The Unmade Podcast - 73: My Super Bowl Ad

Episode Date: February 11, 2021

Tim and Brady discuss Heidi Hein, Super Bowl ads, nuclear missiles, half-time shows, an international quiz, a Melbourne Cup spoon, racing names, Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, and sewing machines. Go to Storyblocks for stock video, pictures and audio at https://www.storyblocks.com/unmade (show sponsor) Here's the video of 20 countries so you can play and compare scores with Tim - https://www.unmade.fm/around-the-world-with-storyblocks Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://redd.it/lhq22m USEFUL LINKS The Sofa Shop old ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0c0ifbTzA 2021 Super Bowl Ads - https://www.vulture.com/article/2021-super-bowl-commercials.html Vitamins Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlL9G0ugKmM Slip! Slop! Slap! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nocIenCYg Super Bowl Half Time Shows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_halftime_shows The Weeknd - https://www.theweeknd.com Shirley Bassey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Bassey Tom Brady - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady Pictures of Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-week Watch Gurner's Lane win the 1982 Melbourne Cup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-HYRn8Cpxs St Peter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter Overlockers - lhttps://www.gathered.how/sewing-and-quilting/sewing/best-overlockers/ Patrons can check out some of our 'technical difficulties' during recording - https://www.patreon.com/posts/47412513

You obviously haven't figured out yet that I can't hear you. Oh, hang on. You just dropped out of my ear. Quick parish notice, a bit of follow-up from a previous episode. I've forgotten to bring this up before. But do you remember there was an episode where I mentioned that if I had been born a girl, I was going to be called Courtney? I do.

And you said there was no girl alternative for you because your parents were pretty confident that you were going to be a boy and they were dead set on Tim. Yes. But you later texted me and found out there was a girl's name, potentially. And I think we should share that. Yes, this was quite an admission because all my life, mum has sort of said, oh, we knew we were going to have you, right, and we chose this name and it was sort of appointed by, you know, God. It was going to happen.

But it turns out they hedged their bets a little bit with a little bit of hope. Oh, now, what was it? I've texted you the name. I've forgotten it. Do you remember the name? Yeah, you texted it to me and on the face of it I thought've texted you the name. I've forgotten it. Do you remember the name? Yeah, you texted it to me. And on the face of it, I thought it was a good name because I never attached it to your surname. But now that I've attached it to your surname, it doesn't seem such a good choice anymore. Because apparently if you were a girl,

you were going to be Heidi Hein. Heidi Hein. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Heidi Hine. Yeah, yeah. That's right. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. I was like, hey, I like the name Heidi.

You know, that's a good name. Yeah. I think I like it more than Timothy, actually, to be honest. Yeah. I like the name Heidi, but I don't know if I like it or not with Hine. Either it's worse or it's genius. Heidi Hine. The H thing can work, you know. It sounds like you're either a billionaire balloonist, you know, Heidi Hein, you know, adventure today

or something like that. Or it just is confusing. Yeah. I think it sounds like a nickname for a bottom. Oh, he's got a nice little Heidi Hein. Like a tushy. You've totally undermined it now. Well, I tell you, I have received compliments. Well, there you go. Hi, Heidi. Heidi and Courtney.

I think Heidi and Courtney is better than Tim and Brady, that's for sure. Yeah, way better. Goodness gracious. Yeah. So, ideas for a podcast. What do you reckon? Who's going to go first today? Why don't you go first?

Mine comes in at a slightly different tone today. So I think we need to be a little bit more warmed up before we get into mine. All right. It's always a worry when you need to warm up before a podcast idea, but all right. I could do some more stretches. I'm the guy who, if it was my job at the newspaper to write headlines, I'd be like, look, here's just a paragraph that you need to read before you read the headline. We did Tim's idea too early and I pulled a hamstring.

That's right. That's right. Don't go out too hard. All right. So because we are recording in the week of the Super Bowl, I think it was Super Bowl 55, was it? I know, I lose track. Yeah.

Anyway, it's Super Bowl week and that means two things. It means my name's all over Twitter for that one week of the year where everyone's talking about how great Brady is. Yes. The other thing it means is the perennial news story that the media thinks is interesting and novel every year. And that is, did you know there are Super Bowl commercials? So, my idea for a podcast is called My Super Bowl Commercial.

And the premise is you are given a 30-second slot in the Super Bowl for a commercial. What are you going to do with your 30 seconds? Oh, genius idea. Very good. Yes. So I've already been giving it some thought. So while you think about it, I'll tell you a few of the ideas I've had

if I was given 30 seconds. Yes. First of all, I thought it would be great to run an ad for your new wedding band, Two Piece Feed, just trying to drum up some business. Just have you and Colonel Katrina there on the keyboard and the guitar just saying we're available for bookings now. And doing it like a really cheap advertisement, you know, the Adelaide local store advertisement, just with that one photo and it's sort of a bad font. Well, that leads nicely to my my second idea for my 30 seconds i would love to run the original sofa shop ad four by three

vhs a bit a bit grainy with no context no explanation just to everyone in america this 30 second jingle panning over sofas and curtains from the 1980s and then it's just like gone and people like what the hell was that what was that it was pepsi pepsi and stuff and then it was then it was kfc and you know all these car ads and then there was just this 30 seconds of grainy 80s adelaideness. And then it's back to gloss again. I think that would be good. The sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. That would be genius because I think it would be seen as very clever.

Look how they've made this look old, sort of, you know, marketing Madison Avenue technique. Ooh, they've gone very, you know, deliberately nostalgic. Look how they've roughed up the footage. Got Kanye West in to come up with a jingle that sounds like it was from the era. That's right. So that would be nice. Oh, I've got plenty more ideas, man. I mean, obviously it would be great to run a 30-second pitch for people to support the Unmade podcast on Patreon. Well, that's right. That's right. Although you'd have to say it needs no

advertisement. I mean, that would be a waste of advertisement really, wouldn't it? Because people here we go, just saying the same thing. Although I have to say, you know, that everyone knows about Coca-Cola and yet still Coke spend an enormous amount on advertising. So I guess reminding them of the Unmade podcast is probably a better way to put it. So another idea I had that I thought might be fun would be to create a prank and really elaborately figure out what the two teams are in the Super Bowl and recreate an amazing play, like a touchdown or something. It had never happened before. That was really incredible. And just start playing that. And people who weren't paying proper attention would think it was the actual game and something amazing was happening in the game.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. So back at the game now and they suddenly lose time. That's very good. But also I thought it might just be fun just, you know, if someone is given 30 seconds, like, you know, a civilian out there, what are you going to do with it? Maybe just like run like a 30 second version, TV version of your cv just see if you can find that perfect job so just come on like you know come on here and say hi you know i'm brady i i know how to use uh microsoft

word i've got a driver's license you know i can work a video camera i like youtube um if you're looking for someone who's kind of motivated and can afford a 30-second spot in the Super Bowl, I'm your man. Yeah. And again, just very sort of, you know, 1995 corporate-y looking, you know what I mean? PowerPoint presentation. Now, as for how you would use your 30 seconds, Tim, I'm inclined to give you a leave pass from anything like, you know, wholesome and relating to your ministry, which is probably how you should use your 30 seconds. Well, that's right. I tell you what, there is a real tendency towards, you know, the kind of the values and worthy. Like I know there was one ad this year with Jeep and Bruce Springsteen talking

about politically coming together to the, you know, the heart, the middle again. But it's also undermined by the fact that it's to sell a car, you know. Like I really despise the, you know, the worthiness and then it's linked to that sort of corporate gain. But you could do worthiness for its own sake. That's a great idea. That's right. That's a philanthropist just putting out a good message. But, again, it's placed within that context.

It can be received, you know, weirdly, that's for sure. It's like where's the catch? What's the catch? You know, where does it go? There is – I am – I do warm to the idea of going back and just playing your favourite ads from when you were a kid, you know, just for your favourite food, just upwarming, throwing them in. I don't know why they don't do this.

I think big companies should play nostalgic ads from years ago. I think there's something quirky. Oh, yeah. Like, you know, KFC or, you know, just playing products at Coke. Like, I think Coke should do a whole campaign where they just play really old 1970s and 80s, you know, kind of Coke ads, you know, where there were people water skiing and jumping out of planes and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

I think that would be... They do do that sometimes. Remember that Mellow Yellow ad where that, like, sexy lady was drinking a bottle of Mellow Yellow? Look out, mouth. Watch out first. This Mellow Yellow's as good as the first. I'd like to do the... I'd like an ad for the Garfield Hunger Buster.

Remember that Garfield-themed ice cream? No. It was so short-lived. I had this ad where Garfield was singing about this ice cream called the Garfield Hunger Buster. You could do it for films as well, you know, like an ad for a new film that's coming out. And it's a film that came out years ago, particularly films that really bombed, you know, the cinema. Just come out and play Waterworld by Kevin Costner.

Oh, do you know what they should do? If you want to mix a bit of wholesomeness Like, you know, do some good But go retro What about those ads they used to have Like in the 80s that were like health About like the vitamins and brushing your teeth And stuff like that

Yeah I loved the one where all the vitamins were singing I don't remember that specific one, no Get out in the sunshine And get vitamin D. I'm good for your eyes, I'm good for your bones. Here's vitamin E. Thank you very much, vitamin D.

I'm vitamin E, I'm good for your carcassels. Take a lot of me and I'll get into your muscles. There was a kid and each vitamin was singing to this kid about why it was the best vitamin. Oh, good old, good old. In Australia, we had the slip, slop, slap campaign about staying out of the sun. Yeah, yeah.

Yes. Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat just to stay out of the sun. Slip, slop, slap, slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat. Oh, yeah. Now you're talking. The other idea is to do something, the interference idea as well.

Like, I know Andy Kaufman, famous comedian, used to do these sort of pranks on TV where suddenly the TV show would look like it was distorting. So he says, look, people all over America will stand up, go over to their TV and be adjusting their antennas, when we had antennas inside, you know, and bagging on the top of their TV. And then it will go fine and then it will go distorted. But it was all planned and written in and not referenced in the show. So you could actually have a minute of silence. You could just go black and just say,

here is a peaceful minute for you to sit quietly. Or just a total interference in the Super Bowl. Or a different show starts. That's another idea too. You could suddenly, the credits roll on some sitcom and they're like, hang on, hang on, hang on. Where's the second half going to be? Or one of those emergency transmissions the government put out

when a nuclear missile's incoming. And then after 30 seconds go, ha-ha, gotchas. People will just assume it's an ad, I'm sure, going, oh, here we go. Some sort of nuclear missile company. Jerry Seinfeld pops up at the end. Yeah, you're a nuclear missile. Would you buy a nuclear missile if they were available uh like buy it as in it's the only one i gotta like keep it safe under the bed so no one gets it no

just be a cool thing to like cool thing to own like like i'm not like i'm not in favor of like nuclear weapons and stuff but the idea of having a nuclear missile is pretty cool. It seems like for intruders. No, not to use, just because it's cool. Like my lightsaber, like I would never use it, but I just like having it on the shelf. What do you mean you wouldn't use it? Surely if someone broke it, there's nothing better than confronting like an intruder with holding your lightsaber

with a robe on. I'm just picturing a burglar at the bottom of the stairs and me waddling down with a huge nuclear missile going you get out or i'm gonna set this thing off all right you've entered the house so we're at defcon 2 there's a little guy next to me with a nuclear football giving me the codes. That's right. In the middle of the night, standing there. I think that's a good idea. What would you do with that particular shot?

It is funny how for a week there's a lot of advertisements about the advertisements. Like, apparently these advertisements are so precious, we need to be alerted to the fact there are going to be significant advertisements in the Super Bowl. Like, we need to be reminded. It's one of those perennial stories that comes around every 12 months. It's like, oh, it reminds me how boring the media can be. Yes, indeed. Did you see any ads in the Super Bowl? Of course, maybe on your telecast, they were different. You didn't see the full. No, we don't get the American ads. So, yeah, when they go to the ads, they just cut to English guys in the studio talking about the game.

Is it funny listening to English gentlemen talk about the Super Bowl? Nah, because they have a few American guests too, and they're all experts. England's pretty – NFL's pretty big in England now. They even play games here, so it's pretty, you know. It's not like there's one big, beefy guy with the headset on, you know, hey, Cam, look at that plus, and then, you know, he goes over, well, I say, I must say, that was a very enthusiastic run.

Some guy in a bow tie and a bowler hat. No, it's not like that. Just come out of an English gentleman's club straight into the studio. I'll tell you what I hate. I hate the Super Bowl halftime show. Yeah. Not just because more and more of the acts I have absolutely no interest in. Yes.

But also it's just such a long waste of time when you want to watch this game in the middle of the night. This year, seriously, halftime in the Super Bowl, I turned off the game and watched an episode of Breaking Bad. Wow. So my halftime Super Bowl show was an episode of Breaking Bad and then I watched the second half. Who played this time? Who was the artist? The Weeknd. The Weeknd.

I know the name of that band because they took the vowels out of their name, don't they? But I don't think I know any Weeknd songs. I think they did. Did they do that one that everyone was TikTok-ing to at some stage? I don't know, man. That's taking me further away from my comfort zone of knowledge. Not closer.

So that's our review of this halftime Super Bowl show. Something about vows and the TikTok. The Weeknd, are they that big a band that they played the Super Bowl? Wow. I don't know. They probably are big. To me, it feels like those celebrity TV shows there where they can't get good celebrities.

So it's like real B-listers, you know, D-listers. Yeah, yeah. So, they usually put a few of them on, though. If they don't get someone big, like, you know, Prince or Bruce Springsteen, they usually sort of gather two or three together. This was just the weekend on their own, was it? I think so. Wow. Maybe it was a big, like, reunion show and they reunited them with their vows.

We have E-O-A. Oh, yeah, it's amazing. Run on like your little vitamin friends. Oh, I'm vitamin B. Oh, so if you're feeling low, no energy. Look for our famous group. Oh, call the vitamin B's. Oh, oh, oh.

I'm vitamin C. I bite calls and diseases. I never have a chance when you take a lot of meases. Hang on, I'm just Googling because I don't trust you. The Weeknd. Oh, yeah, The Weeknd's full halftime show. What do you mean you don't trust me? Well, because you said you didn't watch it. So I'm just imagining surely someone else must have performed with The Weeknd,

like The Weeknd plus Shirley Bassey. Shirley Bassey. watch it so i'm just imagining surely someone else must have performed with the weekend like the weekend plus um shirley bassey shirley bassey but or did she die did shirley bassey die i don't know i don't know she would have been better than the weekend surely let me check if shirley bassey died no shirley bassey's i don't know what's worse the fact the fact that she's still alive and i've just totally dissed her like like it's not good for your career when people say, are they still alive? It's not bad, though, when we're more comfortable with Shirley Bassey than we are with The Weeknd. It's like, oh, Shirley Bassey banging out Goldfinger

or something at the Super Bowl. I know, I know, but she did that in the 60s. Like, she was sort of a, you know, like a legend act when we were the same age as the people that now currently enjoy The Weeknd. Like it's not. At least Shirley Bassey's got a bunch of E's in her name. Yeah, well, that's right. She's not giving up the Vows.

Does The Weeknd have the E's after the W? Are they just missing the one E or are they missing all their E's? No, they're just missing that third E. Yeah. They obviously thought three was too many, so it is weakened. Weakened? They're weakened. But also, because they're called The, they have got another E there,

so they actually have more E's than Shirley Bassey, even after dropping one of their E's. Dropping E's. Very good. You've got to hand it to The Weeknd. The Weeknd. They just basically thought four was too many, The Weeknd. Basically, your name is half E's unless we get rid of some of them.

We need to drop some. They were E heavy. That fourth E is the stew-sut cliff of the... It gets dropped out of the Beatles. Yeah. That E went on to have a huge solo career, though. That's right. That E is off like Robbie Williams.

That E is playing the Super Bowl by itself next year. Nice. Did you explain why? I mean, it's Tom Brady. Some people may have no clue about NFL and even, you know. If we have to explain who Tom Brady is to someone, they're probably so far behind that we shouldn't bother. And also, isn't it kind of late to now be clarifying that point?

Yes, I know. Like that was like 20 minutes ago. Like, what are you doing? Has that just been on your mind since I briefly mentioned the fact there were lots of tweets about Brady? It's a footnote. It's a footnote. But people, if you're going, ah, okay, so Tom Brady is a good player in the NFL. Now, go back and listen to the banter again, and it will be even funnier.

Oh, my God. What a debacle this episode is. And this is without people hearing all the times your headphones have failed over the last 10 minutes. That's right. That's correct. If you could hear how this episode has been going in reality without editing, it's like this episode is turning into a weekend halftime Super Bowl show. That's right.

Look, I'll tell you what we do really well, though, even better than the Super Bowl, and that's our ads. Yes. So why don't we do our sponsor message now? If there was something that I could put up in the halftime show, it would be an endorsement of Storyblocks. I'm just putting it out there. I'm very, very grateful for Storyblocks.

Let me say, what I've got planned for this Storyblocks message is even better than a Super Bowl halftime ad. I've got something very special planned. But first of all, let me very quickly tell people what Storyblocks is. It's an online library of stock video footage. They also have audio and images and you pay a monthly subscription fee and you can use all this stuff in your own creations, whether it's videos and websites and podcasts and anything else you can think of, you've got access to it all. And no joke, just quickly, Storyblocks has become like an essential part of my day-to-day working. It's become like Photoshop or my editing software or Wikipedia for checking stuff. I go to Storyblocks all the time to get videos and sounds

and images and things I need for my own creations. So I'm very, very happy to endorse them. Now, Tim. Yes. I have made a little something special for this ad. You may remember a few episodes ago I made a little video that I called the A to Z of Storyblocks, and I showed you 26 little short clips of a few seconds, and you had to guess what each one was starting with that letter.

Yes. It was very good fun, wasn't it? It was, it was. I have made another one, and this one is called Around the World with Storyblocks. And, Tim, I'm going to show you a video clip with 20 short little clips, about four seconds or so each. Yes.

And in those four seconds, you have to look at this video, which has been taken from the Storyblocks library. Yes. And in that few seconds, you have to tell me what country we are in. And we're going to be zooming all around the world to all sorts of different countries. Nice. I like this idea.

This is good. All right. Now, people who sorts of different countries. Nice. I like this idea. This looks, this is good. All right. Now, people who are listening, you have a few options at this point. You can stop and watch the video on its own. I'll put a link in the notes and see how many of the 20 you get right. If you're watching on YouTube, you can play along with Tim live, or you can do neither, and you can just listen to Tim play through audio. But the idea is I wanted to show Tim just how amazing all the Storyblocks library stuff is.

So, Tim, I'm going to send you the link. Yeah, all right. Text it maybe. Tell me when you've got it all loaded up. All right. I'm ready to press play. 20 countries. Here we go.

On the count of three. One, two, three. All right. That's a kangaroo. That's Australia right there. Correct. Look at those beautiful gum trees. Oh, windmills, Holland.

Lovely, beautiful photo of Holland there as well. This looks like Greece, a lot of that white buildings. Is that the Seattle Needle or is that, hmm? This is Sao Paulo, is that right? In South America. This looks like somewhere like... Oh, gosh. Somewhere in the Pacific. That's Jerusalem.

Countries. With the Dome of the Rock. Beautiful. This looks like Moscow. Am I saying countries or cities? Countries. Yes, countries. Countries.

Oh, very good. Yes. Well, London in England. There we go. That's beautiful, the lovely Tower Bridge. This looks like Scotland, but I could be wrong, or Ireland. This, oh, now, where is this building? I can't remember.

This is, I can't remember. This looks like, this looks like Japan. This looks like India. Very good. This looks like Italy, Rome. Yeah. Yeah. This is another one of those tall spire things.

I have no idea where that is. I have no idea where this is either. This could be anywhere. That's Niagara Falls. So that takes us into the US or Canada? Oh, this is America now. So the other one must be Canada. Is that right? Niagara Falls. Yeah, very good. Okay. This is, well, one of the African countries. Let's say South Africa.

Paris. That's the Louvre in France. Oh, that's the Louvre in France. Oh, that's 20. Oh, phew, that's very, very fast. That did seem to go by fast, didn't it? Goodness gracious, man. Wow. Like fast money. Yes. I think I made that harder than I realised.

Goodness gracious. I thought you would score slightly higher than that. Oh, well, thanks very much, man. I don't know what to say. Am I right in saying that Niagara Falls is on the, is it close to the border of the US? I've never been there. And Canada, is that right?

Yes, Niagara Falls is on the border between Canada and the US. And you can look at it from the American side and the Canadian side. But the really classic view of the horseshoe part of the falls is you stand in Canada to look at that. Right. But the view from America is okay too, but you can't see that real famous part where the maid of the mist goes down into the horseshoe.

That's the Canadian view. But what a testament to the lovely footage you can get on Storyblocks. It was beautiful footage. Yes. It was beautiful footage. Yes. It was. Yes. And it made me pine for being able to travel again, which I can only do via Storyblocks at the moment.

Yes. Did you notice there was a couple of times where I went, oh, that's a nice picture of the Netherlands. Oh, look at that. You know, it's like. Yeah. It was a bit of escapism. Storyblocks.com slash unmade.

Seriously, you should be considering signing up to Storyblocks.com slash unmade seriously you should be considering signing up to Storyblocks if you do anything at all creative in your work especially because it's so useful and use that slash unmade so Storyblocks know you came from here you pay one monthly fee all that stuff royalty free including all that amazing international

footage that we just showcased and some of which Tim recognised what did you get? I reckon you got 10. I don't know. I kind of lost count. No, there was more than 10 surely. Surely. Surely. Let's go back. Okay. 1, 2, 3 No. No. No. 4 5, 6. No, no. Four, five, six, no, no, no. Seven, eight, no, no, no.

Nine, no. Ten. Very good. Just confirming it was ten. That's a classic piece of podcasting right there, Matt. Storyblocks.com slash unmade. No, no, no 10. If we ever release a greatest hits album, that bit will be on it.

That's for sure. Let's go to the one place where Tim always scores a 10 out of 10 in my book. Let's go to the one place where Tim always scores a 10 out of 10 in my book. And that is when he goes into the Hein family archive of classic spoons collected over many, many years. And he plucks one for a moment of glory in a little segment that we like to call Spoon of the Week. I'm here just for that. I love it. Hang on, let me get into character. Well, Brady, this week's spoon is somewhat different again.

I've held on to this one for quite a while. I discovered it early and put it to the side. It's quite unique. And so I've decided today's the day when I really don't know what to say about it. It's sort of a less of a spoon and more of a horse, really. It's, I mean, technically speaking, it is still a spoon, but it's shaped like a golden horse. This spoon is commemorating the winner of the 1982 Melbourne Cup, which is a very famous horse race here in Australia. And I think it's quite well known in the horse world around the world, isn't it?

It's well known in the horse world around the world, yes. Horses in other countries have heard of it too. It is. It's one of the big races of the world. It's like, you know, the Kentucky Derby and the Grand National and that. It's Australia's big horse race. A lot of money. Horses, you know, horses come from around the world to race in it.

You can call it a big one, the Melbourne Cup. All right. There we go. My knowledge of racing, as will be apparent in this episode of Spoon of the Week, is up there with my knowledge of the weekend. Or your knowledge of spoons, for that matter. Thankfully, I'm a real buff on global cities, so that's great.

This spoon has a horse's head at the top with the Melbourne Cup trophy together. And then it says here, Gurners Lane, which certainly sounds like one of those funny horse names. One can only assume that is the winner of the Melbourne Cup. And here's Gurners Lane driving from the inside. The Kingston's in front, but Gurners Lane is going to him. Gurners Lane after Kingston Town. Gurners Lane goes home too well and beats Kingston Town. Noble comment ran third in the Cup. 1982, and then it comes down to a slimmer stem.

It's a smaller spoon than most, and then quite a small scoopy bit down the bottom. The interesting thing on the back of this solid gold spoon is it says Trainer G. Murphy and Jockey L. Dittman. I imagine that's the trainer and the jockey for the horse Gurners Lane. That's a pretty easy conclusion to make there. And it goes on and says where it was produced, but that's too small for me to see.

Oh, yeah, no, made in Australia. There we go. Nice. Geoff Murphy was the trainer of Gurners Lane. 1982 was a huge year for Gurners Lane because Gurners Lane not only won the Melbourne Cup but also the Caulfield Cup that year, which is the second biggest race probably in Australia. Winning the Caulfield and the Melbourne Cup double is, like, you know,

quite an accomplishment. A couple of things to say about this where this, because I know your next question is, you know, how did this come into the Hine estate? Look, my parents, we've never been into horse racing, and it's always been something that's kind of frowned on a little bit, you know, the gambling side and all the rest of it. And although we do love horses, my mum grew up with horses, and you've heard her speak about that on previous episodes with great passion. Would you say chickens are your favourite animal on the farm? What's your favourite farm animal? A horse. Horse? Oh, yes. Why? I used to ride.

But the thing is, growing up in Australia, don't you agree, man? It's such a significant event. It's like the Super Bowl in America. You don't watch football or follow it, but you probably sit down and watch the Super Bowl, or at least you know the Super Bowl's on. That's for sure. They call the Melbourne Cup the race that stops the nation. Indeed. So a lot of people in their workplaces, you know, the workplace stops and they run like a betting system or something like that. It's interesting. There's a bit of a backlash against that here now and about the racing industry because of the way that horses have been treated. But back in 1982, none of that

was of any particular concern to anyone. So whoever plucked Gurner's Lane had a good day, had a good day. Yeah. And you've got the spoon to commemorate it. Yes, yes. I don't think this implies that my parents owned Gurner's Lane or had bet on Gurners Lane and then went out and bought this solid gold spoon. I have no idea how this came into their possession whatsoever. but to spend time and entertain and, you know, play bowls and muck around with people, you know, who were often younger than himself in this retirement home. And he would pray for them and spend time with them and was generally just a really good sort of volunteer in that regard. And I know on Melbourne Cup Day they used to get dressed up and make a real feature of it and watch the race.

So Dad kind of got a little bit... kind of dress up as horses or something just just ride each other around the hallways i think it's a striking spoon with that horse's head at the top i wonder if they just chose like there's a little golden horse's head at the top with a little cup the mel a little replica of the Melbourne Cup, and then it says Gooners Lane Melbourne Cup 1982 underneath. Do you think that is just a generic horse or they modelled that on Gooners Lane, you know, himself? I don't know. The thing is I'm not familiar enough with other horses in the race

to know if there was any distinguishing marks. Can you name one other horse in the race to know if there was any distinguishing marks can you name one other horse in the race then my sir ray von bianco lady wellington road la bijou port carling astral in amaranth then barmax followed by dealer's choice toha silver bounty triumphal march then dry wine from carrying bush and then came in behind them just a dash a gross failure from magistrate brewery boy well back in company with rosen thistle and mr digby do you know what I find interesting? Gerners Lane won the Melbourne Cup in 1982 when he was four years old. He died in 2000. Golly.

So all that time. And he was a gelding. So I don't think he was being... There's no reason to keep a gelding for, you know, siring purposes. Yeah. So, like, I wonder, they probably just kept him as, like, a family pet just because, you know, he won the Melbourne Cup back in the day. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

Wouldn't you want to keep on the horse and be grateful for it? Yeah. And pat it? Yeah, that's marvelous. I wonder if he was like, you know, he went to town on that Melbourne Cup win for years later like you with your swimming carnival medal, like, you know, when he was just an old horse limping around the paddock, you know, I won the Melbourne Cup back in the day.

That's right. They've made spoons about me. They'll be like, what's with the other horses? What's a spoon? It's like, I'll show you, but's with the other horses? What's a spoon? It's like, I'll show you, but I can't pick it up. I tell you who can pick up a spoon, Tim, and that is the Patreon supporter who is about to win one of our Unmade Podcast commemorative spoons.

Oh, yes. How would you like to randomly choose today's Patreon winner? I think I'll just spin the wheel. Here we go. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Here we go.

And the winner is Nick from Belgium. Nice. Nick from Belgium. You have got an Unmade Podcast spoon coming your way. Watch the postbox like a hawk. Watch it like a gelding horse from the 1980s. Can I ask, if you had a horse and you were putting it in to race, what funny horse name would you give your horse? Oh, Heidi Hein?

Heidi Hein. I love how a lot of these horses have like a stable name, the name they actually call them, like Old Jack or something, and then they've got their racing name that they're called out there. You know what I mean? They've sort of got their show name, like Elton John, but back home they've just got their normal name, which is what they patterned.

Lulu was like that. Our dog Lulu was a retired racing greyhound. She raced as Delicate Girl. Oh. Did you ever call her Delicate Girl around the house or? Not so much. But we knew it was her, like, racing name. But, you know, we didn't like to talk about those sad days.

What if we all had, like, real names and then, like, racing names that we took out, like, to work? Racing names? Yeah. What would you have, like, a preaching name? Like a special preaching name. That's right. Yeah. That's good.

Duffelcoat coat supreme There we go Yeah Going to preach Well, didn't Jesus, when he appointed his like 12 apostles, change some of their names? Like he gave them like racing names, didn't he? He did, he did That's very good Yes, Simon, he says, I'm going to call you Peter, which means the rock

Yeah Because I'm going to build my church on you That's nice, yeah What was wrong with Simon, though? Why couldn't he keep his name? Ah, you can't build a church on someone called Simon. I mean. Fair enough.

Come on, really. I mean, it may as well have been trying to build a church on someone called Gurners Lane. It's just not going to work. Yeah, fair enough. Peter's a name. Yes, that's the way to do it. Peter, that's much better.

But the name of the day today is Nick. Nick from Belgium, spoon coming your way. I like the name Nick. Nice work, Nick. I wonder if he's a Nicholas. If anyone calls him Nicholas and Nick is just his unmade patron name. It's his listening name. His listening name. Maybe everyone out listening name. His listening name.

Maybe everyone out there should have a listening name. A listening name. Tell us, in the Reddit and on Twitter, what would your listening name be? What do you call yourself when you're listening to the Unmade podcast? Yeah. Here's a hint. Go with the name your parents would have called you if you were born a different gender. That's a good place to start. That's good start that's a good start all right tim what have you

got have you got a podcast idea well mine's not a patron idea but it is from a very keen young follower i have to say who slipped this to me at this idea to me at dinner the other night and i thought it was strong enough an idea to to share with you you can you can tell me if you think this this resonates were you having dinner with a listener i was i was yes most of adelaide listens to the unmade podcast that's like the ultimate patreon perk well he was a very special listener his name is micah yeah and i tell you he's a very discerning listener Has Micah got a favourite host? Let's not go there

You know I was talking to my daughters yesterday And one of them thought that a new episode had dropped into the phone And so they're like oh another episode And oh no hang on it's just something else and whatever And I said oh they're really So they got talking about how they liked the podcast and how they got into it. And I sort of said, look, you know, I notice you girls,

you really get excited about the podcast, but, you know, I've got a whole lot of sermons and a few lectures and things online. I don't see you racing around to listen to them. And they both burst out laughing, right? And I said, what's the difference between dad on the podcast and dad? And, you know, one of them, the elder said, okay, for one, Brady's not in the other ones. And I was like, all right, that's enough.

Clear the table. Conversation over. That's it. You know what the take home from that is? You need me up on the stage with you when you're preaching Look, I think that would be gold I'd be up for that I think that's fantastic

That's gold So I don't know who his favourite host is But based on that story I think I can hazard a guess But he has a very good name I tell you, he's better at naming things than I am The name is Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Which is very good name. I tell you, he's better at naming things than I am. The name is Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, which is very good. Nice name. And his idea is about having three particular ingredients

and what you would be able to make from just three ingredients, basically a go-to meal with just three ingredients each time that are chosen for you and what you would do with them and how you would vary it and something like that. Now, I've probably explained that far worse. It probably would have been better if Micah had come on himself, which I... Just another in a long line of alternative hosts.

So, Tim, I'm not sure I'm completely understanding. Do you as the guest choose the ingredients or are they dictated to you when you come on the show and you've got to improv as the guest choose the ingredients or are they dictated to you when you come on the show and you've got to improvise a meal from the ingredients because three's not many it's not many but i think you get a few staple items you know like okay butter and you know stuff like that that can sort of facilitate the cooking but then you're given maybe three major primary ingredients and you have to take it from there and do something with it because i just lately uh have gotten into with my wife ordering

you know those boxes where they send you loads of ingredients and recipes and you like make your meal every night from the box that's been sent to you because neither of us have ever really been too big on like cooking yeah they're cool yeah i'm not like pretending to be moses coming down from the mountain here with all these amazing recipes but i've been sort of learning a lot about how cooking works now it's all quite new to me a lot of it and what goes into making a meal from scratch and the one thing i've really been learning is there are actually quite a lot of ingredients in most meals yeah so i'm i'm wondering whether or not like because i know mike is a younger lad and I don't know how much he actually cooks.

Maybe he's underselling it with three and he's making a rod for our backs here. Well, I wonder whether you're given license to then garnish at will, you know, like, okay, you've got these three, you've got to do something. What would you do it with then? And that's where you bring your panache and your extra ingredients and so forth. He's a very clever boy, very clever young man, I should say. And I think he's got a good understanding of the, you know, quite a diverse pantry.

He's able to do a bit of work with it, probably better than myself. Certainly better than yourself, it sounds. Yeah. So I wonder if that's the sort of thing he has in mind. He could actually bring a bit of style and panache. And on the podcast, you'd be explaining, well, I do this with it and I'm doing this with it. I think I like the idea of you doing it at the time

and it can be edited down so there's not too much clanging and whatnot, but just enough to say I'm putting this in and I'm doing that. And people who are really into food and into cooking would find that particularly interesting. Ah, that's what they would do with this. I'm going to go and I'm doing that. And people who are really into food and into cooking would find that particularly interesting. Ah, that's what they would do with this. I'm going to go out on a limb here. And this is not something I often fall for when I'm talking about ideas on the Unmade podcast. But I'm going to go out here and say it.

Micah has come up with a really good idea for a YouTube channel or a TV show. Right. for a YouTube channel or a TV show. Right. And I think this is less strong as a podcast because I think, especially when it comes to cooking, you want to see how it's done and see what's being done. I would love to watch Micah's YouTube channel if he did this with three ingredients each week

and came up with some clever way to combine them. And I think it's less of an audio experience. Don't get me wrong, Micah, it's still better than pretty much every idea Tim and I have ever had on the Unmade podcast. But I'd rather see it as a video. None of which would be worthy of a YouTube channel. I'm almost certain that I will catch up next time I see Micah and he will explain how, firstly, how poorly I explained the idea, but then also that I presented the idea incorrectly, not just poorly articulate.

It's like, no, it's four ingredients or something like that. I'm sure I'm getting it wrong. But I tell you, I thought it was a very ingenious idea. He's a very devoted follower of the podcast. He sounds like a clever lad. In fact, I think the only mistake he made was getting you to pitch his idea rather than me. That's true. I think that's true.

Very good. That's good. Can I say, as we come to the end of the episode, Tim, like hopefully the people listening are not going to realise this, but what an absolute debacle that was technically. Oh, gosh. I've got wires here and I've got computer screens. It kept dropping out. The call kept failing.

I knew the writing was on the wall because you had all the problems before we even started. You were running late. There was this and that. I presume you've forgotten the words from your daughters. Ah, yes. Yeah. Well, that's not surprised.

Look, yep, let's just keep talking. I'll tell you where you should have dropped them if you tell me what they were. All right. It's from only one because the other one was still asleep when I left this morning. Sewing machine. Sewing machine. It would have been funny if the word she asked you to drop was Panama and you didn't use it during the country quiz.

That is great. Yes, yes. Sewing machine. Now, fair enough. There was no super obvious place to drop that. It could have been the name of a horse that I talked about, you know, in terms of a funny, what horse name would you have? And I could like sewing machine. That's a great name for a horse.

You could have said your Super Bowl commercial would have been for a sewing machine. Yes. You don't see many ads for sewing machines, do you? It's not a big high marketed feature on television, that's for sure. Well, sewing machine's a big part of your childhood. My mum was a big sewing machine user. She was a sewing machine Jedi. Yes, yes.

She was a sewing machine. That's right. Yeah. My mum too. Yeah. Very handy on it. Very handy on it. And then my mum got one of those overlockers, which to me was just like a more posh sewing machine because it did these other things. And that looked like the space shuttle or the dials and stuff it had on it. It was amazing. Have you seen an overlocker? I saw them at other parents' homes, like other kids' homes whose parents had them

and they did. They looked like a real mystery. It was like when people started getting home computers. You're like, oh, wow, look at that. I don't know what to do with that. Yeah, an overlocker was just some sort of analog computer that was there. It was like a sort of Goonies Rube Goldberg machine type thing with threads going everywhere and very impressive. I never saw them being used, though. I wonder if an overlock has ever been used.

They're just forever sitting there like a sacred item in the corner of the lounge. My mum's got used. It was decided it was needed. I can't go on without an overlocker. Did your mum make clothes for you? Not for me. She made a lot for herself, but she didn't make clothes for me. Did yours?

Early on, there were a lot of jumpers knitted, which is kind of cool. Yeah. Until it's not cool anymore. And then the jumpers get transitioned to the teddy bears. It would be cool again now, if you could get your mum back into knitting jumpers for you, turning up to like church on Sunday in a jumper knitted by your mum would be kind of awesome. Oh, that would be cool. Yeah, yeah. Maybe we should get your mum knitting unmade podcast jumpers for our merch store. That's a brilliant idea. That's wonderful.

That's great. We'll pay her $3 an hour. She does make quilts now. We have some lovely quilts that she's made, and we have them around the house. And they're quite special because she has this special tag underneath where she writes, you know, made by, you know, at this date, at this time, for this person. You know, they're very personal.

And I like that. Would she make us an unmade podcast quilt? Maybe. Maybe. I'll put in the request. I mean, she could say, no, I don't have an overlocker. In which case. If I buy her an overlocker, will she do it?

Maybe. Maybe we should sell unmade overlockers. Just huge pieces of machinery, shipping them around the world. That would top any piece of merch that I have ever concocted for any project. Having bespoke overlockers. Contacting a company. We thought we were getting complex with the spoon, but an overlocker. We'll have to get a Kickstarter going for that.

I'm going to engineer overlockers. Bring them back. I think they're great. All right, get on to your mum. I want a quilt by my birthday in June. She's taken a lot of time with them in the past, but I think for you, I think she'd get on to it. I think she'd be on a mission.

I think that's a brilliant idea. Yeah. So, we've got to get like the unmade podcast colours, which are the white, black and kind of that tealy green that we use. I don't know exactly what's going to go on it yet, but we'll talk about that. Yep. It'll be, yeah, it's a good idea. I think she'd be honoured. And you'd obviously be honoured, too, to receive one.

That'd be great. Oh, yeah. Gosh. Are you there? I'm here, yeah. Let's keep going. This is going to suck.