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We are the voices of the streets, we'll take this right on Luke repeat, laugh along with every joke, welcome to the average books, and welcome back to another smashingly entertaining episode of the average books book cast. There you go. Now, if you've done that right, last episode, it would have, it would have, the fame would have worked perfectly. Great. The fame was perfect for you saying that. Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to get back. But it said someone got annoyed. I mean, all sarcasm, that was very much sarcasm. No, that was. Yeah, that's good. For people who have money with the bank only, please step it's just like clip it to end. It's gone. Because that'd be perfect. I really should. I really should. Yeah. You don't have to worry about it. I've thought about it. I've thought about that. I have thought about it. But I asked as far as he put it about. Mm-hmm. Yes. Welcome again. Thank you. That was sort of the host of the post. It seems appropriate too because it's like one or two claps considering that's what our audience is. Basically. One being me, one. Yes. Well, we've got one view on our latest episode and I think you said you were watching it. So that means that's how one view worked and it seems to have worked. Thank you to DaVinci. And his code. Yeah. And his resolve. Mm-hmm. Because it's called DaVinci Resolve. Is that what the program's called? Yes. Oh, okay. I don't use DaVinci. So how would I know? You don't have to. I only know his art. I'm familiar with his code. Yes. No, you went yes. No, you don't. I'm not even going to... Yes. See, the problem is I can't say that way of yes when I'm chatting with you. Yes. Yes. That's true, actually. That's true. That's a good thing. Yes. I mean, yes. Dang it. I can't... You know what I'm really annoyed about? I had so many ideas in my head earlier. And days. Mm-hmm. And... Fuck you. Anyway, I had so many ideas earlier and now they've just completely gone out the door. They really got me. Good. It was meant to. Oh, it's very subliminal. Fuck you. Yes. No. Sorry. I did something the other day. I tried to get around because adblockers, you know how I said YouTube wasn't working? It's because of adblocker. And even when I went to install adblocker, like uninstall adblocker, it even said, "Are you uninstalling us because YouTube is suddenly blocking us, stopping us from blocking their ads?" Because what YouTube's finally done, right, which I was expecting ages ago, is they've gone, "That's it. We've had enough. We're sick of people blocking our ads. From now on, anyone who blocks our ads can't watch the videos." Okay. Right. And which is fair enough. I'm like, "Okay, good. Yeah. I don't mind doing that." So I click on adblocker and I go, "Okay. Allow ads to play on this website, which you can do with adblocker." Yes. But YouTube's like, "No. You still have adblockers, so we're not going to play videos for you until you remove adblocker." And it's not blocking the ads anymore. It will let the... You will get your review. No, no. You have adblocker. Therefore, no video. I don't know if this is part of it, but like... So for my iPhone, I can use the Safari version of YouTube and not get any ads whatsoever. And I think it's supposed to go pop up blocker on or something silly. So to get around it, they're probably working because it's a different operating system with phones. Yes. When you access the internet, different type, it's actually a different website in some ways. Different coding. But anyway... Yeah. So part of the way to get around it is I'm like, "Okay, I just won't use Chrome. I'll just find the video I want on Chrome and then copy the URL and then put it in... I've actually been using internet, whatever it's called, Microsoft Edge." Oh, IG. Yes. Well, I don't have any other ones installed except for Chrome at the moment. But another way I got around it, which I kind of didn't mean to do, is I downloaded YouTube. Oh, that's brilliant. I downloaded, I guess, the YouTube Microsoft app. I don't know. Yeah. This is the thing with now, because the computers nowadays are going towards the system of like a tableau. It's like a smart device, basically. So like... Well, it's the simplest system. It's designed to be used as like a portable tablet type computer. And yeah, they're trying to simplify, but it's at the same time for me personally, it's stupefying it because I liked how it was before. And now it's all trying to be, "Oh, this is a smart way to use your computer now." It's like no thanks. It is the smart way. It just makes you dumber, though, because Peter's smarter than you. One of my previous jobs, we had a Microsoft smartphone and it was the most poxiest thing ever. I had my mum, I told my mum not to buy a microphone. I'm like, "Don't buy a Microsoft phone, duty." "Don't buy." And she's like, "No, it's really good. It's like a computer." And she bought the Microsoft phone. And she said, after a couple of weeks or a month or so, she was like, "Troy, this thing is absolutely horrible." And I'm like, "Let me have a look at it." And I'm like holding the stylus that it comes with because you had to use the stylus because you couldn't use your finger on it. Oh, that's weird. Your finger wouldn't work. Oh, you'd have to use your fingernail, I think. Yeah, and that's why my mum, whenever she uses my phone or an iPhone, she's like tapping it. And I'm like, "Why is it not working?" And I go, "I have to grab my finger and go, "Judy, less claw, more paw." Because she's sitting there tapping it with her nails because the first phone she used was a Microsoft phone. And let me put it this way. The Microsoft phone would have been fine, right? If they didn't make it like a computer in the sense that they put a Microsoft, a Windows X, I don't even think it was XPA, a Windows 7, they put a Windows 7 back then in a phone form. So was it the Microsoft Lumia? Was the Microsoft Touch or something, or Microsoft... Yeah. Because the Microsoft Touch phone or something was like a square thing. Nah, nah. This thing was actually a smartphone. It was a Nokia smartphone with Microsoft on it. Was it the full screen? Like the phone was the whole screen and it came with a stylus that popped in. I can't remember if it was a stylus. See, this one had a stylus that you could put in the side of it. Yeah. But I remember her trying to use it and it was like operating a Windows 98. Yeah. It was like operating Windows 98 today. Like trying to use Windows 98 in this day and age where it'd take like a good five-minute minutes for the computer to turn on. Like the phone, it lagged so much with programs and even just making phone calls or typing in numbers. Yeah. So back in 2013 it must have been a thing because there's an article in 2013 saying Nokia that's frustrated by Microsoft's slow window phone. Yeah, it was absolutely shocking. It was like the worst, it was the slowest phone, and it brand new and it's already like five years out of date in speed wise or even longer than that, like six years. It was only good. So it was like buying a phone that was already behind by six years. It was only good for like me looking at emails, that's about it. Yeah. And the only reason why anyone would get it is because it came with Microsoft Word and Excel and all that. And then I guess maybe Apple and Android both just put those in after a year or something. Yeah. It's fair. Highlights. You got any? Yeah. Earlier after looking at our rates and that, and after seeing like that little, that Councilman's thing, I thought to myself, I could, I could, I could, like, I could be a Councilman. Like I said, I'm 30 years old and have very little life experience. I could, I could be a, I could work, I could be a Councilman. I could run the Council. Yeah. You don't need to be qualification to lie and frame people. No, well, that's the best, no, that's the best part. You don't even need a qualification to apply. I, I could put my, I could put my name on the list and put my vote and get my vote in the ballot and I reckon I could get people to vote for me. I'm so charismatic like that. Yes. I no doubt. Because I'd be the loudest guy in the room. Yeah. Look at Mark Wood. No, what's his name? And unlike, unlike what we've currently got where, where like only like 20, I think it's like 20% of the rates in my Council. I think it's like 20% are putting, putting like 20% of like, so $20 out of every hundred dollars towards fixing the roads, I go, not for the next year, we're dropped, we're putting that up to 50% we will get the roads fixed. Everything else can follow after that. Fair enough. I just realized my heart, I just realized what I had. My heart was all week last week. I was in Tasmania and Hobart or work. That was, that was nice. Hobart is weird. Good for you. That's so weird. I don't know if we, did we brief, I may have talked about this already, but I can't remember. You did a little bit. We did. Because you did a little bit. Because that's okay Jackson, your highlight can also, your highlight for last week can also be your highlight for this week. Yeah, it's because I haven't released the episode yet, because I was waiting for your audio now that you always released now, I can do it, but yes, anyway. Yes. So what's my highlight been since then? I can tell you. I'm sorry. I think, I think you're missing the most important thing, Jackson, is that I'm back at work. And you know what you'd say? I'm happy. And what does that, and what does that mean for, yeah, that's right. I'm happy. What does that mean for you? Yes, more talking times with Troy on the phone. That's right. I've been calling you a lot lately. Yes. It's like you got me on speed dial or something. Yes. I've been calling Courtney too, but I'll call Courtney then you, or I'll call you then Courtney. Okay. Is that your line of, that's your order of like who you ring? It's like, no, it's, it's, no, it's not an order. It's you or Courtney either way. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. But, um, because other people, I know, because I know Courtney's home now, so I can call her. Yes, Troy. She's not going to be. Yeah. And have a chat with her. And I know you're home. The only other person I could probably call would be Christian because he works from home a lot. Yeah. And his work doesn't require him to be like, he's always got his phone on him and he's always doing other stuff. So it's not, his work doesn't require him to be constantly moving and touch them, doing stuff with his hands, for example, or typing on a computer so much. Gotcha. Like he has not more free time, but more, uh, what's the word I'm looking for, time that can be interrupted. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. Well, as other people like my mate, Joe, like they're constantly on the tools. So you can't, I can't really talk to Joe while he's trying to, while he's trying to instal a board or a, while he's trying to build up a goal, cause that's apparently what the people he's working for. I currently doing. Yep. That makes sense. I guess. Um, I just thought another highlight was I came home from work yet today and my daughter was kicking a soccer ball and I'm like, oh, that's cute. That's good. Oh, that's, that is good. I want to see her bouncing a basketball. Well, it's funny cause she calls us on the wall of basketball. So I'm like, it's, it's a soccer ball, so man, I'm not a basketball ball. Really? Why is she calling the soccer ball a basketball? I don't know. That's interesting. I don't know. Do you even use the word basketball in the household? Well, we don't even have a basketball. Like I don't think she's been. That's what I mean. It's a basketball. I don't know. Like she's been exposed to soccer and football more than anything else. Cause you play it and I imagine you, what, do you ever play it on your computer with her there? I don't have a soccer ball. I haven't played it in years. Not the game. I mean, the games. Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, no. I haven't watched a soccer game with her. No, I haven't shown her what's our game. Oh, really? That's horrible. Cause you're watching them all the time. The soccer season is currently not really on at the moment. Like the early doesn't come back into October. Okay. Then what have you been watching? The footy. Yeah. Unfortunately. Unfortunately. What? When you, when you, when you run out of podcasts and stuff like that, you just have to result. Oh my God. Have you run out of podcasts? I should have gotten run. Well, you see. We're making content. So yeah, as, as a wise words from everyone's favorite Pokemon from Gen three. Corfish. Yes. That's a bad. Just because, just because we brought it up in conversation early, it doesn't mean it's not a throwback if it's not part of the podcast. Yeah. So, um, snow, snivey, snivey. So speaking of soccer, I want to play two or two. One, one soccer clip is from a guy being interviewed by a Dutch reporter. I talked to you over the phone over this, but I want to play it to you. Just because. That's reporter. Yes. Oh, yes. You say you'll have very good English. Yeah. It comes down, you know, performances come down to the environment and we've got a good culture here building that NUC and I'm hoping that we can continue here. So yeah. Thanks a lot. And you speak good English. Yes. Thank you. Yes. That guy. He's a UK born, New Zealander. No, I was going to say that's, that's how horrible the New Zealand accent is. It's that people who don't have English as their second language think that the person. That sounds like, oh, your English is very good from where you're from. Like, I never would have guessed it. Yeah. I guess that English might be different. I don't know. Maybe I'm not sure. But, um, speaking of language, now there's, I want to quickly give you context. This clip goes on for a bit longer, but it's worth it. Trust me. There's an Aussie soccer player playing in America and the MLS major league soccer. As you know, how the C word over there is a bit, you know, derogatory. It's not very, look, it's found one. Yes. Listen to this. Yes. I know. Major league soccer are investigating Australian midfielder Patrick Yazbek for use of abusive language while playing for National S C. He is thought to be Austin and C midfield that are in a wolf account. Yeah. Now, the incident came during his MLS debut on a race stop the game for six minutes as he spoke to both captains and coaches. Yazbek was then subbed before the game restarted and released an official statement. Many Aussies in the replies have come to Yazbek's defense as you could imagine. Before we get under a big discussion about what this means and what we think of it, do you want to hear a few replies from Australia? I love what we were going to do. Oh, yes. Defending what he's alleged to have said, alleged to have said. Oh, further. He can't move on. He's the Aussie players. I can't. There you go. So, I'll assume today, episode of football ramble today, and they brought up this story and they brought up this story. What's going on with the damn list in this Aussie guy? And yeah, apparently because he caught a guy, the C word. And then when they released the statement saying, "I'm investigating," obviously a lot of Aussies got it. I just find it. I just find it so funny if I ever talk to an American person or a British person or someone who's like, "Whoa, do you guys use that word a lot?" I'll show him that clip of that MP, he's like, "Oh, he's in the middle of parliament. He's like, "Oh, you're absolute cunt." It's damn. Yeah. So, I was like, I was talking to the guys in the Discord saying, "Oh, there goes a freedom of speech." And I'm like... And the other point was, I'm going to say, "This is what the US are like when Australians are trying to take their jobs." I can't say he's the word he's from, because obviously we say it's no problem, but like yeah, not. He said the C word. It's geography. We can't. We have to ban him criminalize it, you know? I got a question for you, because it is a rude word, it's a very rude word. Not very popular. It's not very popular, it's not very kosher, it's not kosher. It's not something a proper gentleman would say. It's not very demure, unmindful. I do, and I do, boy, how could you use this vulgar language? I have a question, Jackson, I have a question. Would you consider, since it's used so broadly in our country, would you consider it to be a slur or not? I would consider it to be in the Oxford dictionary. Yes, yes, it is in the Oxford dictionary. That is a fact. The Aussie version. It is. That is a word. Because I briefly looked up the history, like who invented the word. Sorry, the history of Kant. God is gonna hate me, because Cody hates it when I use the word. No, no, don't blame him for thinking. That's a good thing. There was apparently a Hindu... Sorry. She considers the word bastard to be a... What is it, what is it, Korni? Bastolization. It's a swear word. Bastol, it's a swear word. Yeah, I've had this chap in my mother when I was younger, and I was like, I think it's really a swear word. I don't think bastard is a swear word at this point, like it's really not. In the UK, it's not, they say it, like we'll see word all the time. Yeah. Like, is that what... You're beautiful bastard. Because when you think about it right, we've got, like, everyone, tradies use it all the time. People use it all the time, women use it all the time, not just men, you know. I've had plenty of women say, you're an absolute cunt, you know that? We've had politicians use the word, but I guarantee you, if we were actually monetizing this YouTube video, it would get flagged for something. But don't Australia, YouTube? I think it would be fine. There's no such, I wish there was Australia and YouTube, but there's not Australia. Imagine if that's, that was a thing, right? Like, in America, our videos get blocked by an Australian, ah, nothing wrong with this. I mean, I certainly know that we get, like, they certainly YouTube, like, sends your videos to more demographic that you are in. So if you're living in the UK, you're more likely to get UK and European videos and vice versa in Australia, you're more likely to get Australian videos or, or YouTube is who are Australian. Although, because YouTube in general is American and Americanized and it's an American company, a lot of it's more American based content, but you still get, like, a lot of British people, a lot of Australian people and all that, but you don't get, like, for example, here, we don't get exactly, we don't get South, South Korean YouTube stuff or anything like that or Japanese YouTube stuff. Although, there is actually, now that I say that, there is this one Japanese channel that I'm subscribed to that recently, it was that guy who's 30 and homeless. Okay. And let me tell you something, this guy makes the Japanese homeless life look pretty sweet. Yeah, they, I don't, they don't think they frown upon homelessness as much, but I don't know. They don't really, but, but, but, but so this guy was apparently a, he worked in, um, in real estate. Okay. I think of obviously the nine to five and all that, having to pay ridiculous amounts for his apartment and all this other stuff, so he went, you know what, screw it. I'm just going to go homeless. And so he actually, like, travels around Japan, just on his skateboard or on his, uh, wait, what is, what's the long board? Yes. He travels around Japan on his young board, long board, and just stays at those, um, I know, I'm not even sure if they're called hotels, but they're like, stay in breakfast. No, no, it's like, it's, I'll tell you, well, this is pretty good for bed and breakfast because you get like, you don't get a personal room obviously, but you get a small, he, one of these videos was about him staying at one of these, uh, motel, motels, I guess, or hotels. And it's literally, they just give you a little box room. It's not even a room. Like the, like, there's, it's just a little private area. Yeah. What's that? Yeah. They give you a little cubicle with like a computer and TV and like just a futon. And, and it's like, it's like $10 a night, right? So he spends the night there, he buys like $7 worth, like he gets a full meal for $7. And while he's there, he's like reading, he gets to read manga, he can play video games, he can do whatever. And then when he's done there, he just moves on to the, he just, he just skates to the next town or moves to the next town. As you do. The last, the last video I watched right, he set up a tent in the middle of this park. And he, um, he put a sign saying, not staying, just traveling and he put a little, like one of those little square hat sign things. You know the, um, Chinese farmers, you know, they, they got the straw hats, the round straw hats with the, with the Q-tip at the top, the, the, the cylinder. What is it called? Not cylinder. It's like a triangle pyramid. Time. Yeah. I forgot the, I forget what the shapes are. A cylindric triangle. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. It's a cone. Yeah. That one. No, it's basically, it's basically, anyway, he put, he, he set up his tent in the area where there was light. Uh, usually he puts it to the side and in the shadows where it's out of the way, but this time he thought, oh yeah, it's probably safer if I put it in the light, right? And he put a little sign to let people know that, you know, he was only staying there temporarily. And within like, it's eight o'clock at night, he gets a knock on his tent at nine o'clock at night and it's the police. Just asking what he's doing there and he like gives him his ID and tells him what he's doing and how he's homeless and travel, how he's traveling and basically homeless. He doesn't work, but he gets an income from YouTube. Ah, so here. Yeah. But, um, it makes it look like, it makes it look fun. Yeah, they, I guess in Japan, there's a bit more of a welcoming to that kind of behavior. Like it's not. I don't know about that. It's not. I think it's not. Look, let's put it this way. It's something I do when I was 20 and 21. Yeah, okay. I mean, I personally wouldn't do it, but like it's something I can imagine a 20 minute 21 year old doing maybe 23 or four, but this guy is like 30. Yeah. Well, but he's just, he's just sick of the basically the, the office nine to five sort of working thing. Yeah, I make that fair. Um, I forgot to click this one earlier, but, um, going back on the topic of language and sports, the, the part of it, that's my problem. It's not really anyone's problem, it's just this, this, this, this one, this one involves rugby players. Now, rugby players are pretty stupid. They drink their own piss. It's fact. What? Yes. What? Yeah. What? There was a rugby league player. Explain. Who, but did you not explain? Do you know what bubbling is? Have you heard? Do I look like I know what bubbling is? Basically this. Yes. Yes. Of course. Of course. I know what bubbling is. Of course. I know what bubbling is. This rugby player was filmed at a year and a run of pub and what happened? I'm glad you asked. The video of him filming, he's literally aiming high with his, with his PP and he's drinking his urine and that's where the, and the bubbling came. That's where the bubbling. Yeah. Bubbling. That's not the thing I'm saying. So this rugby player is a state of origin that just won and this is what he has to say at the. From Queensland. Yes. Of course. Of course. On Monday night you may have all seen Sam Friday said this in his post-match interview. How was that Sam? Yeah. It was a bit like a losing your virginity. It wasn't very nice but we got the job done. Well, it certainly caused a few headlines to the point where the great coach Wayne was forced to comment on. I don't apologise. Do you like to see that? Sam, is that way though? I mean, he doesn't seem to have that. Well, Sam said that to me about two months ago and I thought to myself I should've said something. I thought it was Sam. He said that publicly that will come all over you. Yeah. Rugby players. Yeah. Yes. Staff. Did you get what we say? Because it might come all over you. It should totally come. Here. Fucking hate Australia. Where are the worst? Oh. Fucking hate Australia. Fucking hate Australia. Where are the worst? Ah. Fucking hate Australia. Fucking hate Australia. Fucking hate Australia. Fucking hate Australia. Fucking hate Australia. Where are the worst? Oh. Fucking hate Australia. Oh. Okay. I can do it with that shortly. Okay. Pause. That's not how this works. Jackson, that's not how this works. Yeah. First thing I did, first thing I did as soon as you took off your headphones, I played this. Wow. This guy's a super white knight. Yeah. And I thought it was actually kind of appropriate. Super duper white knight to be thank you. Yes. Oh. So, yeah. Rugby players. Anyway, I'd say that was the best way to play that out. That was definitely very clever little part to fix the situation. Now, if only we could do that now, now, if only our politicians could do that with what they've done to the unions. If only they had soundboards. Oh, yeah. That'd be nice. All the trainees are protesting and you just have the politician go, "What happened?" Do you know about that? Do you know about this? I didn't find out until, like, yesterday. Sorry. I heard a funny joke about. So, like, apparently, like, the CFM you'd, all the people were on strike. Yeah. And then, some of the comical remark about, "Oh, what do we go with Draw 400 bucks from the pub?" Oh, it was so funny. The news article, the news guys, like, some of them were tired early just the pub. These, like, some protesters decided to call it early and go to the pub and it showed, like, a bunch of them just sitting at the outside area of the pub with bees. It's so weird because, like, there was a clip from, even, like, for some reason, Brisbane protested part because of their... Yeah, every state they had people for, what union was it? CFM you. CFM you. That's right. Forestry. Something, something, I don't know. I don't remember. You're not part of the union, are you? No. We're part of the E.U. E.T.U. The electrical trade union. Ah! You're actually part of the union. I'm not personally, but that's the electrical one. That's the one. Why aren't you part of the union? Because I... Just out of curiosity. I don't think my company works as part of the E.T. because my work is different compared to theirs. It's not really, yeah, I get you. Yeah. Well, it's also because you don't really work... You don't working... You're... What you're currently doing isn't industrial commercial trade work, is it? Or domestic, either. It's not really... It's sort of a... It's not in a different category. It's not in a different situation. Yeah, correct. Yeah. Because my mate, he had to join you. Maybe he should... He's probably still part of the union, but he had to join the union when he started working for the company that he now went under. But he was working for this company and the moment he started working for them, he was basically forced to join the union. Like he wasn't... I think it was... Oh, you have to join if you're going to start working for our company. But I'm actually curious about why they actually, because they claim that the leaders of this union were involved in underground stuff and working with bi-keys and all something and some sort of illegal trades and all that. And to be completely honest, I can imagine that quite heavily, because there's a lot of dodgy stuff going on in the construction industry. Yeah, definitely. There's so much dodgy stuff going on. So I saw a clip from Brisbane's route. But I don't know. And there were a bunch of Kiwis doing the Hakka. Oh yeah, I saw that clip, yeah. Like, oh yeah, that's what I wanted to protest, do the Hakka. Really get the Mr. Chris. It was quite every person that the news people interviewed, they're like, oh, what do you think of... Do you think this is like, basically, do you think they should get rid of the leaders or get rid of them of this union? And every single person's response was basically, look at all the people around you. We didn't want this, essentially. All these people didn't want this. And I'm sitting there going, look, I'm sure you guys didn't want this. But when every single one of you is wearing a union shirt, I'm sitting there going, you might be a little bit biased. Just a wee bit. Just a wee bit biased. Like, is this... I want to know off this stuff about the leaders of CFM, whatever, CFM you... If they've been helping out with some sort of legal shit, in which case, they should be punished and they should be removed and they should be replaced with people. They shouldn't be replaced with government people. They should be replaced with other people. The other... Like, other... The guy who was... The guy who was leader, Jonathan... Well, representatives. Well, I don't know. I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy who used to be part of the leader, the leader of the CFM, he stood king with not too long ago. Yeah, he had a mate who was part of a Barca Gang or something. Yeah, so I can't remember his name, but... Or he stood up for someone. Yeah, I couldn't tell you. Was it Barca Gang or was it Barca Gangs or are they just using it as a broad term? There was Barca relations, I believe. Labour Bloss Greens for grandstanding at CFM you anti-Albany's protest. Oh yeah, apparently they made... Apparently one group had made him look like a bloody... Gave him the Hitler mustache and the Jewish community were apparently furious about it. Or something. And I'm sitting there, like they're comparing him to Hitler. They're not... They're not just... The photo of the protest they used. I can't see the photo, because it got blurred. The news blurred. Yeah, I can try to see it. Yeah, that actually looks better. They called him "Albonazzi". Yeah, that's right. I could back that out when I watched the channel 7 or channel 10. I don't know who it was, but when I watched the video, I could make out the Albonazzi. That's just... That's just really funny. So it stands for construction, forestry, and maritime employees. Mm-hmm. Who the frick are the maritime employees? Is it like dock workers or something stupid? Maritime employees, dock workers. Oh, yeah, that would be dock workers. Okay. That would be like, yeah, like dock lands and all that. And people doing shipping container, trap movements. Or Albonazzi, you can't get a break. The guy... The current national president, I'm not sure if this is Queensland, or if it looks like a WWE, or WWF guy, so do you feel in the head? Do you feel what? The goofy looking face. It looks like it looks like from the close room, it's from the attitude era of WWF, anyway. Oh, yeah. So while we're on protests and all that, I watched the video where a guy was talking about censorship and different protests, and he was talking about the South Park episode where they made, or A South Park episode where they made fun of China, and that got South Park banned in China, and he keeps bringing up, like, he's like, oh, on this day, on this day, absolutely nothing happened at all, outside then, tenement square, tenement square. Like, he's like, oh, you know, remember that nothing happened tenement square ever, because I was like, I'm really curious, what actually happened, what was this thing, and they talk about that there was this student protest in China that got basically, a lot of people got killed, but the government stepped in and killed a bunch of these people just to stop the protest, and I'm like, oh, well, I'm glad that's not happening here, but because I clicked on that video, which leads me to watching more videos about other stuff going around in the world, it brought me to another video where it's got people, modern day young Chinese people, have figured out how to protest against the government in the most cleverest way. They're doing, and they're doing the same thing everyone else is, everyone else is also complaining about, like, young government millennials, and Gen Z as they're doing, and that's, they're not working very hard. Damn. So, so to protest, to protest, to protest the government, what young Chinese people are doing, is they're just, they're not working. That's hard. They're not, well, they're not working, they're not working hard, they're not working at all. If they are working, they're not trying to progress in the position they're in, because they're sitting there going, what's the point? Yeah, no, that makes, that's fair. If our government can step in and just destroy whatever business we've built or whatever happens, what's the point of actually trying to, like, establish a, I think, like, you want to, they've granted. Because I clicked on that and watched that article, I then watched another, like, a 60 minute thing about how millennials are lazy. Of course, I like to hear this. Apparently millennials lazy, yes. I mean, the one thing would be a millennial wrote that, that'd be, oh, that'd be hilarious. That would be, because, like, it was title millennials are lazy, but it was a clickbaity thing, and it was basically explaining that, um, that millennials, millennials want flexible work for millennials. Of course they do. And that's a bad thing. Yeah, because that goes against the grain of what society has been growing up to, to this point, how you should work nine to five only, and you can only have a man of coffee breaks and, um, yeah. Do you know what I find very, very funny, right? So, if I didn't work, I'd go stir crazy. If I wasn't doing any kind of job, you would after, after having a child now home, it'd be so horrible. Like, I have, I've thought multiple times as if I lost my job or if anything like that, and I'd be like, I've calculated, I'm sitting there going, yeah, I'd be right for, for actually quite a few years. This is fine. We'd be fine if I didn't work. And worst case scenario, Courtney could go back to work if we were desperate, and I'd have to look after the kid. But, um, but I'm sitting there going, like, I would not, I, even if that was the case, I'd go, I'd go completely bonkers. I'd have to be doing, I'd have to be doing something. And the problem is, I'm not very good at doing stuff. No, no, you can, no, no, I mean, I'm not very good at, so some people are just switched on and like, even if they're not working, they're working, like my mate Joe, for example, even when he's not doing carpentry work in the city or, or installing windows or whatever he does now, he's at home, pulling up tiles and installing new tiles and breaking down walls and pulling down pagoles and stuff like that, and renovating his house. And I'm just sitting there going, I don't know how you can do that. I don't know how you can bust your ass all day at work and then come home and then continue to do stuff. Did you know that the Australian Institute of Family Studies did a report in 2017, the current position or place and society of the stay at home dad? Well, yeah, tell me about the stay at home dad, because that was my, that was my dream job at one point, but I'm starting to think maybe that's not the best idea. Some key points quickly, just to go over the overview. So this was seven years ago, since reports obviously, I think it might be slightly different now. Hold on a second, hold on, hold on. If only my wife was a breadwinner and made lots of money, that way I could stay at home and look after the kid. Do you see breadwinner? Breadwinner, that's right. Do you know what a breadwinner gets? Bread? Yep. What are you doing? We're in the middle of something. Bread. I'm off to work there. Well, actually now would be a good time to start, because then you get time and a half. Breadwinner, a person who earns money to support their family, typical of the sole one. Oh. What the what? How is he? Is he asleep? That's a good idea. Hand me the baby so he wakes up. Wake me up. Can't wake up. Wake me up. Let's pull you with the camera. Wake me up inside. Can't wake up. So stay at home. Oh, okay, see ya. No dory. Evanescence is probably the only female band slash singer I actually like. I mean, that's fair enough, I guess. Well, there's not very many that are like that. It is not. Stay at home. Fathering is not a common approach in Australia. Stay at home. No, it's definitely not. Stay at home. Father families are very diverse. They include fathers who are looking for work and those who are not. And mothers who are working part-time and mothers who are working full-time. Or not. Stay at home. Stay at home. I know, right. Stay at home. Father families tend not to have a lot in common with stay at home. Mother families. And it's gone. Children tend to be older and mothers still take on much of the caring and household work. Even if fathers have increased responsibility for childcare. And last point, while stay at home. Father families are, not surprisingly, supportive of fathers caring and mothers earning, there is a considerable support for the arrangement across the parenting spectrum. What does all that mean? I don't know. Google, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. Well, I'm out, guys. Yeah. This is what's cool now. I think I'm dead. I'm thinking, son. I'm thinking. Son. Son. Son. Son. No, no. That was good. Okay, so let me put it this way. If I was a stay at home dad, like, I'd have to, I wouldn't be able to just sit around and like look after the kid and then do dishes and do washing and do general house stuff and whatnot. I'd have to like get on my computer and make YouTube videos, for example, we'll go in the shed and build something. Just build something. No, it's literally, let's do it. Just do it. Take your dreams, come dreams. I'm not going to speak. Yeah, I know. That's a bit silly. But anyway, yeah, so I learned that young people are lazy. Yes. And all I can say is like how often did, oh yeah, especially in China, because get this right, try to have a, have it like a, it's like they have a nine, nine, six week or something. Okay. So basically they work 70, they work 12 hour days most of the time and six days a week. And even though they're not expected to work, well, even though they're not like legally, they don't have to work 12 hour days, they can work the standard eight. It's expected that they do. Yeah. And all I can say about that is how could you find, of course, of course, they're not, of course they're not having more kids when they don't even have time to date anyone. Like, imagine only having one day off a week and it drives me insane. No, it's definitely like I've, I've done it before I've worked on, I've worked plenty of like Saturdays, uh, man, did I hate it, I hated working Saturdays. And then I talked to other people who were like, no, I, I can't like a guy who used to work for our company, the, uh, the football, the ex football, football, I told you about. Yeah. Yeah. He, um, he used to work Saturdays. And I said, what, I said to him, why do you work Saturdays? And he goes, I got nothing better to do. I would, and all I can think of what, you can't spend time with your kids or your wife will go out and do something like, or just sit around and relax. Yeah. Like, I don't understand how anyone would be that, like, how can you be that bored or that like out of it? Oh, don't worry. They, they end up being things for you to do in the end. Don't worry. Your kids will keep it like what, like your son now, he's only one month, only two months. But boy, when he gets a bit older, he'll get more demanding and then you'll start losing your hair. I should know something. I tried, I tried to burp him earlier today, right? Yeah. He's been like two weeks, but, or three weeks. Actually, it was closer to, but I like to pull, like, you know, like, like, pull him back and forth and up and down and that. And I went to do it this time and I was like, oh my goodness, what, you're so freaking heavy. Like, what the heck happened? Who's been feeding you? Oh yeah, that's, I, yeah, that's right. You put on like two kilos or something. Yeah, that tends to happen. Yeah. It's common. Yeah. What happened? Normal. That's right. But, yes, it was quite interesting, let's put it that way. Yes. Yeah, that's fair. Um, so I was going to play this next clip I was going to play. This is what happens is this next clip is right. I really wish we were in a video format because your face just like froze. Oh, Jackson, oh, Jackson, how are you faking it? I can see. Damn it. Okay. All right then. So, no, it was the sound you were making. Oh. Rats. So, that was the clip, yeah? Yes. No, that was it. This clip is a result of sitting on the toilet for too long and going through Facebook Reels. That's not, that's good. No, I did a yesterday. Can you please take my clothes off? No, I'm tired. And for God's sake, can you please take my clothes off? No, it's not fair. You always wear my clothes. You wear my clothes. It's not fair. It's the slam at the door, they're very, and they got me too. I'm sorry. Hold on. Can I, I need to do something real quick? Can you? Good. I'm just going to switch you so you're on speaker. Oh. So, I've, I'll wait. I've got to do it manually. Hold on. Hold on. This is very important, Jackson. Okay. I'm sure. I need to click, I need to click on this. It won't matter if I go to speaker. All right. Say something. Something. Something. Can you play that clip again? Jackson, Bikorni, come here for a sec. Can you please take my clothes off? Oh, I did a yesterday. Can you please take my clothes off? No, I'm tired. And for God's sake, can you please take my clothes off? No, it's not fair. You always wear my clothes. You wear my clothes. It's not fair. It's not fair. It's not fair. Did you hear that, Kourtney? It's not fair, Kourtney. It's not fair, Kourtney. Stop fair, Kourtney. Stop fair. You always take off my clothes. You always take off my clothes. You always take off my clothes. You always take off my clothes. It's not fair. It's not fair. You're good. I don't want you wearing dresses, right? Oops. What do you mean? You don't want me wearing dresses. It's not fair. I don't get to wear your clothes. It's not fair. It's not fair. It's not fair. You don't wear any sexy clothes. You wear normal plain clothes all the time. Please take my clothes. It's not fair. You never take off my clothes. Stop wearing my clothes. No. Where did you find that? Facebook Reels. That's annoying. Also Jackson, by the way. There was more, but I limited myself. Yeah, but by the way. Wow. This guy's a super white knight. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. I was on Facebook. I thought there was a Reels. I thought that was funny. I was able to save it for the broadcast. And that doesn't sound like Mickey Mouse for me at all. It's just true. It's quite funny because I've said to call me like, why don't you wear some sexy clothes? You guys, well, you can buy some for me and I'm sitting there going, I'm not buying you sexy clothes. I'll buy you your own sexy clothes. We have sexy clothes at home, sexy clothes at home. I have sexy clothes at home. It's cool, but John. I have a pair of underwear that say it's a Merry Christmas pair. It says Ho-Ho-Ho on it. It does. That's actually what it says. It says Ho-Ho-Ho, Merry Christmas. Of course it does. The funny thing is they're Trady underwear. Ugh, that's so depressing. The brand Trady. Do you know what body that brand is so annoying? What they came up with. I mean, the Big W brand. Yeah. I thought they were their own brand. It was big. Well, they're their own brand, but they sold, you buy them at Kmart and all that. They do so much crap. I know, I know, it's very, and it's not even, but their clothes aren't too, or their stuff isn't too bad. Like, that's why I buy it. Yeah. Like, their socks aren't, their socks aren't the best. I prefer hike socks, but that's, let's not get into, let's not talk about things that people who are 30, which I am talking about, let's talk about something else. I want to relive my youth. That's where I black, black, black con, wukong, black, whatever it's called came out. Because I'm. Did you hear about that? What? The, the, the Chinese video game, well, it's, yeah, the, the new dark souls, it's a new dark souls game, basically, but it was made by a Chinese company. It's been, it's been all over the internet, because the thing I was going to say about it, they've got so, like, they've got, like, they've even got energy drinks, right? I don't know if you've seen them. What the brand? Yeah. So, trade, you've got any drinks? No. Let me look this up. It's basically, it's like, it's like their version of prime, essentially. Yeah. Of course it is. Of course it is. But they also have beer as well. Protein water drinks. Bulk nutrition. This is trading on. I'm not sure. I spoke, I spelt trading wrong. I spelt it. I spelt it trade-y as in trading. Okay. Oh, what the, what the dick smith, why is dick smith? Wait, what? I can bog by, I can bog by 12 back from dick smith. Okay. Why is dick smith selling? I know they're now an online store, but this makes no sense. Oh, my goodness. Why does this look like, okay, so this is the first time I've looked at dick smith, right? Mm-hmm. And I feel like I'm looking at Cogan. Yeah, yeah. Well, didn't know, because, didn't Cogan buy out dick smith, I thought? Probably. Probably. Probably. I would not be surprised. I'm looking at, this is, this is Cogan. Pre-shipping with first. I'm pretty sure this is Cogan. What's first? Uh, membership trial. Fuck me. Another fucking membership. I swear. Are you trying to log into our news article? No, no, I'm annoyed because every single thing is, I'm getting really sick. I'm sick of subscription based stuff. Yeah, there was, um, funny relationship because there's, there was a report about the ACA, it was finding that a lot of people subscribe to sub services that they don't actually need or want. Why, why the, why the fuck would I get a dick smith subscription? It has a subscription service, it's called first. You get free shipping. Yeah. Okay. 60, don't pay $60 on, don't pay $60 shipping on your tradie energy drink with the dick with first, you can get it for sick, you can get it for free free shipping up to 55% off. Okay. No, you're free. I'll tell you that. Yeah. I'm getting really sick of the issue. I don't, I don't, I don't like, I, I, I mean, I get it to agree, it's, it's, it's, it's, the reason why subscription service exists is because they make more money off the subscription service than if what people are to just buy it normally. Troy, you should, you know what you should do, a gotcha game where you, it's a subscription base. Oh, they're all, I wish there was a gotcha game that was subscription based, at least you'd get consistent stuff. So gotcha games are worse. They're paid a win. I don't understand anyone that would play pay to win stuff. Oh my goodness, but at least I'll get, at least I can get my brickberry energy, tradie energy drink for 50, 12 pack for 54. This is prime. This is literally prime. This, this, this, it's prime. They've just re, they've just re pack each prime. I only drink, I only drink the energy drinks with the Vegemite like a Dick Smith. They used to be a Dick Smith only drink. I mean, I drink, I can bet you my spread, but I can't, it was cold. It's already bad enough that prime exists. Now we've got tradie, get your hydration from official tradie energy drinks, every brick layer has it. Like I said, it's just the, their version of prime, I guess. I mean, hey, people are buying it. If people are buying it, people are buying it. There's another one here called rain. Total rain, total body fluid, no, total body, body fuel, sorry. Get rain, total body fuel. You know, maybe I should, oh my goodness, there's an energy drink, there's an energy drink called pussy, pussy, natural energy, natural ingredients. You can buy it at bodybuilders.com. It's not sponsored. Imagining. Oh, no, you can't, it's just a, it's just, okay, bodybuilders.com is just a, it's just a, a Reddit type of website with a shop, it's got a shop is it a soup shop? I mean, if you consider a pre-workout soup, yes. It's just soup, protein soup, protein shane soup, I'm, I'm at the protein store. It's just protein powder. It's just protein. It's just protein. There's more protein. Why are you buying clothes at the protein store? I'm at soup. Why are you buying clothes at the soup store? Stop yelling at me. No, but, no, but to get back on, to get back on my initial point, I'm getting, I'm getting sick of like seeing subscription services. Yeah, that's fair. Like every online, I understand if it's like media, because it costs money to produce stuff, but everything nowadays is supposed, is supposedly subscription based like the other day when we're, when we're at your place and I was talking to you and I said, oh, where can I watch the football game? You're like, ah, you can watch it on camera and I'm sitting there going, okay, why don't I just somehow program my phone, which I kind of already know why you can't do it because phones and TVs have different, different waves. Yes, different signals and all that stuff. Different signal. Yeah, that's why. Yeah, that's four. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm sitting there going, okay, why can't I just have a back on my phone that'll play normal TV? I just want normal TV that's, I just want normal TV on my phone. Can I get normal TV, like old school, what is it, non-digital TV? Can I get, what is it called, AC, AV, whatever, can I get that on my phone? I just want to watch normal TV on my phone. I just want like, I miss normal TV at this point. I just want TV that I never thought I'd say that. Regular TV. I just want regular TV where I get where I get a TV show and then 15 ads in a row for about two minutes and then back to normal, back to regular, regular schedule broadcast. I don't want TV on demand or at least give me the airfo games live free. Why do, why, normal radio, all the apps are annoying. Yeah, well, normal radio, that's right. You can get normal radio still though. I mean, you can on the, the app ones do play normal radio, but yeah. Why do I have to play KRO, just, why do I have to get KRO and have a subscription just to watch an airfo game, all right, if I've, I'm not, I'm not going to, I'm not going to do that if I'm only going to watch like one football game a couple of weeks or that. You know what? I, I was so tempted to do an episode where we, we did a watch along of a football game. Well, it's a good thing you have a KRO account. Correct. That's right. Maybe I'll take yours with Christians. Yeah. Yeah. You're more than welcome because, yeah, I'm not going to be using it very much anymore. I don't, well, maybe. Well, the thing is now, cause I've been watching the WWE, a bit of WWE because the storylines are actually getting really fun to watch because there's all these, there's all these big, all these evolved, at least you get more than just the football. I suppose that's an advantage at least you get all the, all the other sports and what not. Yeah. Cause I'd be sitting there going like, I mean, I'd be annoyed if there was a subscription program like that and you only get, I felt something, you only get this, your rant about subscriptions, it's actually going, it's annoying because there's, there's so many competition now for subscription services stuff, like, so for example, right, WWE, they are on, so they're on KO. I can watch my KO, but however, next year, they're annoyingly going over to Netflix and I don't want to get Netflix. What's wrong with Netflix? I just don't want Netflix. I just want Netflix that tastes like real flicks. You should switch to quick flicks then, do you know what, do you know what quick, quick flicks is? Quick flicks. So quick flicks is the Australian version of Netflix. Right. It originally started as a, uh, DVD subscription program. So for people who lived out, out in the country, yes, they could order a DVD and get delivered to them and then sent back, right? And then, and then it moved on to, well, yeah, but when you live out in the middle of nowhere, right? It's very convenient to go, oh, yeah, I feel like watching this movie, you know, in the next couple of days, like, I'll, I'll order it and they can deliver it to me and I can play the DVD. The only problem is they exist as right as everything was transitioning to digital and they switched. They started doing like they Netflix was a thing in the US and they started doing the same thing. Yeah, they started doing the same thing as Netflix, but the problem is they didn't do it very well, they didn't cordon the market and everyone in Australia was already using VPNs and other things to get to, to get Netflix. Yeah. So they did a very, they had a small window of opportunity to expand and become the Australian version of Netflix, but they didn't, they didn't, they didn't, um, what's the word we're looking for? They didn't jump on it. They didn't jump on the opportunity. They didn't take advantage. Yeah. And then Netflix came to Australia and you know what they say, yeah, capitalized. That's the word. It goes on it. And then when Netflix came to Australia, you know what, cause people, news people asked them what they thought of that. And they said, you know what they said, oh, we welcome the competition and you know what happened to their stocks, their stocks dropped, it's just straight and they don't even, they don't, they don't, they got removed from the stock market. That's how bad they are. I think they still exist, but I don't know. Yeah. Okay. If they do exist, like they're not doing well, I'm going to look at how quick flicks. I was going to say to Hamish and Andy today and Hamish used to work at Blockbuster over the early one of the two and he was saying he was at a comfort, like a little conferencing or something regarding video movies and stuff. And a guy was at the conference, stood up and said, um, there'd be no way you'll ever watch movies on the internet ever in the future. I promise you this, uh, that guy if only he knew, if only he knew. All right. Here we go. Initially established as an online digital retail company in 2003, QuickFlicks launched online movie downloads in 2006 and their streaming service in 2011. By June of 2014, the company had more than eight, eight, 800,000 subscribers. So really not that many, not very many. Although the first major streaming service to operate in Australia, QuickFlicks quickly lost ground to much larger competitors, compared to the Netflix entering the market in 2015. And among others, the company entered voluntary administration early 2016. So they got fucked over because they did a shit job and was relaunched later that year under new owners after several more years of tra of trading, QuickFlicks was wound up in 2021, okay, liquidation, good old liquidation. Yeah. So they got blasted into oblivion. I wonder if the, um, I wonder if the domain name is available, quick flicks, yeah, QuickFlicks, I could all, I could open up an alternative YouTube called QuickFlicks. Yes, you could do that. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to GoDaddy, GoDaddy, GoDaddy, I spell, oops, I spunked it. Good daddy. Now it's God daddy, now it's God day. Okay, now it's go day, now it's go that day, that day, that's go. So it's like my daughter actually daddy, let's go daddy, stand up. I'm just waiting upon your results. Well, I spoke quick flicks wrong. Someone probably already bought it. Ah, QuickFlicks.com.au 0.01 dollars, it's like one cent. Oh man, am I tempted to buy that just to have it. You took it on it with just one cent. QuickFlicks.com.au exact match. Can I find QuickFlicks.com? Oh, I can get the premium text flicks for .com. Registeration required. I can get QuickFlicks.io for 64 dollars. Damn it, responsibly. QuickFlicks.co. Oh, here we go, QuickFlicks.com 50 cents, that's not too bad. What happened? It's a QuickFlicks.com. I'm going to add that to my car for 50 cents, continue. A full domain protection recommended, why would I need domain protection? I think we should probably wrap it up. I think we should wrap it up. Maybe I'll buy QuickFlicks.com.au. If you, if you should can do it, I can do it better. Yeah, because nothing stomps me then capitalism. Because think about it, if I was, if I was that company, I would have transitioned into something else, not just died in a cold, slow death. I'm sorry, it's a wonderful thing. Yes, yes. And the reason why I know about QuickFlicks is because my mother's friend, well, my mum told me about how her friend bought some stocks and she said, "Oh, it's a good idea." And I looked at it and went, "That is a terrible idea because won't Netflix just come in and destroy it?" And I went, "You know what, I'll put $200 into it, right?" And then when the shares dropped half price, within like, as soon as I heard Netflix was coming to Australia, I immediately sold my shares because I was like, "I want my $150 back." Yes, thank you. I don't care if I'm 50 bucks out. I want my money back. I want my money. Why? You're going to get a bit of a money? I'm happy. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. I took the rough. All right, all right. The shreds, you say. That's right. All right, thank you guys for watching, listening and we'll see you all next time. All right, I'm done. Stay above average. That's fine. All right. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, I mean, I could play that and then this. He shows up at the episodes ending. That's it. All right. There's your outro. I'm sure that'll do. See you next time. See you next time. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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