The Unmade Podcast - Wholesome: The Big Rocking Horse

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Tim and Brady drive up to the Adelaide Hills and visit the Big Rocking Horse - plus a toy shop and petting zoo. Watch this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/edqzoa408MU Patreon supporters can see some extra footage and win souvenirs from our trip - more here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/52253224 Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://redd.it/nvgt48 USEFUL LINKS Picture gallery from this episode - https://www.unmade.fm/big-rocking-horse-pictures The Big Rocking Horse at Gumeracha - https://thetoyfactory.com.au Bonus Snowy merch - https://the-unmade-podcast.creator-spring.com/listing/snowy-unmade-podcast Wholesome Koala Post-Script - bonus for Stakeholders - https://www.patreon.com/posts/52253224 Previous Wholesome episodes include: A Milo with Mrs Hein - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/unmade-wholesome-mrs-hein Flying a Kite - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/special-wholesome And the episode in which 'wholesome' was first proposed - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/episode14

Hi there everyone, you're about to join Tim and me on a wholesome trip to the big rocking horse in the Adelaide Hills. We took loads of pictures along the way, which you may or may not want to look at via a link in the show notes. If you decide to listen to this episode via our YouTube channel, the pictures will appear on screen at all the appropriate times to make it feel just like you were there with us. Again, see the links in the show notes to find that video or just search Unmade Podcast on YouTube. All right, Tim, how are you this morning on this beautiful, sunny Adelaide day? It is a wholesome day. There's literally not a cloud in the sky. The sun is shining. We're here in shorts and t-shirts. And we're going to have a wholesome day going up into the Adelaide Hills.

Oh, that sounds lovely. Beautiful. And there's only one place to visit in the Adelaide Hills if you want somewhere truly wholesome. Actually, there are several places in the Adelaide Hills. Because it's a very wholesome sort of place. It is. In fact, there are dozens of places. But we're going to like the holy of holies among wholesome places in the Adelaide Hills.

We're going to the big rocking horse. Oh, Gamaraka. It's the town of Gamaraka. Tim, I'm going to drive as wholesomely as possible. I'm going to let anyone in, any traffic in that wants to come in. Good. I'm not going to speed. Early indications.

And I'm going to be a wholesome passenger. Really? I'm not going to be accusing you of bad driving. I'm going to be a wholesome passenger. Really? I'm not going to be accusing you of bad driving. No. I'm going to be encouraging you. Telling that that was a nice use of the indicator, Brady. That's right. Lovely.

Is there anything you want to do when we get to the big rocking horse? There's lots of things because there's lots of wholesome things there. There's a wooden toy factory. So I look forward to looking through all those wholesome toys. Yes. There's a cafe. looking through all those wholesome toys. Yes.

There's a cafe, so I look forward to purchasing a wholesome meal or a snack for us to have out on the lawn. There are animals there, like wholesome animals, like kangaroos and ducks and chooks. Oh, it's beautiful. It's going to be really lovely. This is going to be one of the nicest, most pleasant days in recent memory. And it's a saturday which is a lovely wholesome day it's probably not as wholesome as sunday no it's quite it's still quite you have

to work on the sunday you have to be like you get paid to be wholesome on a sunday oh indeed yeah well let's put on our seat belts because that's very wholesome oh yes yes click clickity click okay let's start the car i mean technically we should be riding bikes because the burning of fossil fuels is not entirely wholesome but we're on a deadline here that's right and also i want i asked him if we could use a street directory rather than our phones to find our way because you shouldn't really use screens when you're being wholesome there should be no screens at all today but tim doesn't have a street directory do you know how to get to gumaraka i do yes i know from memory i've memorized it i rehearsed practiced and learned it that's very wholesome you prepared the night before that's

very wholesome all right which way do i go oh hang on there's traffic and i'm going to give way to all that traffic partly because if i reverse into it reversing into traffic isn't very wholesome not very wholesome it's also not good for the car it's gonna provoke some very unwholesome language in the other drives do i go left here or you need to do a ue and go back okay the other way north east way okay hello drivers of adelaide good morning everybody be good to each other tim you're using your screen tim's using his screen we're gonna have to put that in the outtakes as well. There's two ways to get there. There's a really, like there's a drive

through the hills sort of way, or there's up North East Road, Tea Tree Gullyway. What's the most wholesome way? The most wholesome way is, yeah, I think through the hills, you know, looking at all the paddocks and the animals and the sunshine. Will we see cows? Oh yes, cows and horses.

What do you think the most wholesome animal is? Ducks. Do you think? There's something about the farmyard ducks. I thought maybe a white horse, but they're still big. They're still a bit scary, aren't they? You're right. Ducks are small. Pigs are very wholesome too. Ducklings, I think. Ducklings, ducklings. But you can't pat them. I feel like you have to be able to pat the most wholesome animal. We're driving past Adelaide's COVID-19 testing station. That's not very wholesome. But it is. It's because it's sparsely used.

No, and it's good. And it's good that it's happening. And it's wholesome to go and get tested when you need to. Volunteer testing. Yeah. But on the left here, there's people playing sport. I just saw a dad opening the boot of his car and getting out little BMX bikes for the kids. Yes.

Oh, good fathering. Which way am I going here, man? You're going to go over and turn left. Do you think we're dressed in wholesome enough attire for today? We've both got very sensible sort of shorts and um sort of polo tops or you've got a t-shirt i've got a mathematics t-shirt on because i'm encouraging education all right okay and spreading of knowledge my t-shirt's fred perry which is english and i think in movies and things england is seen as a bit more wholesome than say america you know what

i mean like that is true england is the most wholesome than, say, America. You know what I mean? That is true. England is the most wholesome country in that way, the land of magic faraway tree and lovely TV shows. But also English people are always the villains in movies. That's such a contradiction. How do you reconcile that? I don't know. But there's something about...

I heard once a discussion about the Harry Potter films that Steven Spielberg was interested in doing the adaptation to film from the books, but he wanted to transfer them and set them in America. And there's no way that J.K. Rowling was going to allow that to happen. And the person was commenting in films that English schoolchildren are seen as more wholesome than American schoolchildren. You know, the English schoolchild's got their, you know, sensible shoes and a little backpack and it's boarding school and it's little cut lunches whereas American school it's like graffiti and you know it's sort of tough and see that post box post boxes are wholesome oh posting a letter posting a letter is wonderful I like writing a letter even to someone I can email I sometimes send a letter. Posting a letter is wonderful. I like writing a letter. Even to someone I can email, I sometimes send a letter, particularly to my wife.

You write letters to your wife? I do. I write a love letter from work and then post it in the mail and it comes to home. Oh. I put a stamp on it and everything. Really? Well, otherwise it won't get posted, man. No, but I mean, you could just sort of, you know, pop it in the mail pile at work and

it'll find its way. But I like to get the stamp and put it on properly myself. You're so romantic. I hope these letters are wholesome letters or are they unwholesome? They are. They're lovely. Yeah. Yep. They're typed on a typewriter so they're very wholesome. Is that more wholesome than if you'd handwritten it? Oh wow. I think they're different brands of wholesome there. Yeah. Certainly better than just emailing it. Oh yeah. Or like yeah. Or having your secretary type it out. That's right.

Dictate it. Dictating it to your secretary. How long are they? Are they over a page long? No, they're one page. One pages. Yep. She won't read any more than a page of that waffle.

That's right. Keep it short. That's right. To the point. Does she keep them in a binder or a folder? She does, yes. Oh, that is beautiful, Tim. Well, she keep them in like a binder or a folder she does yes oh that is beautiful well she sticks them up for a little while like you know what i mean on the wall but then can't your daughters read them no um you know like inside the cupboard door sort of

place oh okay right up high where they can't see it and if you're listening girls we're passing down the street here we're passing a whole range of more wholesome shops that is it's not a big loud shopping center the individual little shops yeah that have been there for a long time with their own little big window and door with a bell a shop is not wholesome if it doesn't have a little bell that rings when you open the door no definitely there's a shopping centers are centres are not wholesome. No. No. But individually owned family shops with bells on the door.

That's right. I don't think Ultratune there on the left is wholesome. Hello to the boys at Ultratune. Nothing wrong with Ultratune, don't get me wrong. You've got to get your car fixed, but... It's much more wholesome to go to, like, an old man in overalls with a little bit of grease on his face. It's a bit difficult now with the fuel injection system and yeah onboard computer that yeah it's not a bit the

years of fixing tractors doesn't help when your onboard computer's not working the dentist oh we've just the dentist is a place where you go and get wholesome isn't it no the dentist is not wholesome what taking care of your teeth brushing your teeth is wholesome yeah the dentist is not a wholesome place. What? Taking care of your teeth? Brushing your teeth is wholesome. Yeah? The dentist isn't wholesome because there's too much technology involved. Ah, okay. Like the beeping of this car when I change lanes. And there's also often fear involved with going to the dentist.

Oh, okay. So I don't think the dentist... The dentist is good, but the dentist wouldn't qualify for an episode of Wholesome, for example. Nor would that adult shop on the left that we're... No, indeed. That adult shop and the dentist are in the same category. They're not part of the Wholesome. Yeah.

Brushing your teeth and eating food, and eating sugarless food, you know, to protect your teeth is Wholesome. But, like, the drill and the... All the bad tastes of the mouthwash and everything where do i go now just straight ahead we're just following this all the way out here we're passing a kfc which is definitely not wholesome no that's that's that's the that's the adult bookshop of food like we're making these wholesome episodes to make up for how much we obsess about kfc in

the other episodes i mean if they were going to make up for how much we're obsessed about KFC and the other episodes. I mean, if they were going to make Wholesome the movie, Tom Hanks, surely. Who else? Who would co-star with Tom Hanks in Wholesome the movie? Oh, jeez. I think he may even co-star with himself. It'd be one of those films where he plays every part, like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2. Emma Thompson, could she be in Wholesome?

I was about to say, once upon a Time, Emma Thompson, yes. Of course, they together made one of the most wholesome movies of all time. That wonderful Disney one about Mary Poppins. What was that called? Oh, yeah. Where Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney. My wife loves that movie. Really?

Loves it. What's it called? What happened? Mr. Banks or Mr. Mr. Banks. No, it's a really good movie much happened. Mr. Banks or Mr. Mr. Banks. No, it's a really good movie, man. You're not being fair saying nothing much. I might have to revisit it.

I just. Yeah, it's good. Mary Poppins. So surely Julie Andrews would be the wonderful co-star in another era. Julie Andrews. Tom Hanks and Julie Andrews is the awesome. You say no more. You definitely know what that movie is going to be rated.

You say no more, you definitely know what that movie's going to be rated. By the way, if you want to play a fun game while listening to this episode, every time we say the word wholesome, why not have a little shot of full cream milk? We've worked it out so that if you do that, you'll get your exact dairy requirements before the day. Before the first five minutes are up. That's right. Can you think of a more wholesome drink than milk?

Water, but it's a bit bland water, isn't it? Yeah, that's, yeah. You can be too, sometimes things can be too bland to be wholesome. A cup of tea. Yes, but not more wholesome than milk. Because kids don't drink tea. That's true. There's a thrift shop. Thrift shops, I think, are quite wholesome. Depends what's in don't drink tea that's true there's a thrift shop thrift shops

i think are quite wholesome depends what's in them yeah that's true i'll tell you what i did just see which is very wholesome balloons oh yeah balloon how wholesome are balloons they never seem to go out of fashion do they balloons that's true and they're at every you see balloons at weddings and you see them at kids parties they're They're very adaptable. Imagine being like the man or woman who invented the balloon. And you get like one cent every time someone uses a balloon. You'd have a lot of money right now. Walter Balloon. Walter Balloon.

I'd love a good balloon. And water balloons are wholesome. Helium balloons, air-filled balloons, hot air balloons. Hot air balloons, yeah. It's very difficult to think of balloons that aren't wholesome. That's not a challenge, by the way, to send us every example of unwholesome balloons. Yeah, that's right. Because we don't have an email address for you to send in unwholesome things here.

When you send your wife those nice letters, what happens if you're at your home when the letter arrives? Oh, that happened the other day. I just put it neatly on the counter with the okay anything else that might be for her does she open it straight away or does she go off like for some quiet time in in you know out to the park or something to open it or does she just open it in front of you and go oh yeah not bad they move straight onto the speeding fine yeah no i think she opens it straight away right Just dying to know what you've said.

Yeah. I wasn't there the other day when she did, and I got a little, you know, text message of, you know, thanks. Koala warning sign on the left, warning her to be careful of crossing koalas. Very wholesome. Very wholesome. Giving way to koalas isn't that bad.

It's the wholesomer things one could do on the road. Second only to giving way to a little row of ducklings following a mother duck. Well, which is more wholesome, giving way to ducklings crossing the road or koala? It's certainly more common with the ducklings. In fact, I saw it a few months ago in the city. But I think that might even win because those of us who have lived in australia knows that the koalas have done a wonderful pr job in terms of their cuteness and wholesomeness but you get close to one and there's some fair bit of grunting and claws and i've held a few koalas and i think that's wonderful

yeah but they're you know there's they're not overly happy about it i'll tell you why giving away to ducklings is more wholesome than a koala because you're saving a whole family oh yes yes it's like you've saved a family from a burning house or something although i i do think that if the mother duckling was a little bit wiser she'd be at the back the fact that she goes out front means she doesn't really know what's quite happening behind her true but she has to lead the way the duck. The ducklings don't know where they're going. She does lead the way. With the role of ducklings, I wonder what the order is. Do they go in age order or like intelligence or is it random? Is there a set order that ducklings follow? Yeah, I wonder. And if it's the same

every time they cross the road or head off on an adventure. Is there a pecking order? Hmm, good question. These are the sorts of questions we deal with on Wholesome. That actually is a really good question. Oh, sorry. I feel like we're going up into the foothills of Adelaide now. I think the terrain is rising. Yes, we've moved through the concrete jungle.

Yeah, more trees. Oh, it's lovely. Next to us here, there's a senior citizen in the passenger seat being driven by what I presume is her adult child. So, fully grown man with a rather old lady who bears a little bit of a resemblance to him in the passenger seat. He's driving his senior citizen mum somewhere. Doing something nice with your mum is wholesome. And we are we are taking our mums out later to the beach so not for this episode just it just as as civilians

that's how wholesome we are that's right this is not just an image folks we live it we're the real deal another koala sign you are kind of really wholesome me yeah pretty much i mean you're a church minister i've been well i mean that's like well you know maybe that just means i'm i'm extra forgiven for my unwholesomeness you're a pretty wholesome dude i don't think you do that many bad things i'm sure you do a few well i'm not gonna argue with you here yeah not on public forum yeah stop beeping beep beeping is not a wholesome car. So after a long, scenic drive through the Adelaide Hills, we're getting close to Gummaracka now.

This is a beautiful part of Adelaide here. These hills are gorgeous, Tim. And what a day. Beautiful. It's ridiculous. It actually is ridiculous. Well, this is Adelaelaide the Tuscany of Australia it is this is much nicer than Tuscany look at that big beautiful lake to our left little looks like a Christmas tree farm to our right rolling green hills gum tree lined roads, blue sky, hills in every direction, power cables.

Those power cables picked their moment then. There's some guy pulled over on the side of the road with a speedboat in the Adelaide Hills. Don't know what's going on there. Changing a tyre. Looks like another guy's helping him. That's wholesome. That's beautiful. That's wholesome that's beautiful that's mateship as we zoom past yeah we got places to be we must be getting close now

gotta be careful with the rocking horse because you drive past and then it sort of looms over you in the corner and you're like there it is we've gone too far i wonder if there's ever been a car crash caused by someone seeing the big rocking horse and being distracted and veering off the road I imagine so Gotta be careful Vineyards now appearing Vineyards, they look clean Vineyards are nice

More sophisticated than wholesome Yeah, they can't be too wholesome because of their connection to alcohol Indeed Alright, there's a sign saying Gumarakaca, Gumaracca Attractions. The big rocking horse is fourth on that list of dot points, which surprises me. That's got to be a mistake. I didn't see what the other three were.

There was a winery, I think. What else was there? What else has Gumaracca got? Gumaracca's tiny. It's near Birdwood, and it has the Birdwood, like, car museum. Yes, the motor museum, the national motor Museum. Vintage cars are wholesome. The Birdwood Motor Museum is a fantastic place to go. Have you been there?

No, I've driven past many times. Oh, you have to go there. It's way more impressive than you think. Oh, coppers. Putting our microphones down as we drive past the police car. Why have you put yours down? You're a passenger.

Oh, sorry. Yes, I just instinctively hit it. I just dropped my microphone like you... Just instinct when I saw those flashing red and blue lights. Some poor bloke's been pulled over for not driving wholesome enough. Yeah. We're going fast. We're rating.

Are police wholesome? I would say no. Especially not at the moment. I think like a Bobby Constable sort of person, you know, coming person you know coming along going hello hello hello what's going on here i think that's pretty wholesome but so this is gumaraka township coming through it's lovely look general store yeah is there a bakery because there's nothing more wholesome than a bakery that's true there's there's a place they're called good pantry oh there's a sign it says big rocking horse 300 meters on the right we are approaching do you reckon that's the one we're good pantry oh there's a sign it says big rocking horse 300 meters on the right

we are approaching do you reckon that's the one we're going to or there's coincidentally just another big rock i wonder if there's a medium rocking horse i would love to just bring a rocking horse and put it on the side build a new big rocking horse 100 meters from the current one tourists come along and just spend all day there she there she blows, there it is. There she blows. It is always bigger than you think. Oh, it's magnificent. Look at that. Wow.

Red and white. Pulling up against the green of the trees and the blue of the sky. There's no more beautiful sight anywhere in the world. Australian gum trees, beautiful. We're out of the car and walking through the car park. Currently our view of the rocking horse obscured by these mighty gum trees. Beautiful gum trees, aren't they? Beautiful. We're walking past the petting zoo where there are children stroking goats and alpacas or llamas. Oh, here she comes. Here's a question, Tim. Is the big rocking horse a boy or a girl?

That's a great question. Because it's got those kind of nice doe eyes. Yeah. They're kind of feminine eyes. They are feminine. I was going to say boy intuitively, but I think that's, I think when I look at it, I think it's quite pretty. Not that boys can't be pretty, but I think it's a girl. You're going to go girl? I wonder if she's got a name.

I wonder if those who work here have a plain name for her. You know what I mean? Like an affectionate name. She must be due a lick of paint. I like the kind of boxiness of it. The red's holding up pretty well. The white's looking a bit tight. And I love, like, you're not that high.

You're no higher than, like, a balcony of a house and people, like, waving. That's right. You can go up higher. Now, where are we going to start? We're going to start with the rocking horse itself? We've got our tickets. Tickets are $2 each. Oh, yeah, I've got to get up the thing, man.

I want to go up. I can tell you're eager. Yeah. Let's go. Quick question. Does it have a name? Is it a boy or a girl? I actually don't know. If anything, it might say on that sign over there.

Do you think it's a boy or a girl? I don't know. It's a monster. Monster? It's what you want it to be? Yeah. Alright. Alright. Alright. Let's go. We could call her Rocky. We're going up the first flight of stairs. This is a very easy and accessible part of the rocking horse.

Yeah, so these stairs are just normal up to the first level. We're effectively at the feet now. Yeah, the hooves, the hooves. Sorry, the hooves, yes. It's at the rockers, the big red rockers that the hooves connect to to rock. And then you walk up a ladder up one of the legs to go up into the abdomen of the horse. The belly, maybe that's a nicer way to say it. Maybe it is, yes.

The tummy. Tummy. Very all creatures great and small here, Matt. There's a sign here that says step into danger. Step into danger? That's not helpful. That can't be referring to the rocking horse. Supervision needed.

When I was your age, this is where I stopped. Especially because it looks so dark up there. I know. My younger sister and dad went up and I stayed here when I was younger. But I feel like I can do it now. Good idea, you've got it. Alright. So, should I go first, Tim?

I'm going up the ladder. Alright, be careful. Up into danger, as they say. I'm climbing. One-handed. One-handed and two feet. up the ladder. All right, be careful. Up into danger, as they say. I'm climbing. One-handed. One-handed and two feet up the ladder. Thankfully, you've got those robust Tom's shoes. I've got the Tom's.

All right, I'm up into the... I'm following Brady. I'm coming up into the belly now. I'm nearly there. I'm at the top of the ladder. There's a little door I push open. I'm in. We're in the belly. I'm just the top of the ladder There's a little door I push open I'm in We're in the belly I'm just reaching the belly

Brady's successfully managed to get off the ladder He's holding the door for me Which is very wholesome Thank you Brady You're welcome Tim Move towards the back of the horse You can't really see anything here in the belly But now there's another ladder

Let me take another picture Tim So people can Tim's on the way up. Alright, here I go. Up the ladder into the sunshine. What part of the horse... We're at the rear of the horse now. We're climbing up onto its saddle. Oh, here we go. Yes. No, man, you've got to come up and have a look at this. I'm up too. There are little kids here taking pictures. This is fantastic fantastic all right so now we're on the on its back yes oh look at that this is i think the wholesome area oh there's a kid taking a photo of her do you need any help taking a

picture up from up higher you okay well i'm a professional photographer so yeah i'm a professional photographer's assistant yeah so we're standing on the back now families are taking pictures i think this is the most wholesome area like i think this is where most people would come this is the saddle that's right there's the last bit to the top of the head which i think is for sort of you know that's like that's the summit that's scary of course i will take a picture i will take a picture. I will take a picture. You've got it. Oh, no, you're okay. We'll take some pictures of this lovely family.

Very beautiful family. Let's get one with the head behind. Hang on. Put my microphone down. And one more that way with some sun on your faces. Oh, you can tell he's professional, can't you? Yes. Very, very classy. You got it.

Thank you so much. You're welcome. Enjoy. That's $20, please. So, oh, I've never actually looked at this closely, Tim. This is a really interesting perspective of the tail of the horse. Oh, yeah, from above. It's very thin.

It is very thin. I'm not sure it's real. But up here you can see everything. You can see the kids' playground area. You can see the toy factory we'll be going to soon. You can see the little cafe that you can go to. With the rusty Australian roof. Oh, yeah.

But you can see the farms all around as well with Buttercup in the fields. Gorgeous. All sorts of stuff. Look, that farm's got solar panels. How wholesome is that? Are solar panels wholesome? They don't look wholesome, but I think they are wholesome. Get in here for a selfie with the head behind us.

All right, here we go. Move your head a bit further. See, because we want the handles. Oh, yeah, yeah. There we go. We got it. Oh, now we've got a bit of a traffic jam here. Oh, hello.

Yep. So the final thing is to climb up the neck or the mane of the horse. You have to hold on to the mane. Climb the mane to get onto the top of the head, but it's a bit of a traffic jam here. We'd better get in the queue to even get our chance there's other children want to go first and letting other people go first is very wholesome yeah it is wholesome but it does take a lot more time no you're not going up the head it's scary it is yeah there's

boogeymen up there we'll do it we'll risk it for our art gotta wait for this young lad in front of us first. This brave kid. You gonna go up to the head? You brave enough? You wanna go up? Wow he's brave that one. I couldn't do that when I was his age. You'll be right. Scared children everywhere.

Yeah. So there's just a family climbing up before us. How are you? Are you nervous Tim? Uh, maybe just a tad. We do have to do this one handed. Now should we go up to the head now while the others are there? Oh, yes.

Oh, well. There's room, I think. Is there room? I think. They come down the other... Oh, yes. Is there room up there? I can see feet coming down the other side, so...

Oh, you come down the other way. Yeah. Okay. Oh, so that poor girl won't get her drink bottle. Oh, yeah. Oh, maybe we should grab her drink bottle and we'll take it up. So this little girl left her drink bottle at the bottom of the stairs because she was going to get it when she came back but she didn't realize she's not coming back so we'll take it up all right up to the head

up the neck up the main to the summit i feel like edmund hillary i've got your drink bottle here because you're not going back down those steps there you go all right brady being a good samaritan there that was an actual legit piece of wholesomeness you caught there. The first legit piece of wholesomeness in this episode. Hang on, Tim. That's a good photo. Stay there. Much like Hillary and Tenzing when they climbed Everest

and the only picture that exists is of Tenzing taken by Hillary, I'm taking all the pictures of Tim here on this climb. There's no actual evidence I was here. And of Armstrong photographing Buzz. Isn't that that famous one on the moon? Yes, same. Here, you can take my picture on the head here, man. In just a sec. You can use mine.

I noticed that they've added these more recently. I think they've added them, which are presumably for their lightning rods. Yes, they are lightning. I thought they were aerials, but you're right. They are lightning rods because there's no wiring. We thought they'd sold out and were using the rocking horse for mobile phone coverage, but actually, no. No, it's more wholesome than that.

More wholesome. Don't put me in the middle, otherwise it distorts you. Very nice. You got a few? You take like 10, man. There we go. Top of the rocking horse. Top of the rocking horse.

Top of the rocking horse. All right, man. Hang on. There we go. In you get. All right. Down we go. All right.

Now, you're not great with heights i'm not but when you're recording when you're like recording and making things it's almost like a sheath of invincibility and you forget about danger and fear because it's like the work takes over like if i was just here on my own i'd probably be thinking oh i don't want to do this but because i'm recording you're on the clock like i'm on the yeah it's i'm a professional hey hey look i'm seeing here some some of the traditionally you'd say graffiti is not wholesome but when it's i'm a professional hey hey look i'm seeing here some some of the traditionally you'd say graffiti is not wholesome but when it's a classic sort of you know john love sarah yeah that's pretty wholesome so like yeah couple couples of etched things into the steelwork here there's you know a bh for hannah or whatever yeah that's pretty now be careful man remember in mountaineering most

people die on the descent. Oh, okay. So be careful. And going down, you've got to go down the ladder here. Oh, how am I going to get on here with my mom? Oh, I feel stupid now with some little kid climbing up. Hang on, here we go. It might be easy to put it in your pocket.

No, I've got to record. All right. Yeah, people have to hear me going down this ladder. No! You get the moment. If it happens, man, you use the. All right. Yeah, people have to hear me going down this ladder. No! You get the moment. If it happens, man, you use the recording for good. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I'll figure out how to get the recording and get it online. All right, yeah. That'll work, yeah. You don't know how to work. You haven't even got the password. Here comes Tim coming down behind me. Yes, easy. Down the neck.

I guess we've sort of gone down the throat. We sort of came up the mane and came down the throat. No, this is the down one, little fella. A few little kids getting the up and the down ladder systems mixed up here, but we'll be all right. Here we go. Here we go. Come on, now, I always get confused here. Where do you go?

I think we go down this way where these kids are going down. Here, where it says down only. You go ahead, young fellas. Take your time there, don't rush. You concentrate on those steps, hold on really tight. Remember, don't stand on his fingers. Good boys. Little traffic jam here on the ladder as these little lads make their way down.

Thank you for holding the door for me, Tim. Down we go. The last ladder before we... Things get easy. It's like coming down the Khumbu Glacier. Is this base camp, man, or is the next step base camp? I think this is the last real moment of danger.

This is the Khumbu Glacier. I think when we get down to actual wooden stairs again, we're safe. Down. Back down to the hooves. Back now in the shade of the warm bosom of the big rocking horse. Well, we earned our certificates today.

I hope I've still got the tickets. If we've got our tickets, we get a certificate to say we climbed it. Now, the last little staircase. We made a very wholesome logs of wood, and we've made it to the bottom. We made it all the way to the top. Thank you. We've got our tickets way to the top. Thank you. We've got our ticket

so we can get our certificate now. Yes, we've just taken it to the toy factory. Really? Yep, lovely. I think that lady that let us in was quietly impressed by how quickly we made it up and down. I think she was.

I wonder if there's some sort of record that we've... We used no ropes, no supplemental oxygen. There was no training. Wow, looking back up at it now just think man just a few minutes ago we were up there that's hard to believe isn't it really we were up that high uh shall we get our certificates or shall we get some food from the cafe well we'll have to carry around our certificates if we get them now so that is good father that's that's like dad

experience yep yep keeping your caring to a minimum We should mention that we're passing a pretty classic amusement park feature, which is the direction sign to everywhere on earth. So Stockholm is 15,346 kilometres that way. Santiago is, what is it, 11,845 and so on. Where's Santiago, Tim? Santiago? Sorry. Is it in South America?

It is, yes, it is. It is in South America. It's in Chile. For a moment I was thinking it was California, but I was thinking, you know, like San Jose, San Diego, San Jose. South Pole as well, 6,155 kilometres. Enough of this geography rubbish, Tim. This is not wholesome.

Yeah, yeah, I feel like this is one of those things that took a long time to build. Looks nice, but people spend about less than four seconds looking at it. I think this is the sort of thing that would have inspired me as a kid. I'll take a picture of it so people can see in the video and the show notes. And interestingly, this is the international one and just over to the left is an Australia one with all distances to Australian places over there.

Oh, yeah. Do you know what? Do you want to get some food, or do you want to get an ice cream? Food. Okay. You didn't need to think about that, did you? All right. We've just come out of the cafe,

where we have... Tim, do you want to tell people what we've ordered? Tea and scones. Tea and scones. Beautiful. Now, where are we going to sit? There's a lovely little area over here. There's little children around.

Yeah, let's sit over there in the playground. You're right. Oh, watch your step. Where's the bit of shade? It's a bit shadier here. Let's sit here. Why don't you go on that side there? Yeah.

Freckles are very wholesome, I love. It's like getting sunburned. It's not wholesome. There we go. Oops. So now we're just sitting amongst the trees and little picnic tables surrounded by all these children's toys

they have here for children to play on. There are kids playing. We're right next to the petting zoo. You see all the animals. We're next to the toy shop. This is probably the most wholesome place on earth. It is there. Look, just above you there's a little birdhouse in the tree.

It's so perfect, it makes me sick. Tonka trucks. Look at that. Look at these Tonka trucks. I loved Tonka trucks when I was a kid. Except I had this problem where I had a problem saying truck, and I pronounced T-R with an F, and I used to walk around the shops

yelling truck, truck at the top of my voice because I wanted to play with my truck but it didn't sound like that. It was a bit embarrassing for my mum apparently. This is a non-smoking area as well which is appropriately awesome. Do you even need to have non-smoking signs up when you're in the children's play area

next to the toy shop in the shadow of the big rocking horse next to the petting zoo? I think it seems like they do need to it may be there historically but they um it's against the law to uh to be smoking in an eating area in adelaide i think it should be against the law to smoke within a 100 mile radius of the big rocking horse oh indeed what's your first youngest memory of coming to the rocking horse my first memory is coming here and my mum who's not good with heights and ladders staying on the ground and dad taking me and my sister up and we went up those first levels and i think i lost my nerve at the main i didn't make

it up to the head i was too scared and i said no i, no, I can't do it. And I had to stay put. And my dad and my sister, my younger sister, who was braver, went up to the head without me. And I stayed below because I was too scared. Oh, wow. Yeah. Were you like 13, 14 at that stage? I don't know. But it was definitely an early failure of manhood on my part. What's your earliest memory?

My earliest memory was coming over on holidays from torelgan and victoria here to adelaide and staying with cousins and coming out for an extended family day um i would have been yeah late childhood and to my knowledge and memory i went all the way to the top i don't have a distinct memory of not doing you would have you're pretty you you strike me as you would have been a pretty brave kid yeah Yeah. In fact, I think I went up the outside of it rather than the stairs. Just shimmied my way up. You just leapt to the top in one single leap in your memory. What do you think of the big rocking horse now? I think it still looks impressive. I think it's lovely.

I like the fact that it's kind of, it's homemade if I can put it like that. Like this is not a big commercial centre. It was actually built by, you know, on a farm you know that do you think it looks like that do you think it looks like it was built like by a dad up close it certainly does but i think it has a that gives it a lovely charm it's also well done it still looks like a lot of fun everyone all the kids climbing up and going oh wow have you brought your kids here yet yeah, oh, many times. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right, our cream tea, our scones and jam and cream and tea have arrived. Oh, look at this, a lovely English breakfast cup of tea. English breakfast.

Which just sounds wholesome, doesn't it? English and breakfast. Stirring it. listen to that that is a lovely sound that is firstly i love that our milk has come in a little lovely jar a little milk jug i mean not a jar just adding a dash of milk a dash i might just have a little dash too. When else is milk referred to with the word dash? I need to dash out and buy some milk perhaps. Oh yes.

Yeah. You have to make that sound after a sip of tea, don't you? I love the sound of the of the teak cup being placed in the middle of the saucer. Yes. You've got to move that. Oh, and the screech of that cockatoo.

Ah, yes. Now, oh, look at these big birds coming towards us. They look a bit scary, actually. So, Tim, this is a very sensitive subject, as you know, particularly with my wife. Oh, yes. We have the jam, we have the cream, we have the scones. In what order are you going to put the jam and cream onto your scone? Well, I know that in the particular area of England that you live,

putting the cream on first is the correct way, and then the jam on top, because the cream is more buttery in the way that it is. We are, however, here in the countryside, in the hills of Australia, where that is a foreign concept. So I'm going to insist that we put the jam on first, and then the dollop of cream. You're going to put the jam on the scone, and then the cream on top of the jam. You realise my wife will never let you into our house again. Ever. You remember when I was over in England, we did the little experiment where I had both of them and did a taste test.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Surprisingly, they tasted exactly the same. I'm going to put the cream on first because I just, you know, to keep the pace. Value your relationship. I'm doing it. I'm cutting open the scone. Well done, Brady. They're not like real scones, are they? They're like a...

Oh, that is much softer cream than you would get in England. It's like whipped cream. It is whipped cream. That's it. We don't have whipped cream in a cream tea. No. And there goes the jam. One feature of having the cream on top is that when you take a bite into it,

you're often left with a little bit of cream on the end of your nose. In the part of England that you're from, scones or scones? I'd say scones. I don't know now. Now, although this isn't a usual Unmade Podcast episode, obviously, it's a wholesome special. Tim did bring something with him today that we wish to share with you. He has a spoon of the week, don't you?

Hang on, I'm still finishing my scone. I was hoping you might use your spoon of the week to stir your tea oh yeah spoon of the week Tim in his backpack here

has a very special spoon of the week that he's going to get out for us after he's licked all the cream off his fingers finger licking good this scone you've got multiple spoons in that backpack

there's the one we're after there there she is what do you got all right there's a little bit of backup spoons future spoons past spoons and i've pulled out here we go the very appropriately brady i've been saving this up for you. This is the rocking horse, big red rocking horse tourist souvenir spoon. So this is a big rocking horse spoon from Gumaracca, South Australia that presumably your family bought during one of those childhood visits of yours. I am almost certain I can date that to 1988. Yeah? Yep.

I remember the holiday we were on when we came here, and I'm almost certain that would have been the time they bought it. Let me tell you, Kokomo by the Beach Boys was number two on the charts, playing on video hits at the time. What was number one? Teardrops by Womack and Womack. Okay. It's engraved here on the spoon.

No, it's not. So this is quite a short spoon. It's a short little stubby spoon. Probably the shortest spoon we've had so far. Very handle heavy because there's a big dense, it's got a big dense plinth on which a big dense rocking horse sits. And on the plinth it says, Big Rocking Horse, Gumaracka, South Australia.

You going to stir the tea with it for old time's sake? Yes. It's quite dirty and dated and faded. There you go. Love it. There we go. It's lovely that it's come back after. Do you think they still might sell it here? We'll go and compare to the ones. Maybe they've updated them. Maybe they've still selling the same batch. I wonder if there's a... Funnily enough Teardrops is still number one in South Australia at the moment. Kokomo's dropped to number three.

How do you remember what the number one song was when that spoon was bought? Because we used to wake up on holidays staying at my cousin's house, you know, go out and watch cartoons in the morning. And then on Saturday mornings, there was like video smash hits. And so it'd count down, you know, like the top 20 or something. And we loved Kokomo by the Beach Boys who doesn't oh yeah and so we were hoping oh that one will be number one and then it came on at number two and we're like oh wow wow so I'm excited to see what spoons they sell in

the souvenir shop now I'm going to use your napkin to carefully clean the spoon of the week in order to um let me take a picture of it while I'm here and I'll get a picture of it with a rocking horse in the background. All right, what do you reckon's next, Tim? Toys? Do you think we'll go in the petting zoo or just get toys? I think the toy factory's looking pretty good. Yeah. But I think we just need to let our scones settle for a minute.

Just sit there and let it settle. There's no need to rush off. No, and no, and there's also, we won't be swimming straight after we've eaten as well. We are to the beach but we will wait until our food has properly settled that's right yeah gotta let it go down yeah i don't know where it is in the meantime but it's got to go down and then you go for a swim wait till your food's gone down where where are you i've eaten it i swallowed it it went down Has our food gone down? Okay, that's enough now

You're such a good dad Those big birds have just been waiting for us to leave the table So they can take our food So we're going into the wooden toy factory now Now man, when it comes to toys Wooden toys surely are the most wholesome Yes, definitely Much more than, you know, we talk about He-Man

Toys, plastic action figures. That's not awesome. No, no, no. Particularly not Skeletor. No. Or the Decepticons. Oh, look, here are pictures from the making of the big rocking horse. Oh, yeah.

Look how they've faded. Yeah, they're fading in the sun. There's a big wall here where there's lots of photographs of the man constructing the rocking horse back in 1981. Recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. All right let's go into this toy shop. All right we're coming into what must be what you know I think is what's in a child's mind when they imagine the North Pole. It's a large room jam-packed with wooden toys. And all of them look like they've been handmade by Santa.

That's right. You can actually, there's rocking horses. Oh, let's keep an eye out for spoons as well. Very appropriately. There are also mugs and there are, is this an Australian thing to have tea towels, souvenir tea towels? I don't know, maybe it is. Certainly the ones with Australia written on them, that's reasonably Australian. Big boomerangs on them and stuff.

Despite all these great wooden puzzles and wooden toys everywhere, what I'm looking for is spoons. I'll ask the lady at the counter. Oh, there's the spoons. They've got a Big Rocking Horse spoon collection. All the ones they've made since 82. I'm taking a picture. We wondered if they had the same... Hang on, I've got to get mine out. Hang on.

See if yours is there. So every Big Rocking horse spoon they've made since 1982 is here in a cabinet. It's amazing. Is yours there? That's kind of like yours, but not quite the same. There's yours. There's yours. Hang on, I've got it, Matt. There's yours. There it is.

There it is at the top. It's one of the early ones. Hold it up next to it as an exact match. Hang on. There's a whole, we wondered if they were still using or making the same ones, but they've got a whole cabinet full of them. This is obviously like an arc of previous spoons that are no longer available. I wonder what ones, like, you know, this is the back catalogue. I wonder what current ones they're selling. Wow. I'm going to go and find out. This is amazing. I wonder how much this whole collection would go for. What current spoons? Do you have

spoons still or just the... Oh here we go, directing us to key rings, magnets, spoons. There we go, see we've got this original one from 1988 I believe we bought that. Do you have any of these for sale still or they're long gone now, collector's items? No, just in the museum? Yeah, the wife of the original owner, she collected those. Oh yes. That's her collection, so. What would you estimate that collection's worth?

I'm gonna pick the inner. Money-wise. Five dollars? We'll take it. I'll give you six dollars for it. We're definitely gonna buy one of these current spoons. But let's look at other things to buy first. We'll have a look around. Somebody once asked me whether there's a silver spoon amongst them and I said...

No idea. Probably not. Oh, okay. No, right. Well, sounds like it. Go and find something to buy. Those current custodians aren't holding onto their heritage as tightly as the original builders. Oh, remember these snake puzzles, man?

They're like a... Yeah, I remember them. Rubik's Cube. So they're really big on puzzles and... Oh, look, look. Here's... This is musical instruments. Remember at school when the music teacher would bring in

and you'd have those classic musical instruments? The maracas and... I think these are maracas here. Oh, yeah. And a wooden xylophone. Oh, here's a xylophone. Here's the xylophone. Everyone wanted the drum, didn't they? Everyone wants a drum to bang on.

Makes a nice sound, the wooden xylophone. It's a musical instrument, man. That's right. It does make a nice sound. That's its purpose. Can you give us a bit of money for nothing on there? If Katrina was here, she would have played the sofa shop on that. I bet she'd chop it.

I bet she would. I bet she's got a xylophone. We're moving up to the more serious end, where the more complex bits of woodwork have occurred. Like the sort of thing you'd buy to put in a nursery, like a big sit-on rocking horse. What do you call these? Like cradles and things like that.

You can tell it's a serious thing. It actually smells wooden, like the wooden. Well, that's because they've got these windows here where you can look through into the workshop and watch the stuff being made. It's shut today because it's the weekend. So can I point out this doll's house here? Yes. We actually bought and I put together and our girls played with for many years. Nice.

And what now it's here on display in the toy shop? I don't think it's that exact one. Oh, OK. I think ours has been passed on to some other youngsters. Let's take a picture for the video watchers and the people who click on pictures in the notes. I felt very proud the day I put it together. It involved just a little bit of glue and a few screws.

We've got to get Tim out of this section, people, before we descend into the mists of time. All the tractors and trucks are made of wood, not like modern toys. Do you think little children would want toys like this? Yes, I think it's wonderful. I think they would love it. They don't know what they're missing when they're given stuff that breaks and that's attached to a Marvel movie.

It's just nowhere near as wholesome and beautiful and fun. There's got to be a little toy train here somewhere. That's a pretty classic. Like a train set. A little train set. Well, these are trains. Yeah, but that's a big one. A little toy train set I had when I was a kid,

and I thought I saw something similar here, because I think that's particularly... What are we going to buy? A rocking horse? We'll buy one of everything. Oh, look at the little lawnmower. How cool is that? I want to buy a replica of the rocking horse itself.

Okay. Well, I think they do have... Yeah, they're around here. ...the coloured ones down here. Yeah, they're down here. That's what I'm going to get. Okay, that's... I think these are good.

Oh, yeah. Look at that. How many of these should we get? Well, do you want to get one and... Gifts for patrons and other people who are in need of rocking horses. I think it's one of those things, you don't know you need it until you

see it. How many should we get? Should we get five? One. We'll get five. Two. Five of those. Five rocking horses. Five rocking horses and a spoon. Maybe we'll get a few spoons. Look, he's placemats. These placemats are pretty wholesome.

Do you want a big rocking horse tea towel? Where is it? Big rocking horse, Gamaraka. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, Tim. Tim dropped his rocking horse. Can't take him anywhere.

Because it's well put together. It's survived. Handmade, it's survived. All right. We're good to go. Hello there. So we've got, grab a few spoons, man. Get three spoons. Oh, thank you. We're good to go. Hello there. So we've got... Grab a few spoons, man.

Get three spoons. Oh, thank you. You're going to box them up for us? Yes. And we'll go into the petting zoo for a bit as well. Okay. You didn't fancy wearing the headset and videoing everything? No, no.

We just like the audio. Just the sounds. And leave it up to people's imagination. It's always better. Yeah. You'll have fun out there. The animals will talk to you. Wow. While the birds do. Look they've boxed them up. I know they're boxing them. They come in special boxes. I'll put these behind the counter for you as well while you're out there if you like. Oh thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Super. Two for the park? Yes please thank you. We've just got to go back to the car for a minute first though, but then we'll come back. You'll remember us, won't you? I'll give you all the seats. Oh, we can take them now then to the car. We'll take these now to the car scene. Oh, sure. Good idea, good idea, yeah. Just show this when you come back.

Show it at the gate down here and we'll leave. Okay. Remember you. We'll remember you, we will. Did I just pay $14 instead of? Oh, you did. Let's pay the rest. That was almost the bargain of the century. Well, that is very wholesome.

Very honest of you. Oh, look, yes. That was very honest of me, wasn't it? Thank you so much. What we're buying totals $140, but was accidentally put through at $14. Brady has noted the mistake, pointed it out,

and is now paying the difference. That's right. Thank you. That is my pleasure. He would have sacked me. It's the right thing to do. He would have sacked me when he found out. He would not.

Is he the boss? Yes. Oh, wow. Thank you so much. Let's keep it quiet then. All right. You got those? I got them.

Okay. Thank you very much for seeing him, Adam. See you soon. That's the second wholesome thing I've done in the day. I don't think I've ever done two wholesome things in a day before, man. No, this is quite incredible. Whoa, hang on. Don't drop the horse for a second time in ten minutes.

Now, what we're doing is we're going to take our whole of rocking horses and tea towels and spoons back to the car, and then we're going to go into the petting zoo where they have the animals but we're going to do something else this little extra thing that's also wholesome because tim and i have brought with us his daughter's walkie talkies because we think playing with walkie talkies is pretty wholesome too so i think if we could go into the petting zoo tim we can split up and go to different parts of the petting zoo, but still maintain contact. Oh, that's great. That's fantastic.

I'm going to enjoy this. It's also going to be safe because if one of us gets lost, they can call for help on the walkie-talkie. Nice. I actually have to go to the toilet too. So if I get scared while I'm in there, I can walkie-talkie out to you and say, I'm going to turn my walkie- talkie off while you're in the car we're back we're just lining up behind a family now ready to go in and there's um look out for the white alpaca. Look out for the white alpaca. And there's a sign, snowy. All right.

And no running and... No running and watch out for the white alpaca snowy. So when you come in, they tell you, no running and watch out for the white alpaca called snowy. And there's a picture of snowy on the door saying, watch out for snowy, this alpaca. So on the way up when you... He doesn't like doddles. ...said that the most wholesome animal was a white horse, it's certainly snowy this alpaca so on the way up when you he doesn't like the most wholesome animal was a white horse it's certainly not a white alpaca

yeah yeah so when you that's a cockatoo that just made tim poo his pants and that's not wholesome come on tim that was quite a screech. That was. Walking right next to my ear. All right. We're coming in through the safety gates that stop the animals escaping. And they also seem to stop the humans escaping, by the looks of it.

A bit of a pram traffic jam. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. All I want to do now is see Snowy the alpaca. The legendary Snowy that literally gets a verbal warning to everyone who walks into the park. And yet they keep him and they give you a fair warning. I wonder if there's a bull in here as well.

Yeah, there's a warning. Watch out for the line. It kills people. Do you think that's Snowy those people are feeding? No, that doesn't look Doesn't look very white. He's a bit grey. And they're either disobeying or Snowy's feeling particularly genteel today. I reckon that might be Snowy that that boy's patting. I think that boy there's patting Snowy. That boy's about to lose a finger.

He's got his face right up next to Snowy's face. Is that Snowy? I don't know. It might be. But that boy looks like he's like the kid from Charles and the Chocolate Factory That drinks out of the chocolate river So he would be the one that goes and pats Snowy Definitely gets in trouble

That's right Hey, do you think we should crack out the walkie-talkies? Oh, I think we're going to need to Because we're getting a fair distance from the gate we came in now So for safety's sake Imagine if one of us is on one side of the park and the other one starts calling for help when they encounter snowy help snowy's got me they should sell snowy t-shirts in there just saying don't go near this alpaca all right there's yours yours is the one with

a sticker on it so that the girls can differentiate how do you turn these things on? Is that on? Mine's on. Is yours on? Yep. Okay. How do you talk? Testing. Oh, hang on. No, you've got to hold the button down.

Man, can you hear me? Oh, yeah, there's you. Go. Man, can you hear me? Yep. Man, can you hear me? And that's off. So that must be the push.

That's call alert. All right. All right, Tim, I'm going to go further away then. All right, Tim, I'm heading out into the park and towards the middle. You follow the path for now. Bray's walking away from me, talking very seriously into his walkie-talkie. It looks very funny. I'm not hearing you.

I'm not hearing you. I can hear you. I can't hear you. I just hear like a little buzzy noise. I can hear you. I can't hear you. I just hear like a little buzzy noise. I can hear you okay though. Oh okay, I heard you better that time. We forgot to say over. Breaker, breaker.

It's all good here. Heading towards the goat. Tim here, receiving you loud and clear. Over. I can just about make you out. Appear to be three goats here. Appear to be three goats here. Appear to be three goats. Correction.

Two goats. Two goats here. Sorry, say all that again, Blues. Over. Two goats. Got a white goat and a brown goat chewing near the tree. Brown goat appears to have a beard of some description. Check.

I can see the goats from here. What was that you said? I can see the goats. You've got a that you said? I can see the goats. You've got a visual on them? You've got a visual on those goats? I've got a visual on the goats. Beware of the goats. Goat appears friendly. Going in for contact. Don't be a silly billy. Kneeling down in front of the goat. Goat looks suspicious.

Any sign of snowy? Over. Not reading you at the moment. Engaging with goat. Can you repeat that? Can you repeat that please? I'm not hearing you. Appear to have lost contact. Roger that. Losing contact. Goat walking away. I can't understand what you're saying. Now I can hear you. This is an absolute debacle. Walkie talkie debacle. you this is an absolute debacle walkie-talkie debacle now engaging with ducks engaging with ducks here man engaging with ducks what ducks flew away too easy walking towards you now so close I can actually hear your voice

and don't need the walkie-talkie. Oh, the walkie-talkie's much clearer now, though. The walkie-talkie tends to work best when you're standing right next to the person you're talking to. The walkie-talkie has a range almost exactly the same as the audible. In fact, I think it's inferior. I think you actually hear better.

If you were to muzzle your voice, the walkie-talkie is the way to do it. It's like, I don't want Brady to hear this. Roger, Tim, I'm switching to just normal voices now. Sorry, could you repeat that? Here we go, let's put these walkie-talkies away that was an absolute debacle oh that was look this is i don't know who's verified but we're the company that made those needs to be invested by the safety authorities i certainly hope the military aren't using those ones there's any military personnel out in a petting zoo somewhere and they find themselves in trouble. There's a bunch of ducks over there, but there's also peacocks over there.

Oh, there's an emu. I hate emus. I hate emus too. I hate emus so much. Oh, they just look suspicious and they've got big claws. Oh, yeah, and they peck you and they look mean. They've got those soulless eyes. That is scary.

Shall we go? Let's go to the emu. He's behind a fence. There's a couple there having a picture taken with that emu. I hope they realise what bad dudes emus are. The emu didn't even smile for the camera. No. Typical emu.

He'll probably do them for... Oh, kangaroos. There's a kangaroo. Yeah, let's go to the kangaroos. Oh, you can touch the kangaroos. You can feed them. We didn't get any food to feed with. Oh, yeah.

We should have got a bag of food. Look at those beautiful ducks. I love the ducks with with the lovely rich green head british racing green heads that's what those ducks have got let's see if this kangaroo's got anything to say for itself on the podcast skippy cat got your tongue he's like oh a couple of podcasts there's no food not another podcast you're gonna feed the kangaroo he hasn't seen seen you yet, that's all. When he sees you, he'll have some. Hey, Kanga. This lad's got some food for you. Not having it.

I think that kid's name back there is Santiago. A lady called out Santiago. So these people have left their baby next to the emu alone for a picture. I wouldn't. I wouldn't a picture. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. Trust an emu to babysit. Don't take my phone. Look at that emu.

Look at that emu. You're brave leaving your baby near an emu. You are. No. You've seen her dad. Ooh, you're scary. They are scary, aren't they? Emus are bad.

They're bad news. I want to feed him, but I'm scared he'll hurt me. Oh, yeah. Don't feed an emu. Yeah, don't do that. Hey, emu. Was that a burp? The emu burped?

He made a noise. Oh. I don't know if it was a burp. Look at those massive, massive toes. Oh, they're bad news. They're total bad news. All right. Brady and I are walking on the other side of the path to get away.

Here, man, see if you can get a picture of me with Emu. I'm going in. All right. Jump the fence there. I'm not going into the cage. Hey, Emu. Hey, Emu. Hey.

Oh, I'm so scared of Emus. Look at him. This is a meeting of minds. And you made the burp noise. They do. They stare right into your soul, don't they? Yeah. They know what you're thinking.

They smell the fear. Yeah, I'll come this side. Spin around. Look, he's raising. He's raising. Oh, he's raising. Oh. What the? The emu has a bath to drink from and also a paddle pool. Want a picture with the emu, man?

No. Go on. Get in there, you scaredy cat. Go and get an interview. Get the quote. See if you can get the burp. Get in there. Anything to say? get in there anything to say get in there stop preening yourself you're so scared of that emu you're more scared than i was i don't like it what's in this thing what's in this little enclosure i don't know this is like a safety enclosure in case the emu goes wild people run in here it's like a safe house

i mean you can imagine what would happen if snowy and the emu goes wild people run in here it's like a safe house it's like that fire thing of last resort i mean you can imagine what would happen if snowy and the emu teamed up oh so this is like the birds can go in there there's a there's a little house that's where the ducks oh look the um pheasants the peacock the peacock is doing a live the peak no it's a peacock it's doing its display with its feathers i don't think they're pheasants i think what are they i don't know well they're not flying that's why they're not pheasants you know like pea hen they're pens of some sort look at that display well that's just showing off isn't it yeah very impressive come on then you come on then do your job do your instagram job gorgeous impressed by that you impressed by the uh display by the peacock, Tim?

It's a bit of a show-off, really. Really? Yeah, I'm not impressed. No one likes a poser. No, I prefer to be... Good Instagram material, though, that was, man. Meanwhile, Tim's checking his text to see if he's got his football tickets. That's right.

Doing a little bit of wholesome... Oh, what do you call it when you do two things at once? Multitasking? Multitasking, there we go. Oh on hang on man man this is back up yeah but it's boggy there too we've reached like a boggy wet area this is go around this way this is this is like quicksand it's dry here let's go back down this way so i reckon that was snowy that that boy was putting his face up against yeah we haven't seen a more no that was sinister white he was very brave let's go back to snowy i want to spend some more time with snowy do you know what i just found a piece of paper that someone's dropped their old food bag for the animals yep i'm going to pick

that up and put that in the bin oh man well that's three wholesome things three's all you need to do the funny thing was i i looked in it just to check if there was any food I could use to feed animals. And then I walked away and then I thought, no, this is a chance to be wholesome. So your instinct was selfish. Yeah, my instinct was to be unwholesome. And then I thought, no, just think, just stop and think. All right, where's Snowy gone? He was over there.

He's probably off holding up a convenience store somewhere. So there's the brown alpaca. Yeah, he's safe. There's Snowy, there's Snow snowy up ahead on the right how close are we willing to get to snowy uh i'm willing to give me your camera and i'll photograph you getting very close i'll go i'll go i want to go ask snowy if he feels like he's getting a fair rap all right you can see an interview coming i don't think he likes journalists seriously he looks like he does not like journalists i'm going to go around the back of him man you stay there and i'm going to come around this way now snowy i come in peace i know you don't like people i'm going to keep like i wondered

if i should be videoing this because it's going to be um no don't video it because it'll end up on australia's funniest home videos definitely will here's me and snowy and um tim's just taking a seat over there on the stump. How are you, Snowy? He's got a decent set of teeth on him. I can see them. Keep an eye on those teeth. He's making direct eye contact with me. Unbroken.

Unblinking. If you give me the camera, man, I want to get a close-up of his face. You got to cut the pictures? Yep. All right. I'm going into portrait mode here, Snowy. I'm going into video mode. Snowy, you know you get a bad rep at the door.

I feel a bit sorry for you. It is a bit like a wanted sign. Wanted dead or alive, Snowy. But you can hear the kids and families coming in the distance going, there he is, there's Snowy. So it's like he's become this legend of the... Maybe it's a myth. Maybe they put it up to make the petting zoo seem a bit more exciting.

I survived, Snowy. They should have certificates for that. Look, Snowy's just placid and lovely. Snowy, you're not so bad. Certainly posing. Thanks, Snowy. I don't think he's that harmful. I don't think he's got any legs.

He's a bit of a legend, Snowy. I think it's all talk. Just see if he can get on his back, man. I'm going to ride Snowy home. Snowy looks like he's stuck in the lawn. Do you know what? You think about it. If they got rid of the red base of the big rocking horse,

that could be the big Snowy. The big Snowy. They should rebrand. I think the Snowy thing's a bit of a myth. Yeah, just to make the whole place seem a bit edgy. Although we'll stand back and watch a few kids get close. Don't go too close to Snowy. That's Snowy. He's a dangerous animal. close. Don't go too close to Snowy. That's Snowy.

He's a dangerous animal. These people didn't get the memo about Snowy. Going to video this family's battle. In a non-wholesome moment, Tim's getting out the video camera in case Snowy attacks. This family's about to go viral. It's like Snowy's just saying, I dare you to feed me. I dare you. Are they willing to sacrifice a kid?

For the picture. Oh no, that kid's crying and Snowy hasn't even done anything. I feel like I'm on a safari when you're waiting for the lion to leap on the gazelle and it's like, who's going to get away with what? This family's getting in close. Snowy's like, I warned them. They were warned. Even I didn't get that close to snowy and i'm a trained podcaster

you went undercover though because you had your big fluffy mic so they thought you you were a llama as well that guy looks like are you gonna no no no jump on his back we want you to touch snowy we want him to some guy was gonna pat snowy and then like we got our cameras out to film the moment when snowy attacked and he ran away. The kid, not Snowy. Snowy, you mighty beast. You're a legend. Legend of Gamaraka. All you need to be the king of Gamaraka is fear.

He rules with fear, yeah. He doesn't even have to act. Just once he attacked a toddler and now he just runs the place. That's right. One little nip. Good luck with Snowy, girls. Be careful. Be careful. It's the last time we ever

saw those girls that was a wholesome day it was all we have to do now is trade in our tickets for certificates to say that we went to the top of the big rocking horse yes do you think they'll ask for pictures or proof like to you know like when you go to the top of everest you have to take a picture down each of the ridges to show that you were at that point. Do you get a certificate for climbing Everest? Well, no, no, no. But to prove you... Is there a cafe at the bottom?

It's a petting zoo at Basecamp. Do you get a certificate for climbing Everest? You probably do, to be honest. But, yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Peacock feathers found in the park can be purchased in the shop for $4 per feather or left at the counter. I really enjoyed that. I mean, Snowy made it worthwhile.

Walkie-talkies were a total washout. Going to have word with the girl. You've got to get your girls better walkie-talkies, Tim. I think I do need to upgrade them. They worked fine when they were playing in the same room as kids and all it needed to do was go pshh. In BMX Bandits, they could talk all the way across Sydney with their walkie talkies we're coming back up to

the young girl on security here to make sure that Snowy doesn't get out all she has to do is say watch out for Snowy to every single person she says watch out for the white llama to every single person who walks in. Is he a llama or alpaca? I don't know sorry mate sorry sorry after you thank you for warning us is he an alpaca or he's an alpaca you're a legend snowy all right all right when we get certificates over here i

think there'll be some sort of ceremony i think hopefully they touch a sword on each of our shoulders or something as we kneel before some sort of ceremony You've got to pay $4 for a feather if you find it in the park but you can buy them for $2 in here Oh that means that stops people going and plucking them out of the

peacock The peacock requested that sign be put up Look if I give you a few now The peacock requested that sign be put up. Look, if I give you a few now, you sell them in the shop and leave me the hell alone. I'm going to buy some honey. Buying honey? Yeah. That is awesome of you.

So we're now at the counter where we're going to get our certificates for climbing the horse. We're here for the ceremony. Do you say something or do we get our certificate? We ask you if you really did it. We did. Do you want to see our photos to prove it or you believe us? I believe you. All right.

And we just fill in our names. Oh, we fill in the date. We fill in the date. Okay. Oh, okay. Do you have a pen that we could borrow, please? Okay. It was on the visitor's book just then. And we can't give these to other people to put their names in.

It has to be our names. Do you do it? Are you the one? We did it, yeah. Yep yep i did it back in 1988 all right thank you very much could i please buy the honey so i got my certificate not quite as not quite as grand as i expected oh there's a visitor's book you only charged me nine cents ah no no just kidding what's the date today oh Oh, where's my certificate? Oh, yeah, sorry, sir, that's mine.

Tim's already lost his certificate. Sneaky guy behind me was... 10th of October. 10th of October. This is to certify that on the 10th of October... 2020. The marvellous year that is, 2020, Brady Haran has climbed to the top

of the biggest rocking horse in the world, Franz Gauss Managing Director. And while Tim fills his certificate in as well. Brady, I now present you with your certificate. Thank you very much. Tim, I present you with yours. Oh, thank you. That's so unexpected.

Should we fill in the visitor's book because that's quite wholesome? Oh, yeah. Visitor's book, yeah. B. Harron. I'm going to put the Unmade Podcast. Had a wholesome day here. Signed, Brady Harron, T. Hine. Nice.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That was amazing. And as we walk away with our certificates, our jar of honey, our five rocking horse toys, our two or three spoons, and our tea towel. Two semi-broken walkie-talkies. What a successful day.

What a day. Until next time. And now we're off to the beach. Can I just tell you, a wholesome day is a marvellous day. Hello, little kitties waving at the top. Hello, little kitties. Stay safe, kitties. So here's a postscript. Something incredibly wholesome involving koala road crossings

happened as we drove home down those winding roads through the Adelaide Hills. Unmade stakeholders can see a video of that moment on our Patreon page. Also, anyone who was signed on as a Patreon supporter by the end of June 2021, so you still have time, will be eligible to win some of that loot we bought from the toy shop, including those replica wooden horses. And we're also going to give away our certificates of proof that we climbed the mighty rocking horse itself.

Again, links down there in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening. We'll catch you again soon.