The Unmade Podcast - 159: Purple Cars and Ninjas

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

Tim and Brady discuss nail painting, stakeholder medical emergencies, more feel-good movie clips, April Fool’s pranks, a spoon from Cairns, and childhood interests.This week’s Request Room is great - check it out here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/126229753Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFMJoin the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/Catch the podcast on YouTube where we often include accompanying videos and pictures - https://www.youtube.com/@unmadepodcastUSEFUL LINKSTim’s podcast ‘alone time’ from the last episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/tim-goes-solo-124414055Star Trek First Contact clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKGv6uvvQ4cWest Wing silver bullet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV09gESyh0The Spaghetti Harvest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dUPictures of Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-weekCatch the bonus Request Room episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/126229753

And away we go. Are you a nails painter today if you had a nail painting time recently? I have my both daughters have ago but one of them in particular loves it loves to do so I give them one hand my left hand. When was that done? About five or four or five days ago. So does that mean you had painted nails for church on Sunday? Oh yeah yeah yeah I do job interviews for new positions and stuff last week with them on and also I just do the do it all the time. To be honest I quite like it I think it's kind of a quirky little thing but it's there because my daughters are always asking to do it.

Have you ever painted your nails like just of your own volition on your own. No I have never painted my nails. Okay just checking. Have you? I'm sure I've done it like for fun like with a girlfriend or something like you know but I've done the painting like for fun but I've never just on my own bought some nail polish and painted them. Right. Yeah. A lot of that action goes on in our house there's a lot of nail work going on I'm always nervous about the nail polish remover and how it's always sort of.

Perched with the lid off on the side of the couch or somewhere that to me looks too precarious but there always it's fine dad and it's generally fine but I just know that I would I generally yeah I'm sure there are incidences that I don't hear about. I'm sure there are incidences that I don't hear about. I always find it difficult when my wife has her nails done, which she does a lot, and I'm asked for my opinion. What do you think? I don't really have an opinion like they're just like, yeah, they're nails that are painted like they're not bad. I don't have a negative opinion, but I don't really have anything constructive to say. Like I can't really turn it into a conversation. I'm a little bit the same and part of the floor is that I have a very short vocabulary when it comes to colours so I'll say oh right green or blue and I'll be informed dad that's deep sky or it's ocean green or something. Yeah, I also disagree with my wife a lot about colours, like things that I think are black. She says a blue, you know, that's a common one.

Like, oh, I like I like those blue jeans. They're not blue. They're black. Huh? Hmm. Is there any do you have like a like a neutral light that's like the judge? Do you go, well, let's go and have a look under this light and that'll determine if it's truly blue. I haven't done that. You just cave in don't you go yeah well yeah.

Well yeah I'm probably wrong I usually am. In the last episode I was called away from the microphone for a good five to ten minutes due to a sick baby. Oh, yes. And Tim was left alone with a guitar and the microphone and the recorder was rolling and we released that footage and audio to the Patreon supporters and Tim, it went down a storm. It did it really. Let me read some of the reviews. T-Hate said pure gold.

Chris said this song slaps. Thanks, Tim. Michael said, please release a single of the Standing on the Threshold part. It was kind of shooting. I know what slaps means. I don't think I've ever heard shooting. Is that is that a thing? Are you sure these are positive reviews?

None of them say none of them sound particularly slapping and shooting and. I know slaps is good but I didn't know shooting. So I think it is a shut up Tim which is going to mean apparently keep going to him but yeah. Yeah yeah that sucked man keep it up. This is the use of the first when Michael Jackson brought out his album bad but actually he meant good. That was a whole new era and I don't feel like we've flipped back from irony since then everything's wicked. Yeah so anyway well done Tim on your slapping music went down well it's it's you can still go and listen to it and have a watch if you're a patreon supporter or you sign up to be one patreon.com slash unmade FM it's really important as you know we don't have ads in the show. It's sort of existential that we have a bit of patreon support to keep the show going so do consider it and we always make sure there's lots of great bonus material including the request during which we're recording later. That's good I'll keep that song I'll do something with it. In fact.

Alright that's slapped man. That's a segue to my idea but do you want to do, let's just keep going with Parish News don't worry we'll come around to it later. Yeah let's get the Parish Nerds done let's not do the thing we're here to do otherwise people might get confused if we start actually doing podcast ideas. I don't want to promise it's a corker idea but I'm willing to say it's an idea. Alright Tim's podcast idea is coming soon but first, last episode we talked about all sorts of things and we, a real theme of the episode though was medical emergencies. Tim had had his, his overdose or his problem with his antihistamine or whatever it was when he got stung by a jellyfish, which someone actually wrote in and said, they think you actually got stoned him.

There's a certain medication. If you take too much of it, you actually just, you just got stoned. That was the problem. All right. Okay. No, that sounds like a medical term. That's thank you for that. That slaps when you get stoned anyway I had had work done on my shoulder my little boy was sick and we asked people have you ever been sick or gotten sick or been in hospital and things while listening to the podcast.

And we have heard from some people can I share some. Oh yeah like what this is while they're listening to it they've they've been sick or they've put it on for comfort as they recover. I'll share I'll share the stories I don't I don't think recovery counts though that would be too yeah but who we've told us quite coincidentally I'm listening to the podcast from hospital. Like now a ladder I was standing on fell and so I fell with it hit my hip such that I broke the top of my femur and I'm now waiting for a total hip replacement luckily I have Tim and Brady to listen to I guess that is kind of a recovery listen that I said doesn't count but. So she wasn't she didn't fall while she was listening to the podcast. I don't know if it's a she I don't know if coif does a she. Oh sorry I was going to hear but. I could be could be. Like we're not I was just coiffed. Yeah, but. Well, it could be.

Could be like we're not to blame for the hip is what I'm saying. No, no, no. I don't think coif was listening when the fall happened, right. But they happen to be listening to the medical episode while recovering. So I, while waiting for the operation. All right. Fair enough. Here's true two three, three, nine.

I did have a semi medical emergency listening to the podcast. Back in the late summer of 2021, I got my first COVID vaccine in a big gymnasium, which was quite warm because of the many people and the temperature outside. And they had no air conditioning, just two open doors to alleviate the heat and stuffiness. When it was my turn, I told the nurse that I don't like needles and it all went fine and she was quite nice about it. So after getting my vaccine, I popped in my headphones, started the podcast and went to the area where you have to sit for 15 minutes to make sure you don't get an allergic reaction. But whilst reaching for a water bottle in my backpack, the sound of the podcast in my ears got quieter. I managed to think, huh, that's weird. And next thing I knew, I woke up on the floor. I'd fallen off the chair

and the nurse was lightly shaking me and telling me, it seems you fainted. I'd never fainted before. So it was quite a weird sensation. Luckily the nurse got me on a stretcher in a back room, gave me some apple juice and I was alright again she summed it to being the heat my anxiety of needles and not having eaten any breakfast before going so yeah I fainted while listening to Tim and Brady talking on the podcast. I mean it could have been us that made you faint. Well yeah gosh. The fading audio could have been Tim just mucking up his audacity settings. That's true That's true. That's true. I'm sure millions of people have fallen asleep while we've been talking. People listen to podcasts going to sleep.

But fainting is a whole other experience, isn't it? I mean, that's just. Yeah. Have you ever fainted? Yes, I fainted in primary school at our assembly once. And I distinctly remember it standing in line and we're like saluting the flag or saying that thing we used to say at school and the principals up the front this is all outside in like the quadrangle and then I suddenly stepped you know here always getting told stand up straight

don't you know be in line and I was stepping forward and back and forward and back and I was going oh dear I'm really out of line here I'm getting a real trouble and the teacher came up and and I thought they were just gonna grab me by the shoulders and make me stand but they grabbed me and pick me up in. His arms her arms I can't quite remember I think her arms and carried me into the vice principals office and lay me on the ground and put my feet on a chair and yeah I was like he was fainting and I was like oh wow I was fainting it happened for real I wasn't doing something naughty. So wow. I remember that vividly except for the gender of the teacher. It was co-wifter. What about you have you fainted. It was co-wived. That's right. That's right. I just can't. That's right. Yeah. What about you?

Have you fainted? I have never fainted, I don't think. But my first like proper girlfriend, my adult girlfriend, who I took around to my mother's house to meet her, as soon as she went in the house, my mother came walking down the stairs. This girl fainted. She just fainted there on the floor. I don't remember this.

She'd never fainted before. I'd never seen her faint before. Yeah. And I was like, Oh my goodness, you're right. And we got her up and she was all right, but she just fainted. And then my, several years later, uh, I had another girlfriend, you know, proper girlfriend who I took around to meet my mum. We weren't around to the house, went in the front door.

My mum came out to meet her. This one fainted as well exactly it's almost exactly the same spot exactly the same way back to back girlfriends fainted like meeting my mum I don't know if it's my mum's incredible presence. Is there some incense in the house that made them faint when I took the third one to go go around, I had to say, look, I'm just going to warn you, my previous two girlfriends. This one managed to stay on her feet. Number three passed. I mean, your mother is a formidable woman, but that is really quite a coincidence. There's something about you taking a girl over the threshold into a home that makes them faint. It's an overwhelming experience.

Gosh. Yeah. That is quite something. We have here another medical story. Here's Gwann Marvin. A while ago, I was listening to the podcast on my way back from drinking with friends. I had a few drinks too much and it was slippery, so I fell from my bicycle. No hospital visit necessary, but I did have a messed up shoulder and a few broken teeth that the dentist had to replace the next day." That actually sounds really serious to me. Like, they're saying, oh, it's okay, no hospital visit, but they had like broken teeth and a messed up shoulder. Yowch. What does it take to make you go to the hospital, Gwain?

Look, I do. Broken teeth, that's not something that's like going to grow back in time by itself. I mean, they went to the dentist. I do think, I do think the health of the alcohol, it may have been a greater causal factor than the podcast on this occasion, though. Yes, yes. I'm not taking responsibility for that if you're out on the booze. No, no. Teeth cost a fortune.

Yeah, there you go. Be careful people. If you're listening to the podcast right now, be careful. Especially if you're driving in a car and we get to like, maybe it's a moon of the week episode and you reach forward to fast forward. Don't while you're driving, pull over over safely then fast forward and then keep driving. And if my mum's in the passenger seat next to you be really careful. Now another thing we spoke about last episode Tim I'm sure you remember was movie clips or TV clips or pieces of video on things like YouTube that we go back to all the time just for like an emotional hit like you know to make you cry or to make you happy or just to just to give you that emotional something I'm not talking about like you know great pieces of filmmaking and stuff I'm just talking about. Things that give you that stir you that movie we gave a few examples and we encourage other people to get.

Little little glimpse the moments yeah. Yeah yeah Tim kind of implied it's cheating a little bit to go to the you know the emotional payoff the emotional end of on YouTube and then the little snippet the classic moment from a few good men came up in the courtroom and I and I watched that fruit is about four minutes there and it's just like. That's gold that's gold he walks right into it. I probably watched that 10 times since the last episode I literally watched it 20 minutes ago while I was preparing for this episode. Are you serious? It gets because it gets recommended to me a lot and when it's there I'm like oh well I may as well watch it. But yeah anyway I thought of many more afterwards but it's not about us Tim. This is about the civilians and what I've heard from a few of them. Here's Guar who says,

I always go back to this scene from Star Trek First Contact. It's one of my absolute favourite movies of all time and the scene they sent is the one where the Vulcans actually come and make first contact with humans. Tim probably doesn't know that film or that clip but I am familiar with it. Live long and prosper. I'm aware of Vulcans I'm aware of Star Trek I've seen a few of them but I don't remember so that they were commonly involved like that they didn't talk a lot today. They weren't friends Vulcans and the humans. No the Vulcans were good Mr Spock is half Vulcan. Oh.

Pointy ears of the Vulcans. Alright okay. Mr Spock is half Vulcan so anyway I am I am familiar with the scene and just for people who are I'm just gonna say this, Guar, you're not gonna like me saying it because it's one of your favourite clips. I don't like that clip. I don't like the way Star Trek portrayed first contact between humans and other alien civilisation. I thought it treated it too comically, it too glib it was too silly it wasn't momentous enough for my liking. And that's my opinion on that clip but I like that you like it wow sorry to piss on your chips as we say in the UK. Is this one of those Star Trek movies that was made in like the 70s and 80s that are a bit crap or one of the ones from the 90s or. I think it's probably 90s it's like it's it's the it's like the you know Patrick Stewart next next generation Star Trek people movies. Right yep yep the next. happens is they go back in time to like you know around now I think it's some like the twenty thirties or something and they they actually sort of put it back to the future style that kind of put their thing thumb on the scale a little bit with a first contact between humans and aliens but then I show this moment this momentous moment in human history and they're kind of watching from the side from far in the future anyway we're getting way too nerdy let me go on to some more people here.

Yes indeed. What do you know about the wrong thing. Dave Matthews got in touch. Dave Matthews. I don't think it's that Dave Matthews it's a Dave Matthews with quite a long list I have a few movie clips I always cycle back to for badass I like. The docking from interstellar combined with the fantastic soundtrack I agree with that one that's a great scene interstellar when they when the I'm assuming mean the docking with Matt Damon and when it all goes pear-shaped but that's a great thing or and then and then Matthew McConaughey has to do his own docking to save the day great

thing great great movie interstellar great movie movie love it Dave Matthews mentions lots of things I'm not gonna read all of them but for amazing music and perhaps my top pick for Tim the guitar duel from Crossroads. You familiar with that. Yeah yeah blues and stuff Eric Clapton song yeah yeah. I watched that scene thinking I'll have a look at this because Dave Matthews included the link and I didn't dig it but I didn't know the film so I had no context. They also mentioned the learning to fly scene from how to train your dragon that's got some good music and for emotional fixes Dave recommends too many scenes from Forrest Gump but meeting Forrest Jr. for the first time is one of my favourites. That is a very lovely scene. Yeah. The speech from secondhand lions, which I wasn't familiar with. And my name is Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.

And there are far too many Lord of the Rings clips to even link. So there you go Dave. A long list. Dave's busy. Basically him going back to scenes is basically, like I would take it, there there are so many of them it's not really going back very often is it. No and our flying sent us a long list I'll just mention some. Finding Nemo where Nemo Marlon and Dory are guiding the fish in the net to work together and keep swimming down to overpower the boat. to work together and keep swimming down to overpower the boat. Yep.

I love Finding Nemo and that's a good scene, but my Finding Nemo scene that always gets me is the very end when he's going off to school, but he comes back and tells his daddy loves him. I love that. Love her. Oh, Mr. A, wait, I forgot something. Love you, Dad. I love you too, son. I love that the bit that I quote the most is about the shark when the guy goes sorry about Bruce mate. I love that. Bruce the shark.

And also, and our flying mentions inside out where sadness is allowed to take control and Riley returns to her parents. I know Tim loves that. That's a legend. That's legendary. In fact, I use that in my book that I was just totally wiped out at that moment. I was I was in tears. Magnificent. Sadness takes control. I was watching that film this morning because my little boy loves it.

Oh, right. Loves it already. That's great. He loves both Inside Out movies. Obviously, he doesn't understand the nuance of what's going on inside the head and everything, but he loves both storylines. He likes the real life Riley and he likes the colourful characters in the head. Oh, that's lovely. And then as he gets older, the penny will drop on the deeper meanings and stuff.

Aardie, Aardie got in touch with a long list as well. Things that were mentioned were the movie after sun, whenever I miss spending time with a parent lost in translation if I'm feeling alone and the Gilmore girls if I'm happy about it the first song from up is quite soppy for me. Yeah. And so is the sad scene in Jojo Rabbit. I don't know the Jojo Rabbit one but obviously the start to up is a classic piece of filmmaking very moving. Jojo Rabbit I haven't seen the rest of I saw the first part of it and I was really enjoying it like this is a great movie and then I got a text I was interstate in Melbourne and a text from a mate saying do you want to catch up and because I was just there for one night I'm like well I'm not seeing a movie when I can catch up with my friend. I was just there for one night I'm like well I'm not seeing a movie when I could catch up with my friend and so I left the movie cinema about a third of the way in and went off and had a drink and caught up with my friend and I've never gone back and seen the rest of the songs from sound of music so we go watch them a lot as clips.

If you're gonna go and watch one song from the sound of music is a clip what would it be right now. My favourite scene in it is the love scene at the end you can't marry someone if you're in love with someone else can you Jesus no and then. with someone else can you Jesus know and then the Reverend mother says whenever the door closes the door he opens a window and then he says my favourite line he says what else does the Reverend mother say she says you have to look for your life and then it gets me every time I love it it's beautiful yeah I love that it's so romantic it's lovely they're coming together it's like they're you know they're adults it's just it's marvellous scene I love it. What else does the Reverend mother say. Do you feel sorry for the Baroness in that film. No.

She probably gets done over a bit doesn't she she's not like a bad person. No she's superficial though and she's not really interested in the kids she doesn't want the family she just wants him yeah. Okay. No no. just was him yeah. Okay. No, no. Kai says, I just listened to the latest episode and wanted to share a clip from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that I watch when I feel the need to cry. It never fails me.

The scene is when Mac, a main character that has struggled with his sexuality over the seasons, comes out to his dad who is in prison via interpretive dance. At the start, it comes off as hilarious I mean the set up alone is funny but by the end I'm in tears. A film I haven't seen for a long time that I watched obsessively is dead poet society. I want a film. I know what a wonderful film and I won't say the line from the great moment because it's old enough now that a lot of people may not have actually seen it but go back and watch the film dead poet society I need to rewatch that it's been a long time. Captain my captain. Yes thank you Brady. That's not spoiling it. No it's not actually is it no it's not out of context of course it isn't.

Thank you boys. Seize the day. Chaz says I work for a school district in Nevada with all that's going on I watch the education is the silver bullet clip from the West Wing to remind myself why we do what we do. Hmm that's a good line I often think about that we know education can be the silver bullet schools should be palaces or cathedrals what I just watch that same back to remind myself it's obviously delivered by Sam Seaborn character played by Rob Lowe. And there are many many scenes in the West Wing I love and I love the West Wing but that little bit watching it back came across a little cheesy little just a little bit too much cheese a little bit too contrived not sure not sure I still dig it. Education is the silver election campaign with his. Richie that's right he's up against Richie yeah and he's talking about how Richie's having a go and I think he has a go to Richie or to someone else saying you know you shouldn't be lowbrowing education and people who have studied because especially when we know that education can be the silver bullet you know it can be the thing that lifts women out of poverty and lifts people out of poverty. This seems when Sam's impresses Mallory because Mallory thinks he's against school vouchers because he's just argued and then and then she realizes he's not and he does his little little monologue about how important schools are and she looks at him all doe-eyed. Yeah.

Not just that he's incredibly handsome but he also is like pro education and stuff like that but that whole Sam and Mallory storylines never went anywhere did it. You stood there and argued with me. We can continue the argument but it's lunchtime now we're gonna have lunch. No no there's a few things in the West Wing that just didn't go anywhere. Yeah no she just disappeared she probably dodged a bullet there he's working crazy hours and then he ends up running running for Congress. She dodged the silver bullet. That's right she ran he runs for Congress I never knew why he didn't just come back after that but he goes off and works for his big wealthy law firm again and is gonna marry someone else and he just got slips like without Josh around like in his ear about you know motivating him Sam just. I mean so much for you know the working poor and education and all that stuff. Well it's actually that Rob Lowe didn't want to be in the West Wing anymore because he was throwing his toys out of the pram because he thought he was going to be the big star of the show.

And well that's true. That's the real story. Yeah. He comes back at the end there's a bit of redemption so that's not. Yeah we get him at the end. I tell you he wears a good shirt Rob Lowe. He does. He does.

He wears a white shirt like no man on earth. No, there's one man that wears it better. I'm sure I've told this story. When I used to work for News Corporation, one day, Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's son, came in to do a tour of the building and have a look around. And then he came into the news floor where we were working to give like a speech to the troops, you know, keep up the good work and all that sort of stuff. He had like his little posse of men in suits around him, but he was the big deal. We were working to give like a speech to the troops, you know, keep up the good work and all that sort of stuff. He had like his little posse of men in suits around him, but he was the big deal. And he was wearing just a business shirt and a tie. And I've never seen a white shirt look better on a man than that.

Like it just looked like he was- it just looked like it belonged on him. And it made me realise when you have lots and lots of money to get tailored shirts, you can actually have shirts that really good. I've just, I just couldn't believe how good he looked just wearing a white shirt. This was when he was in great shape as well and he was at peak handsomeness. Yeah, yeah. So all the women on the news floor were like, you know, swooning. God, that shirt looked good on him. It was amazing. Did it have a French cuff or did it have, you know, shiny?

Or was it just like it was well cut? I wouldn't have had a clue, man. I was just wearing some crappy shirt from Roger David. Yeah. And I was like, just looking at his guy, oh, wow, that's a shirt. I couldn't tell you why it was good. If you said, why does it look good, Brady? You can talk me through why I look better than your shirt.

I don't have the knowledge or the vocabulary or anything. It just looked good. That's like, why can't a shirt look like that on me? Yeah. Did you, did you think about asking a question? Like he's there announcing the future of the newspaper. You put up your hand and you go, can I just ask? And I say, and I say, I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality.

You look fabulous. Anyway. Ideas for a podcast, Tim, you promised us one. You go first. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So listen, the day that we're recording this is the 1st of April in well in Adelaide it's not yet the first of April where you are but that means of course. It is how is it the first of April there already. It's the first of April in the morning where is the first of April at night yeah silly me because we've got to the end of the day.

I'm still in the April fools zone because it's before midday you're allowed to trick people are you so I'm. That's right. Tricked so go easy on me. I will I will go easy on you but look I actually pulled a prank on my staff this morning actually at our meeting I hadn't planned to but I was in the middle and I have the meeting and I suddenly look down the agenda and I suddenly remembered. the middle and I have the meeting and I suddenly look down the agenda and I suddenly remembered all it's April Fool's Day what can I do here I've got to do something and we've been doing like hiring people and letting people know what's happening with this position and that position and all good news and stuff and then I got to the end and I said look you know how I wrote a song recently and they were aware that I'd written a song and we were

going to do it in church and stuff and and I said well actually I send it to a friend of mine in the UK who does like Christian music sort of stuff professionally and you know what he was really impressed and they're sort of nodding along you know. I guess it's the boss of the guy oh yeah this is good so I know actual comment about the song I said well I actually sent a few more demos that I've been working on. song. I said, well, I actually sent a few more demos that I've been working on and he likes them as well. In fact, he really likes them and did a bit of work with them and we've been going back and forward and he's really excited and there's a bit of traction. And so he's invited me to come over in July and spend a month songwriting together. And they're all looking at me like nodding with their eyebrows up like, cool, that's all the rest of them and I said and then what we've been talking about that and if that goes well he's actually got a house like near near where he stays near his studio and And and I'm gonna be going over

and It's he's got a position for me to start next year And I'm gonna be songwriting with him and then playing guitar and performing across Europe so I'm actually going to be resigning and finishing up here at the church. And at that point a couple this isn't the first time Tim's announces of course. And I said to follow my music dream, right? And my wife was on FaceTime and she's like, she literally said, I've not heard about any of this. And several of them at that point, just lean back with a look on their face. Oh, hang on, hang on here.

What's going on? But I look across the table at this, this other beautiful person who works for us. And she's looking with absolute horror. Cause she's heard you sing, man. She's probably worrying the people of Europe. My God. It's going to be awful. Oh dear.

And what did you then go? April fools. Yeah. Then another, another person goes, I think you're doing an April fools on us. And so forth. And I said, that's right. Yeah. And then, and then around the table, it was like, okay, okay, okay. And I tell you, the insight, I was so flattered that she thought it was like half possible that oh yeah well I guess we did write that one song so I guess he could make a career out of it. I thought you're gonna say I was touched that they were sad of my departure but no you just liked that they believed it was possible you're gonna be a music star.

Yes yes that's exactly right that's exactly right. That's exactly right. Yeah. I asked her later on at lunch. I said, do you, did at any time in that time, did you thought go through mind? Ah, my moment to take the reins. The King's gone. Here we go. Very nice. So what's your idea for a podcast?

Oh, the idea. Look, I think, I think there's an, I love hearing about these stories. I love hearing stories about April Fools. So my idea for a podcast is telling stories about April Fools or even going further and planning April Fools. Planning? I found a couple of legendary ones online. Did you want to hear about a couple of the more legendary ones?

Go on then. Tell me, tell me the ones you think are most legendary. Well I've been what do you mean that I think the most legendary. What you could you choosing them from the ones you've read online these are the ones you've chosen to bring to the table. So April fools has been going on for quite a while and it's quite a global thing so some of these examples go way way way back but this one is in in 1980 the BBC World Service announced that London's most famous landmark Big Ben was getting a facelift. The broadcaster told listeners that to help tourists at the time Big Ben top clock tower was going digital and television hack in in Sweden so one of the. This is in the years before color television there was a particular television station that tricked a lot of its viewers into believing that they could transform their black and white screens into color because they were hearing about color like around the world is an emerging technology with like a really easy DIY kind of hack.

So this technical expert went on there into intricate detail explaining how if you stretch certain kinds of mesh over the screen of your TV it bent the lights wavelengths which allowed you to see TV in full Technicolor and this could be like achieve with like nylon stockings and things along the house and so this this thousands and thousands of people fell for this sort of. Trick that they were trying it at home there's other ones about like even going back to like 1877 some publication called the New York graphic talked about how you know Thomas Edison who's become like legendarily famous and so forth had created a new machine that was capable of turning dirt into meat and water into wine. So they've got this headline Edison invents a machine that will feed the human race that's back in 1877 can you believe that. That's back in 1877 can you believe that. I have to say when I was a boy I thought April Fool's Day was brilliant and I loved it and I loved reading about it and finding out what happened but now I don't like it. Like you actually don't like it. I don't like the sort of the tricking and the lying and the lying is a harsh word like you know I don't I'm not accusing you of lying to your staff today in a moment of fun but I think I just don't like it and I feel I feel like it's also changed now in the modern world of in the modern time of 24 7 news and social media and constant information and constant misinformation. information and constant misinformation. Yeah. I don't think April Fools Day has a place anymore.

Yeah. Like back in the old days when everyone got their news from BBC World Service and there was like a trusted authority or something in the newspapers and you could have just like a one joke from that source. Like it kind of worked and I kind of got it and you know, but now when we're so bombarded with information and we're so bombarded with information that's conflicting and some's true and some's not and you don't know what to believe in that I don't think April Fool's Day has a place anymore. Yeah that's that's an interesting point I get what you're saying yeah the other thing that struck me today when I was looking at a few others of examples is how how it pretty much has become a marketing ploy like a huge amount of it's the companies that are pushing them and it's like we got to do two big campaigns ones for the Super Bowl and ones for April Fool's Day this product isn't going to be available and that that is old that is getting really old. Yeah not like the old days in 1957.

in 1957 when the BBC still pulled off what it's called the ranks is one of the most famous April Fool's Day gags of all time when 8 million people tuned in to watch a three minute feature on the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Most important of all it's resulted in an exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop. The last two weeks of March are an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer. Spaghetti that's the one that is the most famous April Fool's prank. And you've heard about that one before, have you? I have. Yeah, I know that one very famous one where they pretended that spaghetti was being hot. I've seen footage of spaghetti being pulled off trees or something, isn't it? That's right. And bushes and so forth and things like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a lot of people fooled.

That's right and bushes and so forth and things like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a lot of people have fooled. Another reason why this may be a bumper year lies in the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil, the tiny creature whose depredations have caused much concern in the past. That's like the I think that's like one of the seminal April Fool's jokes. So, Tim, fun idea. Always fun to talk about pranks. what you did not the podcast for me. If that's okay.

Is there another dimension to the podcast not just listing them talking about them or talking to people and how they pulled them off and executed them and all the rest of it and how clever they are but is there some dimension of planning them or something like that as well podcasting a good for planning ideas though are they not the same way a live radio show is. It'd be fun to try and start like a rival to April Fool's Day like a new day where you trick people like on a different date. Yeah that's. And like start like a like a rival. Like a move yeah right like a movement. Well you know how they have Halloween which is the night before all Saints day it's like the dark side of I wonder if April 2 could be like a really wholesome day we could make it like truth day or wholesome day. Instead of fools when you do something that's completely genius. You bet the fool isn't isn't it's that you were fooled you were tricked it's not that you're what's the opposite of being. Are you a fool for falling for it.

I guess you are I guess that's right. I looked into the history of April Fool's Day and it's very ambiguous and no one really knows it's mentioned in early literature like the Canterbury Tales and things but no one really knows where it came from like it's not based on a religious custom or anything like that like like Halloween. Do you think it must suck to have your birthday on April 1st? It probably does. Yeah. Yeah. It probably gets old. Yeah.

Yeah. What day would you least like to be your birthday? Probably Christmas Day. Hmm. Yeah. I often feel sorry for Jesus for that reason. That was incredibly unlucky, wasn't it? Very unlucky. And, and then to die at Easter.

Yeah I know you stick to all the key days. I wonder if I know Easter's is a moving feast obviously for we all know the reasons that Easter falls on different days but I wonder if if there is, I wonder, well, obviously there are people, but I wonder about people who were born on Christmas day and who died on Easter of the year they died in. You know, they died, they died on Easter. But I wonder if that's like a special category of person. I don't understand what you mean. I'm not following you. So someone, just someone, born on 25th of December and died on Easter so whatever day Easter was in the year they died. You know yeah. They died on Good Friday yeah yeah.

Oh yeah Good Friday sorry of course yeah Good Friday yeah. You know there is a movement afoot amongst the different religions like an ecumenical movement for Easter to be fixed as a particular weekend every year cause it moves around because it's like the second moon of the harvest of whatever on the greering calendar but there's a bit of a movement that you know to sort of fix it. People feel it would have greater prominence or something like that I'm not sure why it moves but I'm sure there's a very good reason for it. Shall we do spoon of the week. Here we go. Yes. Spoon of the week. Often I bring a spoon on from the vast vat of mum and dad's collection and I've got no idea where it came from.

On this occasion, I can remember dad coming home with this spoon. Wow. It was in 1988 and he took a trip up to a place called Gelatin which is where his daughter was living and around there this is very very far north Queensland right up there you're looking at the Australian map the pointy bit on the right top it's he was right up the top there. So this is a spoon from Cairns which is a sort of a large city up there but he was actually bit further up than that and it's of a very very large butterfly. It's a tropical area and so there's lots of these sorts of tropical big butterflies everywhere

and and he came home with a whole collection of spoons he came home from this trip with a lot of spoons he loved this trip it was a really really precious time he came back with. Did he drive up there from Adelaide did he say he would have gone through lots of towns and places or do you fly up. No he I think he caught a coach bus up and then flew home and he just had a magnificent time but he came back with all sorts of. Tourist crap like you know towels and these spoons these spoons of course but then also like t-shirts and stuff so through the end of the eighties into the early nineties whenever it's like dad's working in the garden or something like that here He's around the house so many of the photos He has this you know sort of a slightly too tight t-shirt that just says cans or North Queensland or good I'm mate from North Queensland or something like that. Yeah, this was this that you got a lot of merch on this particular holiday So paint a picture of the spoon for people who can't see a photo of it

well the bottom bit the scooby bit is pretty standard small and the stem is nice, it's got little ridgets but in a very simple sort of design. It's not replicated on the back, the back's quite smooth and then you come up to the top bit and then it just says the handle where it's got a And and then it just says the handle where it's got a the top of the handle it's got a very chunky piece there where it just says cans and then above that it's it's sort of shaped exactly like a butterfly but the wings of the butterfly so wide and chunky they go out further than the scooby bit there wider than the Scooby bit very top heavy very top heavy chunky it jumped out at me looking down into the collection and it's blue. Famous blue butterflies you know that kind of look almost. The metallic shiny blue butterflies I can't remember what they're called but it's a good looking butterfly it's good looking spoon that's what it is. what they're called but yeah it's a good-looking butterfly. It's a good-looking spoon that's what it is. Do you remember being excited when your mum or dad would add a new spoon to the collection however it came to be in the collection was it like a moment like you go oh nice spoon

or were you kind of oblivious to the spoons as a boy? It was a moment in excited is a bit too much like it wasn't like you know the court scene of of a few good men it wasn't like that but it was. You can't handle the spoon. I wouldn't replicate it by walking back to the living room and looking at it again and there we go that was quite a moment but I would note it because it would be like oh here we go this was another one that's going into the collection it would be noted and he would. the collection it would be noted and any would dad you know you unpack stuff when you come back from a holiday so you guys and I got this spoon and you go nice hold that nice spoon and put that down. So I noted it even though I wasn't a big spoon aficionado myself I noted it as something and it's like oh here we go can I and I'd walk over and put it on sometimes or something like that. Who knew what a role those spoons were to play in your life? What a privilege. I know, I know. Incredible.

Building a legacy, that's what it was doing. It was, it was, it was, it was something special. Speaking of things that are special, our Patreon supporters are very special. They are. I tell you what, if you like a top heavy spoon, the Unmade Podcast Sp spoon is a top heavy spoon. I wasn't giving away a spoon today it's not on my list of giveaways. I didn't do a spoon. Are you serious? I can't well I didn't plan to.

No it's not on the list today. Well how can you can you spin the wheel or do something I feel like that's. No I don't I need to check my spoon stocks I haven't planned for it. Sorry. What if what okay what if you do that after this and then it's sent as a surprise to someone, someone they don't know who they are, they will receive it. Well, what do you think about that? I'll think about it. I'll think about it.

That means no. As any parent knows, when you say I'll think about it, maybe later. That's a no. Let me, how about if I go to the patron page and I flick through close my eyes and open up at a name. No you're saying no that's- All right go on. All right here we go. Go to the Patreon page on our website the wall of thanks or whatever we've called it.

It's a big long list of names. All right here we go here we go. Have you got it? How are you doing this choice this is breaking all the rules it's not being done with my algorithm obviously. No no how do I get to their to runs names hang on there we go membership top menu there says like wall of thanks or something doesn't there's a list of everyone who's a patron stakeholder. Wall of thanks there we go alright so there's a nice lift list here maybe what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go with my scroll bar I'm gonna go up and down and up and down and up and down and then I'm just gonna close my eyes and the first one when I open them I'm gonna look at okay. Trolls home Trolls home. There we go. Trolls. You home there we go.

Trolls. You got you got a spoon spoon coming your way. Massively unlucky for Murray Barnes and Sammy F who were just above and below trolls and micro flitch of my eyeball would have put my eye on to them. I'm sorry. eyeball would have put my eye on to them. I'm sorry. I'll tell you who our winners though. We're going to send one of our key rings, one of our Australian nut leather key rings to as Asmita from Canada. I'm going to send one of my special asteroid cards, which isn't really official unmade podcast memorabilia, but I'm still a bit excited about it.

And these are the best postcards I've ever had made they've even got like silver shininess on them. You haven't I haven't received one yet are you sending one to me. I will if I remember yeah cause I'm gonna do a big post big post day in the next day or two so I'll try to remember. Robert Robert from Czech Republic you're getting one of those and spoon of the week collector cards going to Simon from Sweden and Nicodemus from Cyprus. Nicodemus from Cyprus yeah that's awesome I know it's like lucky live 2000 years ago and then here he is today. I know he should be writing books in the Bible not getting collector cards of spoons. That's right. Wow. Brilliant.

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Here's my idea for a podcast. Just simple, simple, no, no bells and whistles, no great laughs. Just it is what it is. This podcast is called, The Thing My Kid Is Into. Right. And each episode you take a thing that your kid is into, or I would take a thing that Edward, my son is into, and just do a deep dive into that topic, but in a really adult way. Not through the eyes of a child, but like a really sophisticated adult look at whatever my kid is really into that week. Because with kids, it can change week to week. Sometimes there'll be things they're into for a month or two, one month. Sometimes it could be just a few days,

but you just take whatever is in the zeitgeist of your child and take a look at it research it learn more about it. So do you mean like they're really into picking their nose at the moment or. Well I don't know about that it more like at the moment it was really into purple cars in fact he's been into purple cars for a long time if you say what do you wanna watch on youtube what do you wanna play with very often will be purple cars. I think he's like saying the word purple and purple is his favorite color and he loves cars so I'd love to do an episode about purple cars who are some people who owns purple cars what percentage of cars that are sold a purple. Let's go deep into purple cars. I presume Prince had a purple car. I'm sure he probably did. Yeah.

Who else has had purple cars? I don't know. Do any superheroes drive purple cars? I'm sure some do. Oh, there is one you can buy. Like the Joker. I think the Joker probably has a purple car. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Especially from the first remade Batman movie from 1990. He'd be into purple stuff. Some other, I mean, some other things, some other other episodes that I would if I was making a bunch of episodes right now we would have purple cars scooters skateboards Snakes an episode all about snakes

Skydiving is a new thing He's become absolutely obsessed with and loves watching videos of skydiving and talking about it and he's got he's he's just Fascinated by skydiving people jumping out of planes. I would have thought there was an age limit on that but anyway. You'd think so but you go on YouTube and there's some in some countries you can they can jump out pretty young strapped to their strap to an adult but. Who's who's who's strapped to a parachute yes hopefully not just strapped to an adult. I do have to constantly explain that backpacks got a. Parachute yes hopefully not to strap to an adult.

Would be with the ball yeah that yeah that's an awesome movie that's wonderful. Lovely film great film but also it was based on a really short Disney film from years and years ago that's only about five ten minutes long. five, 10 minutes long. There's like a short version than the old, old, old days of animation. And then they turned it into a full length feature. So you could go, you could explore all the history of that. Ferdinand Rockets loves Rockets, of course. Yeah. A complete history of chips, potato chips, fried chips, love chips, episode about chips. What are some episodes, if you had to make three or four episodes right now about things your kids are into what what would I be expecting on Tim's version of this podcast what are your kids into. Well there's nail polish as I mentioned before. That'd be great having you having to research nail polish the history of nail polish when did people start wearing it why do they wear it what to other cultures do what are their attitudes to nail polish.

I imagine the men might have wore in the Elizabethan period maybe it was the men of court the war them what is much like like they did with the powder yeah Disney massively into Disney deep dive into Star Wars and my eldest is. is you know like much further than me you know like all that we're particularly with all the new series that's coming out now, right across all of them when they're coming what order they're in good bad ugly all that kind of stuff right massively into that stuff they love up shopping so the notion of selling second hand clothes, and the place selling their own clothes as well do they do they sell their own stuff to make money. No I mean we bag stuff up when we're done with it and take it to the op shop but we just love up shopping love going to thrift shops and looking through for cool fashion stuff massively massively into that. There there are a little passing like novels but then they move through different series they're much more likely to find a particular author read everything from that author read it all again then move to the next order so a particular author at a particular time and who's who's in vogue at the moment you know any of the moment. I can't remember the author's name but they're certainly murder thrillers those ones are huge with my youngest. Just yeah murder mystery kind of things. How old do you have to be before you start reading murder books? I don't know but to my mind she got into it way too early. So on the one hand something comes up on the TV that's a bit yucky and it's like oh my goodness grace the TV has to go off terribly verified.

Instead she goes to her room and reads about you know people being you know hacked to death and then the investigation on working out. I just don't understand that at all but yeah that's big really big obviously that sort of moved to be past the Harry Potter. Bit over bit done with Harry Potter now that's that's a bit in the past and sort of lingers and hangs there but you know. Well I wonder if the TV show coming will sort of renew interest there. Oh that's right yeah I did buy a quidditch game but that's been a massive hit. So I think it's kind of done a little bit. I meant to ask you actually, like only semi related, but you mentioned Star Wars. I bought you as a gift when I was over that, that little Lego Millennium Falcon. And I know you built that with your daughter. What have you done with it? Oh yeah yeah look we had a great time with that that was fantastic she did a little bit on her own and then we did heaps of it together over a few days that was fantastic just. Where is it where is it being displayed. It's on the shelf I'll have to send you a photo it's it we have like a shelf on a big bookshelf we have like a Lego shelf now and it's got a range of Lego items that have been well made like the house from is it up the house from up.

Range of Lego items that have been well made like the house from is it up the house from up and then it's got some other bits and pieces and and the Millennium Falcons there looks fantastic. Did building it make you think any differently about Lego because obviously we have this disagreement about whether Lego is a toy or like a model building did you feel like you were playing with a toy or did you sort of start feeling a little bit more growing up about it. Oh no I felt like I was it was an enjoyable toy I was enjoying it but because you I think the reason why I think it's a toy is do what you want and if you're having to follow rigid rules and precise blueprints that seems more grown up to me. Don't get me wrong I love I think Lego should be more about you know just freestyling and being creative but yeah I think if you're following like just really complicated instructions it seems more sophisticated almost. Don't say that by like a paint by numbers painting or something like that. Good point look I enjoyed it and it made me want to go out and buy more Lego so if I know that was kind of your purpose. No no no no it was not my purpose it was not my purpose. No it did make me was like why don't we do this all the time it's really I tell you what it's nice it's a bit like having you know some people enjoy having a puzzle on the go in the house and it's not like you're doing it all the time it's like you're doing stuff and then you just go over and do it for a while. There we go and walk away and it's nice having that on the go means you can't use the table for dinner or anything like that but just having that on the go is on the on the tables like yeah cool I'll do this for a bit.

I've got a friend that does that he'll buy like a really big Lego set that will have like you know 20 bags because they're broken into little subsets with bags for each section and he'll just say I'm just going to do a bag tonight just one bag. No more I'm not going to get carried away just a just one maybe two bags let's see how we go but like I I'm just gonna do bag three and four tonight and then he'll go back a week later and do bag five. Yeah yeah yeah yeah I can see that being really cool and I can see that being really great with kids as well you know like. Let's let's together do one you do one I'll do one or something like that you know like the whole family can one after another but I am I tell you what I was impressed by I was impressed by how much. Specificity and detail they were in the bits of the model that aren't going to be seen from the outside. Yes that strikes me and that that really goes up another level with some of the bigger Lego sets to you know the insides will be incredibly intricate. So it has like an inner integrity but then it also means the outer can doesn't have to be all closed either you know because even just a glint of an eye all the way through means it looks it looks real it makes it look more sophisticated so. Yeah I was impressed with it and very grateful to you it was a great gift and a lot of fun. Oh well you play your cards right maybe I'll get you the big Millennium Falcon one day.

I don't know if I'm ready for that man my daughter is but I'm not sure. I only got Tim that smaller one by the way I didn't get him the ultimate collector series I don't think he's. I don't know the life size one that you can actually fly. actually fly. I think this is a pretty good idea I think what is the purpose like just for enjoyment or is it for like tips and hints on what to get into with your kids. I think it would be no no I don't think it's about like your children I think it's about putting together a series of episodes on disparate topics for adults but the method for choosing those disparate topics. Is the randomness of children's interests cause there would be a kind of weirdness to it isn't it one week you doing purple cars the next week you doing. Rocket ships and things but but like so the the method of choosing the topics is kind of. A little bit quirky let me ask you this like obviously your girls are more grown up now and have slightly more sophisticated interests when they were younger they would have had those more.

Simple and cute interests and there are so many of them and I know they come and go so quickly but the other one or two that. I really burned in your memory is things that were really into his little little girls that you still think god are into that and it was such a such a weird or wonderful thing they're into. Two things come to mind immediately what one of them is their compulsion from years and years and years to put on a show for us to watch. Right. Like night after night they come to us and say we've got a show can you guys watch you know before bedtime a show like we've got a show and so we would go out and sit on you know this particular toy box and so forth and one of them would be the master of ceremonies you know and now the amazing you know so far. And we'd clap and then the other one would come in and like be balancing a spoon on their head or something and yeah and then but then there's always one of them is like the roadie like coming in you know from the side holding up something like pretending not to be seen but they could be totally seen and you know lots of really funny stuff like that. Those shows were they went on and on and on and on they were legendary so a lot of fun and of course it had dress ups and all that kind of stuff going on too so that was really cool. Would you and your wife have ever put on a show for them? No sometimes we would have to be involved like you do something now or something like that but most of the time it was you sit there and watch you know that was kind of it. And you don't add any improvement like you can't say anything like hey why don't you put the hat over here and that would be no no no no no no.

No constructive criticism here but there's not welcome. No constructive criticism here. You're not welcome. Totally, totally. Just passive admiration and applause. Yeah. Yeah. So that was cool. The other one that I remember a little bit, but they were reminding me of this actually

the other day. And that was they went through a bit of a ninja stage. So they've been freaking out because I bought a couple of bandanas and I bought these bandanas with the purposes of playing tennis, right? Because just keeping sweat off my face so my glasses don't slip around. But of course, putting them on, I immediately look like I'm in an LA gang from 1987. I look ridiculous and they're horrified at the idea that I would wear these outside. So of course, I've started wearing them outside and everywhere. But they were talking about when they used to wear bandanas around their head like the karate

kid. Although they hadn't seen the karate kid, but they did have a whole ninja stage where they would sort of – it was sort of ninja, but they weren't into the martial arts side it was more the parkour kind of you know. Element of it so I can jump on here then I can climb over here then I can walk across the bench and so I can get in the front of the house to the back of the house without touching the ground they were really into that for a while and. They were really into that for a while and yeah yeah. Nice Edward quite likes assault courses and obstacle courses at the moment and we've just yesterday I bought him like these stepping stones and balance beams and that's so we can set up more elaborate. Obstacle courses in the lounge he likes he likes a bit of that coming up with a coming up with an assault course. I showed them that scene from the US version of the office where they're doing parkour around the office and like just crashing and smashing everything it's like terrible. I don't know. That's very good.

They got to jump off the shed outside and just massively hurt themselves. We are now going to retire to the request room. I'm looking forward to this. Lots of great questions and things that we've got. There'll be a lot of ranking of things. Yes, yes. I've got the list. Yes. We've got some lists and ranking of things that we got there'll be a lot of ranking of things. Yes. Yes. I've got the list. Yes.

We've got some lists and ranking of things that are going to happen. So, uh, go, uh, become a Patreon supporter, uh, a stakeholder as we like to call them and be part of all that and support the show. We're really grateful for your support. It really helps keep us going. And if we can get a few more people, we can do more stuff. So patreon.com slash unmade FM. Can I ask a question if people become patron now can they go back and listen to

all the old request rooms or only just from year on? Yes. They can. Yes. There you go nice. Yeah. But today's is good I've got two lists let's go let's go. Let's do it all right we're off.