Is It Just Me? - #77: Lockdown Day Drinking
Episode Date: August 2, 2021We're bunkered down at home & getting on the piss.In this episode:Our Gladys Berejiklian drinking game (4:23)Since WHEN is this an Olympic sport? (10:12)A belated birthday surprise from a Law &...; Order: SVU star! (13:01)This week’s reviews (17:06)Ita Buttrose prank call (19:56)Vocab invasions - What have our listeners started saying in their everyday life because of us? (28:22)Our “Secret Segment” ADDebrief (43:43)Follow us @coupleofmitchesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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People do some weird shit.
Television legend Kerri-Ann Kennelly fell several metres from a trapeze while performing in the musical Pippet.
Some things make more sense than others.
Ring Pike's Nurseries.
What nursery?
Pike's. P-Y-K-E-S.
P-Y-A.
K as in kill.
P-Y-A. K as in kill. P-Y-E.
K!
Brace yourself for the rude shocks of young adulthood.
Why is being alive so expensive?
I'm not even having a good time.
This is Is It Just Me?
Hosted by a couple of Mitches.
What about me?
Don't forget Chinna.
Who?
Now, here's Mitch Chudy and Mitchell Coombs.
Yes, hello, episode 77.
Hello, Mitchell.
Hi, guys.
Happy lockdown, Sydney.
Yeah, we're still here.
Yep, we are.
Wow, look at us go.
We thought we couldn't not do the podcast for you.
We had to keep pushing through.
Yeah, we're doing the show from home at the moment
because we thought, well, the definition of essential has shifted
a little bit. The situation doesn't seem to be getting any better in Sydney. So we just
thought we'd play it safe. We're doing the show from home. But hey, we're still here.
It's rough. And I'm here with Hayden too. So it's like all I ever do is see him. It's
like I actually want my heart to grow longer. What's that expression? Distance makes the
heart grow longer or fonder. Oh, yes.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
That's correct.
I might just go grocery shopping and then maybe don't reply to my text.
I think you've been kidnapped just so I can actually miss you for a bit because I'm seeing
him constantly.
Yeah.
Babe, love you, but get out.
Yeah, literally.
Fuck off.
And then I come home from work at like 1am and he's up.
He's like, oh, well, I can wake up at 8 o'clock now.
I can go straight to my first meeting.
I'm like, go to sleep.
Well, I've got the singles bubble option now in Sydney
because they realise that if everyone's in lockdown,
because the rule was you can only have intimate partners visit,
but then they were like, oh, there's a lot of single people,
so I have to make the tricky decision.
Who's my one designated friend?
I was at a point where I was so lonely,
I was going to start fingering all the menu log drivers just so they sit around and like
hang out with me longer.
Hello, Jimmy Brings.
Can I finger you so that you're intimate and we can chat?
Yuck.
Speaking of Jimmy Brings, you know how we had Sophie Monk on the show a couple of weeks
ago?
Oh, yeah, of course.
Viral.
Viral.
Yeah, because she mentioned Jimmy Brings on the show.
They gave us vouchers.
I know.
And so thanks, Soph.
Free piss just for mentioning Jimmy Brings in passing.
We love you, Miss Monk.
Do you have yours?
Because I've got mine arrived.
Yeah, we decided to use our vouchers for the show today.
I've got mine.
I've got four bottles of rose.
You ordered them.
Hold on.
Show me.
Hold your bag up to the camera.
This is mine. Look at the. Hold your bag up to the camera. This is mine.
Look at the size of your bag compared to mine.
My bag is like so much bigger than yours.
How much did you get?
I just got like four cheap rosés.
And the reason I wanted to use the vouchers today is because I've turned this pandemic into a drinking game that we're going to do on the show today.
Oh, my God.
I'm excited.
Okay.
So, yeah, you might have to pour yourself a glass there, darling.
What?
It's not drink for every case.
We'd be bloody blind.
No, it's definitely not that game.
Okay.
We shan't be cheesing to that.
No, we shouldn't.
What did you get?
Can you show me?
Just four bottles of Rose.
Here, look at mine.
I got a bottle of Captain Morgan pineapple and mango rum.
What?
Say that again.
I got Captain Morgan tropical pineapple and mango spiced rum.
Thank you.
A litre.
Look at it.
It's like bright pink.
Okay, well, hold your horses because this is for my idjim
that we're using the booze from Jimmy Brings.
Well, if it is your first time listening,
welcome to what's going to be a very different Is It Just Me,
potentially drunk, from home.
Every week we bring you two idjams, something we've noticed,
something we hate or appreciate.
Mitch doesn't know mine.
I don't know Mitch's.
We go in cold, although technically I kind of know what Mitch's is today.
Oh, I've given you a fair indication.
You have, and we're prepared.
We have props, guys.
It's like we're at Dreamworld.
And my idjam is Olympics related. That's all I'm going to say. I'm just not convinced. We have props, guys. It's like we're at Dreamworld. And my e-gym is Olympics related.
So I'm going to say I'm just not convinced.
Okay.
That's it.
I forgot that there's something else happening in the globe at the moment.
Yeah.
Other than Sydney lockdown.
That's what I'm thinking.
It feels like it's just being swept under the rug.
Yeah.
I forgot the bloody Olympics were on.
Hold that thought.
Do you want to begin with your e-gym?
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Is it just me or?
Does Gladys Berejiklian need a fricking thesaurus?
Why?
The bloody New South Wales premiere every morning.
You know how she does the 11am press conference?
Oh yeah, it's become my daily ritual to wake up and get a coffee and watch it.
Oh really?
You actually watch it?
Because I get up at like 10.30 so I have my coffee, I'm still in my pyjamas and I watch it oh really you actually you watch it because i get up at like 10 30 so i have my coffee i'm still in my pajamas and i watch it every
morning it's great yeah i find it a bit grim to watch it so but my housemate always has it on in
the background and i've just noticed every time she's talking about the pandemic talking about
the delta strain there's one bloody word that she uses over and over again and that word is quash quash do you know what quash means
isn't that a fanny fart no that's a quick oh queef sorry quick and then what's on my head it's a it's
a quiff that's a quiff quash means to put an end to and she's always saying oh quash the virus
quash this quash that there's so many synonyms that she could use for quash like defeat yeah overcome
stop curb stifle yep thwart yeah oh thwarted be clobber yeah stamp out or even just end end yeah
kill defeat let's end it get rid of it get rid of the virus do you think though that there's like a
media trainer marketing manager going glad, you can't say stop.
We've run focus groups and it's too aggressive,
especially with the nose on you.
It's just too much.
Maybe.
I feel like quash is like an onomatopoeia, you know,
a word that describes the sound or replicates the sound.
Yes.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But anyway, I've got some audio from one of her press conferences
where she kept saying quash and I've turned it into a drinking game.
I want us to take a sip.
Oh, is this it?
Yes.
I want us to take a sip every time she says quash.
Get your Jimmy Brings.
Yeah, I've got it.
Just for the international listeners, Gladys, by the way,
is our state premier and she addresses the state of New South Wales
every morning to talk about COVID.
Ooh, yours looks good. I i filled it to the brim she says quash a lot i'm telling you oh my god this is tropical yeah i don't even know what that drink is what is it i'm gonna have to
mix it with something hold on look at you i love how you sort of think outside the box where i just
go a safe bet rose every time what should i mix it with
some some seven up here we go what actually is your go-to drink because i know you don't drink
a lot but like i don't i very rarely drink i like a cocktail and i like it sweet but that's it okay
i'm not a wine drinker although my dad fucking runs a wine business who would have thought go
thunk which one does he work for again oh He's the general manager of Yellowtail Wine.
That's right.
Big wine boy. I do love a Yellowtail.
Yes, and Yellowtail, proud sponsor.
No, they're not.
They don't give a shit.
Can you ask your dad to sponsor our podcast?
I have.
I've sent him our media kit and everything.
He's like, hi, mate.
Currently targeting 45 to 50-year-olds.
Talk soon.
Not now.
Thanks.
Love ya.
When are you coming for dinner?
Oh, rejected by daddy.
Cheers, Mitchell.
Cheers. Okay, so this drinking game, you ready? I? Rejected by daddy. Cheers, Mitchell. Cheers.
Okay, so this drinking game, you ready?
I'm going to play the audio.
Take a sip every single time.
Premier Gladys Bergically and uses the word quash.
Okay, let's go.
Brace yourself.
Our vaccination rates are so low,
and yet we've done really well in stemming the growth of the virus.
What we need to do now is quash it. Because
with the vaccination rates the way they are, we won't be able to live freely and safely unless
we're able to quash this carrying outbreak. And that's why I just ask everybody to continue to
do what you're doing. Don't leave home unless you absolutely have to. So I just want to again
thank everybody for your efforts. I know that some people are very upset and angry and frustrated.
We all are.
But the measures we're putting in place have allowed us to go into a phase now
where we want to quash this thing.
And we know some businesses in particular are very upset.
But what we need to focus on now is stopping the spread,
quashing the virus so that we can live freely and safely moving forward. But I want to say New South Wales is putting some pretty hard restrictions It's 11am. I have work tonight.
I have to work till midnight tonight.
You have to drive to work.
You have to drive to work now.
You work till 12.
There it is again.
Oh, fine.
You can tap out if you don't commit it.
No, no.
The federal government has told us that from mid-September to the end of October,
we will get many more doses, and we're looking forward to that.
But what is both the challenge and the opportunity for us is to quash as much as we can.
Oh, my God.
Is this all a clean feed?
Like, is this one straight run?
This is only a couple of minutes extra.
What?
What we do know is the decisions we had to take to quash this.
Had we not taken the actions we did,
those numbers today would have been double, triple, quadruple.
Okay, I'm going to leave it there.
Yeah, let's cut that.
Jesus.
Look, I love Mia Rose, but I stuffed up my own drinking game
because I wasn't really taking sips.
I was taking gulps and then I was like, oh.
After the first 48 sips, I was like, oh, that's a lot, isn't it?
I thought the same.
I'm like, she'll probably say it three times, so I'll pace myself.
How many was that?
Was that five quash?
Quashes?
I lost count, darling.
I'm a bit quashed myself.
I have a radio show to do in a couple of hours.
I'm interviewing Vanessa Ramos.
Oh, I love love her are you really
yes uh sorry hi mitchell your eyes are glazed over i can smell pineapple and coconut that's
the spice captain was it any good oh it's so good it's honestly really good it's like
it's like a pina colada in a glass i love it all right ready for my agent? Just give me a bit. I need some water.
Fuck me.
Thank you, Gladys.
Get a fucking thesaurus, darling.
Thanks, Gladys.
Okay.
All right, let's do mine.
Is it just me or?
Does the Olympics just do nothing for you?
Not a thing.
I get no feeling. It's as if they put a beautiful, bare-chested
woman in a room with us and they went, do whatever you want.
We go, nah, I'm numb
from the waist down. I,
there isn't one
sport at the Olympics that could
get me to sit on
my couch and watch it.
There's also all these sports that I did not
realise were Olympic sports. I swear
the other day they were like rollerblading or something.
Yeah, I've got a list.
I was like, what?
I've got a list.
Yeah, I've got a list.
So did you know that shooting was in the Olympics?
Like with a gun.
What are they shooting?
Clay discs.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
I didn't know that, but that's interesting.
Shooting is an Olympic sport.
Modern pentathlon and pentathlon.
I don't even know what pentathlon is i don't know why but
the olden pentathlon is like the original greek olympics one and they've also like oh well it is
2021 so let's uh modernize it i don't know how maybe i'll get to wear apple watches but the
pentathlons ask for consent or something like there's a me too going on probably skateboarding
skateboarding yeah that's the weird one i noticed the other day and i was like
since when is that an olympic sport and you know what that actually i do lie perked my interest and
i watched a clip and i it was horrific how do you judge skateboarding why what happened in the
the skateboarding oh you do like an ollie and then a kickflip and then they run down a ramp and then
they do like a double where it's just i don't understand it. So I can't go that's good or that's bad.
Then they go, oh, Scooter Smithy wins gold.
I'm like, of course he does.
And then they head bang to Avril Lavigne.
She was a scaredy boy.
And Tony Hawk gets up and presents him a copy of Tony Hawk Pro Skate.
Archery, badminton, judo.
Archery.
God, that takes me back.
One of my friends had a bow and arrow, like an archery thing.
Really? We used to shoot it at hay bales. Really? Yeah, I loved archery. God, that takes me back. One of my friends had a bow and arrow, like an archery thing. Really?
We used to shoot it at hay bales.
Really?
Yeah, I loved archery.
I could have been at the Olympics.
Archery.
I could have made Tokyo 2021.
Now, that's also the thing that gets me.
I, my family adore it.
And they will put up an Insta story screaming and shouting for Australia to get a gold medal.
How are you that invested?
You don't know this person.
If it was a cousin, if you went to school with them, go for it.
But I just don't understand the love for the Olympics.
Yeah, I'm the same when it comes to any sort of sport.
It's like everyone's like, oh, go the blues.
And it's like I have no emotional attachment or investment to the blues.
Yeah.
You know what?
I'll go as far as to say, who are these people?
Who are these famous sportsmen?
Have you ever in your life met a famous archer?
No.
Where do they go the three other years that the Olympics aren't on?
If it's not Cathy Freeman, haven't heard of them.
Amen.
Amen.
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Oh, my God.
What?
Can you hear that, Mitch?
That's the surprise birthday guest alarm.
My birthday was last week.
What the heck? I completely forgot about that. My birthday was last week. What the heck?
I completely forgot about that.
I forgot I installed it.
Turn that racket down.
Mitchell, this is a, I know you know nothing about this.
Go to your phone because I've just sent you.
Yeah.
A message, a birthday message.
Now, this came in late.
I wasn't able to do this on the show last week because I had to get in contact with my contact
on the set of Law & Order SVU.
What?
Yeah, you know, I know people on the set.
I studied theatre in New York.
My friend Kelly is the stand-in for Mariska Haggerty
and I got her to connect.
Sorry, I don't mean to sound disappointed.
No, no, no, no, no.
She doesn't just know Mariska Haggerty.
Hagerty. Hagerty mitchell she also knows tamara chuny from law and order happy birthday someone has a message for you
happy birthday mitchell it's tamara chuny also known as dr melinda warner on law and order
which i understand you are a huge fan of.
Thank you so much for that and for being a fan of mine and my character.
Yes, Warner is the smartest one in the room.
Thank you very much.
She does bring the knowledge.
She does solve the crimes.
Her scientific contribution is so important. It's crazy white away from you it's more prominent for the
show enough of that these days miss her uh but anyway thank you for being such a big fan of the
show wishing you the best best birthday um so excited about your podcast and here is a special
birthday song just for you are you what you have a birthday, we have none, we sing to you.
You have a birthday,
we have none, we sing to you.
What am I watching?
Happy birthday, we sing to you.
Happy birthday,
we sing to you.
Happy birthday,
Mitchell.
And your buddy Mitch
was the one who reached out
and shared the exciting news.
Hope you have a great day. Take care.
Happy birthday!
Oh my god. She
really went above and beyond, didn't she?
Do you know who Melinda is on the show?
On SVU?
I do, yes. I've seen her face.
We'll put this on the socials, but she is, her face is very well known.
Yeah.
She's the one that on SVU, every time there's some sort of death,
she's the one that does the autopsy and she rules whether it was an accident
or a homicide or whatever.
And she just sang to me.
That was the weirdest experience of my life thank you
tamara chuny there you go well connected mitchell and i uh use my little black book to uh make you
the happiest birthday boy ever a week later i'm more confused also she really got a hard plug in
there for us for you didn't she that was like 30 seconds of the video yeah she thinks really highly of her own character she's solving the crime she brings the science the knowledge the brains the beauty
the wit the hair she's often wearing socks it's like okay that's a really great ass anyway happy
birthday still we love you no more birthday. Christ, maybe that's the alcohol talking.
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Long time fan.
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I live in the Gold Coast but work just over the border in New South Wales.
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I was asking for first date ideas and she's the one that said that they were just having,
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And they're still together now and they listened together to the podcast as a couple.
Yes.
And I was like, I can't imagine listening to a podcast with someone else.
I've never done that.
Or starting a podcast with a significant other.
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I've just done it.
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Love the lives on Instagram and the Facebook group where we can all chat together and you
can actually reply to the comments.
Not like insert any other public figure here.
I've even made friends.
Public figure. That's hilarious. I mean, I have a radio show, so that's here. I've even made friends. Public figure.
That's hilarious.
I mean, I have a radio show, so that's right.
Babe, I'm unemployed.
I've got nothing better to do than chat to you gronks.
I love it.
We both wish you guys had your own TV show or something.
We need more content.
Fuck, that'd be a rough show.
Yeah, like we're doing the show from home today
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our secret facebook group okay she says is it just me or would would anyone else want to hear
coombs do a prank call doing his eye to butt trows oh oh yes thank you for that step
did you see this come through i did yeah i didn't realize that my eye to butt trows impression was
that good because like the idea of prank calling someone as Ida Buttrose made me very nervous because I'm like, oh, is my impression even that good?
Do I even sound that much like her?
For anyone who has no idea who Ida Buttrose is, she's like an Aussie media veteran.
Yeah.
And she's very proper and very old and she has a bit of a lisp.
She's in her 80s, mind you.
Yeah, exactly.
So this is what she sounds like if you've never heard her voice.
I found a piece of audio from when she was still working on Studio 10.
Oh, is this Ask Ida?
Yeah, it is Ask Ida.
Oh, we love that.
When people would write in with their questions for Ida,
how do I go about this scenario,
a mother wrote in because she was taking her daughter to dance classes.
I think she was doing ballet.
And one of the other mums said, oh, her feet are too flat for ballet.
She's got to do tap instead.
And this was Ida's advice.
So this is the voice I'm trying to impersonate.
Danielle, that was appalling.
That's appalling behaviour from the other mother.
You know, I think you need to be very direct.
What I want you to do is, with a smile,
and making sure that your little girl and her daughter
and all the other little girls cannot hear you.
My father once told me there was time and a place to use the F word.
The four-letter one.
And I think you should just say to her smiling
iconic moment from ida butchero it's also very out of character for ida because she's so prim
and proper she's a saint the closest thing that we have to a saint in australia yeah like she's
one of those people that really loves manners and etiquette. Yes. And fortunately, I do have a lisp, so that kind of lends itself to my Ida Buttrose impression.
And so, Steph, thank you for your suggestion.
I'm Ida right now.
I used to work on Studio 10, and my dear colleague, Sarah Harris, turned 40 recently.
She did.
Thank you for your suggestion, Steph.
I decided to take you up on that challenge and call Sarah Harris as Ida to wish her a happy birthday.
Hello, Sarah speaking.
How do you do, Sarah?
It's Ida Buttruth calling.
Oh, hi, Sarah.
How are you, lovely?
I'm well.
I believe that I have a belated birthday wish.
Happy 40th. Oh, thank you, darling. Thank you.
Yeah, it was a bit strange in lockdown, but they made a big deal of me, a big fuss
on the show, which was kind. How wonderful. Yes, I'd be meaning to phone
sooner, but, you know, busy running the ABC and whatnot.
Yes, I hope you have a fabulous birthday.
I did see that they treated you well on the show.
Have you been having Zoom calls with loved ones and stuff?
You must be lonely.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
This is a nighter, is it?
Oh, shit, she's on to me, Mitch.
That was quicker than I thought.
Hello, Sarah.
Hi, Sarah, it's Mitch and Mitch.
I would never say stuff. Oh, my God, that's exactly than I thought. Hello, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. It's Mitch and Mitch. I would never say stuff.
Oh, my God.
That's exactly what I thought.
I was trying to be eloquent like Ida.
Fuck.
Holy heck.
Oh, my God.
You're so good.
Well, thank you very much.
You're really, really...
Who is this?
It's Mitch Coombs doing the Ida impression right now.
Hello, I'm Ida Buttruth.
I don't do an Ida.
I just do a good Bo Ryan.
Oh, it's giving you Bo Ryan.
Oh, yeah. And then come on.
How are you?
Oh, let me tell you.
Cronulla is California.
It's New California. It's the place to live.
It's great for families. It's awesome.
It's awesome.
Amazing race.
Hey, Sarah, you're like me.
You had to have your frigging birthday during COVID lockdown, huh?
I know.
I know.
But you know what?
Like, I don't really get out much anyway.
So it's kind of like my regular life.
Yeah.
And I got to have this fun show with a fun day on the show.
And then I got to be with my boys, which was just the best ever.
So I've been eating birthday cake for dinner every night too.
Oh, that's the best part, I reckon.
I can't believe I've covered kilos.
Well, happy birthday.
I cannot believe you got me.
You know when it started to come undone,
when you went, I've been busy running the ABC?
She wouldn't say that.
She wouldn't say what?
She wouldn't say, well, I've been busy running the ABC, darling.
Oh, yeah, as if she needs to gloat.
No, because you know,
Aisha does not explain her own self to anyone.
I cannot believe how good you are, though, Mitch.
Does she actually greet you by saying,
well, how do you do, Sarah?
She does.
Oh, my God.
I just made that up.
That's great.
Wait, Mitch, do some more.
Do some more Aida.
Do some more Aida.
Do you know what I was going to do?
I was going to say, hello, Sarah.
It's me, Aida Bartrow with AO.
If I had a fucking AO, I'd be introducing myself that way.
Same.
Or is it OA?
OA, AO, Order of Australia, OA.
You're an AO, adults only.
That's what you are.
Yeah, that's me.
Sorry, I meant OA.
Fuck, I'm long gone.
No chance of getting that.
It's like I worked with her for, I think, five years.
She was on the show for.
And it's like working next to the queen.
Yeah.
I can imagine, yeah.
She's so poised, so elegant.
She is whip smart and just across everything.
She's got a heart of gold, Ida Buttrose.
She does seem sweet.
She's so adorable.
Can you put in a good word so we can get her on this podcast?
Oh, that's a good idea.
Yeah, I'll try.
I mean, she's busy running the ABC and all, you know.
I actually feel like Ida Buttrose is one of those people that I never want to meet
because I just want to have this vision of her in my mind as being excellent
and I don't want her to ever, like, hate me.
Yeah.
Honestly, I'd have to be the kind of the cheeky devil's advocate that would go,
so, Ida, you know, have you ever farted, you know,
in a busy room?
And, you know, she's like, please, Sarah.
She's very polite, isn't she?
Mitch, did I ever tell you this story?
I got Sarah.
I got Sarah to record a voice memo reading out the Not My Cup of Tea
reviews that we got.
And she was doing, like, a newsreader voice, like, good morning.
Funny as fuck.
This pair.
And she just did it on her phone in the dressing room.
And then Ida was like, must you swear like that, Sarah?
She overheard it and was not impressed.
I know.
She was like, who is this bogan from Queensland?
She actually gets it.
Like, do you remember, I had to do a segment when I first started at the radio station, Kyle and Jackie O were like,
you want to be here at Kiss?
Get a celebrity on the phone in 24 hours.
Oh, yeah, that was a challenge.
It was a challenge they set to me, and I got Ida Buttrose
on her home phone, which is the most Ida thing ever
to ring a 029 number.
And they got her on the air, and they said,
oh, you don't even know Mitch.
This is just, you got this through a contact.
And she went, no, I know Mitch.
I've known him for years.
In fact, he was my mentor.
He's been to my house.
I had it.
She made it up on the spot.
But just to make me look good, she improvised.
And she's a queen, a queen.
Do you know why she would have done that?
She would have gone, I like his hustle.
I'm going to back him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what she likes.
Yeah.
And she would have seen a little bit of I to Bartros in you, Mitch, by doing that.
Because it takes some guts, right, to call the have seen a little bit of iatabatros in you, Mitch, by doing that.
Because it takes some guts, right, to call the iatabatros and say, do you want to come on the radio?
Good on you.
All right.
Well, we'll leave you to it, Sarah.
Thank you so much for answering the phone today.
It's been a pleasure speaking with you.
Love you.
See you.
See you.
You're listening to Is It Just Me?
The rude shocks of young adulthood.
Oh, what a good sport.
I know.
God love her.
They had their 2000th episode celebration last week.
Of Studio 10.
Yeah, it feels like they've only been around for five minutes, but 2000 episodes.
That's a great show.
That's the show that I wake up with every morning.
Like I said, I get up at 10.30 and I go and watch Studio 10.
It's my morning ritual.
I love it. Is it?
You watch it?
Okay.
I'm a Studio 10 guy because they're loose.
And like this show is loose. My radio show loose loose is my my definition of life so i love watching it it's very chill but also by the time you get up at 10 30 you've actually missed
all the breakfast shows so like studio 10 is what you watch yeah yeah a mid-morning show we love it
and we love sarah harris speaking of which can you believe that it's already been two months since I finished with Kyle and Jackie O?
Has it really?
Yeah.
Two months.
Fuck, it feels like a month, if that.
I know.
Time flies.
But I've realized recently, after leaving that job, that I've just been left with permanent damage.
Oh, therapy?
No, no, no.
Nothing that a therapist can fix.
Oh, dear. it's damage to my
vocabulary okay you had the list before you started don't be silly no it wasn't that i call
them vocab invasions okay so just by being there in the room with kyle and jackie as they did their
show every morning yeah for four hours five days a week. I was there for four years.
I've picked up on so many phrases that they both use, so much of their mannerisms and stuff.
And I've realised after leaving the job that, oh, my God,
I got that from Kyle or I got that from Jackie.
Oh, so you've taken on parts of their vocabulary into everyday life.
There's so many things that I would never have said before working
for Kyle and Jackie O.
Like what?
From Kyle, one of the things that I've started saying a lot more
than I ever did was grow up.
Oh, you do say that.
Just shouting at people to grow up.
Oh, grow up.
That is a very Kyle thing to say.
Grow up.
It is.
I've also started accusing people of getting the rag on.
Oh, yeah.
I have been the recipient of that many a time.
Yeah, exactly, which is his way of saying that you know you've got your your monthlies yes you've got the rag on you're
a bit grumpy very actually when i think about it revolting but i love it yeah get the rag and also
no one uses rags it's not yesteryear although jenna does but i also because of kyle i've started
calling people clown as an insult.
Oh, yeah.
Like, oh, you know, that red-headed clown over there, whatever his name is.
Yeah, Kyle often calls a caller a clown.
He'll be like, get off your clown.
Yeah, exactly.
And I've also started referring to sex as being chock-a-blocked.
Oh.
Oh, yeah, she got chock-a-blocked.
He was chock-a-blocked up in her.
Like, I would never have said that before hearing Kyle say it.
Chock-a-block is such a visceral mental image.
I know.
Especially in the bum.
You know?
Yes, I do.
And another one is the way he says the word no
when he's, like, repulsed by the idea of something that someone suggested.
So, for example, right now, suggest to me that we, I don't know,
go for a run.
Okay.
Well, that would never happen.
Mitchell, why don't we go for a very, very intense block run?
No.
He says it like that.
Real breathy.
And with a grunt.
No.
I've started doing that because of Kyle.
And then there's Jackie.
Yeah.
Lovely old Jackie O.
We love her.
Her vocab invasions are, eh?
Yes.
You do that all the time.
Is that a Jackie O-ism?
Yes.
I never used to say that, but she says it all the time.
Who thought?
Just, you know, if she's questioning something, confused, eh?
But she gets it from her father, who is like a Queensland guy.
Oh, right.
He always goes, eh?
And I'm like, is this how the vocabulary works?
It's gotten passed down from a man in Queensland to Jackie to me.
Yeah, but then we're doing a show.
Imagine all the listeners that would have these exact isms.
Exactly.
I was like, okay, well, we've got listeners, albeit much smaller scale audience than Kyle and Jackie are.
We're big in Papua New Guinea.
But I wanted to know what vocab invasions we've made on other people.
Oh, my God, yeah.
This is good.
And so I put the call out.
I said, send us a voice message on Instagram.
Let us know what phrases you've picked up and you now say that you never did before.
The first one comes from Steph.
Hi, my name is Steph.
I'm from Hobart.
And ever since I started listening to this podcast, I've picked up a few new phrases along the way.
Thank you to Mr Mitchell Coombs.
So I now say, hey, darling, and how very dare you.
There you go.
How very dare you.
No mention of you yet.
Yeah, I hope there's one of me in here.
Yeah, oh, no, you've been invading people's vocab as well.
Oh, I'm influential.
Okay.
This one's from Callum. Okay. Hey, it no, you've been invading people's vocab as well. Ooh, I'm influential! Okay. This one's from Callum. Hey, it's Callum
from Brisbane and ever since I started listening to this podcast, I now
say darling a lot and it's become sort of a part of my customer service
vocabulary and with Shiri, I feel like whenever
someone mentions a name or a person, dot wiggins will pop into
my head and just go who despite the
fact that i might know them or not yes that's your influence i think you'll find can i just say who
came into dot because oh goodness me gross no one's ever come into dot well they have but years
ago um i say that john law has had an affair with Dot? Yes, they did. Yes, correct.
No, but I say who in my general, I say who all the time, just like Dot.
Like in real conversation.
All the time.
Who?
It's awful.
Anyway, thank you, Kat. It just came about naturally, that who thing, and then it caught on.
It did.
It's weird.
Anyway, this next one is from Brianna.
Hey, this is Brianna from Penrith.
And ever since I started listening to the podcast,
I've started saying, oh, don't be daft.
Don't be daft.
We haven't used that one for ages.
Don't be daft.
Oh, don't be daft, darling.
It's a nice way of insulting someone, but it's thinly veiled as a joke.
Don't be daft.
Yeah, because it makes them really take a good long,
hard look at themselves.
Yeah. Oh, I am being daft. That's right. I can't possibly do that. I, because it makes them really take a good long hard look at themselves.
Yeah.
Oh, I am being daft.
That's right.
I can't possibly do that.
I don't think I use that enough.
I love to don't be daft. Don't be daft is great.
Yeah, okay.
All right, next one.
This is from Sarah.
Hi, I'm Sarah.
I'm from Port Macquarie and since listening to this podcast,
I have started telling people to not get lippy with me.
My road rage has escalated to me screaming through the windscreen excuse the
fuck you and the pinnacle moment was on the weekend i was catching up with a friend of mine
um and we're talking about me starting to date since i've come out as being gay and she proceeded
to tell me she was going to set me up on online dating and i was like haha you can't because all
the pictures that you have with me in it is of us
um and she goes that's all right i'll just do your facebook profile picture to which i swung around
and in true coombs's sassy attitude went how very dare you there you go and that's when i realized
oh shit i'm having mitchell moments oh well oh hang on sorry t, Tano. Oh, brilliant. There's your influence right at the end there.
Double influence.
Good for her coming out.
Now, Sarah, yes, firstly, congratulations on coming out.
Secondly, you're going to have to be a bit more scathing
if you're going to say how very dare you.
It's got to be how very dare you.
Yeah.
Also, I didn't realise that I say or you say excuse the fuck you yeah who is that
is that me i don't know the fuck you it sounds like a you thing yeah it's it's more likely me
i feel like these vocab invasions are also calling me out i'm like do i say that oh my god i do yeah
also these are all great merch ideas i can see t-shirts for all of these.
Well, that's the thing, actually.
A lot of these, I've got a few on the go.
A lot of them say that they say Dallin because of us.
And do you remember when we were doing Merch March earlier in the year?
I wanted our jumper to say Dallin on it.
Yeah.
And you said, oh, that's more of a you thing than an us thing.
I disagree.
I think it's both of us.
You say Dallin all the time no i
well i say dalen because i've been influenced by you i would never say dalen post pre-egm
outside of this yeah yeah god you gotta say it our way it's d-u-l-l-i-n there's no ar
anyway dalen december coming soon this next one comes from vinny hey guys it's vinny here from
cumberland maryland in the usa um i've been
listening to both of you from the start and you can definitely tell because i've noticed that when
i'm at work and i have a bad customer come through my checkout line or if i'm at the grocery store
and people are really pissing me off i'll say for fuck's sake or fucking hell under my breath and
i'll add the bogan accent so I can sound like coombs.
And one thing I've noticed that makes me sound like churi is I've noticed lately that when I laugh, if I laugh too hard, I've been coughing and wheezing. So I sound like I'm borderline asthmatic.
I do throw in the blyans every now and again to see if someone takes the bait and try and correct
me. As for Jenna, I do squeal unnecessarily all the time like a geriatric mum.
But, hey, who hasn't in this past year?
Yep.
That's true.
Oh, Jenna's not even here to defend herself.
No, she's not, poor thing.
I do obviously have footage of her screaming and sounding like a geriatric mum, of course.
So it's like Jenna's spirit is still here.
Oh, God. That's like audio from a torture chamber sounds like she's giving birth what a hay bale i also love that um he puts on the bogan
accent fucking i know also coughing after a laugh is not as is not you being influenced by me. Get checked. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't think it's possible for a vocab invasion,
as I call it, to give someone asthma.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
Get checked, Vinny.
It's allergies.
Any more?
Yeah, this one's from Meg.
Okay.
Hey, guys.
My name's Meg, and I've implemented into calling my cat Clever
any time she does something.
Oh, very you.
Clever girl. That's Isabella the fat cat. Yeah, my cat has put on weight does something. Oh, very you. Clever girl.
That's Isabella the fat cat.
Yeah, my cat has put on weight.
She has chalked it on.
Not that I can talk, Christ.
Oh, I mean, isolation hasn't been kind to a lot of us, my poor Isabella.
But I've ordered her some diet cat food so, you know,
we'll see what happens.
I'm taking her for walks.
Good, good.
She'll shed some kgs, don't you worry.
And she's such a clever girl.
Oh, she's so clever. She'll learn to lose the weight. She's worry. And she's such a clever girl. Oh, she's so clever.
She'll learn to lose the weight.
She's clever.
Yeah, 100%.
This next one is from Mez.
Hi, I am Mez from Geelong.
And ever since listening to the podcast, I have started saying lions.
And I literally just say it randomly for no reason all the time.
Not even something that I use in my day-to-day vocab.
Well, that you're aware of.
It was an accident.
I also love that she added the Mitchell Turi vibrato.
Where does that come from?
It is very, it's very me, isn't it?
You just randomly exclaim things sometimes.
All right, one more. This one's from Ruby. yeah hello dalen my name's ruby i'm from victoria but i'm living in
brisbane so um yeah and since listening to the pod i've had stopped saying dalen and people think
it's like a shiny grumman thing and i'm like no it's a couple of mitch's thing get on board
and i've just started a new uni and I'm literally known for calling everyone Dallin.
So everyone like calls me Dallin.
And I'm like, yeah, that's me.
Love the pod.
Who?
Sharni Grimmon.
Who's Sharni Grimmon?
She's a YouTuber, but I didn't know that she was known for saying Dallin.
Imagine if she was a major listener of ours and it was actually a vocab.
What's it called?
Invasion.
Invasion.
A vocab invasion.
Sharni Gibbons. Grimmon. Grimmon. That's all fucking the same. What's it called? Invasion. Invasion. A vocab invasion. We've done on Sharni Gibbons.
Grimmins.
Grimmins.
That's all fucking the same.
But yeah, look at us go.
We're in your brains.
Wow.
Now, yes, you.
We're infecting the vocab. We're in your baby.
There are so many things that you say that I've been influenced by you.
Outside of Dullen.
Outside of Dullen.
I'll go fucking.
It'll just be E-N, which we've discussed on the show before.
It's not fucking.
It's fucking.
It's E-N.
A sharp E-N.
Yeah.
Fucking with E-N has a different energy to fucking I-N-G.
Yeah, we've discussed this before.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
You wouldn't want to be fucking someone.
No, that sounds like something that happens to a troll under a bridge.
Yes.
Fucking.
Yes.
If you drop your bottle of Captain Morgan pineapple rum, you'd go, oh, fucking.
Oh, Mitchell, I'm blind drunk.
We only had a few sips.
You're such a lightweight.
Thank you, Jimmy.
I've polished off all four of my rosé bottles.
Not really.
Bullshit.
You haven't.
I've only had a bit of one.
All right.
Well, hey, lockdown episode done and dusted.
If you do have a vocab invasion that you want to send us,
send it to us.
You know,
this might happen again.
There might be more words
that you develop
because of the couple of mitches.
Yeah, let us know
in the Facebook group
Enduring Idiots
is where you can find us.
Yeah, also,
please leave us a review.
We are still doing
the commemorative
season three mugs.
If your review is read out
and if yours was read out today,
contact Pricekeeper Jenna.
You've got a week to do it.
Oh, there's been some drama
with the mugs,
can I just say?
Oh, this is the cracking, right? Yeah, so, we've been a week to do it. Oh, there's been some drama with the mugs, can I just say. Oh, this is the cracking, right?
Yeah, so we've been selling and sending mugs for months
without any issues.
And then, because we send them in batches, right?
Like we might send 10 at a time.
And one of the batches must have been dropped by the postman
before they actually got dispatched.
So when they were all still together as a cluster.
And so in the space of 24 hours last week,
we got all these messages being like, my mug is destroyed.
No, but not like the handle is off or there's a chip in the top.
It was like a 1,000-piece puzzle.
It was basically dust.
Like the cremated urns of an auntie.
It was horrific.
So we apologise.
If that has happened to you, please reach out to us because we'll replace it.
Yeah, that's the thing.
I sent out an email to everyone that had ordered recently and I said,
hi, everyone.
We've been made aware that a couple of mugs have been damaged during transit.
If you received a smashed mug, please, like, don't be polite.
Do not hesitate to tell us and we'll send you a new one free of charge.
And, oh, this broke my heart.
I got a reply from a girl called Georgie.
And she was like, hi, yeah, my mug was smashed.
I didn't want to ask for a new one.
So I've been trying to glue it together.
How ridiculous.
And I was like, oh, honey, throw it out.
We'll send you a new one.
Get rid of the glue.
Get rid of the mug.
Send me your address.
We'll send you a new one.
She's a paid customer.
If you bought a fucking air fryer from Breville and it came cracked,
you wouldn't go, no, it's okay.
It'll work.
Yeah, just let us know.
Hopefully it doesn't happen again.
I've started putting fragile.
I went to the post office and bought tape with the word fragile on it.
So I've just been wrapping the mugs in that so the postman knows to go easy, dog.
If you want one, leave a review or link in our Instagram bio if you want to buy.
We'll be back next week.
I think still from home, Mitch.
I think this is it for a little bit.
I mean, I'm not feeling too optimistic about the lockdown lifting in Sydney anytime soon.
No, nor am I.
Everyone stay inside.
Masks on.
Yeah, 100%.
Parades for freedom.
Shoot me.
Oh, I know.
Don't be daft.
Don't be daft.
Protesters.
Don't go to a fucking parade.
And if you know someone who goes, who?
You don't know them anymore.
Excuse the fucker.
Exactly.
All right. Thank you for listening guys
We'll see you next week for 78
Look at us go
Getting to 100
We're climbing slowly but surely
We'll catch you next week guys
Love you guys
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hearing this part because this is not our best work any bosses listening this is your official
warning you've technically for all intents and purposes signed the contract to say that
if you want to you know use us in any capacity don't use this audio yeah
like the start of the show you put some thought into it you know some yeah a little bit but this
part what the fuck they're just rambling it's just it really is the end of the earth it's the
after party it's the after party for the main show which is the main birthday show birthday show i
don't know i'm drunk i am so drunk you didn't even drink that much like
glad i said quash a few times but that's not enough to get you pissed yeah but i've still
been drinking it as we've been recording look at the bottle i've had what two shots
why have you still been drinking i thought you said that you had to drive after this still going
well i'm not driving for in a couple hours so i'll be fine i love how you've gone out in sympathy
like we're doing the show from home because we're like uh if you can do it from home you should that's what the the advice is and
you're still going to work so you very much could just do the show from the studio and i'm at home
but you're like nah bugger it oh i completely fucking forgot about that yeah i could you easily
could oh but i'm more or less stuck here yeah you, you are. You can't go anywhere. Because it's like if you can, you should work from home.
But you really can't as far as your radio show goes.
No, and I have an essential work letter.
Like I've got it laminated on my front seat.
So if I get pulled over by the police, I can go, no, no, no, look at this.
I'm essential.
Me doing my quiz at 8 o'clock every night is essential.
In all honesty, if you're in this studio like next week or a couple of weeks
after and i'm still working from home it's going to be quite a battle for you to even get me back
like i'm very comfortable yep i could do this forever i could work from home forever i'm in bed
are you i was about to say are you on your bed yeah i'm so comfy although can i tell you i've got
um i've got a bit of a moral dilemma. Uh-oh.
You know how.
It was my birthday last week.
Yes.
Well, yes.
Well, we all know.
My mum's birthday present was a new set of sheets.
They're very nice. Yeah, they show up beautiful.
And a brand new quilt.
Not the quilt cover, like the actual quilt you put in the quilt cover.
Like the actual doona.
Yes, the doona itself.
And so the quilt is made out of, it's like a wool quilt.
Right, okay.
And it's almost like a weighted anxiety blanket.
It's so heavy.
I love it.
But it just, because it's woolen, it stinks of lanolin.
Oh, like sheep oil.
Yeah.
I'm impressed you knew what lanolin was.
I thought you were going to be like, what?
I've been to the Easter show and I watched a seminar.
Yeah, so lanolin's like the wax or the oil that they extract from wool.
Some people treat it like it's a delicacy where, like, you know,
there's lanolin moisturizers and people, you know,
actually enjoy the smell of lanolin.
But to me it smells like death.
Yeah, well, it would smell like home, right?
You'd have that stench all through your house. And your mum handles sheep, so she'd stink of lanolin. to me it smells like death yeah would it smell like home right you'd have that stench all through your house and your mum handles sheep so she'd stink of lanolin yes exactly right
it reminds me of being at home in the shearing shed which this may come as a shock to everyone
listening that's not an environment in which i thrive right a shearing shed yeah i understand
it's basically the hairdresser for the sheep you've got to strip them of their wool and then sell the wool for profit.
And it's just hot and stinky.
It reeks of lanolin.
And I was going to bed on the night of my birthday and I was like, this is comfy.
And then I was like, fucking lanolin.
So, is it covered in like a cover on it that you can wash?
Can you soak it in bleach or something?
My washing machine isn't even big enough for the quilt like and mum mum is one of those really nervous gift givers where
she gives you something and then even if you've expressed absolutely no negativity there's nothing
to indicate you don't like it she just goes she reads into it i've got the receipt i've got the
receipt don't worry i've got the receipt i can return it and i think for the first time in my life i'm gonna be like babe i'm gonna take you up on that
offer yeah your present pongs this quilt reeks of fucking sheep i don't know if i can deal did
she hand make it or something no but it's just the confusing thing but like i don't know i might
just have to hang it out of the line let it air out no here's the
thing twist the roles if you had given someone a gift and you genuinely had the receipt and you
thought hey you know what i've got the receipt if you want to change it go for it and then they
contact you in a week and go hey you know what i do would you be offended oh i mean i wouldn't
mind i'd rather that than them pretend they like it when they don't. I don't know. Yes. But then you'll never know.
Because she wasn't to know that it was going to stink like a fucking sheep.
She's probably immune to the smell.
As she was wrapping it, she went, oh, this smells so neutral and gorgeous.
Little did she know that it stunk of dead sheep.
Alive sheep.
Alive.
Lanolin is very much on alive sheep.
Sorry.
But yeah, I just, I hate the smell of lannan look if
we were in the studio i'd call her now but we don't have the capabilities i think you take it
back to her send it back i'll try airing it out or something first i feel too bad but it also is
very comfy it's just the stink of it yeah and wool is thick though you know what we only have a
couple weeks left of winter.
Then it's going to start getting hotter.
Do you have a second doona that goes on when it's summer?
It's a very good call, actually.
Because Hayden and I currently have our duck down, which actually does stink a little bit of duck.
I will let you know.
And when we rough it up a bit, doing God knows what, the feathers do puff out and you can smell the duck, like the game smell.
Oh my God.
So we have a similar problem, but that's just currently for winter.
We have this big, fluffy, expensive doona.
But in summer we have a real thin woolen one.
Oh, I didn't even think of that.
Maybe I'll, because it's winter now.
And even with this lanolin fucking sheep stinking doona, I still get a little bit hot.
So yeah, that's a good point.
I'll have to get me old doona out.
But the other thing that confuses me about my mattress is that,
you know how you get those ones that can flip and they're like,
oh, there's a winter side and a summer side.
How do I know which side is which of the mattress?
I don't understand what flipping it does to make it hotter or colder.
Yeah, we need to get Angela Bishop on the line.
She's a bed connoisseur with a water bed.
She'd just be like, get a water bed and get over it solid advice to live by yeah oh see and now i want to get a new doona getting a new doona it's and putting a fresh set on your bed gives you a
whole new lease on life yeah i used to be so like carefree about my bed i was like whatever it's
just a bed yeah i used to have the crappest mattress and whatever blanket the person in the share house before me left behind i used to not care about the beds but
it's just been in recent times that i've realized how much time i spend in bed yeah i'm like i don't
mind spending money on it because i spend a lot of my day especially in lockdown treat yourself
yeah because yeah because jordan my housemate is obviously not going to work at the airport
because of lockdown.
So he's basically claimed the lounge room.
So I watch TV in my room.
I'm in my bed all the time.
I want it to be beautiful.
You should treat yourself too.
Hayden and I got one.
And it's heaven.
A pillow topper.
A what?
There's not many toppers in your life at the moment.
So I'll get you going.
How very dare you.
How very dare you A pillow topper
Is essentially a really
Plush thick piece of
Really soft either duck down
Or cotton and you wrap it on your bed
It's like a bed cover like a sheet like a top sheet
Except it adds about
Three four inches of pillow
So it's like you sink into a cloud
It's like those is that those weird egg cup
Things egg cup
You know like the the mattress
things that people get and they've just got the little oh you can like yes yes yes yes yes yeah
they're like swollen clits in a way yes yes little baby mozzie bites all over the bed yes yeah you
just want to pop them like a pimple see hayden currently wants to buy a set of versace bed
sheets designer bed sheets and the whole point of designer shit is for other people to see.
So then they go, look at him.
He's got money.
Mate, unless you're inviting twinks over when I'm at work.
Yeah.
We're not getting Versace bedsheets.
Who are you trying to impress?
Let's just go to fucking Harvey Norman.
Yes.
Ikea.
I don't want Versace bedsheets.
I would suggest that they're probably not that much better than regular sheets.
No.
I've never been a brand boy.
Like, I don't get off on owning expensive brands.
I like clothing brands and I like shoes.
I've got all the Yeezys and I've got a couple of, I do like a couple of fancy things.
Actually, do you know what?
Do you remember when you were bragging about buying those Gucci slides?
Oh, yeah.
And I was like, why the fuck would you buy
them yeah i've been getting amongst the slide caper recently and so i'm like oh he's joined
the dark side i have slides they're white ones the white ones yeah they're really yeah they're
from asos but i'm like you know what just like my bed i spend a lot of time in it i spend a lot of
time in the slides maybe i should get some fancy slides. You should.
But you know, the whole argument about designer things is that you can have six different
plain black shirts from ASOS or cotton on.
And then in a month, you'll lose.
You'll go through one.
In six months, they'll all be gone because the seams come off.
They're really thin.
They start to peel.
You get one Gucci shirt and it will last you years.
And it's got the label on it.
Like it's so well made. So I guess that is the argument same with the slides they're so sturdy I had a pair of
fucking Adidas slides that because I'm so heavy but like rubber on the soles like a used mini
car were like all rubbed off I was leaning in my Gucci's are like brand new the quality is really
great yes I have reached that age where I'm like I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's good.
Yes.
I'm not just going to go to Cotton on and get a scabby pair of two for $10 trackies.
I'm going to get some nice trackies.
Yes.
That's how you know you're old when you can categorize nice trackies.
Yes.
I've got so many nice trackies.
I love them.
Well, you know what?
I know where all the outlets are.
I could take you outlet shopping.
Could you love a sale?
I love a sale.
I don't want to get ripped off.
Where are we going?
Birkenhead Point.
We'll start.
Why?
That place, Birkenhead Point, and you can quote me on this, is hell on earth.
The layout is terrible.
The car park is in a separate building.
Fucking that car park
because there's so many scabs lined up to get into birkenhead point they end up queuing up victoria
road which thereby makes my commute elsewhere i'm not even going to birkenhead point i'm just
driving on the freeway nearby they clog up the roads nearby in jamoin and i'm just like that
place is putrid yeah you walk in there and you're like this smells
like second wave corona like it's so it's disgusting yeah delta is in birkenhead point
yeah exactly delta was birthed in one of the birkenhead yeah in top juice at birkenhead well
i birkenhead it disgusts me it's a real it's a designer outlet in sydney but also in the cbd i
know the three hit locations and also also DFO in Homebush.
I can take you there.
We'll be in.
We'll be out.
I know them.
They know me.
Hey, Mitch, we have you like Gucci.
Mate, I'm a DFO Homebush aficionado.
I know that place out the back of my head.
I love that.
Yeah, but you're going into Fossil and New Balance.
No, I'm not.
I've never been to either.
Where are you going?
What's Fossil?
Fossil is the watch store.
That's all I could think of.
Fossil watch store.
Do I wear a watch?
And leather goods.
No.
You don't wear a watch.
I wear a watch every day.
Isn't that funny?
Well, it's almost like I have a device in my pocket that has the time on it at all times.
I don't need a fucking watch.
You know what?
I was thinking this the other day.
I think my Apple Watch is the leading cause of so much of my anxiety.
I get every
notification do you know what that's probably true no i'm 100 serious are you right sorry i'm
very tipsy i've stopped the captain morgan i'm on the seven up now but it's repeating on me
and every burp smells of a candle seven up is like a step down from mountain jew
also seven up is is it sprite it's a very. Also, 7up, is it Sprite?
It's a very weird sense.
Yeah, I think it's a lemonade sort of genre.
Listen, I've got to go to work soon.
Oh, when are you getting Pfizer?
Are you getting the jab soon?
The earliest booking I could get for Pfizer was September.
So I'm booked in.
I'm ready to go.
But it's like, it's at the point where I might just get AstraZeneca.
Do you remember on the show you talking about getting vaxxed recently because i've had one jab one when do you get the second
uh early august i don't know the exact date but a couple weeks next week i think next week yeah
and do you remember how i was like i was joking around and i said oh pfizer that's the good one
what's the shit one oh yeah poor astra astraz. Obviously, I was joking, but then I was realising in hindsight,
I was like, oh, I don't really want that message out there. I don't think that AstraZeneca-
Because it is not shit at all. Well, no, I don't think it's something people should be afraid of.
And our mate Brooklyn, who works with Kyle and Jackie O, he's been on this podcast, actually.
He was on one of the very first episodes, Brooklyn Ross, yeah.
I want to say episode eight. Yeah.
Brooklyn Ross was our guest.
But he did a video on his Instagram the other day and it was awesome.
He basically broke down why people shouldn't be afraid of AstraZeneca as an option for vaccination, particularly in Sydney where we're in lockdown.
Here it is.
Okay, this is how Pfizer is keeping Sydney locked down longer.
Australia still has 17 million vaccines to jab into arms,
but we don't have those vaccines yet.
We get a million doses of Pfizer every week from Europe,
but if we keep choosing Pfizer over AstraZeneca,
it's going to take five months for us to get fully vaccinated.
That's maybe December.
Our AstraZeneca jabs are Australian-made in Melbourne.
We have a heap spare
and we could be making two and a half million doses every week. If we all got AstraZeneca,
we could literally be 80% vaccinated within five weeks. So Pfizer really means four unnecessary
months in lockdown. But I know what you're thinking. Won't AstraZeneca kill me? Well,
the chance of dying from a blood clot from AstraZeneca is literally one in a million.
You've probably heard that the contraceptive pill and Viagra are way more dangerous.
If you go out and you catch COVID in Sydney right now, you've got a one in 300 chance of dying.
That's 3,000 times deadlier than AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca beats Pfizer in other ways as well. A study of the Delta strain found that AstraZeneca after four months provides better
protection than Pfizer. AstraZeneca was also better than Pfizer at preventing symptoms according to
this Canadian study. And those flu-y side effects that you get after a vaccine, they're worse with Pfizer and
that's according to a survey done from Westmead Hospital. The reality is AstraZeneca is not any
more dangerous than a heap of other safe and common medications but our fear of it is literally
going to devastate Australia's economy unnecessarily. Every single person who thinks it over and chooses to get
astrazeneca rather than pfizer is literally helping get us out of lockdown earlier if you can do it
thank you you know it's interesting when you hear it broken down like that it makes so much more
sense but then when you watch it on the news and there are figures and numbers and you're watching
different channels and misinformation can spread like that. So when you actually break it down like Brooklyn did,
it's so much more easy to understand.
I know, but then you've got fuckwits like Pauline Hanson going,
oh, I'm not getting vaccinated.
I'm not putting that in my body.
It's like, darling, no one's ever want to put anything in your body.
Not even you were going to put something in your body, babes.
Also, people saying you can't force us to get the vaccine.
Nobody is forcing you to get the vaccine.
We all want to get out of lockdown.
We all want to leave it.
Yeah, you're actually quite correct.
No one can force you.
Just do it, though.
Exactly.
Also, the thing that gets me is-
Don't be daft.
Don't be daft, Australia.
This grand conspiracy.
Who is benefiting from the conspiracy?
No one can tell me.
It's clearly not Gladys.
The poor bitch is exhausted.
She's got a new boyfriend.
She just wants to get dicked out on the weekends, but she can't
because she's doing press release after press release.
She wants to be like, no quash.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's why she wants her vagina to be quashed and pummeled,
and she deserves it.
The government are not corrupt.
For Christ's sake.
They've absolutely bungled the rollout.
Let us out of lockdown so that Gladys can get dicked down.
Amen.
That's the motto today.
Put that on a t-shirt.
Anyway, we should quash the show.
I've got to go to work.
Great episode from home.
How are the acoustics when I yell?
Welcome!
You sound like you're in a garbage bin.
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That's all.
That's it.
That's all we achieve.
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