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Cuz Chat 50 - Toilet Patrol
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We take the cuz chat podcast on the road! Direct from Caro, with JRD and Black Magee, we bring the advice and laughs you've come to expect and even get to the long awaited emails!
Join us for your weekly/fortnightly/monthly dose of unhinged commentary on Work, Life and Play. Send your questions to cuzchatpodcast@gmail.com to get involved with the show!
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Transcript
Welcome and Introduction
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Welcome back to the Kuzz Chat podcast. You're here once again with Black McGee and Markuzzi. George, the ruthless deception. Welcome. Actually, I am feeling welcomed to the podcast tonight. Lord, why do you fill us in? Why that would be?
New Location and Road Trip Tales
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Yeah, we're live from the Carrow this afternoon, Matty. And yeah, it's the first time taking the podcast down to Tokoro. Road trip. Yeah so happy happy to get this done this weekend. It's been a ah long one in between podcasts again but we'll hopefully delve into a little bit of why that is coming up in today's show. And um yeah ah lovely to be here in the car, what lovely acoustics we have there. you' You're quite lucky yeah to have this little setup in here with the old racing sim I see as well.
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Yeah, yeah, the old, she's from 1985. The carrow. Good year there. Yep, she's lime in colour. And yeah, she's on on a little bit of a lean at the moment on the grass. But I have to get some cobbles or something under there. And, yeah. Nah, good to have you down there, Matty. Yeah, nah, it's looking sweet in here too, Kazi. Yeah, nah, a quick trip down from Topporo to Togoroi. And it's, yeah, good to expand into new areas, make new friends, and, you know, check out sick caravans. So, yeah, hopefully yeahll we'll put it to good use tonight, Kazi. Did you see anything on the journey down? Anything of note?
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No, not really. ah Just the road works. Obviously, Artemudi is still going on. I didn't realise there's so many passing lanes. It's kind of every couple of cases like another passing lane coming up. And it is obviously, it feels like you're a steady climb into Tok as well. Yeah, it is quite up there in altitude. Gets bloody cold here sometimes. Yeah, well, I think we talked about that before being higher, isn't it? Higher than Topol? Yeah, possibly. Yeah, it's close. I know that. Yeah. um Yeah, but dear thanks for having us tonight,
Podcast Format and Listener Interactions
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Kazi. We've got a bit to get through, and I think we' we've changed things up a little bit tonight. We're going to sort of bring a bit of structure to the potty. We're going to categorise some of our topics, make it a bit more, you know, focused. And yeah, we'll get through a bit of work chat, but a bit of life chat, and then, you know, but a bit of play chat, see what else we're we're up to.
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In that regard, don't forget you can interact with the potty, sending us an email to cuzchatpodcastatgmail.com, ah that's cuzchatpodcastatgmail.com and thanks to a couple of the listeners out there, we do have a couple of emails for you tonight. Bit too late, they did send them in quite a while ago but as I did say and have said multiple times before, you know, we're lucky if you check it once or twice a week. So, you know, ah good timing on our pipe altogether. um Yeah, Kazi, it's been a while since the last potty.
Work Experiences and Safety Discussions
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Obviously, we're going to start off with a bit of work chat. I've got quite a bit to to get into. Obviously, a lot happening um with me moving over here and and getting stuck into the mahi, working with our rangatahi.
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um And I think something that we came up in the in the bit of the pre-show was some working at heights stuff and recently where we took the youth out and they got to do two unit standards for basic harness safety. So about 10 of them managed to sit through the eight or eight and a half hour day that it took to get through all the theory and all the practical. But yeah, hopefully NZQA is lenient, I guess, or can see the potential of these individuals and they pass and we can continue on to get them into Samahi. But that was my little story, but yeah but what's your experience with working at Hot Steak Huzzi?
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I've done several courses with the harness use and also the rescue that's one of the key important things to working at heights really because there is a danger of being stuck in the harness and having your blood go toxic which is not nice but I think that generally they will teach you a few knots and stuff like that which can be handy sometimes and um Yeah, just sometimes it gets you, well I have done actual working at height stuff too and I used to be quite scared of heights actually when I was younger but it's not such a big deal now.
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have you Have you ever um had to test the safety equipment ah and had it actually come through or or not? oh one time yeah Yeah, this is when I was working on Mount Ruapehu and I was doing a job and some of the lifts, the towers, they've got railing that stop you from stepping back but some of them don't. and I thought that I was on one of the ones that had it and then stepped backward in a bit of a big stall, you know, blizzard type thing. And um yeah, fell off the side of it. um Lucky I didn't actually have to deploy the shock absorber.
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on the harness but managed to grab onto the harness as I come down so I didn't get jolted it in it and then swing myself back onto the ladder. So yeah, not too bad but wouldn't fall a decent distance. So there was a bit of swing there. yeah answer but the swing So yes you went in line with the anchor, you were a bit to the side or something? It was anchored onto a railing sort of thing up there. I would have been at anchor point, yeah, but I was swing down and then I had to climb onto the ladder and climb back up. Because they they show you some of these videos.
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um when they're teaching the course about the do nots, what to do, and you see some pretty horrific falls, eh? Because they talk about the different meters and what speed you go in and all that sort of stuff, and then show a couple of videos of what that actually looks like. And he's just getting absolutely smoked, eh? So a little bit of a shock factor there, I think, to try and drive the message home, but yeah, it's out of it. Did they show you a picture of the guy that didn't fit the harness properly?
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No, I think he mentioned it though. I think he talked about it because he's yeah, I don't know if that that would be suitable for young young people. Yeah, not a nice photo. Yeah. the but The main thing is if you are going to wear a harness, make sure it's not loose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's something the trainer did do is showed them how to put it on and do it up and then he walked around and was like, nah, like really give them a good yank aid so they're all nice and snug. Yeah, so no, it was good though. It's pretty awesome though to get, you know, two unit standards and you know, that'll go towards some other training hopefully for these young people. Yeah, well you can work a lot of jobs if you've just got a bit of experience working at heights, you know.
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like you do scaffolding. um Like I said, we do it all the time. um I guess people don't really realise sometimes, so so good quality get for the young fellas out there. Yeah, yeah, hopefully. yeah They get ah quite a bit, actually, that health and safety and first aid. So that's, you know... yeah three really good sort of entry level things that you should be taking into any workplace really, cool I guess. And then you'll get a job and they'll make you do it again anyway. Yeah. Well, well hopefully a little bit more advanced, you know, you get get more, you know, unit standards or whatever they're called out of it. I actually enjoy a good health and safety course too. Do you? There's actually some interesting stuff. yeah There's always some new thing you you find out, you know, a little new info. Yeah.
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Yeah, I guess well i was I wasn't in it, but I just kind of sat there and you know did some work at the back of the room and yeah would sort of check it out and every now and then. I think when they went to do their practical stuff, um Yeah, they were just in the in the stands, kind of doing some rope work and stuff like that. One of the things I did learn, which I didn't know before, is they have, and I'm gonna, I should have paid more attention, but um it's a system, a safety system, which um instead of you just falling with a rope and then having that jolt at the end, it kind of breaks and separates to soften that ah jolt.
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yeah Yeah, those are the um suspension, ah the i'm it's shock absorbers. Yeah, that's the ones here. Yeah. um Yeah, I'd never seen those before. They were pretty out of it. and Yeah, if you fail without one of those, you'd do yourself just about more damage than fall into the ground, I think. Yeah, well, that's what they, some of the videos again that they show with people getting smoked by that the jolt more than the yeah yeah Actually I think they had a dummies for those ones and then obviously just some weight to kind of show you the tension of the rope in that and the difference in the shock absorber and not. But yeah, pretty much you've got to tie off to something that can hold a car up pretty much because you'll put that much force into it if you do fall. but
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All in all really you should be using full restraint before you use full arrest, which is what it is. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, full arrest, yeah. But if you can avoid using that, it's better to use something that stops you from getting to the edge. Yeah, maybe we should have Mitch come up with a sufficient safety system that may have saved him from falling through the roof as well. so I'm sure you'd have some wonderful ideas of how ah how a site should be operated now.
Living with Parents: Comforts and Challenges
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Got first-hand experience. Love you, bro. He's bloody lucky to walk away from that, really. I know, yeah. like you But you could be on a safety video. 100% safety video. Well, mostly that was caused by other cunts fucking around by the sounds of it because he had to go and then fucking sort out their fuck-ups. Well, yeah, that's...
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It's strange how that works. ah You're the one that ends up paying for it. tres 100%. So you've you've been busy around around the the house. I think you're saying you've got ah some new additions and doing but a bit kind of project work now. What's happening there? Big job on today. A lot of complaints from the missus that... um Complaints? weekly Weekly courier packages are not being dropped in good locations by the courier drivers um left out and then the dogs getting into them and putting them around the place. Chewing up the packaging and stuff.
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um I've decided to put up a little metal box on the fence there to um you know i allow the couriers to put that in there. So yep, four screws in there. um Pretty straightforward job except that when I grab the box, it's an old one that come off the back of my ute a lot from a long time ago. It's just been sitting in my garden shed and it's gone a bit rusty. Is it currently it's still waterproof though? Oh, relatively. As much as any normal mailbox is, I suppose. Okay, fair enough, yeah. There's a few holes in the back of it there, but I'm having a go.
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get some rust, sort of clean it all up with the wire brush and then get some rust converter onto to the yeah um the job, then paint it and all that. so okay Because it looks pretty, it looks pretty spic up there now. Yeah, it wasn't really just a four screw job in the end. Like any five minute job. how how yeah That's how any five minute shot jobs would be. Yeah. 100%. um But yeah, no oh continuing on on that sort of the doing the mahi, we finally went back up to Cowes and Alex's place and did the last bit of running cables to the different switches and outlets and lights and extractor fans and what have you and yeah so the the
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Jibs up now, the cladding's done. That job we've all had a bit of a hand in, so the the end is almost upon us. um But it's obviously just got the switchboard and that to go, so that's purely gonna be the old man, I think, to fix all that up. So yeah, big shout out there. And oh look, just quickly before we move on to your big project with a switchboard, big shout out to the Otene Mahana family. um and and our condolences for losing Annie Hunter who was passed away earlier and last week and who had a funeral on Friday 14th of June. So yeah, um big shout out to all the whānau there and yeah, I'm sure you had a good send off and it looked like it was a great service. so
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much out of the way out to the whanau there and yeah sorry segueing into your switchboard there kazi yep um
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Yeah so just replacing a big farm switchboard there. Bit of a kind of a job really because the boss didn't order it the right size so I've had to pack it off the wall and then make big cuts in it just to get the cables into it in the first place but um yeah all the cables are too short and they're all really old so also wasn't priced up to replace them which is kind of niggly. ha Making things tight. I feel like I'm going one step forward, two steps back constantly. Well, not two steps back, but just chasing my tail a little bit on this job. So frustrating week. I was a bit sick earlier in the week, actually, but I've gone on to those... Sudafed... Oh, yes. Sudafed cold and flu medications. Yeah, they do. They don't know what night and days. Or you got another strain.
00:15:22
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Just this one that just sued a feed. Oh, okay. ah Yeah. Well this man is so heaps of them now like cut Cold and flu you get them with like anti-inflammatories or not. Yeah. Well, these ones have been banned in New Zealand for the last Probably like fucking 10 years. Oh really? Yeah, they were still allowed in Australia, but because he everyone was cooking me with them yeah the They barred them and they've only just come back. oh David Seymour from ACT got in there. Did they? Need those hard drugs? Yeah. Prescription. Thank you.
00:15:57
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um Yeah very well I can't say I know much about wiring up a switchboard but the photos you showed me looked hectic as shit so running those cables was enough for me just standing on a ladder and hooking them over the things there. Hopefully they can all be found again. That sort of new room addition that's going on Kelly's house, they're going to talk about renting it out sort of thing eh? It's a holiday home, I think, for the funo to come and stay at pretty much. Yeah. Like their own private Airbnb. So are you going to move in there? Yeah. Well, I said it if they need to occupy the place for any length of time so that people aren't there, yeah um my services are available.
00:16:38
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that's how I'll frame it um but that's a cool little little spot um once they get that the drainage sorted out because yeah from where they're retaining wall is now it's higher than the entry of the dwelling so they're gonna have to do some pretty good sort of diverting the water to you away from the house rather than having it pooling around the entrance. So yeah, hopefully that works out. but um How does it feel living at home with the odds? Actually, yeah, just it's good, but it's out of it at the same time. yeah so know You're going back in time a little bit?
00:17:21
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Oh yeah, almost. Just to live together for so long, you know? the And the old man's so habity that they just kind of do the same thing every night. But by 9.30 they're like most of the time asleep, so I'm staying up late so they can call the whānau at a reasonable time for them. so But no, they just sort of do their thing. no so I'll get to this in our play section, but I have something to keep myself occupied now. That's all I'll say. um But it is out of it, bro. um I've never eaten so well in my whole life, I don't think. I think I did cook once so far. So yeah, sorry and that was just for me and Dad. But it's...
00:18:13
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Yeah, it's good, but yeah, just out of it, out of it dynamic. Cause I was actually, if you want to hear something out of it, bro. Cause I was about 10 when I moved back with mum and dad for the first time, I think. And I'd say I was there till about 16, 17. And then I moved out um for about two or three years. And then they moved back to Topal. ah So I moved back in with them yeah for like, I don't know, it must've been about a year or so. And then had Byron, then we moved out and then
00:18:57
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Yeah, that was it. We've kind of moved out and then been away for Aussie, then I've come back and moved back in with them again. So there's a bit of a cycle there. yeah There's a cycle that's been going on. So if I haven't had the mic up talking there, but it's impressive with the hands. So yeah, that's, that's kind of been the out of it thing. A is it being kind of, ah, I'm kind of back here again. yeah yeah But the amount of time I've actually spent with them is probably not as much as I would have if I had a been living with them from the start, which is kind of the weird thing ah as well. but yeah But other than that, no, it's all good. It's good for like the mahi that I'm doing. And I don't know, it's weird. It's more the sense of achievement, I guess, or like, oh shit, that's someone that's you know in a better place now kind of thing yeah with the work that I'm doing anyway. But also the the kind of cool stuff that I get to do as well.
00:19:50
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um I was my birthday, birthday recently and managed to um Just by a coincidence, one of the activities that we were doing with Dalangatahi was doing an escape room. i So got to go and do an escape room on my birthday for work. Yeah, we went in with the boys. It was boys against girls. We did finish it within the allotted time limit that we were asked to do, but we did not beat the girls. yeah They did manage to be a bit more ah of a cohesive group. And, you know, had definitely a motivation to try and beat us.
Fun Outings and Youth Interactions
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um And then more recently, was a yesterday Thursday, managed to go out to Topal Motorsport Park and partake in their go-karting track out there. oh so you put to there yeah so Interesting afternoon. There weren't too many of the young fellas there. In total there was about seven of us.
00:20:53
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And yeah, three facilitators and then four of the youth. And these these youth all the way, or no even before we we left the building and in the van on the way there, they were like, you know, talking themselves up, you know, who was going to beat who and who was going to be the fastest and, you know, who's going to smash into each other. And thankfully, after the safety briefing, they didn't smash into each other. I think I was the more aggressive driver in this scenario. um And yeah, managed to ah do two 10 minute sessions. So we we jumped in there, I think ah in the first starting grid, we were all lined up behind each other, I was probably about the third or fourth back. And um you know, only given probably ah like a five second gap in between.
00:21:41
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um Have you ever been out to that the track? I have, but i think I think it's changed quite a bit since the last time I've been there, yeah. I think they've ex extended it a little bit. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah okay. ahll figure but before Yeah, I've been there twice. It's pretty tight. There's not many opportunities to like have a good crack at overtaking someone. Maybe only two so places, but even then it's pretty tight. The last one was just like that. um And there's there's only other one other place that it looks like it's a ah so ah lane for someone to pull over into because it's not the fastest way through the ah track. so
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anyway um did our 10 minutes, well the boys jumped out, ran up, ran up into the the building again to see who was on the top of the leaderboard and they're standing there with this puzzled look on their face saying, who's Hemogen? And I was like, ah that's me brothers. ah So I've just managed to get you know by hundreds of a second, but enough to to get on top of the leaderboard. So ah that I think was about a 51 second average lap time.
00:22:54
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point something something something um And then, yeah, so they are they were a bit, you know, disgruntled at that, you know, said, if I could you cheated, you know, you know, all those sorts of things. We're going to smash you this time, come close to me, we'll race you, you know, sort of thing. I'm like, whatever. So second 10 minutes, up we go. smash around the track again. um ah did So I was at the back of the pack this last time, like they made us change vehicles. Do you go reverse order? Or just you know randomly, you just get a different different car. um So I was actually at the back and I said to the young fella in front of me, so but just hang back, like give them a big lead in front of us and then I'll let you get a big lead. So I've actually got a bit of space in between us so we can you know
00:23:41
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So yeah he did, he waited and waited and then off he went and I waited and waited and waited and then off I went. And then by the second or third lap, I caught up to him and I was like, ah, fuck. But there's a, I don't know if you, if this was here when you went out there, but the final set of corners into the the final straight or the the starting straight is a tight Figure S like hairpin left into a hairpin right and then a nice sort of easy right into the straight and He'd gone into this first set of turns there into the left hand turn and Started drifting right early to then whip the the bum around and it was I wasn't ready to break so I came right up his ass and just hit the the corner of his vehicle and
00:24:31
Speaker
And um as he was spinning around, so it gave him that little bit extra that he'd sort of when ah rotated too far. Piminuba almost, yeah, and I was quite hardy. I think I may have got a black fake flag for that one. yeah I'm not sure. I wasn't really paying attention to the flag system, yeah but I may have got a you know a warning. You weren't paying attention in the safety briefing. He was always one. He was always one, isn't he? My defense, he was going too slow. um And then, i then yeah.
00:25:04
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I let him go again. yeah He actually kind of managed to maintain a bit of speed and got ahead of me around the the next corner. so um But yeah, came out on top, that second round as well, yeah and shaved some seconds off my original time, which I was happy with. So the boys are a bit upset. So they they didn't earn the top spot. So that's why in that photo, I was on the number one podium, but none of them wanted their faces on social media. So, in theirre mind boy and But no, it was good, man. you Do that sort of stuff. And you know, it's cool. And if they get out on work experience and get a job, even better. So it's pretty cool. Going good at the moment.
00:25:42
Speaker
Yeah, that would be a pretty rewarding job. Yeah, and if you get more of that feeling in this job compared to your last one? Yeah, yeah, and it's it's not a... um Kind of the most comparable one would be the the JMC one when I was working for the Creative College or Academy. And it's more of a sales role, you know, you're trying to get a sale off someone by enrolling them in the course and keeping them in there. So it's a lot longer than a like from enrollment, you know, might enroll a month before the course and you've got to keep them engaged until that course starts.
00:26:23
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right through until, you know, you can actually charge them for the course, which is like three weeks after it starts. Yeah, there's just a lot of like stuff you got it in and when you've got a group of, you know, 50 to 80 people that you look after. um its It's pretty hectic. But here is like 16 max and half of them you don't really sort of work with because we split it up. But you get to know them and I picked them up every morning and like give them a shit if they're late or you know, give them the hurry's up. um
00:26:54
Speaker
But yeah, just listening to all their stuff as well. um Helping them through it. Making them realise there's certain types of behaviour that aren't normal. That sometimes they ah like to engage in. Shoot you'll be getting all up with the youth lingo nowadays. Fuck, I find it hard sometimes. i what are What are you talking about? Yeah, I don't hear it too much. like We keep them pretty much... on to The only time I guess i that they're in their outside having vapes. so But yeah, not so much. I don't really pay attention to it, I don think, and just zone out to that sort of stuff. Or like you said, don't understand what they're saying anyway, so yeah.
00:27:34
Speaker
But um yeah, no, that's that's all the work chat I think we sort of had lined up tonight. We'll move on to live stuff. um Yeah, there's a bit of stuff here that we um have to get through. I guess let's start with the return of cave. Welcome back to the Kuzchat chat cave. ah You've been providing some great content recently. um Still see pretty, you know, ah how would you say it, you know, I think you you put it the best way. um a fucking mad come i fucking kill you thanks for that cuy
00:28:08
Speaker
yeah welcome back um but i don't know what did you want to start with day off the the topic safe under life de cu you have some stuff you wanted to talk about first Well, I did add some some meal tips out there for any of our listeners, you know? And um sometimes you might come home a little bit a little bit late, a little bit um little bit hungry, you know? As you do. yeah You don't want to wake people up in your household. um Sometimes using the microwave can be a bit noisy, as also with the air fryer and anything where you've got to use the extractor.
00:28:45
Speaker
Yes, yeah the extractor's a noisy one. Yeah, so I think, good quick option there, toaster. You know, it's not too noisy. Nice, warm feed. You can put whatever you want on there. Yeah, it's quite sir it useful. the Obviously the toasting doesn't make a lot of sound, but the old pop at the end though, how do you how do you mitigate a loud popping toaster? Well, you can just flick it off at the wall there. Good point. So you get it to the desired temperature yourself and then manual shutdown. Yeah, yeah just don't let it spring off. Oh, how we got a one prompting YouTube. Someone sat on the controller.
00:29:37
Speaker
ah Yeah, I'm not sure actually, but I think a general pop off shouldn't really wake anyone up. If they do get woken up by it, they won't know what it was. Too short and sharp of a sound to be intrusive. Jug boiling is one thing that will always wake you up. yeah yeah but i gotta i gotta but and So just a segue here to that going back to living with the old man and old lady. This old man gets up super early in the morning, eh? He gets his recommended hours and then he's up. So at roughly 5.15, 5.20, I can hear the garbage disposal going. Like out of every appliance you have in your whole kitchen,
00:30:30
Speaker
It's got to be the one of the loudest, right? Yeah, it's up there. It's up there, eh? Depending on what you put in there. Well, and because you have to have water running yeah as well. So that's not a, you know, it's quite an aggressive start to the morning, I'd say. But yeah, it was a bit, yeah. well That sounds like a garbage disposal's running. Full bore with the water on as well. Okay. yeah But yeah, sorry, back to the, any more meal tips? Toasters, toasters. So your meal tip is toast. Consider the toaster. Consider the toaster. What about if you got one of the flash ones like a toaster oven, you could do a lot more than just toast. Yeah, well that'd be even better. Or just a toaster sandwich press, that's even quieter. There you go. Now you've hit the nail on the head. That's exactly where we might go to. Just make sure you don't put too much cheese. Unless you're aggressive with the cheese and then you've got some sizzle action going. You don't want that. Although that is pretty good. I do love a bit of burnt cheese on the grill. So yeah. Although I'd have to mitigate that some other way. Let's turn it on with the wobble. Manual shutdown.
00:31:47
Speaker
and just Shut it down. Classic. now ah What else have we got there? Oh, I don't know how we're going to segue into those next two topics though. So, yeah um how would you? Yeah. I don't know.
Decluttering and Hoarding Habits
00:32:05
Speaker
You can either go motorbike or or opening a can of worms. Well, I'll just get the motorbike one out of the way. It's a pretty basic story. But um yeah, sold the old motorbike the other day. Had it for about 10 years, but haven't ridden it in the last, you know, ridden it about five times in the last six years. So um sad to see it go, but, you know, makes space in the shed. And if you're not using Sade, just
00:32:32
Speaker
yeah I was going to say, as a guideline for for the listeners out there, how long should you hold on to something before and not using it before you make the decision to let it go? yeah what do What do you reckon that... I thought the same thing about my car and um my motorbike there. And the thing is that they're both kind of rare. So you don't know whether later on in the piece they're going to go up in value. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But like same thing with that. I haven't really used my car much either. but
00:33:07
Speaker
to sell it's kind of silly because that's just, at the moment, it's kind of just making money, so just sitting there as long as it doesn't go rusty, you know? yeah yeah but yeah are you also spending maintenance costs on it then as well, or? Well, I'm spending money on it, but I wouldn't say it's maintenance, you know, like, well, it is maintenance, but it's... I wouldn't say it's maintenance, yeah but it's maintenance. is Yeah, it is. But you've got to pay maintenance costs on any vehicle. Are you, I guess, assuming your time is being invested into it? Yeah, time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
00:33:45
Speaker
If going on like shit that you're not using, fuck. They do say five years, I think. Five years. Don't store shit for more than five years. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the ah things um when it comes to cleaning up industrial environments and stuff. Yeah, okay. Well, if anyone out there has got um anything they've been holding on for more than five years, we'd like to let us know the reason why. Not that you have to justify yourself to us, but it'll be interesting to just peek behind the curtain of some of our listeners um
00:34:33
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What are you hoarding, and why are you hoarding it? Let us know. You're out there hoarding. All you hoarders out there, we know you're out there. My old man's a chronic hoarder. Oh, I know a few of them. I'm probably one of them myself. like But i nothing, I'm trying to think of something that I've had for more than five years that I haven't used. and what what they could be. um There's probably some tools that I've kept and dragged through multiple house moves that I probably don't use anymore. I've got an old DVD player or anything like that lying around? or I have an original Xbox I've been carrying around since they were invented. When was the last time you played that? ah This year. i So you know and I've reset the clock on that one.
00:35:24
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PS2, PS3. My PS1 died though. I don't even have a PS5 yet, but yeah. Still running the PS4 just for the for the gaming rig, for the simulator. Yeah, 100% because what was it a fact I've seen that there's currently the same amount of PS4 users as there are PS5 users yeah in terms of units sold and, oh no, active players it was, I think. yeah So currently this today, you know, there are equal markets.
00:35:56
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almost I mean, they open up the window for better graphics and stuff like that and frame rates and all that, but they don't really, like, you know, when you went from sort of Nintendo, Super Nintendo to N64, I mean, just open up that whole different, like, type of game that you could play A, whereas, like, now, nothing really becomes new and they still just make the same old games half the time.
00:36:22
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I've said this a while ago, but I think more people have said it now and I may have heard it somewhere else obviously. But we're reaching the level of fidelity in games now where it doesn't really matter how good your game looks. If it's not fun to play, then it doesn't matter how good it looks. yeah There's a lot of games out there now that have shit graphics but are fucking hella fun to play. Or they're intentionally bad or they're just limited in terms of the scope of what type of game they want to make. like But man, there's some fun games out there that aren't like holographical. Yeah, what would you say your all time favourite game would have been like for most fun game?
00:37:06
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a generation or just, I look definitely something from Nintendo, probably the Legend of Zelda series in terms of fun for me, yeah I guess, um as in know a pretty formative way, formative type of game. What about for like multiplayer games? um Okay, ah that's gotta be PS1 era, probably Quake, because I used to ah play eight player Quake with two multi-taps and eight players. um We had a few sessions with the bros and thankfully I was working at the United Video at the time, so I had access to all that stuff. so
00:37:51
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Was this, yep, going to have mean gaming sessions like that? Yeah, actually with the multitap, X-Men Legends was a good fucking game. Yeah, and another four player game, you could play with the multitap. Just rolling around beating people up, that's pretty cool. 100%, yeah. Talking about best game is hard because I have to break it down
Gaming and Pop Culture Reflections
00:38:11
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into categories. yeah can't There's just no way I can just say this is the best game. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be categorized. Yeah, one of my favours has got to be John Lomi Rugby and that's got some of the worst graphics. Yes, no, the gameplay is solid, still to this day, you know? And those those will stand the test of time um when those are ones with flashy graphics. If that's all they have to offer and they're just a cookie cutter set up of, you know, um story or even characters, just generic sort of bullshit there, then yeah, not going to be fun.
00:38:47
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But yeah, I've got a bit of an Xbox section later on. But you do you want to get into this recent Joe Rogan podcast? Yeah, I watched the Terrence Howard um appearance on there the other day. Yeah. and It was really interesting to watch. um Definitely made you think. um And it was quite cool. I thought it was quite cool in the way that it made you think. you know a lot of um A lot of people have spoken out and and you can see that um there's a few holes in this and some of his theories, but yeah, what did you think of it?
00:39:25
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Oh, I'm all for that that out there thinking, bro, that's hard. I think, you know, we're going to advance unless we have people like that. So um I found it really interesting as well. Like a lot of it, I kind of, you know, I'd like to think I was following it. and I'm not sure if 100% got everything he was talking about. um I had to go back through it, go back, stop much because I ah just get lost a bit lost. But yeah, and he's a He's out of it, dude, and he's he's got it out of it story. And ah that the whole thing was wasn't just about him. It was about his because they did talk about the Iron Man stuff and stuff like that so that you can go and watch it for yourself. But because he's an actor and you know he's been a lot of different things and you know whatever goes on with that, the bulk of the chat was more about his different scientific beliefs and
00:40:16
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um
00:40:19
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patents that he had yeah yeah have a whole lot of patents. So he got 90 something patents that he's got to his name about different inventions and concepts and that sort of thing. You'd made that linchpin thing that can turn on like multiple accesses and flights like a drone that just doesn't, all it's got is just different props and different places. But configured in a way. It's not like a normal drone where they move, you know. yeah that it's balanced and weighted. Yeah balanced and I saw some, they'd they'd run a competition to build it and some people yeah had made one and and it works. Yeah it didn't look like it would be difficult to reproduce because he had some simulation stuff going on there in the video. I think that's basically what he's been doing is playing around with simulators and he's noticed a few holes in or he's noticed some things in physics playing around with that stuff yeah but
00:41:09
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I think in some ways he doesn't quite have a formal education to actually reproduce, well not reproduce, but know how to find it. He's not, and I think by his own admission would say he's not part of the scientific community. No. So he's not part of that whole academia, but that's not to say that he hasn't got some out of it pretty far, not far fetched, but far out ideas that would seem Yeah, maybe not as verified as you would be you at hope. um But still, it was a good watch, and it was was fun to talk about some of the stuff. um What resonated with me the most was the ah how he kind of integrated was two things. That was the frequency and the vibration stuff. And the other one was the that oldest image ever found, which is that flower of life. Yeah, and how that's been interpreted. And I thought that was pretty interesting. And looking into the empty space of it Yeah, and I don't know if that work had been done before by someone else or he did kind of come up with it. The other one that i interested me was the periodic table one. How um one yes it yeah um how it worked with sound as well. Watched quite a good video the other day about about sound mixed with light. you know yeah And they reckon can if you want to
00:42:34
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that you can actually get xylophones. at The OG xylophone, yeah if you looked at the colours, and you know how they're like a rainbow? Yeah. As you go up, you can actually get them that are accurate to what that colour is and that colour, like, and then once you get from, I think, ultraviolet and then to red, you actually do jump into the next octave. Yeah. So that that would say that was out of a colal correlation. And I think a lot of that, what he was talking about,
00:43:03
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It's not new knowledge, but I think it's knowledge held by more of the... How do I say this? um More ancient cultures, yeah I guess. That's probably the right way to put it. Yeah, yeah. Well, he's trying to he's trying to mix the spiritual with the yeah science, kind of, and which is always kind of called pseudoscience. Yeah, yeah.
Unusual Theories and Deep Dives
00:43:30
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But one thing...
00:43:35
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Yeah, one thing I found interesting is he was trying to say that the though main law of nature is not gravity, it's electricity and it's a byproduct of it. Yeah. Which could make sense, we don't know. um yeah Yeah, look, it was a lot to digest and we're probably not really doing it justice here, but I guess otherwise we'll we'll stay on this forever. um Check it out because these let us know what you think. um If you have some of your own critiques, ah you know throw them out there. Happy to get those heard as well. um But let's move on to our our play section. um yeah know This is where the lovely Paul Form sits. I've got a story there.
00:44:18
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um and we've got some emails ah this week as well. But I just wanted to, so because so course we're talking gaming quite a bit here, um ah last trip i I took back to Brisbane um to see the fans, was there for a weekend, managed to bring back my Xbox with me, ah made the flight. So being able to to get back into a bit of a gaming schedule, which I have kind of missed, As much as I you know want to get out there, I think work kind of keeps me busy and and that sort of stuff, and it's good to have that little bit of chill time to myself, unwind, connect with some of the the Xbox players that I've met over the the years.
00:45:00
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um And just in time for the new expansion of Destiny 2. And it's the only game that I really put much time to in these days. I've never actually played that one. ah let's let a do i I would both encourage you and not encourage you to play it. Because and it's a freaking awesome game. It's a first person shooter. Made by the people that made Halo. um So they've got that pedigree. but yeah The story and the amount of content and how the systems of guns and abilities have evolved, man, it's it'd be like, if you had no knowledge and trying to get get into this game at where it is now, would be confusing as hell, I reckon. yeah it's Because there's just so much in it. No, that's like any first person shooter for me nowadays. Yeah, well, I will. A lot of games, you know.
00:45:57
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A lot of it is you versus and player versus the environment. yeah So you're going through completing missions and collecting gear and unlocking story things and all that sort of stuff. And then it has the player versus player environment, which is completely different kettle of fish. Some play people play it exclusively for one or the other. But if you're into a bit of both, then you can do both. But it's um Yeah, it's it's actually free to download like on a lot of consoles, the base game, just because they want to give you that first hit for free. So if you want to to dive in there, like I ah recommend it. the The graphics are there, the gameplay is there, it's really intricate puzzle kind of stuff. Multiplayer, you can you know match up with people, randoms or stuff like that, or you can go in with a
00:46:48
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preset team. I think it's cross play now as well. okay So that might be something that you know will connect a lot more players together. um But it's that's just funny, like space magic. yeah First person shooter, guns, um all sorts of guns, weapons, abilities and space magic. far um yeah So you travel in space as well? Yeah, you've got, you can go to different planets in our system where current ones are. Shit, the moon, a couple of places on earth and you've got
00:47:28
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um um Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. yeah yeah yeahp Then you've got Nessus, which is one of the moons of Jupiter, I think, or something like that. I can't remember. um And then a couple of other places and then, yeah, obviously just missions galore and different non-player characters to interact with that have their own storylines and all that sort of stuff. So it's a cross between first person shooter, online multiplayer competitive, but in a shared world where you can be walking in areas and there's just heaps of randoms running around shooting stuff as well. yeah okay and And then there'll be world events that you can all participate in and help each other out and then you go your separate ways. Or you can just team up and and go hard. So yeah.
00:48:16
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But nah, that's my recommendation anyway, Kuzzies. I'll be online. Go give me my gaming tag if you want it. But yeah, nothing quite like the rig that you've got here, Kuzzie, in Old Carrow. Yeah. the el some um That's about the only gaming I do at the moment is just some racing, but i've I've been a bit slack on it. I haven't been done in a few weeks, but pretty cool. Definitely. um To be honest, it's actually improved my actual driving.
Racing Simulators and Real Driving
00:48:43
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In what way? Oh, just cornering and like how yeah knowing how to
00:48:53
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sort of get the weight right in the vehicle and stuff like that. ah yeah yeah It's that responsive, you're getting that much feedback. Yeah, well it's enough feedback. It's enough feedback and you get enough practice on the game, seeing how the car behaves and stuff like that. But no, it's um like I always thought I was not too bad at driving but it's um There's a lot of shit that I didn't know, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And that's, yeah, well, yeah, this is the same as well. Learning, um, the, the go-karting, hopefully that becomes a bit of a regular thing as well. We can there's a sort of do, um, cause you would have been to the some rigs at the cave though. Yeah. Well, that's, that's what we reckon. Um, cause I was telling Joe about it and he reckons, yeah, that's probably the better one to go to. Um, because you can do, you know, more hard out tracks and actual race rather than
00:49:48
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and not have to worry about crashing and all that sort of stuff. And you still get that feedback as well. So yeah, it's always good. Let's move it along. We're gonna, I don't know, have you got any poor form stories? We can skip this week and go straight into emails if you don't have any. What do you want to share? give me at moment I can save mine for for another day. um But we do have some emails, so we want to get through these um as quick as we can, because some of them are quite might produce a bit of discussion here. um And our first one is from Charlie Cheeseman from Minganui. And he's got a question for us here. Have you ever received good advice that's worked out?
00:50:37
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or advice that's been a real sabotage.
00:50:43
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He's got a bit of a story here, so why do you think about that? I haven't pre-read this, I don't think too much. um Here he goes. We were at a moray in Tuho, Tuho area, and my nan told me where the toilet, huh? And my nan told me where the toilet after I asked where it was. Her and her sisters laughed as she pointed to some trees and said, don't forget to flush, as I walked into the direction where she was pointing. I found three derelict longdrops that had roots growing through them. Luckily I only needed a piss because it looked like a mythical portal to Nambia or Groot's asshole.
00:51:23
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Realised we were there for the opening of the new toilet block that was very nice and I was just paying zero attention. I'll leave you with some advice. There's two things I know. Boats and hoes don't float and fat chicks need more soap. Stay simple. Charlie Cheeseman from Manganui. ah I should have preread that before they could have answered some of that out, but oh well.
Life Advice: Hits and Misses
00:51:52
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um Have you ever received good advice that's worked out or bad advice that's been a real ah sabotage? Shit. Good advice that's worked out.
00:52:09
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That's a bit of a hard one to come up with on the spot, I think. um And yeah, are those the ones that I have had bad, I try and forget. She's doing it. And yeah, I don't know if it's been just bad advice or just um ah bad intentions on my part. Well, I mean, we saw Kevi have bad advice trying to um go pick Midge up from the airport. Oh yeah. Another shout out to Waka Kotei. Waka Kotei, as he says.
00:52:43
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Yeah, and I'll tell you what, they ain't any better. The roads are still terrible. Um, so someone could give them some good advice and that's just to make some fucking better roads. Yeah. I noticed a lot of the roads around here, even in Topo are terrible. Yeah. Both some of those potholes coming into toke. Holy shit. I only narrowly avoided them. Yeah. Well, you should have seen how bad they were coming in from the mango direction. Oh, really? Yeah. No, that was bad. And they're still bad. Oh shit. They just put slow down science. Yeah. Just put go 50. Some of those are like visibly deep holes. They will fuck you up. The old man's car would have sunk in one of those holes. They were all swift. Yeah, they were all swifty. It would deadly.
00:53:27
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um Yeah, no, I guess bad advice is, you know, probably more like poor form. Yeah. Probably it travels just as much as well. Yeah, be a bad advice. Yep. I try not to give any advice to be honest. I, yeah. um the Well, of there's some advice that I've been giving out lately. I don't know if it's good or what, but about going back to the brief style undies. yeah I did hear this come up in the chat, yeah. Yeah, yes. I've been telling a lot of people out there, a lot of young fellas, you know? Look, boys, you'd be lied to. These are the best undies. This is setting a new standard. Yeah, yeah. right Raising the standard. Yeah, yeah. Well, they'll just be thinking, who is this old cunt? Why is he showing us his undies?
00:54:18
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It'll get you on the list somewhere. Yeah, I'm not going up to them. I'm not going up to teenagers and do it. Here's someone soliciting a device, but if you're ever in the market for upgrading your undies. Just the apprentices in there. You can recommend some. Look boys, if you want to be a real man, wear these undies. Don't let the big corporations, big undies, fucking tell you what to wear. You're Dan Carter's and Oh, so what your jocks, your briefs, those sort of, why don't you look, are you moving into more of the long... No, no, I've moved back to the old school. Move back to the old school jocks. The old school, yeah, the ones that you and I have when you were a kid.
00:55:04
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Yeah, the i I do have a pair of red Zorro undies that fit that description. Yeah, yeah like Superman. Yep, Superman undies, Zorro was the popular with my generation. That's the thing, if you want to do some fucking sick shit, all you got to do, take them off, put them on on over top of your pants. and Yeah, you're away. Instant superhero. Exactly. I'd like to see the old jocks do that. People aren't going to see you're a superhero. If you're talking about Superman or Zorro undies, you're talking about the an embossed picture of Zorro on front and centre of the undies as well. I don't have any like that, but I might get some. But that's how mine was, is he had Zorro embossed on his horse, doing his Z,
00:55:56
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Finishing it off on top of this horse yeah on fucking prime real estate of that the the jobs It was probably the one of the last times I wore ah but maybe it' the see some trauma there that I haven't processed about ah well i'm not getting the market for something like that then for bit of a fucking show piece too yeah oh I guess the point I was trying to make is they don't look as good on briefs that sort of stuff No, not really. you know Because I think it's got to do with the framing, right?
00:56:32
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Exactly. Exactly. And they're trying to say that those type of undies don't have sex appeal. Fair enough. If you've got just an emblem on the front of your normal jocks, people are going to be like, what, is that a stain? Yeah, yeah just the wo there it'll just raise more questions and then you're really probably really ready to handle. Like this next question we have from our next emailer, Eddie Salamandaman of Greymouth. Long time listener, first time engager. Two questions. Do they have interlocks for motorbikes?
00:57:10
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Do they have interlocks for motorbikes? I haven't seen them, but... That doesn't mean they don't exist, I guess. Yeah, I doubt they're going to approve that, because I think the whole reason that um people will get interlocks is because they... Well, maybe on a posty bike, you know? With the three wheels, so you can actually sit there. Well, no, because you've got to use it for work, right? Oh, okay. Yeah, true. so Well, that's a good point. Where's the time they're only fitting those interlocks if you're doing it in a work vehicle? So yes. um Who else would fit that category? That do motorbikes for work? Yeah, motorbikes for work. Posties is definitely the main one, I think. Farmer? Farmer, yeah. farmer but that i mean you don't Like on the four-wheeler? since You don't got to have a license to use your test if you like.
00:57:53
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you know Oh, true. I guess if you're on your own property as well. I think Osh might probably not think that, but it will work safely. Or ACC, yeah. Well, who else would have a motorbike? I mean, you got your gangs? Are they filing tax returns for that thing? You might have a legitimate gang. Are they filing tax returns or what? Well, I don't know. I don't know if you'd be able to get the interlock for that. If anyone is an avid motorcycle rider, let us know if you do have um an interlock or have had an interlock. It'd be great to hear from you. Eddie's second question here. um Is Eddie part of the NZ post? Judging by this next question, I'm actually 50-50. In light of the great view and what I call the Waikare Moana dumping ground,
00:58:46
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I think he's referring back to the yeah photo about the Homestead toilet view that we had down there. What other places have memorable poos been taken? Good and bad. What are the good poo places? What are the bad poo places?
Toilet Tales and Awkward Exchanges
00:59:05
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Is there a poo that has left you guard mentally? Keep it up. Eddie Salamandaman from Greenmouth. My performance story was actually probably directly related to this. So I might as well just say that. So my last job was in a high school, part of the staff there. I wasn't teaching stuff, but I was staff.
00:59:30
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um and And to kind of lean into this question here, you and I'm going to take a leaf out of the bro's book here, and I think he coined this phrase as good poop management. ah You've got to have good poop management, no matter where you go, you've got to know where you've got to go, um how far it is before yeah you get to where you've got to go. Is it a nice place? Is it clean? and you know Standards have to be met, that sort of stuff. um So working at a school, you're in a public kind of setting, but they do have staff toilets. So I went and jumped in to my normal, scouted toilet, which was next to a staff room. ah They're doing my business. um And the way the toilet was set up, the the door to the toilet and the door to outside of the bathroom were quite close to each other, almost, you know, open one, you're looking at the other. So I was there doing my business, and then I hear a knock on the um ah door.
01:00:28
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And I said, oh, occupied, you know, as you would. It was a good couple of seconds later here, another knock, bit louder. um And as I tried to yell out a bit louder. And um then I heard that the outside door open and someone standing there going, who's in there? And then immediately, eh, you know, it's probably one of the most vulnerable positions a guy could be in on the toilet with pants around by his ankles. So I was immediately, you know, taking her back. Um, and this lady started just asking all sorts of questions about who I was, what I was doing there. And you know, the mind starts racing and you're like, what the fuck is going on here? And she's like, identify yourself. And I was like, what? Well, I'm staff.
01:01:16
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It's okay, I'm staff. No, that wasn't good enough for her. She um lingered with the door open. like because We were probably talking you know close to 30, 40 seconds by this point, and I'm getting quite heightened. And so I'm like, ah can you please close the door? um and I'm staff, I'm meant to be here, please close the door." And she wouldn't. She goes, no, you need to identify yourself. And by this point, I was getting my knickers in a twist, I guess you could say. um
01:01:49
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So I started to get quite assertive and sort of said, um, I don't have to tell you who I am. You need to close that fucking door right now. And she's like, Oh, don't speak to the kids like that. do And I was like, look lady, unless you're going to come in here and what my fucking ass closed that door. And she's like, but and then she closed the door. So at this point I was like, oh no, I probably shouldn't have done that. But you know, sort of justified in my mind at the time. I wasn't finished there though. So I did my business and I knew that she would have been from the staff room closest to where I was.
01:02:31
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So I finished my business, it was rocked in there. um There was four teachers standing in the staff room and I just yelled out, which one of you cunts was the one yelling at me from the toilet? And this lady that that was there, she's like, oh, come with me. And she ushered me into her her office at the end of the hall. obviously didn't want to have that conversation out in front of everybody. ah So she asked me in there, and she's like, here, take a seat. And I was like, no, I'm fine. Thanks. This won't take long. um And so she sat down and I was like, do like, what do you have to say for yourself about, you know, doing that? And she's like, Oh, you know, well, we had reports of of students in those toilets, um you know, um damaging them. And you know, we thought one one of them was in there.
01:03:21
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ah And I was like, well, no, I told you I was staff. That should be enough for you to, to you know, ah at least wait until I come out. yeah um And she was like, oh, no, well, you know, you you't need need to speak to me like that. And I was like, no, I think you've got this wrong. You you know, you you are the one in the wrong here. You do realise that, right? And she was just sitting down and going, oh, look, I'm going to report this to the um to the deputy and I was like, well, good luck with that. Um, cause this was like a few days after I'd handed in my resignation. yeah So I literally didn't give a fuck anyway. I already checked out, but, um, yeah, like I was quite heightened. I was just like, fuck you lady. You like.
01:04:02
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ah fuck out I was in a very vulnerable position there. yeah yeah so of think it sitting here And you're in there busting in here and he goes, oh, well, didn't you know there was kids outside the toilet? I was like, no, I didn't. They didn't open the door either. yeah So, oh, with your fucking toilet patrol that you have. Um, but anyway, I'd said, Oh fuck this, I better go. if it was a student in the Like, you know, is it all good to be busting in on them as well? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And in a mail toilet and that, yeah you know, um, so I went up and I went straight to my line manager and told her she was horrified. So I was like, uh, sorry, I didn't mean to cause any trouble before I left, but you know, this just happened. Um, and then I would have been probably, but
01:04:57
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three, four days later, you get this email come out with this big attachment on it, new toilet checking protocols.
01:05:07
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So just caused a bit of a stir, a shit stir before I left. yeah fucking yeah What a joke, eh? What a joke. So yeah, that was there. That was before I left and I'd kind of just forgotten all about it until now. So hopefully that answers your question there, Eddie. Thank you for writing into the Kuzz Chat podcast at gmail.com. Really appreciate listeners getting involved. Yeah, I don't know if you've got any other poor form stories, Kuzzy?
01:05:42
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um No, I can't think of any at the moment. Yeah. We might sort of look at wrapping things up there anyway. But as I said, listeners, get a hold of us at... Oh, I don't know why I had the X-Files playing there. Get a hold of us at cuzchatpodcastatgmail.com. Love to hear from you. Love all the comments and feedback we get about the show as well. so um Yeah, we'll enjoy the rest of your week, cos, that you've got. um Yeah, hopefully I'm doing something exciting next week as well. Thankfully, no more gym. Glad that's over. Body can't handle that sort of training. So, we'll have to look at something a little bit more low impact, I think, for me. But, you know, that's what I'm talking about, acres. Fuckin' acres. Fuckin' acres. Fuckin' acres. See ya!