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Loose Ends 221 - Dad Host

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That's amazon.com/addfree true crime to catch up on the latest episodes without the ads. What about I do the intro? Well I'm a bit sick do you think you can do the intro? Yeah all right. Okay bloody hell five years I'll be ready for this. Thank you Paul. The handing over the reins all be at extremely short reigns. And I'll try and I'll try and step in and do what you do after I do the intro. Cool hello and welcome ladies and jelly beans sorry ladles and jelly spoons. This is a thrill to welcome you all to Friday's episode of loose ends and thank god for loose ends listeners. Paul is on the other side of the microphone not of clearly not my microphone but a microphone. You're doing great. Thanks mate. So I'll tell you what listeners Paul he's not feeling great and I said Paul will you please let me just run with this and he said no because I need to sort of rein you in and I get it which gives me a thrill and an ambition and a drive to get on stage where you've got no control right Paul yeah well no I had that I have some control because at least on stage I'm semi-lucid whereas now I'm yeah I'm so sorry that's right I checked three times now it's not the spicy cough but it's bad so I've been kind of trying to power through and I was really considering just not doing the episode today and then dad said no no we need to do everyone needs their episodes so we need our episodes yeah I need my sanity I've gone through my state transformative time you mean with the post-op stuff going on yeah thinking about lots of things oh big issues like what well have you you haven't become a bloody conspiracy theorist or anything I know not at all I think I get no I if that happens to me Paul can you organize an accident all right yeah preferably one that does not involve hospital time whilst I tip my hat and I did a lot of proselytizing about loose units in hospital I was talking to listeners yeah yeah yeah white there was no tomorrow I met this absolutely I met so many wonderful nursing staff so many wonderful stuff but a couple of stand out and I did say that I'd make mention of a few oh okay which I haven't and I feel bad so I'm only going to be described I don't know sorry I'm only going to be able to describe the girl one one girl was having her 30th birthday okay and she was going to celebrate at a what she said is the best Japanese restaurant in Sydney article and I hope someone out there that knows this lovely nurse that celebrated her 30th last Monday I believe can perhaps get in touch with us through the Facebook group and let us know the name of Japanese restaurant it's in the rocks she she absolutely raved about it then there was a such a lovely Swedish nurse her father and I can I can at least say this she was so excited to hear about loose units yeah that and then she told me that her father is a district court judge oh wow I'm not going to elaborate about some of the cases she told me about that he has been involved in but let's just take it as as gospel dearest listeners and Paul he deals with the absolutely most horrific criminal cases that this country yeah can offer that's fascinating and it's so and she studied archaeology oh that's weird Sydney Uni where your sister yep and went to union one of her best friends lily yeah lily who actually get ready for this and I told this lovely Swedish nurse this she actually got a job in archaeology and this woman said that's incredibly rare right well she she ended up doing actual archaeology she's an archaeologist and spread which which Paul is the most surreptitious and almost beautiful segue is it into a story now I don't know if you meant to point that out but that's okay it's not outside of the realm of well it's not because I didn't plan to talk about that that is in essence leading to this you're fine thank you um you're doing crazy thank you so listeners yes there is a museum in Israel it's an archaeological it's quite an extraordinary I've seen the photographs it has got the most extraordinary antiquities as we know some of the greatest antiquities in the world come from that region yeah and in this particular museum the authorities have determined that at the very front of the museum when you walk in yeah they have a static display of three and a half thousand year old jars now let's just take that let's look at three and a half thousand that's around about 1500 BC okay all jars all jars what you're saying old and beautiful and they're big mothers some of them yeah without getting too technical in terms of are we talking canopic jars here Paul that's you're throwing me into a bit of a kenipsis what a kenipsis the immediate connection that's it funnily enough words from that region all right ready for this godfather and son yes four-year-old son yeah they walk in uh-huh what does the kid do uh look I don't like where this is going no and it's tragic okay he pushes over and destroys one over the three and a half there thousand year old bars now is it possible that he was trying to stop the return of Imhotep by destroying the vessels which contain his organs because if all of those are assembled in the one place then of course we're fucked pretty much you'll turn to a sandstorm that took place in Asia this isn't oh well although they could come down the tigers you know most of the pyramids most of the pyramids are in Africa that's a very good point yeah it's a kind of there's a odd i don't i don't even think i saw a documentary quite extraordinary how some of today's leading engineers tried to make a small version of one of the pyramids right it failed miserably maybe because it was small maybe you actually need to go big i know it's because they don't know how they did it today they just have no idea and then you're going to appreciate why people then begin to believe in things well i'm i can't because i think people are silly and people need to if i mean look here's the thing um Tegan and i went to the Brooklyn Museum and there was a fantastic exhibit there um basically of uh black academics who'd been looking at the uh pyramids and ancient Egyptian history and about the odd cultural whitewashing of Egyptology and they said the fact is that Africa played a colossal role in the um nubians as they would have been called back then in the Egyptian kingdom and they said white scholars have been more um more more prone to attributing the pyramids to uh extraterrestrials than to African labor and i went that's a good point wow that's a that's a very good point so yeah i think okay um conspiracy theorists not was standing uh i think there is a real um diversion here from you know i'm doing what you normally do taking us off track god this feels great it's great i love it totally inversion okay except except i'm letting you run with it yeah i i let you run with it you do you do i have to you have to because that's that's the vibe of the show but listen uh okay so the kid goes into this museum yes break to how many of these uh once are there are three or four on display uh they never thought to have them behind you know bulletproof glass because the the um i guess the Egyptians raised their kids right no i don't know the the the directors yeah of the israeli uh you know archaeological museum yeah felt and perhaps rightfully so up until to now that or today that it was very nice for people to actually be able to get amongst it and feel that they had some um sort of ability and not be sort of stopped because how many times have you been to beautiful exhibitions i certainly have in the british museum where you actually want to reach through similar to the harry potter film with a boiling up leaning up against the glass he actually he fell through and became no snake snake uh he was a particularly despicable character real piece of shit yeah i didn't like him no um but one thing i always say when i see an actor portraying a role that one ends up to testing yeah is it is i i tip my metaphoric hat to the the actor yeah for for creating such a feeling of hate of hatred it's the tricky it's it's it's the guy who played um joffrey from the um from gamethrones literally had to quit acting because people could not separate him from the character no that's right he was getting hate in the streets exactly so i mean how many times the girl in the exes the young girl winda blare yeah winda blare i mean how many times have she had gone out with her family and people wanted her to turn her head 360 degrees or um i'll spray pea soup out of her mouth yes or walk like a crab the crab walk by the way where she walks downstairs as a crab uh-huh that was and has always been banned that was never allowed to be shown really yes do you know what isn't the version i saw yeah i've seen it it's well it must be another scene even more horrific but it's definitely it's the crab walk okay well i think there's another scene i think what you're talking about it's so horrific it was probably no i think it's possible that it was banned but then they remastered it like a 97 and you know anyway okay i guess you Paul is tough dad you know just you just i don't know let's not go you just don't let things slide do you no because it no why would i so no that's great listen as as uh temporary host that is your job today is to call me on my bullshit and stop my tangents not for the two of us two adults are important okay i agree um i guess that's what makes you a very good professional interviewer particularly on the ipc i've listened to you uh would you like to um i've got a show coming up soon i'd love to we're doing a i think a probably a half hour on hate your crime fans tired of ads interrupting your gripping 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inch pierce fenner and smith incorporated registered broker dealer registered investment advisor member sipc this episode is brought to you by progressive insurance do you ever find yourself playing the budgeting game well with the name your price tool from progressive you can find options that fit your budget and potentially lower your bills try it at progressive.com progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates price and coverage match limited by state law not available in all states kind of father figures and mentors that's me so oh yeah well i know but basically i'm talking with um one of the actors from the rings of power which is the wonderful new amazon lord of the rings series right and one of the guys on their plays um the father of azilda who's the guy who basically ends up giving the ring to sour on him anyway he's looking at one of the main characters lovely actor he's gonna come on the show i'm talking with bam mccreary the composer of the music for the show about his mentor um the guy who basically burnstein um elma burnstein who taught him everything he knows and so getting my dad on to talk about father son stuff wow it's like a logical link paul it brings a almost a tear to my eye um so here's the thing the the museum have decided not to press charges i don't quite understand the term press charge right i don't know what that means so but we use it yeah i i think press the charge could have something to do with early ink when used to quill and you had to then close the page and press down so the ink didn't run like a stamp yeah yeah possibly like seal the deal you put a wax seal it out on that yeah i'll be work yeah probably something like that all right so the museum in effect have said look it's clearly an accident they really um had a look at a lot of cctv footage yeah uh which is which is good and i think they're they're doing the right thing and they'll probably take um you know take take heed which brings me on to just a thought just popped into my mind um and that is that i own a meteorite almost kilo and i i've been in the process over the last year of donating it to the Australian museum so it's a it's a hunk of what metal is it dad what compound is it it's a combination of nickel iron with some incredibly rare um metals for example iridium california um czm yeah oh it's basically everything that ends with i um on the on the chart cadmium uh czm everything yeah it's it's incredible coliseum it's a it's a real palava yeah uh dealing with with academics now i would look it's not that i thought that you could leave the meteor on the steps of the museum like leaving a baby on the steps of a church or something right not that not that i endorse that either no but i think i think what i'm saying is i thought it would be easier and did you think it would be easier will you somewhat naive very naive okay i had a meeting an initial meeting about it's been so long yeah i met up with an american scientist yeah she was she was great then i had to the whole thing about meteorites is that you have to prove it's a meteorite and most people that have things that they think are meteorites are not meteorites well meteorites are so valuable so rare some of them that they when you go to value them they value them per gram now my meteorite is 770 grams right what's the street value on that ah look at the street value is around about five thousand okay great but the thing is i have to pay for two independent meteorite experts preferably in australia and they and they don't just fall out of the sky either they don't good pun thank you and that of course they charge for their services yeah so i'm sort of been i've been doing some reverse mathematics is that not like is that does that mean getting math wrong no it just means starting at a point in the future and working back to now to work out whether or not it is in fact financially viable for me to do so i'm sort of at the crossroads there i don't think that's how i don't think that's how mathematics works well i don't think you can take a sum and then reverse engineer it to figure out how they figured it out i think you i think you need to talk to your accountant i can't afford to talk to my accountant why because you keep doing reverse mathematics no because he's so expensive right right may you try to reverse i use that philosophy of reverse mathematics on the bibble uh i came out with zero yeah he just thought i was taking the piss look i show you'll show him the numbers you should be free according to this yeah true true now another thing i i listen is i'm my recovery is it's almost oh yes i'm but listen i i don't want to bury the lead here you are still how many weeks out from a major hip operation two weeks from today because i look at here's the thing that you we were those regular correspondence right during the um the lead up and the recovery process where you were perhaps justifiably saying that people were looking at you walking around the hospital you're a medical miracle you shouldn't have pain it's bizarre and then you were in pain and it's like okay don't know i'm not diminishing no but i'm saying that i think i push the envelope a little bit too hard too fast yes but i'll let i'll just say this to you prior to leaving the marty hospital they took me into a stairwell yep a physiotherapist and i walked up and down the stairwell unaided no crutches all right when i left the hospital physios sort of this aftercare service got in touch that how many crutches you want one or two i said zero yesterday i did seven thousand steps that is extraordinary given that we've established and you've admitted just now that you have a tendency to um jump the gun a little bit because you're ever excited and i know we all do that but i think you know um given that tendency yeah do you think perhaps listing that many steps and making a point of pride that you're going harder than maybe you should or you've been told to do you think maybe you should um be a bit more cautious or no no Paul your voice just went up one octave you went like this you went cautious yeah it's called intonation it's actually quite nice to listen to hmm well so paul yeah i'm look i'm i'm enjoying myself good i'm walking without a limp yet i'll see you in a moment i think you're in the show no i'm um christian and i uh going to see the doctor tomorrow uh specialist okay now what what are you i'm hoping it says i can drive okay i want to drive yep i want to get that mute going because listeners did i tell you in the listeners a story about the muffler yeah cool yeah it sounds really throaty and like me a week ago maybe it's one of old as well yeah i'm but a week ago one of the neighbors had to move ask would they move the yute clearly i couldn't do it a week ago i gave him the keys to the hallowed vehicle and he took it for a bit of a spin oh wow i heard the yute going past our window and i thought wow is that my yute right it it put a bit of a it it it made me a little bit excited to get back in the yute because it's sounding very throaty right hang on wait you're saying throaty like it's a good thing is it a good thing because i've had the whole i've got a whole new exhaust system and i think the guy made it a little bit sporty uh i mean he only works with um g wagons what's a g wagon you know gangster cars like the big mercs and you know all the you see those gangster wagons in Melbourne i'm sitting at all those big mercs painted black clearly they've got members of the underworld driving them right and they just sound really good so my yute sounds a little bit like that your yute's a bit it's a bit shit but you're saying now they've given it kind of a makeover and it sounds well makeover in terms of the sound and that has inspired me to possibly do a few little things to the yute like what and maybe restore it to its former glory lower it get some like lights under the yeah get some fats all around get some fat get some pegs on so your friend Doug can ride on your peg sick i love my yute i know you do that i would like to develop a closer relationship with it so that you're gonna get some maneuver wax and i can rub it you know all those little spots that'll go if you're going to become an objective sexual which is you know there's like a woman who married a bridge it's an actual psychological condition did she get over it um no you don't pay at all each time she shags it don't mock you may sorry joining the ranks of this particular wing of the crazy mansion oh yeah what's up you know it's there's nothing wrong with looking after your car there is if you inside it and i'm in inside it in that way i i have been known to correct the odd flange on my car okay listen dad i'm going to all potentially blackout right now because no you're not i need to keep no i haven't said everything i need to go i need to go i need to say a few more things we said ten minutes save it for the next one because i will save for the next one i promise we'll do a part two to this okay um even if you record it on monday to make promises promise because there's a lot more i want to talk about with my yute dad you can talk about yute on the next episode of lucia did you hear about the Irishman that tried to blow up a bus um he burned his lips on the exhaust part okay i've got some of the troubles with that joke cool um so paul um because i'm the i did the intro yep i'm gonna do the outro please in that case listeners it's been a privilege thanks for being with us five years it's i was thinking about five years and it's a long time and i know we've got i've we've got a trove of listeners are you finishing yep we all right so long everybody and thanks for all the fish and we look forward to to seeing you all on tuesday with a with a pretty fucking heavy episode yeah love your work paul hope you get better soon thanks dad me too love you dearly love you too bye cheers mate bye bye we all have dreams 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