn't revolving that day for some reason.
That was a sign of things to come for your pastoral career.
That's like saying, oh, yeah, I eventually did eat at the Buffalo,
but there was no water in the marina that day and it was beached.
I have had Buffalo wings on other occasions in other places.
That kind of counts.
Obviously, I want to put links for all these things into the notes for,
you know, people to go and look at pictures.
But I'm wondering if, like, things like the Revolving Restaurant
have, like, a Wikipedia page or, like, you know.
The Revolving Restaurant at Glenelg.
Is there a picture of it?
Oh, yes.
Yes, there is.
God, it was an ugly building, wasn't it?
Is it still there?
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Well, one presumes the building is still there.
I've seen that riding past the other day, but I don't know if it still revolves or what
rotation it's at or anything.
Well, if you also, if you happen to be listening to this podcast on YouTube, we'll also be,
you know, having all the pictures on the screen.
I'm looking at pictures of the buffalo.
Oh, my God.
Like, for a show that has lots of nostalgia, this episode's killing me.
The going to the revolving restaurant on the one day when it's not revolving is a bit like
going to Macca's and then mum saying, oh, I've made a pack lunch, you know.
What's a cauldron that's not revolving?
It's just the restaurant.
The restaurant.
I can't remember why it wasn't.
It might have been something like high winds or something.
I don't know why.
I don't know why that would make a difference.
It's like this building falls over in high winds if it's revolving. I don't know why. I don't know why that would make a difference. It's like this building falls over in high wings if it's revolving.
I don't know why.
Okay.
So now it's time for another giveaway of the Unmade Podcast Spoons that exist.
Yes.
I will be sending this after the episode.
Do you want to do the honours again?
You did such good sound effects of spinning the wheel last time.
I would like to do that.
And can I say, now that they're actually out there, I feel, and people have seen them,
I imagine listening to this, the anticipation is really high for the patrons because it's
like, oh, wow, I really want one of those.
So I'm going to pause for effect and then go, there we go.
Oh, the old wheel's getting a bit stuck.
It's not revolving very well.
Do you want to give it another go?
All right, we'll give it another go.
This is high wind, so I've got to be careful.
Okay.
There we go.
All right, there we go.
And who's it going to be?
Well, today the spoon is going to the United States of America. It is going to Angelo in Florida, who is one of our Patreon supporters
and is now the proud owner of an unmade podcast, Souvenir Spoon.
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There's champagne corks popping.
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That is a brilliant idea.
I've never thought of that.
That's a great idea.
It's something additional to write on a card.
You know what I mean?
I have purchased you this particular, you own it,
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A cool name.
And even if they don't have a website,
they could just divert it to like their Twitter or their Facebook.
So, you know, I could buy a domain called, you know,
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So when I give him a Christmas card and say,
go to timheinthetigerfan.com, wink, wink, and he types it in,
it'll go to like his Twitter page or his Facebook page or whatever.
So, yeah, just putting that idea out there, people.
I think that's a great idea.
You can also send a message through as well. Like, you know, like if it's, you know, say Bob's buying Lisa a, you know,
present and he could buy bobloveslisa.com and, you know what I mean, sends it.
It's just a nice way of saying the message that you want
to send in the card.
That's a great idea.
They go there and you can put a message up,
which is the content of this card is at this and they go there
and then that's where the message is.
Good idea.
Good idea.
Ah, not just a pretty face.
Hang on a second.
Hang on a sec.
Did you do all the info for Hover, like Hover slash Unmade and the technical things you needed
to say? I didn't. You're like an old person. It's not Hover slash Unmade. It's Hover.com slash
Unmade. No, I've bought Hover slash Unmade, man. I'm sending to you as a gift and it diverts to
Hover.com slash Unmade. Hover.com slash.
And yes, I did mention it, but you can't mention it too many times.
I guess the people at Hover are going to be over the moon.
Nice work, Hover.
Nice work, man.
And nice work to me too, for reminding you.
What's your idea for a podcast?
All right.
This one is inspired by you because the name of this podcast is called Incomplete.
I was hoping it was going to be called The Handsome Man Podcast or something.
Inspired by.
Incomplete.
Inspired by Brady.
Incomplete.
I didn't finish it or something like that.
This week we were talking and you were filling out an application for something. And I said, oh, you have to do this, you know, and we got chatting about that. This week we were talking and you were filling out an application for something.
And I said, oh, you have to do this, you know, and we got chatting about that.
You said, I often get halfway through and then I just get annoyed and leave it.
And then maybe come back and try again.
And I reckon we all have a lot of these little tasks and projects in our life that are half done.
Nice idea. Cracker, Tim. Cracker are half done. Nice idea.
Cracker, Tim.
Cracker.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Mic drop.
I'm retiring undefeated.
Tune in next week.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah, that one thing, like that one thing.
Yeah, great idea.
Famously, house renovations are a bit like this.
You know what I mean?
We got most of the bathroom done, but, oh, there's a bit of this left.
Or, you know, oh, I must finish that extra door on the cupboard in the kitchen that I meant to screw on but haven't got to yet.
And it's there for 20 years.
Novels.
Your great novel.
Yes.
Yeah. No, that's right, writing one
That's right, yeah
Everyone's working on it
There's also novels you're reading as well
I've got lots and lots of novels
That I've got into
And I've lost interest
And I've got to a point where I've given myself
Permission now to go, nah, stuff it
I'm just putting it down
I'm not going to feel bad about it.
You know, there's like little rules.
You mustn't start another novel until you finish this one right to the end.
And I've gone, no, stuff it.
But there is a little part of me, you know,
when you're packing them up and moving them around and stuff going, oh, right.
I can see like the dog-eared where I got in this one.
And it's like, oh, should I give it another go?
Lots of those around the place.
I love the idea of people talking about their unfinished
projects to to qualify for your podcast tim does the project have to have been started well how
could it be incomplete if it hasn't been started is are you talking about just best intentions i'm
gonna get to yeah like like if i like if i've said i'm gonna do something and i've been meaning to do
it for 10 years but i've never even started it's just like a dream that I haven't done.
Does that count as incomplete or does it have to be something
you've kind of made attempts at?
Like, you know, you've built the foundations or you've written
the first page or you've, you know, you've done something
towards starting the project but not finished the job?
Because it feels like it shouldn't really be a podcast
for just, you know, dreams that you haven't done.
No.
Because that kind of
opens almost too wide a door it feels like it needs to be something you have started and aborted
or started multiple times yes i think that's the case i think there's a sub-genre of things i'd
like to get to one day and i think that's quite different to i've i've actually got you know half
a manuscript i've actually there's a Word document on my computer that says novel
and, you know, that's quite a big step in itself.
Just simply wanting to one day write a novel is pretty common.
Yeah.
So I think it's got to be started but not complete.
What's your glaring example?
What's your big one?
The one that looms in my mind is the PhD.
So I'm in the middle of a PhD and it's, you know,
it's just in the back of my mind all the time.
And every time I'm doing something else when I could be doing that
or something else when I should be doing that in the time,
there's an internal dialogue of, oh, but this is urgent.
I need to be doing this.
And often it is, but you don't have that little voice when it actually is urgent because you
just are doing the thing you should be doing.
But there are other times when it's like, oh, I should be doing the PhD or-
Does it have a deadline or a finish date that is like slipping or moving?
Or is it just some- or is everything still on schedule?
It's just weighing on you?
No, it's on schedule.
It doesn't- you've got- you're very quite regimented these days
with the university.
You've got, like, milestones that you have to meet along the way,
and I'm on track.
But I've also had a couple of deferrals, partly because I stopped
and did, like, another doctorate, which I did finish,
and some other projects and then time.
But then, you know, COVID happened and then there's other things.
And so I do have a deadline and I'm on track for it,
but it's still, I wish it was over.
See, I'm not sure that would qualify for the podcast
if it's like on schedule, like, you know,
if it's something you're on target for.
But because of those deferrals, maybe it does.
Yeah.
No, you're right.
That's right.
That's the one that comes quickly to mind,
but it may not qualify because it's active.
We could talk about inactive and active, you know.
Well, can I just say, Tim, as someone who, you know, has a doctorate and is a doctor, you know, don't worry about it.
You'll get there, man.
You'll get there.
And one day you'll be like me.
And we'll say no more about that.
I must read your thesis sometime.
Mate, it's all on YouTube.
Go and watch it.
It's all on YouTube.
That's fair enough.
That's a fair enough comment, Ted.
That's an absolutely fair enough comment.
I do like the idea.
Is there anything else?
I guess there's nothing around the house, really,
because you've only just moved.
No, no, everything's perfect around the house now. Everything's only just moved um no no everything's everything's perfect around
the house now everything's just as we want it there's a particular coffee machine i've been
meaning to buy but um i keep pushing that off partly because it's you know a little bit of
money but i must get to that um everything else is done everything else is done the tubs are you
know we've cleaned we've unpacked everything's just perfect it's like don't lift a coffee cup
because everything's just right where we want it now so i guess my one is what you mentioned is this application i'm i
i'm happy to say i'm i'm applying for an irish passport because i'm eligible for one and because
of the whole brexit debacle i don't want to lose my access to europe so i've been doing the
application process but it's just such a difficult process and they require so many old documents
that I don't have, like my grandfather's marriage and death certificate and all these, you know,
my grandpa died before I was born and all this sort of stuff. So, every time I pick up the
application again and start going through it, I find some other document that's going to be
impossible to get and take months to find and from some old church in Ireland or something. So it's this kind of, the application's taken me
years, but I'm constantly working on it. And I'm waiting for more. I swear they're adding
documents to it every time I go and do the application again. But now I'm waiting for
two more certificates to come from different places. And then I think I'll finally have everything and I can lodge the application.
Do they have any citizenship?
No, it's not a passport.
It's not a citizenship.
But, like, you know, do they ask things like, you know, can you name two members of the cause?
When's the last time you drank Guinness?
I could sing quite a few cause songs.
Well, that should be part of the application, shouldn't it?
That should be, yeah.
Send your recording now of.
I can name all four members of the cause.
Really?
There's the pretty one who sings.
Yeah.
The violinist, the drummer, and the brother.
And the brother, yeah.
The brother. If ever there's anyone just known as the brother, it's the guy in the brother. And the brother, yeah. The brother.
If ever there's anyone just known as the brother,
it's the guy in the chorus.
Why is he even in the photos?
I don't know.
It's like this awesome band with a brother.
Yeah.
He's the buffalo of band members.
He should just be torn down Imagine going to see The Cause
And then it's just like
Oh sorry
The three girls aren't able to be here tonight
It's just the brother
But don't worry he can play everything
It's just the brother solo
He's just taking the name The the cause, and touring with it.
Just him on his own.
He's like, hey, I can play all the songs.
I can sing.
What are you complaining about?
Leave me breathless.
That's the ultimate revolving restaurant.
Not revolving.
He's going to see the cause and it's just the brother.
Your incomplete idea is so good it lends itself to other things doesn't it like you know huge projects that are incomplete like you know the sacra familia whatever it is in um
barcelona building projects that don't aren't finished for one reason or another ones that
have just been abandoned or ones that have taken a really long time. There's always these public infrastructure projects, aren't there, that kind
of are promised and you think will never deliver. Adelaide's famous for them because everything gets
blocked by the NIMBYs. That would be great to be able to talk to people. Why is this incomplete?
Are you going to get to it? Do you have a plan in place? Is it just that you're avoiding something or are you, is it just best intentions and
all the rest of it?
Are you too busy or have you run out of money?
What's the reason for the incompleteness?
Go onto our subreddit for this episode and tell us about your incomplete project.
We'd love to hear about it and we'll tell you what we think.
We'll tell you how to complete it.
Have you ever written a novel or do you have half a novel written somewhere?
No.
You've written short stories, haven't you?
But you haven't written a...
Not really.
Not really.
I haven't got the stamina at the moment.
I haven't got the time.
What about you?
Have you got a novel on the go?
No, no.
I can't.
I can't write fiction.
If I said to you, you have to write a fiction story right now yeah right
now and like i forced you into it somehow what would it be about i guess you end up writing
specifically about what you know so i guess i would write about like i'm sitting here in my
office at the college i guess i would write about like a faculty and what happens in relationships
in a college in an academic area because that's that's kind of an interesting little world that people wouldn't know about
I guess that's what I know a bit about and I've got some you know anecdotes and things that I could
write about that that'd be an interesting challenge about you know right right do this
right now like you have to because there's an old saying that says I can't save money and it's like
look if I said that you know if in six months you don't bring back $10,000, then you'll be, you know, shot or something like
that, then you would do it. You'd go and you'd actually save the money under enough pressure,
stress, motivation. And so, if you were to say, Tim, you know, like in a week's time,
I want you to produce a, you know, like 5,000 or 10,000-word short story, I would do it, obviously,
and it would have characters and a plot and all the rest of it.
It would just be very thin and bad and one-dimensional
and all the rest of it.
But I just, the idea of writing a novel feels like such a vast task
and, you know, quality, it's all about quality and interest
and readability.
I just, yeah, I don't think that's me.
I would write a short story about two friends,
one who was born in Glenelg and one whose dad was Dutch,
who came together to make a podcast.
And after a couple of years of moderate to low success,
were chosen by NASA to go to the moon and become heroes of space.
Do you think there's any wish fulfilment happening
in this particular plot line?
You said write what you know.
I was right on board with it until you said go to the moon.
I'm like, oh, I have to go to the moon.
You must be the only person who I'm friends with who would be
genuinely disappointed if they had to go to the moon.
You and my wife.
All my other friends dream of going to the moon.
And for you it's like, oh, can I do anything else?
Can I go to the buffalo?
But this is an incomplete.
I think you have space aspirations.
Like you'd like to go to the moon and you've kind of put things in place in an initial sense, but it's kind of incomplete.
You haven't got around to actually going to the moon.
What have I put into place?
I haven't even got an Irish passport.
You've got a moon passport.
You've like, you've met people at NASA.
You've got hats and stuff.
You know what I mean?
Like you kind of, you know. You've got hats and stuff. You know what I mean?
I've got hats.
Like NASA hats and stuff.
I can just picture launch day and they're like, oh, we need someone to go to the moon.
Oh, is anyone here wearing a hat?
You, you, sir.
Get on the rocket.
You've got a NASA hat. You look like you know what you're talking about
Because I have a fragment of knowledge about the moon now
Someone would turn to me one day and say
Name one crater on the moon
I'll go Glenelg
Well done sir
That was Mars man
Was it Mars?
And it wasn't a crater.
Mars is the one that's further away, is that right?
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I did have a Patreon idea here, but I think it's so good,
I think we're going to want to talk about this one for longer,
so I'm going to save it for another episode,
because it would be a waste to do it now.
All right.
All right.
But trust me, it's a good one. right i think we're done i think we're done