The Unmade Podcast - 151: An iPad in the Oven

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

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I pull up at the lights and a person a voice next to me in a car says mate I think you've lost something out of your pocket and I turn and of course being Adelaide. It's like a friend someone I know and and It's like a friend someone I know and and and so I circle back around go back and it's my it's my air pods and my phone just laying in the middle of the road. Oh golly gosh they've they've actually because it was a hot day but I had a jacket on so I unzipped my jacket and if it's flapping around and because they're heavy in the pockets you don't think they're gonna. flapping around and because they're heavy in the pockets you don't think they're gonna you know fall out but but they did and so i picked up like the the the um the air pods were strewn along like there was one there and then there was another one that was totally crushed and then there was the case and i was like okay i've saved one that's good and then i saw my phone and i

thought oh that's all right looks looks okay like it you know, glass side up and it was all shiny. So I'm like, oh, that's great. So I'll just wait for these cars to go past and this bus and just like in a movie was like, oh, What did the bus run over or a car? So it was I was literally looking at it and it was all shiny the bus went past and then suddenly it was like a dull grey. It was like okay and I went over and it's just smashed. No so. In front of you I know right in front of me and so I thought I thought hopefully I was thinking oh maybe it's just one of those, you know, get the screen replacement, but nah, it had pushed in the camera. It was the person who replaced the screen said, nah, this is not gonna, not gonna be

any good. So go on. And you were covered by any kind of warranty or anything like that? Or no, no, no, it was, you know, like I've had it for a long time actually. And this one, I was really determined not to upgrade. Like I really liked it for a long time actually. And this one I was really determined not to upgrade. Like I really liked it. It's small, it's the like 12 mini and they don't make them that small anymore.

So I'm like, I'm out of contract. I think I came out of contract in February. And so I feel like I'm actually, it's making me money. It's like, woo, I'm free, I'm out. I'm not, you know what I mean? Like, I'm not gonna replace it even though I know you're gonna try and slow it down, Apple and all the rest of it. but then they arranged for a bus to come and track it down

and run over it. So yeah, Apple, Apple are pretty good like that. So are you going to get like the new shiny super AI, you know, bells and whistles one that's just out? No, no, I got like the one, the next one sort of the 14 I got the 14 the base model I don't I don't I I thought is annoying I don't I don't look forward to AI invading my devices and things and unless I go to chat GBT to do one particular specific task that I give it I don't want it like like in WhatsApp now I use WhatsApp and then and AI sort of tries to help. And it's like, what are you doing? This

is supposed to be private. Why are you in here as well? Like move aside, please, you know. I had an Apple mishap too in the last week or so, which unbelievably, I think may even Trump having your phone literally run over by a bus. Oh, yeah, it's a pretty good one. Yeah. So yeah, our little boy's nanny who's with us a few days a week and is like the most important person in our life because that allows us to work and do our jobs and stuff like that. So she's like, she's an absolute blessing. But she, she was baking cookies with Edward just like, you know, a week or so ago. And along with the baking tray and the cookies, unbeknownst to her, she picked up Edward's

iPad underneath the baking tray and put it in the oven. And after 10 or 15 minutes, she was like, oh, those cookies are smelling weird and checked. And she she'd put the iPad in the oven and had baked the iPad and it's baked. How long for baked? Like it was melting. It well, the screen has come like separated from the body of the iPad and stuff. So it was like, yeah, I don't know how long it was in for probably 15 minutes or something. But yeah, completely cooked it.

So yeah, I've also made an investment in Apple just recently to replace that. So wow. Has anyone else had stories this week? Has it been a week where apple just sends out carnage. Yeah that's like I've just done it they've sent out the elves to go and ruin all their products because they need to up their sales. What's the best phone or electronic device damage story you have let us know send us an email send us a reddit send us a Patreon message we want to hear what's your best one can you top a bus or an oven. I think the oven tops it I think that is because it's unintentionally self-inflicted you know what I mean like it's. Yeah and it's like weird like everyone you know stuff falls on the road and gets run over but who puts an iPad in the oven. Edward's nanny that's so she was very guilty and I offered to pay for it and stuff.

But of course she's not, but he would have broken it anyway. Somehow. Did you say it was with brownies? Was it what was being cookies? I think it was. Did you eat the cookies or were they sort of sent to be contaminated? And I don't know. I actually don't know if they were left on the side.

I doubtless would have eaten them, but I don't know if she been to that batch she probably did. There's some pretty exotic metals in in an iPad you don't want them vaporizing and getting into your cookies. No we we we recommend that you bake your iPad separately from other food don't do cookies and. Yeah or at least on a different show. That's right. So let them rise. Let's get into parish notices. Oh yes good yes yes.

So in the I think it was the last episode we really got stuck into a South Australian town or I mean they call themselves a city but I don't know what it's a country town to me called Waila. Don't rub salt in the wound man. No, which I suggested wasn't very nice and Tim was heartily agreed with me until he realised the coming weekend he was presiding over the marriage of a couple from Waila. At which point he backtracked. That's right.

Not very successfully but he did backtrack. It's a beautiful place, beautiful people, lots of sun. So I got a message from Jake and Beck. It says, we are the Wow couple that Tim married last Saturday. Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Tim for doing the wedding. He guided us through the whole process and with his support the day turned out perfectly. Our only criticism is that he didn't offer to play guitar at our reception. Having lived together in Wailer for five years, it's actually not too bad,

especially if you like dust storms and ants. Our intention was to get Tim a Wailer souvenir spoon as a thank you gift, but thanks to the bustling Wailer economy economy they have been out of stock for several months. We had to settle for getting him a jar of Weyla dirt as per your recommendation. There we go. You didn't play guitar at the wedding. No I can't. I can't.

I mean you really do have to pay extra for that. I mean. Was Colonel Katrina there the other half of Two Piece Feed? No, no, no. No, okay then. No, it was out in a garden somewhere and yeah, no, it was a beautiful wedding. Really lovely people, really lovely wedding. But no, I didn't, I didn't, yeah, I threw it a few gags. There was, I played for the crowd a little bit. Yeah, just a few, just a couple. Did you do a couple of podcast ideas? That's right. Halfway through. Here's one for you. Here's a freebie that I'm not, here's a freebie. Not even going to do this one on the podcast. This is exclusive to your wedding. I had, I was just starting the wedding saying, oh, hello everyone. You know, my name's Tim.

I'm a United Church Minister. From the third row, I heard someone going, I heard it was going to be Brady. I'm a United Church Minister. From the third row I heard someone going, I heard it was gonna be Brady. No, no. No. No. No.

No. Oh dear. So I have it here. Here they, no, they're not. You've got the dirt? I do. Here I have a jar of Weiler dirt. Wow.

Look, it's quite brown. I imagine it to be quite red. I mean, this is, I dare not open it. Who knows what's in it. But it's, it's quite brown. I imagine it to be quite red. I mean this is... I dare not open it, who knows what's in it. But it's... it's real dirt. I've got a real jar of whale of dirt to put on the shelf and to remember Jake and Bec. Wow. We should ask Jake and Bec whether they'd be willing to contribute a jar of whale of dirt to our hamper that we're currently collecting gifts for. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah that's a good idea. And that also lets me segue to letting people know we are accepting gifts for the hamper. Give us a jar of dirt from where you live or something from where you live or something that's special to you to go in the hamper. The address and

all the details are in the description. We want to collect stuff from all you listeners to go into our big gift hamper that will then be gifted at some point to someone. One of the cool things at the wedding with Jake and Beck was that they actually, they didn't just get me that as a gift, which was really lovely. It's not often you walk away from the wedding, you know, with a gift under your arm, which always looks a bit suspicious,

like I'm making off with one of their gifts from the gift table. But if it was just a piece of dirt, that would be okay. But actually, the gift box they gave me was quite large. And so I opened it and inside I found this. It's a wild wilder monopoly. They've made a wilder theme monopoly. Or is it, it says air on the front.

Is it more the air peninsula? It's the air peninsula. It's called it, but it's called the wild side. So this is this cold peninsula area There's a couple of peninsula the three peninsulas in Adelaide the York Peninsula the anyway and the air peninsula in South Australia South Australia, sorry. Yes Flurio York and air that's right And this is the air peninsula and you can actually you can play while ah you you can you can purchase property in why Allah

In monopoly for real are they using monopoly prices really even cheaper because it's why Allah Other while the properties like those two brown ones at the start and it that are really cheap Don't think it's Paul mall and Park Lane. I do. It's like one of those chance cards. Oh, you have been gifted four Weyalla properties. You got second place in your beauty pageant. You now own the town of Weyalla. There's also the Port Lincoln Hotel and the Cummins Local Produce, those sorts of areas. Oh yeah, I'm looking at the board now, that's nice. Yeah, yeah.

Take a picture, Tim. We'll put a picture of that in the notes for people to have a look at. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. That's a nice present. Can I ask you something about being the minister at a wedding? You talk about getting presents. Can I ask you something? Yes, you may.

You know how there are little courtesies people do in life that they think is a big deal? Like when you let another car go past or something and you do a little raise of the finger to the person and thank you and you feel that smug nice feeling that I've done a nice gesture. As long as it's not the middle finger obviously but yes I know what you mean. No. Yes. Well actually as an Adelaide driver you're probably unfamiliar with the whole practice of politely letting someone go in front of you but it does happen in other cities, trust me. Whenever I'm at a wedding, something I always like to do after the ceremony when everyone's leaving is go up to the minister, because the minister is usually, not always, but is usually a bit of a stranger at the wedding. I know in your case, not always, but sometimes they're a bit of an outsider. They've just come in for the day and stuff so they're not someone you know, but I love going up to them afterwards and I always think it's a really like gentlemanly thing to do, to go up to the minister and thank them for doing the ceremony and shake their hand and

then leave and I always think, aw, wasn't that decent of me? What a good person I am. Right? Does everyone do that to the minister? Does everyone come up to you afterwards and say thank you and shake your hand and smugly think they're doing like, they're doing something a little bit gracious and nice. Everyone does it but no one else does it smugly. I don't do it smugly to the minister I just do smug on the inside.

No look everyone's very courteous you are right though it's a strange thing at a wedding because you're you're as the minister your centre stage like you're doing most you do more talking than anyone you're sort of the the you know the master of ceremonies headliner headliner yeah yeah that's right and but but you're also you're also there to be invisible to like so it's it's your job to make it all happen but not make it about you and the way you do that is to be competent but not. you and the way you do that is to be competent but not you know self-referential but afterwards people yeah you do you stand around and you're a stranger people don't actually you know what I mean care about you your bits over but you get chatting and people always say thank you they always say oh you know that was really lovely or thank you I really appreciated that and and or you did a good job mate I think it's because it's one of those jobs that people can't imagine themselves doing but they think it's really hard or something. Whereas I just find it marvelous and easy and natural, but people seem amazed. Yeah.

I always think it's, I always think it's because like people thank the minister because they think no one else will, no one else will think too. But I think everyone thinks too, which kind of defeats the purpose. Like I remember a few times my wife has said, oh, you should go and thank the minister. Like you see them standing off to the side or something. You should go thank the minister. That would be a good thing to do. And you go up and do it and think that you're the one that did it.

You know, I did it because no one else would have thought to, but I think everyone thinks to. Yes. The minister must get sick of everyone thanking them, but thinking they're the only person that thought to thank them Yeah, yeah Well, it's yeah Well, it's appreciate I certainly appreciate it and you don't speak to everyone and some people are a bit awkward

Like, you know, they just sort of smell like because there's a lot of weddings are funny in that not everyone knows everyone else either And there's lots of small talk and there's lots of standing around as well So there's lots of chit chat and things like that I went to a wedding and I got sat next to the minister was invited to the reception even though he was bit of an outsider and I got sat next to him because I was bit of an outsider too so I think we were like you know the table of outsiders. You're on the kids table together. I loved it man.

I went hard on the questions about religion and faith and stuff. Oh did you? Like. It was an episode of Unmade on steroids. Oh yeah. Cause I had full access to him for an hour or two and I could just go, I could ask him all the questions. It was great.

Was it in a joking and fun, like it was a good fun and enjoyable conversation? Oh yeah. It wasn't hostile. No, no, no, no, it wasn't. It wasn't hostile. It was like, it was, but it was, you know, but it was proving it was more than superficial, you know? Yeah.

Anyway, let's move on because we're going for ages and we've got loads of stuff to do later as you'll find out. Uh, I also just wanted to say, I got an email from one of our listeners. Do you remember like two episodes ago, we got an email from someone whose surname was beers and he talked about the fact he didn't like beer. Yeah. whose surname was beers. Hmm. And he talked about the fact he didn't like beer.

Yeah. I got another email from a woman completely separate whose surname is also beers, asking me to put her in touch with the original beers because she wants to find out if they're related. And it's got me wondering how many people listening to this podcast are called beers. Is there something going on here? We've only got about 10 listeners. How many could be called beers? Two of them so far.

Wow. Yeah. We're like a, we're like a, what are they, what's it called? Ancestry.com for, for the beers clan. That's what we are. Yeah, we are. This is like, we're getting them all back together. Let's have a big family reunion for the beersers.

Maybe there's something in the DNA of the beers family that they just love podcasts about, you know, ideas for podcasts. It's like a. It could be. It could be. If you're listening and your surname is beers, get in touch. Get in touch. Yes.

Two people already have. Also, this was an interesting one. This came from Amelia in South Africa. I thought you'd like this one. For context, for people who don't know, Tim has told us in the past that he occasionally has battled against the habit of biting his nails. I'm writing to tell you about a quaint development that has happened in my life as a result of the podcast. My partner is not an avid listener

of podcasts, though I do on occasion let an episode of Unmade play in the background while we're spending quiet time together. On a particular episode, the name and number of which escapes me, Brady suddenly and loudly exclaimed, Tim, you're biting your nails. My partner found this particularly relatable as she frequently has to remind me, a fellow nail-biter, to stop biting my nails. She had a good chuckle, and I thought that was the end of it. That is, until the next day, when she'd loudly exclaimed, Tim, you're biting your nails! This caught me off guard, as I am a woman and my name is not Tim.

But I put two and two together rather quickly. This has since evolved into just Tim. When she observes me biting my nails, I am promptly met with a sharp Tim, which acts as an effective reminder to stop biting my nails. Classic. So there you go. There you go. Do you have like a shorthand or a warning word or anything that your wife will say to you if she catches you biting your nails to kind of help you not do it? No, no, it's actually it's it's my daughters who pulled me up on the nail biting.

Yeah, my wife, I think over the years has realized this is the least of my vices. And if you know, if I nail bite, then that's perfectly fine. It's much better than, you know, smoking or anything else like that. So, but my kids are on to me about it. They pull me up and they just have to say, know dad or they say Tim or something like that and look across and they'll just you know waving the little fingers or something like that. I do remember that we have a tone that's similar to that when I'm speeding in the car that's another vice that my wife will pull me up on and

she always repeats the the language given to me by the words of a police officer who said slow down Timothy all those years ago and she says that as we're driving along she'll just go slow down Timothy that's her way of okay reminding me yeah I like the idea that people out there would would who are biting their nails are being called Tim's though that's pretty funny. I had an idea on the last episode called before my time which basically was talking about things that happened the day before you were born and I encourage people to get in touch and quite a few did so I thought I'd run through a few.

Ellen said, while nothing interesting happened the day before I was born my mum has quite an interesting one she was born on my mum has quite an interesting one. She was born on the 5th of April 1968. Oh here we go Tim. She was born on the 5th of April 1968. Can you guess what happened on the 4th of April 1968? The 4th of April 1968. You're a chance of getting it because you probably...

That's not the moon landing, that's 69. No. The 5th of April 68. Do you want me to give you a clue yes a shot rang out in the Memphis sky all right that's when Martin Luther King jr. was shot assassinated assassinated so everyone says not a super cheery one but I remember learning about it in school and it stuck with me ever since. P.S. yesterday was my best friend Francis's birthday. So if you happen to read this aloud on the pod please wish her a happy late birthday.

She's a big fan and the one who introduced me to your show. Sorry Ellen we don't do birthday readouts so we cannot wish a happy birthday to Francis. No but but but it was nice of you to ask. Indeed. yes I also will refrain from saying happy birthday Christian says the interesting thing that happened the day before I was born was the 11th of March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan that all together killed almost 20,000 people oh dear dear. Nice one Christian, thanks.

They're all pretty miserable actually. Debbie says, I checked Wiki for what happened on the day before my birth. The first entry was about three people being murdered at Sundown Station in South Australia while travelling by car from Alice Springs to Adelaide. I don't like the murder part, but the Adelaide connection was amusing.

So... LAUGHS Sundown station, you know coincidentally I think the pub in Wai'ala is called the Sundowner. I wonder if it was Wai'ala on the way through. I don't think I actually researched the murder later and they didn't get as far as Wai'ala so I don't think there's a connection. That's unlike you to follow a small detail into a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Yes, I went deep. I also went deep on this next one, which I'm reading out from Barbara and I'm reading this

because it has an interest to both of us. Barbara says, exactly one week before I was born, a plane crashed exactly between our house and the hospital where I was born. 1.5 mile radius. This was LL Flight 1862 on the 4th of October 1992. It's quite infamous in the Netherlands. Side note, Tim, it's actually the most deadly plane crash to ever happen in the Netherlands. It's infamous in the Netherlands, especially because there's still a lot unclear about the contents of the plane.

It was a cargo plane. And because it's so politically sensitive with Israel's Mossad involved. The most important documents are sealed until 2062. This is something I'm personally quite angry about because I was born with severe asthma and other weird health issues, like many other people who were around the site at the time. No. So I would like to know what might be the cause. But it's still a fascinating story that my parents keep reminiscing about during every birthday that I have. Oh, wow. Oh, golly gosh. I'm sorry to hear that.

What was on the plane? What was on the plane? And I hope you're okay, Barbara. Katie says, Katie was born in 1987. The day before I was born there was an enormous stock market crash. It was so significant it earned the name Black Monday. I never did any research about the cause of the crash but it's been a running gag in my family that the world's banks just went into a panic when they heard I was coming. In a similar vein, the day after my twins were born was the hottest day on record in Portland, Oregon. So we like to say they set the world on fire when they got here.

And speaking of fire, IceDistinct on the subreddit said I was born on 2111 of the Annus Horribilis, so the day before Windsor Castle caught fire. Alright, yes. Lots of miserable ones, there weren't many happy ones there were there? It's all death and carnage, but I guess that's what makes the news. Well indeed that's right yes what births make the news the royal births make the news are there any other births yeah the news like if a prime minister or a political leader has a child generally in office that's right if they that's yeah yeah yeah big celebrities maybe or if you're

really old like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro keep having all these babies. Yes that's right. While they're in their 80s and stuff. Yeah, Walt Disney. Yeah that's about it isn't it? Not many babies. Oh and of course there's always the January 1st babies. You know they always do a story of those just after midnight.

First of the year. Yeah. You would have written a few of those in your time. Did you do any of those? I think I've only done a couple in my time. Not many. I've probably, I've probably drawn that drawn, drawn that short story a few times. That's a bad shift is over.

Like as a journal, that's like, are you going to work Chris, like New Year's Eve and then I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I worked that one a lot. I actually make a joke. I probably didn't mind getting that one. It's a pretty easy one to do do it's a nice story to do. Yeah yeah.

I was just pretending to be a really important journalist that only does big stories I actually enjoy those little ones. So Tim this is normally where we would do our ideas for podcasts but we're going to do something different today. We're gonna do a quick fire round as much as you and I are capable of doing quick fire of ideas that have been submitted by listeners, particularly our stakeholders, our patreon supporters. I put the word out to them and gave them first dibs and they have overwhelmed me with ideas and I want to run them by you and we'll discuss them. Maybe we should give them each one a mark out of ten. We like giving things a mark out of ten don't we? That things mark out of ten that's a good idea that's a good idea I can't believe it's taken as a hundred and fifty episodes to get to this to actually. Have an episode that's devoted to other people's ideas but we have discussed others ideas before but never like in this kind of quick fire round type way. And it has taken us the best part of twenty odd minutes to get to as well.

That has taken us the best part of 20 odd minutes to get to it as well after all that self-indulgent parish notices. So let's not be too humble. Jake and Beth sort of took over most of it with their wedding, didn't they? A bit of dirt. The first one comes from someone we know. It is Colonel Katrina. Oh, goodness Christ. This is a good one.

I've put it at the top of the list not because's, she's, this is a good one. I've put it at the top of the list, not because it's Colonel Katrina, but because I like it. Do you have a Colonel Katrina hotline on your desk? Just podcast related information, just a direct line? Big red phone. No. This is, this is the one she sent in. Yeah.

Her idea for podcast is called Regrettably Successful. Oh yeah. She's told me about this idea. I was going to steal this idea. Oh darn it. Well, you can't. She's got it. I think it's on my list somewhere.

You better make sure you cross it off. All right, read it out. For those who don't know, Colonel Katrina is a member of Tim's congregation. So that's why he would have access to her ideas. She goes on, This is a podcast about times in life when something you wanted to happen did indeed happen but you then came to regret it. This idea was inspired by an incident when my son was about 18 months old.

I came across a beautiful picture book about Walsing Matilda at a second hand bookshop and decided to buy it so I could introduce the song to my son since it's a quintessential Australian song. Not only did my son love the book and the song, there was a period of several months where I was called upon to sing Walsing Matilda while flicking through the book about half a dozen times a day. It was unacceptable to play a recording. I had to sing it to him. The purchase of the book to introduce Walsing Matilda to my son Was regrettably successful from Colonel Katrina PS My son is a few years older now and occasionally sings Walsing Matilda to himself while going to sleep. Oh

So before we talk about the idea. Yeah, I've got a question Before we talk about the idea, I've got a question. How would a children's picture book deal with Walsing Matilda? A song in which a man steals a sheep from a, you know, illegally, stuffs it into a bag and then commits suicide by drowning when the police arrive. Is that depicted in the pictures or do they change the narrative? I haven't seen this book I have to say but I think kids are okay with that kind of stuff. Like look at the Road Runner and the Wile E. Kei E. E. is going off cliffs and getting smashed and you know what I mean? All that sort of stuff it's just born and it happens. I think that's okay.

It's only older when we get really offended by that kind of thing. Yeah. We start to see the reality of it. You didn't want your youngins to watch Titanic because there was drowning in it No, my wife didn't want them to I was happy to yeah, you're all up for it. You were like boing the ship sank Yeah, yeah, I I didn't want them to be introduced to Leonardo DiCaprio to You definitely don't want them introduced to him now. The other question I'm sure everyone has is, what does it sound like when Colonel Katrina sings Walsing Matilda? Oh.

Got you covered. Got you covered. Oh, really? Here it is. Once a jolly swag man can buy a billabong under the shade of a cool abad tree. And he sang as he watched and waited till he's barely bored. You come a waltaltzing Matilda with me Waltzing Matilda

Waltzing Matilda You come a waltzing Matilda with me and he sang as he watched and Waited to his billy board you come a waltzing Matilda with me Notice there she only does the first verse. She doesn't deal with the drowning. No, I know. Yes. Yes. That's the PC abridged version. The other thing is that she's singing a cappella and I know Colonel Katrina is like a super talented musician and plays about 19 different instruments.

And how come we haven't got like an instrument accompanied version? Why wasn't the other member of Two Piece Feed recruited in for this particular performance? That's what I'd like to know. Anyway thank you very much. I think that's a really good idea. Yeah yeah I think that's a good idea. Out of 10? I'd give it an 8 because I think it's something that people would enjoy to talk about. Everyone's got one story and yeah I think it's a strong idea. Yeah I'm gonna go I'm gonna go eight as well I mean my I feel like regrettably successful is the story of a lot of my working life like I have I have these like stupid ideas. That like become successful enough that I have to follow them through and I end up you know doing all these stupid.

Show bags for the unmade podcast or 118 videos about elements on the periodic table or video every book of the Bible so yeah. I understand the sentiment of regrettably successful I always warn people that have ideas now like for video projects and podcasts and that be careful but think if this is successful what will I actually have to do. Don't often think about that one one obvious example of this of course is the the musician who has the one hit wonder. And then they come to hate it or particularly if they don't like the song at all and they got a player for the rest of their life it's all people want to hear and they've got much better songs in their view that that people don't want to hear Yeah, it becomes a millstone like this Um, alright. Max from Germany. My podcast idea is about castles and castle ruins. There are so many of them all over the world with interesting stories, colourful historical figures, local customs, neat trivia. My girlfriend and I talked about how long it would take to visit all the castles in Germany and it turns out it would probably take a lifetime

and hundreds of thousands of kilometres of driving. So there's always enough material for the podcast. As for the title? Drawbridge Diaries? Rampart Radio? The Fortress Files? Hmm. I mean, YouTube, yes.

I'm not sure about a podcast. I mean, I know you can walk through it. You can give the history, that's great, but so much of it is visual. I don't agree. I don't agree. Yes, of course it would make a good video and you want to see the castles, but I think it would work as a podcast. I think you could execute it as a podcast.

And the thing about podcasts is they're useful when you can't watch videos, when you're driving, when you're lying in bed, various other times. And I think you could get enough out of it for it to work. You probably wouldn't have to visit them if I'm being really practical about it. You could probably just research the castles and make a podcast about them and phone up guests and stuff. But of course, visiting them would be fun from a personal perspective and it would add more character.

But I think this is a good solid idea, you know? It's just, you know, it's not funny. It's not super original, but it's interesting. And who doesn't love castles? I love castles. I have to admit, I do. Yeah. Got a favourite? I don't know enough of them to have a favourite.

I just, I love their feel and ambiance, and I'd love to, I'd love to visit more of them across Europe. What about Cryo Castle in Victoria? Have you been to Crile Castle? No. It's a really really rubbish tourist attraction. It's like a fake castle with like a torture chamber and animals and stuff. Oh right.

It's out sort of near Sovereign Hill. This would be interesting for Max to hear that I would be quite interested in going to visit Staufenberg Castle, to hear that I would be quite interested in going to visit Staufenburg Castle, which is near a town called Iblingen, which is where my dad spent quite a lot of the war. So I'd be interested to go and see there. And that's where Colonel Van Staufenburg, the famous person who put a bomb in the suitcase to kill Hitler and towards the end of the war. So I'd like to see Staufenburg Castle. I'm not sure how grand it is, but that's more for the personal connection. I vaguely feel to it. Not, not because it's necessarily a really great big English King

Arthur sort of castle. Nice. All right. Uh, out of 10. Oh, look, I'll go six and a half. I'm not convinced, but it could be done really well. You and I are on the same wavelength today. I was going to go six and a half as well.

There we go. Uh, Dylan suggested last place or The Back Markers, a podcast which follows the worst sports team in a particular league and talks about their season. The thought being that the top teams get lots of coverage but the worst teams don't and also deal with lots of different factors which don't apply to the top teams. I like that idea. I think that's pretty good. That's a bit like the Cleveland Browns are sort of that sort of classic team, aren't they? They're sort of noted for being the heart team, but never doing too well in the

NFL. I don't completely agree with Gillan. I think sometimes those teams that have bad seasons, particularly notoriously bad seasons, like they become quite famous in themselves, you know, the team that scored only one point in a season or the team that went winless or the team that had the most losses like I think those teams do already get quite a bit of coverage in that kind of notorious way that you don't want coverage but I don't think this is like a hugely untapped vein. Very famously the Port Elliot football club here in South Australia lost a match like 350 to zero or something like that and that made the paper.

Right yeah. There's so there's teams like that it would be interesting to sort source out the characters and so forth of that team. Okay so what do you want to give the back markers out of 10. I think it has potential, slightly more potential. I'm not, yeah, I would give it, it's not totally original though either. I feel like I want to give it seven. I'm going to go five. Okay.

Like it would, it would work, but I feel like it, yeah, I don't know. It's probably been done. It's hard to think of any kind of sport related podcast that hasn't been totally done. Sport just content, the amount of sport content in Australia now has gone through the roof and it's just so overwhelming and I'm so over it. Here we go, Wicus has put two ideas in, the first one's quick though. My first idea is called Prime Time. This is a podcast where the host interviews guests about their favorite prime number. Got a favorite prime number Tim. I can't remember what prime numbers are but I remember being intrigued by them last time you told me what they were.

I do I do spend a lot of time talking to you about prime numbers so yeah. I thought you'd know at least know what they are. Yeah well hang on a second hang on a second they're numbers that they're numbers that can be divided by themselves in one only is that right? Correct. Yeah. Correct. So give me an example of a prime number. Seven.

Correct. Yeah. Okay. So is that your favourite prime number? Yes. Okay. There's no way I can commit to a favourite prime number at this short notice, but I'll get, I'll get back to you, Wickers.

The other idea is the more serious one and this is called coma stories. I thought of this after an experience I had in 2021 I was hospitalized with serious COVID pneumonia. I was placed on a ventilator and was in a medically induced coma for two and a half weeks. During my time in the coma, I had some very interesting dreams, which at the time being unaware that I was in a coma thought was reality. So my idea is to get people on the podcast who were in a coma and tell the interesting things they dreamed of while they were in the coma. Wow.

This is great. You can obviously remember them. I didn't know you could remember dreams after comas like that. Obviously you can like, cause I forget dreams so soon after I have them yeah I have so many questions for Wickers I have so many questions yeah yeah yeah I feel like this has taken me back to a conversation that happened a lot when I was at primary school the notion of someone I remember there was a very famous actor who was in the film the light horseman that we saw and he on the

way home from filming had a car accident went into a coma. Yeah. John Blake, I think his name was. And yeah, that sounds right. I think. Yeah. And I remember at the time, the teacher explaining, you know, if he came to, then he would have to do school all over again.

And at the time, that was just an overwhelming thought that someone would have to do all this schooling again. That's the thing that really made an impression not that his life's destroyed that when you're young they are very Mysterious things comas aren't they I mean they are in general But they were they are they they do capture your imagination as a kid don't they and in a strange way We might of course know a lot more about comas now than we did in the mid 80s when we were in primary school Hmm, and there could be different experiences, but yeah, wow, dreams, coma dreams. I don't know what to think about this because I am intrigued by comas and interviewing people who have been in comas I think is a good idea. But hearing about people's dreams, of course, is not normally interesting. It's notoriously boring hearing about people's dreams so I don't know

whether hearing about people's dreams because they're in a coma makes them more interesting maybe it does and wicker says oh you know I thought it was real life doesn't everyone think their dreams are real life until they wake up and then realize they're not it would be interesting if it if because the idea is I think with comas you don't know how much the person can sense about what's going on around them presumably nothing but it would be interesting if their dreams. Related somehow to what was going on around them like in their dreams that was some sort of exacerbated or. Different version of what was happening around you know what I mean like oh then I a, then I, a blue elephant walked in and we go, oh, that was Sally wearing her blue elephant dress. And you know what I mean?

And then I saw, you know, there was some sort of way in which it was characterized differently. Yeah, because you do. Yeah, yeah. Out of 10, out of 10. I feel like I want to hear this once. And after I hear a lot more, I probably wouldn't want to hear lots of them. So I think it's a good idea for one episode with it with some sort of expert or with and then with people alongside it I'm gonna give it I'm

not gonna give it I'll give it six six I'm gonna go seven because I like the idea of a podcast about comas but I don't think Wicus has nailed it with the dream element I think we need to go elsewhere but but just the idea of comas are so fascinating to me I'll do that. Here's Nicholas and Sarah who also have submitted two ideas but they're both short so I'll do both of them. The first one is human zoo two people sit near a crowded place like a train station a tourist attraction and describe and talk about the people they see. That could be quite funny. Yeah yeah yeah I love making up stories this is a classic there's a scene in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall where they're sitting there and they're you know sort of narrating a conversation they

see of someone else happening across the sort of the parkland and I love doing that going oh look there's Beryl talking to Peter you know they're about to get married yeah you know that that's fan that's lots of fun. Yeah. I don't know if it's fun in terms of people listening to it on a podcast who can't see them. But if you took another approach more seriously to, to describe and that that could be interesting if you, if you could do it well. I remember being at the airport once and looking across from us and seeing like there was some young, super cool Japanese dude wearing like the absolute latest avant-garde fashion stuff I could never get away with wearing that looked like it was from a fashion show and he had all the latest stuff and he had

these massive high-tech headphones on and he was just like in the zone and my wife leaned over and said, I don't know what that guy's listening to on his headphones but it's definitely cooler than what I'm listening to. It was certainly some like latest Japanese pop music that will never make it to our into our life but yeah yeah it was too cool. The second idea from Nicholas and Sarah is called home screen. Ask people on the street about their background image on their home screen and let them share the story behind it. Oh, okay.

I love that idea. I love it. What's your home screen picture on your phone, Tim? Oh, sorry, the phone. I was thinking desktop because I'm staring at one now. No, no, I think your phone's where we're going with that, but what is your home screen picture? Mine is of my sister in Holland.

Oh. Yeah, when we were over there, when I was over there, we traded photos with one another about when we were young. So this is a picture of her when she was young. I have the famous Earthrise picture taken during Apollo 8, the first colour picture they took looking over the horizon of the moon at the earth rising in the background. Very, very famous photo. You're so on brand Brady, come on.

I am on brand. Well yours is Dutch so don't you start. You're on brand too. My sister's father, do you know that he was Dutch? The rumor is out. Let me ask what you're going to give home screen out of 10. Let's let's mark home screen as an idea. I know I like that idea. Yeah. No, I think that's a good, I think that's getting up around an eight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Eight. I'm going to go eight as well. Yep. Furlan suggested hate mail,

a podcast where the host invites people who receive ridiculous amounts of interesting hate mail reviews, YouTube comments to go through them. I could definitely do a podcast about this. Oh yeah yeah you get some hate mail. I'm a youtuber man have you ever seen a YouTube comment section. Oh right okay if you're going to include that as well yeah. Do you ever get emails like direct ones from people or maybe you don't want to talk about this? I don't know just I do Yeah, the people who send emails are usually less Nasty, right there normally they're not always nice but some but there there can be

Because a lot of them are you know, I want you to do this I want you to solve this problem or make a video about that but people who want to Hate on you don't normally send emails they normally just do it in comment sections I find. Right yeah I think there is a trend of this happening people reading out hate mail I've seen this on like late night shows and YouTube and things so yeah it has been done a bit it's of limited interest if they're funny it's interesting and the person being confident enough to read them out is quite funny and empowering but.

Yeah and the response to them can be funny yeah that's like a that's fun I'll give that I'll give that a five felon not super original but. I'd listen to it probably and I said I could definitely do it I'll give it five two I think I'd go five and a half if the idea could be improved by. five and a half if the idea could be improved by composing a letter back there is a nice idea of sending a formal reply back to hate mail that that's got something in fernandes defense there it was a longer message that was sent with a few examples and ideas that did flesh it out in quite a good way so don't feel too judged felon you did do a better job of selling your your podcast i haven't done you justice just just just back just ensuring you don't get some hate mail from Ferland there for your low score yeah yeah sorry continue on I don't I don't want all the stakeholders turning on Ferland unnecessarily no he could be deluged he did a good job and I

do and I did encourage people to try to keep their suggestions concise which some people did and some people didn't. And Fernland didn't. First of all, Ben says, I've had an idea for a podcast for years called Wax Lyrical. You have a guest on and they have to talk fanatically about something they love. But the requirement is that they can only do it for the length of a wax cylinder recording. Do you know how long they are? Yeah, I do, because I've made a wax cylinder recording before. I don't know exactly though.

It's like you're looking at three or four minutes, five minutes. They're short. It's short. Right. Right. Yeah. Well, the ones I did were short and I think that's as long as they go. Yeah. I mean, this is a Brady idea because it's really just about it's it's more about format then Substance, you know in style of a substance and I love that. I love an idea. That's a cool format So for that reason I'm obviously gonna like it

So and also it might be a good one to do because you might be able to get a higher caliber of guests because it's Such a small request on their time. Oh yeah. Like Tom Hanks will never do the Unmade podcast because he hasn't got time for us to do that but he might do a wax lyrical because you're going to say to him come on Tom you can talk about typewriters for four minutes. Come on. So that works in its favour.

I'm going to give this seven and a half out of ten. Can I can I just say that I'm happy to go with seven and a half to I okay if Tom Hanks was up for doing it on a wax cylinder recording. Would you be happy to make another wax cylinder recording. I do it yeah I've got I've got contacts in the wax cylinder community. it yeah I've got I've got contacts in the waxelander community I do we got contacts in the Tom in the Tom Hanks world. All right let's go for it um Hussain from Quebec says my podcast idea is called Forgotten Fabric in this show the co-hosts would each talk about their most forgotten or ignored t-shirt that they own they'd share the stories of where they got the t-shirt, why it tends to get ignored and recent funny or interesting memories associated with it. I bet you love this idea. Yeah, this is a great idea. Yeah. You love a good t-shirt.

Yeah. Yeah, I do. Yeah. I've got so many cool t-shirts that don't fit me at the moment. And why is that bad? If you have you lost a lot of weight of a bit baggy. What are the it's it's related to that reason. Yeah it's it's really frustrating I've got yeah I do like this idea though so that's that's one reason it's like I can't wear it because it doesn't fit that but that's. that but that's there is another reason there is a t-shirt like I have a series of t-shirts that are all the same except they're all v-necks and then one of them this is just for wearing around the home and one of them's a round neck and I always you know reach to the pile of gray t-shirts and go oh it's the round neck and put it back and grab a v-neck just and you know so I never wear it but it's still on the pile so okay but it just tickles my throat if I wear it on.

I don't like the title Forgotten Fabric. No. I haven't got a better one. I call it the bottom drawer or something or. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. And then you could make it not just about t-shirts maybe but I like the idea that it's about t-shirts though.

Yeah, that's nice. That's great. Do you have a particular t-shirt that you? I do. And a lot of them are to do with how they fit and look on me. You know, like some of the ones I think are more flattering get worn first. But yeah, I have, I have lots of t-shirts from that are like merch, like unmade podcast t-shirts and things like that. Yeah. And those ones, those ones I have to be careful about wearing because I don't

think my wife thinks they're very cool. So if I'm going somewhere where I think she wants me to look good, I won't wear it. But if I'm like, Oh, I'm going to be home all day today to sitting at my computer. Oh, where the Tim guitar solo t-shirt or something like that. So, uh, what are we giving that out of 10? I think that's a good idea. I I'm going to go high eight and a half. That's good idea. I'm going to go higher. Eight and a half. That's good fun. I'm going to go seven.

Jess, also from Canada, from Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, says, my podcast idea is a concept I think you'll be familiar with. Unmade books, where we talk about all the books we have an idea for but won't ever actually write. I feel like my brain is swarming with interesting novel ideas that will never come to fruition and I can't be alone in that. And Jesse even gives us one of her unmade books her book idea that she would never write are you ready. Yes she says fairies live in everyone's home and always have but now the people are finding out about it this is the story from the point of view of a variety of characters discovering the fairy folk that have always lived in their homes and what they're gonna do about it. Hmm. I quite like that. I quite

like that. It's like a sort of a Harry Potter-esque type series about the fairies living in our homes and stuff. Like, good stuff. It is a good idea. Good idea for a book not to write. Yeah, make sure you get on to not writing that as soon as you can Jess I've got two book proposal documents on my laptop one of them I'm just still putting together one of them. I wrote up and I've sent you a couple of publishers which None of whom have taken it up, but I really like it as an idea And I'm sitting with it although I can see it's maybe a bit too Tim

And I've got another idea which which I'm just finishing off as well and I'm sitting with it, although I can see it's maybe a bit too Tim. And I've got another idea, which I'm just finishing off as well, that I think would be a good book and I'm thinking of doing that. So I sometimes, if I get an idea, I actually like the idea of pulling the concept together and doing three or four pages, a bit of a sample,

a table of contents. I like that sort of idea and then deciding whether or not I send it off. Well, you remember my unmade book idea because you still give me grief about it all these years later. I had an idea for a novel which I will never write but I did write the first couple of pages and I think I let you read it and it was like a race to the moon. It was like a space race, a race to the moon but on another planet like on an alternative

earth like planet to find out how it went but it was quite like earth in a lot of ways but the start the setup for the story is that for the space race between like the rival nations is that many years ago the nations were very friendly and they actually tried to get to their moon together oh yeah and and go into space together and the first spaceship with like humans or humans on it went up and orbited the earth like, you know, like Yuri Gagarin but because they were doing it together they put two astronauts on or one from each country so they didn't have to choose who goes first.

So these two first astronauts in space were on this craft that orbited the planet, but then it malfunctioned and couldn't come back and got stuck in orbit forever. And these two astronauts were in the first astronauts ever in space were entombed in this ship that is just circling the planet even to this day. And on certain conditions, on certain nights, you can even see it like as a small light, like going around the planet like this, like, you know, like you can see the space station. This is constant reminder of what went wrong and then the two nations kind of split and become rivals and then they both race to the moon but there's always I just like the premise of this constant reminder circling the planet that they tried before I had gone wrong. Yeah nice. I'll never write it I'll never write a novel's hard. I mean my my proposal is a nonfiction. I've always had this plot for a book

It's a very simple idea But I've never seen it executed and until kind of recently and it's the idea of a Novel that allows you to do it all over again like the classic if you could live your life again What would you do? And so a novel that somehow would allow you to live your life again would tell someone's life several times with slight changes in their consequences would be very difficult that things come close to it in terms of time travel but this is a little bit different to live it fully and then to do it all over again. Rodham about Hillary Clinton and it's like a fictionalization of Hillary Clinton's life. But she divorces Bill Clinton and doesn't stay with him. And then has she? It's this alternative history of her life. I heard about it. I haven't read the book, but I like that.

In fact, I saw that in the bookstore the other day. Yeah, I haven't read it. Is it good? I liked it. I liked it because I'm quite interested in American politics and the Clintons. I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it. Does she go on? Does she remain in politics and the Clintons and I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it. Does she go on? Does she remain in politics and go on to run for president? She does.

And she runs. I think she runs against Donald Trump from memory. Does she marry again? I cannot remember and I won't say any more anyway, because I don't want to go too spoiler-tastic. Sure. Sure. I have to say the person I think that's come closest to it, funnily enough, is my

favorite author, a guy called Paul Oster. He wrote a book called 4321 where he told the person's life four times with something changing in between and that's the closest I've seen to that happening and that was that was good book that was nominated for the book a prize. But I was always amazed that like my favorite author suddenly wrote the idea that I've always had, but it's still not quite the same. It's more sort of sliding doors, is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One that encircles on a particular event. I think this is a really good idea.

I think this is great. I'm gonna give this a nine. A nine, wow. I won't go as high as a nine. I'll give it an eight. An eight, okay. An eight. You looked, you really thought about that one, didn't you? I did think about it. I didn't it an 8. An 8? An 8. You really thought about that one didn't you?

I did think about it, I didn't rush into that, I really thought about the mark. Jake, a podcast all about conversion. I feel like the nature of changing one thing into another, which is so fundamental, always means there's something interesting to talk about. Here are some examples. Alchemical conversion, changing cheaper metals into gold, alchemy. Converting files, I don't know where I'd be without tools like Pandoc and FFmpeg over the years, but not all file conversions are equal. Some files encode inherently more

information, so going one way is a lossy. You could talk about converting old media, you could VHS tapes to DVDs or USB. Conversion in religion, this could be about converting old media, you've got VHS tapes to DVDs or USB, conversion in religion, this could be about converting from atheist to some religion or vice versa or from one religion to another, converting between languages, you could discuss famous instances of translation and mistranslation from as far back in history as we know. Recently there's Jimmy Carter's 1977 Warsaw speech where he accidentally expressed a sexual desire for the polls etc etc conversion. Great idea.

Good idea. Yeah. Like something we do isn't it that's like one of our ideas. Well that's what I was thinking too you could cut this out and we'll use it I'll use this in the next episode. You want to use it? Yeah. I'm sure you'd give it a terrible name. Yes, that's right.

Like, like, try again or something. Yeah. Yep. It's a very solid idea, very well explained with excellent examples. That's a future co-host right there. Well done. Yep. All right.

So what are you going gonna give him out of 10 then I'll give it I think that's a 10 idea I think that's a great idea really I'm gonna go 10 yeah what's not funny if you don't do a 10 well that's not a 10 for me it's an eight and a half oh gosh Kyle from Townsville says I'm a long time listener first time emailer podcast idea idea is called, Which Comes First? The format, two hosts each episode discuss a pair of names and need to decide which comes first. It could be based on things like phonetic rules

or other things. People submit their names and the host decide. For example, is it Tim and Brady or Brady and Tim? Other examples, Brad and Angelina, Sonny and Sher, Kyle and Esther. There you go. I always say Tim and Brady, and I usually write Tim and Brady in our descriptions. We were talking about this as a family this week.

Yeah, that's right. Because I was talking about in a sermon, there's a character, there's a couple in as mentioned in the book of acts called Priscilla and Aquila and it's very unusual that the females name comes First in antiquity which meant she was quite important and then I was talking about us Brady and Tim and Tim and Brady and how it's Always been Tim and Brady and how every now and then we'd introduce ourselves at parties as good. I am Tim from Tim and Brady says, G'day, I'm Tim from Tim and Brady. Why does Tim, why do we, I think we say Tim and Brady because Brady just sounds more like the suffix. It just ends better.

It's a better way to end. It's got a big Y at the end. Yeah. Hmm. I don't know. It just sounds like it should come second. I can't, like on a radio show, you know how you have, you know, you know, Baz and Larry in the morning, you you know that kind of thing.

It seems Tim and Brady would work if we were a law firm Brady and Tim although we'd have Harren and Hine wouldn't we. Yeah. Hine and Haren. Harren and Hine sounds better than Hine and Harren. That's true. Yeah. Could be an ice cream company or a law firm or something like that. Who comes first with you and your wife when people talk about you and your wife?

Do you know? Like I know you don't know what people say behind your back but is. I think people tend to go with the person they are connected to most closely first. I think that's what happens. That's possibly true actually. That is possibly true. So the question is if they know you equally for some reason who comes first I don't know I don't know I don't even know the answer in my case I

think people say my wife's name first because they like her more and she's just nicer and more charismatic. I think Brady also has a surname feel to it as well. Hmm. Hmm. True. This is true. This is true. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. Uh, before we give Kyle a mark, uh, there was a little PS as an aside, my partner

Esther is from Adelaide and the podcast has provided insight and education about her upbringing. The big rocking horse is on the list for our next trip in November. I'm from Melbourne and I've spent quite a bit of time out Teralgan Way as my mum lives in Gippsland. Oh, fantastic. Wonderful part of the country. We still buy this Gippsland brand of yoghurt. This lovely, lovely yoghurt.

Or yoghurt if you're if you're from England. Yeah, that's right. Yes. And it's the brand is called Gippsland. It's from Gippsland. And so it's lovely having something in the fridge with a little brand on it that just, you know what I mean? Feels like the country region where I'm from. A little ad there with no money changed hands as far as I know for that advertisement. So that was just, that was just a pure natural organic endorsement. Indeed. And you can head to gippsland.com if you

organic endorsement. Indeed. And you can head to gips land.com if you use offer code Tim. No. Yeah. Where were we? Oh, we didn't give them.

We didn't give a mark to Kyle for that idea, which comes first. I quite like it. It's a fun thing to talk about. I'm not sure there's a whole, well, what are some other examples of what well, you could, you could do it for like a musical duos and stuff like that. Simon and Garfunkel. Things like that. But it's not just about the names though is it? It's gotta be about... Well I mean this obviously that's a launch pad. Yeah.

For further discussions. But yeah you're right, you're right. I mean it's gimmicky, it's unlimited. Five? Five? Ooh! Ouch! I'm gonna go seven. Seven and five. Or is it five and seven? I don't know. I don't know which it should be. This next one comes from Alex. Tim won't appreciate this one I don't think, but this one really, really

resonates in my household, so I have to read it out. Alex says, my two-year-old daughter likes a TV show called Bing. Bing is a young bunny who is looked after by a soft toy rabbit called Flop. Indeed all the children in Bing's world are looked after by small stuffed animals. Why and how this came to be is never explained. My podcast idea would be to flesh out the details of Bing's world. Why are the children cared for by stuffed animals? What happened to their parents? Who are the power brokers in this dystopian world? Just to kind of repeat the premise a bit,

like it was, it was perfectly adequately explained there, but just to add a bit more in this TV show, it's like an animated TV show for little kids. My boy loves it. Loves it. Right. All the main characters are like these humanoid children so being is like a rabbit, small rabbit and he's got a friend that's a panda and another one that's a little elephant but they're little humanoids that walk around on their legs and talk and that, but they're obviously toddlers but they live in their houses and they go out to the shops and the park and they walk around the roads and cars drive around so it's a whole world they live in, but every kid has this little partner, this little stuffed toy that's smaller than them, but is an adult and looks after them and teaches them lessons and buys them stuff

and cooks for them like a nanny or a carer. But you only ever see that. That's all you ever see in this whole world. You never see parents, you never see adults, even if it's at night and it's bedtime, it's morning in a car, whatever they're doing. The pictures on the walls of the houses and that, you never see adults or any evidence of parents in this whole thing. And it's really intriguing to an adult mind.

And there are websites dedicated to it and discussions and people are trying to figure out why is this world the way it is. We have two theories, two favorite theories in our house. One is that no adults have been seen since the virus in quote marks and all the adults were wiped out. And now there's just this world where the kids are being looked after by these stuff toys. The other one, which I quite like is that this world is hell and the stuffed toys adults that lead led a bad life and their punishment is to spend their whole life looking after these naughty little

children for the rest of their life just being a permanent babysitter. But I'm fascinated by being and this world. So Alex, you really struck a chord with me. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Tim probably hasn't got much to add here. No, I've got I'm not aware and I'm not conversant. So I'm intrigued by I'm intrigued by though. I

like that idea of the backstory. The world of Bing. I mean, we can't really ask for a mark on that one because Tim doesn't know it. So let's move on. Michael from Indiana. My idea for a podcast is called I'm joking on the inside. The basic idea is a discussion with various guests about their inside jokes, past or present, with friends or family. A variation of the podcast could also involve submissions of inside jokes that the hosts need to try and guess the meaning of. Oh, I'm not sure about this. No, I don't think it's a good idea. I don't think it's a good idea. Yeah. I think this is like this is this is even worse than talking about dreams. It's like it's like here's a joke that you're not going to find funny and not going to understand

and now I'm going to explain to you why you should have found it funny. Yeah. That's not going to work. I'm trying to think of a way in which that could be framed to fly but I don't think it would. I'm trying to think of a way in which that could be framed to fly, but I don't think it would I think this is one Of those podcast ideas where it's a podcast idea for your friend to listen to and no one else Yeah, like an audience of one yeah, sorry Sorry, Michael

Three had a tan to yeah, go two? I'd go three. Two or three? Where's the extra mark in it? Where do you see the extra point? I mean, even the title, I don't like the title either to be honest. I think you missed the title. It would be a good idea for a podcast about Unmade Podcast. It would be a good idea for the Unmade Podcast because you and I would pitch into each other,

share a few of our inside jokes as an excuse to tell a story and people listening to go, Oh, it's funny. There's a bit more information about guys and then move on and never have to make it. But having to make it is not a good idea. So, so it's, it's a good, it's a good meta idea, but it's not an actual good idea for a podcast. But we're, of course, we're, we're, but we're not using it that way. We're just judging it and moving on. I mean, we are, we are. And our whole podcast is inside jokes. So of course we like, let's do, uh, let's do

one more, one more today. I've still got so many more here. All right. I've got so many more. We're going to do one more here and then we'll do a couple in the request room. Cause we haven't got a request room properly organized. So we'll do a couple more in the request room for patreon supporters so if you're a patreon supporter go to

patreon.com Slash unmade FM and all that stuff and you can go and listen to a couple more and I'll save some more for a future Date as well because there's still loads of good ones just to clarify You don't if you're if you're a patron supporter You don't go to patron if you're not you should what you want to say if you're patrons supporter already you're just gonna get their request room come in wherever you get your podcast if you're not a patron support you should go to patron slash unmade or whatever it is in order to become a patron support yeah but if you're a patreon supporter right you don't automatically get the request room episodes in your podcast feed on your podcast player and stuff like that

Unless you follow a few steps you need to do a few steps to get the feed into your podcast player So if you're a patreon supporter, they're not just gonna appear in Apple overnight You have to actually go and do a little process do a couple of things to make that okay But but if you're a patreon supporter and you just go to the patreon website to the feed You can just go and listen to it there anyway, podcast player or not. There's like a little play button you can press and you could just listen to it through your browser. So if you can't be bothered getting it onto your podcast player or haven't figured out how to do it and stuff, you could still go to Patreon and listen to it. Okay.

Right. Yes. Yep. So, so I say go to Patreon for everyone. Okay right. Yes. So, so I say go to Patreon for everyone. Uh, but, but yeah, the people who already have it on their player already know all this, so they don't need to be told.

They've already figured it out. Right. Yes, of course. So there we go. Thank you for explaining. Uh, if you're not a Patreon supporter and don't ever want to be one, just ignore everything that just happened and we still love you. George has this one about double lives.

Uh, each week we explore the life of one person who has lived two very different lives. For example, C.T. Studd, he was a professional English cricketer who quickly rose to the England 11 and was at the crease at the conclusion of the historic test that began the Ashes. He soon after left professional sport and became a Christian missionary in China. He did, yes. Surely there are lots of other examples like astronauts who became artists and Amish people who became airline pilots. It could be fun. There you go.

It's a good idea and not that far from my idea recently about people that have two different jobs but a bit different as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is fascinating these some Renaissance people they have a whole other life, a whole other career, whole other change. Fascinating. Amazing. What about Tim Hyen, the Christian minister and educator who was also a podcaster? Tennis player. Oh, tennis player. Yeah, tennis player. You've done that. You're a journo. And then you've sort of branched into this whole YouTube thing that didn't exist when you became a journo.

I know that similar film... It is kind of journalistic. Making films was different for me. But again, it was still kind of media and I don't think I'm a great example of like a dramatic change. Unless you do something new now, what would you do now that would be really different? Mountain climber. Lego designer. A mountaineer would be a change. If I became a mountaineer, surely that would count as a big change.

Yes, it would. Yes, it would. Yes, it would. I'm just not particularly interested in it. Um, okay. But musician, there's a different thing that would be that would catch your attention. If I suddenly became a rock star, you would be like, hang on, what's Brady up to over there? Is he in a band? I would be that would catch your attention if I suddenly became a rock star you would be like hang on What's Brady up to over there? I would be amazed. He's got an album out

Why you just play Wembley? It's just what would happen. Would you be jealous of me if I became a rock star? Yes. Yes. Yes, I would be I would be officially jealous. I would be really really jealous I would be like this is not that's not your thing. You're not allowed to do that. You've got to stay in your lane Hmm, and you've got a few lanes, but I'm not interested in those lanes so you can stay in those lanes You're not jealous of my access to the international math community. For example, no, no, I'm not no no You're happy for Brady. Oh, that's nice. You want a math medal? I'm really happy for you. You want a Grammy? What? That's outrageous.

Because it's not your lane. No, it's not my lane either, but it's my fantasy lane. So you can't. I'm not allowed in your fantasy lane. I'd be happy if you joined one of my lanes. Like if you became a minister, I'd be like, awesome. This is great, Brady. We're colleagues. But if you join my fantasy lane of becoming a rock star, it was a hang on a second. What are you doing in there? You're not allowed in there. How would you feel if I became a minister and you came to my church and watched one

of my sermons and it was like clearly better than your sermons? Well, I don't think that's very likely, is it? I would be absolutely tickled pink. I think it would be amazing. It would be phenomenal. I'd be. I don't feel that way. If you start if you started making science communication videos and they were clearly better than mine,

I'm not sure I'd be happy about that. I wouldn't be thinking, oh, it's okay. As long as the world's learning about science, I'm happy. I'd be like, what? No. Oh, that would be heaps of fun if I just started making videos about the periodic table. Pro prime numbers. Yeah, they're all Tim sort of. Oh, this is, I'm so tempted to do this, film and edit them myself and just like, Oh, serious, not satire, but just try and do my very best to learn what I can and

interview people and just put them out there. Oh, you go ahead. You do that. That's a great idea. What could I call it? You've got a periodic videos. This could be the periodic, the alternative table or the Tim's periodic videos or something.

Oh what did we give that mark out of ten? Did we give George a mark out of ten for double lives? We've had a bit of fun with this I think we've got to give him a pretty good mark. Yeah. Yeah. Seven and a half, eight. I'm gonna give it seven. All this next idea is good but hang on I'm gonna save it for the request room. Sorry, off to the request room people for a couple more ideas and then we've still got loads and loads more ideas so we might come back to this let us know if you enjoyed. Hearing other people's ideas and whether you want more of it or you don't. Can I just say because I have one more prop but I'm gonna I'm gonna bring out my prop in the request room. Tim's gonna get his proper in the request room so that's that's not incentive enough then I don't know what is.

See you there. The secret word is that I would do a cough okay and I thought if I just did a coffee let it about.