The Unmade Podcast - 187: Scar Tissue

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

Tim and Brady discuss a brief appearance on TV, bodily scars, Alice Springs, and moments of immense (but undue) pride.Catch this week’s Request Room for animals being marked out of 10 and an Elvis impersonation - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM/posts/171471637Support 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 TV appearance (for Patrons) - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM/posts/171472073Lethal Weapon 3 scar scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOsA4nH8yEAlice Springs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_SpringsJohn Flynn Memorial Church - https://northernterritory.com/gb/en/alice-springs-and-surrounds/see-and-do/john-flynn-memorial-uniting-churchPictures of Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-weekCatch the bonus Request Room episode - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM/posts/171471637

Man, you were on the real TV this week, is that true? That's right. The good old-fashioned television. That's where you find me these days, on the box. What happened? Why were you on the boob tube? Well, I was just at the pub, right? My day off, I had bought a book.

I was sitting at the pub. I was reading the book and doing a bit of journaling and the media found me, the paparazzi. What's going on? You were papped. Well, it's a lovely outdoor area, right, in Rundell Street. And I was just sitting there and... Centre of the city, this is. Yeah.

Oh, totally. Yeah, Rundal Street, Adelaide. Come on. Just for those few listeners we have that don't live in Adelaide, I thought I'd clarify this is sort of a city centre pub. That's right. I should have only had to say my local, but anyway. Well, yeah, and so word got out to a cameraman,

who identified himself as from one of the major news channels. And I'm like, well, here we go. Which channel? You can tell us. Channel 7. Right. Channel 7. Yep.

Yep. And then he went along saying, look, I need to get some B-roll kind of footage of people drinking. Would you oblige? And the table next to me was full of happy customers, and they were very happy to oblige. And I said, all right, then. All right, then we go.

And I took a swig of my Cooper's vintage ale. and he goes, oh, the look away drink, you're a pro. So you did like a sort of a, you did like a brooding look into the distance, did you as you're sipping? I did, I immediately just moved into sort of, you know, like I looked over to the distance and, you know, took a swig. And I'm, you know, just this look, looking in the middle distance. And he just loved it. And that was it. One take.

That was it. He was like, oh, you're a pro. Fantastic. One take, high. Just to clarify, you were already drinking a beer. It wasn't like you bought a beer. just for the cameras. You were like just drinking on your day off in the day on your own.

That's right. Yeah, it's Friday afternoon. And the sunshine, I'm just having a beer sitting there reading a book in my usual seat outside in the sun. And he came along to me. So I took another swig and apparently it was so impressive that it featured in a collage of a lot of people taking a drink. Look, the story was actually about wine.

It was about the fact that South Australia has an massive oversupply of wine at the moment. And apparently we're not helping those of us that have decided to buy a beer in the afternoon rather than a wine. So that's how the story started. So you didn't speak or anything. You were just like a generic B-roll shot of man-drinking beer, sort of like, you know, story block style. I feel like you're playing it down a little bit, man. Right. It was, certainly I spoke to the cameraman, thanked him for my, you know, his compliment around my style.

I mean, it was obviously good if it made the edit, man. you know, I'm sure he got thousands of shots and yours was one of the few that made it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't mention my name, but, and they didn't sort of, you know, put up any information about me, you know, my social media channels or anything like that. Tim Hine, local church leader drinking beer on weekday. Shaka. Yes. No, that was it.

Yes, so, yes. I had one beer. I had a sip of it. It was on the news. and that's pretty much all there is too. Do you have a video of it or just the still that you sent me? Oh, there is a video of it, yeah, because it's on, I went and found it to share with someone from, you know, their app, right?

So the news was on there, so yeah. Can you send me a video then that I can share with everyone? I can, yes, that's right, yeah. At Friday knockoffs. Cheers. There's not a wine in sight. A real video. of the actual footage will we'll seem it, make it seem not as significant as I think it was in

teams of a media moment. What, do we lose some of the resolution? No, it was, yeah, that's all it was. It was all of, look, it would be under two seconds. Right. But as you and I know, yeah, two seconds is an eternity in podcasting. That's right. Man, I'm not going to do a whole bunch of parish notices.

I will mention your leather guitar. strap. Oh yes, how's it going? Yeah. I've spoken to my leather guy and it sounds like he's going to be able to create something. And there has been a significant amount of interest in possibly buying one. So I'm thinking unmade podcast, Australian nut leather guitar straps could be an upcoming piece of merch. Watch this space. But there's been a bit, there's a bit of buzz. And everyone's like, oh, can you do a banjo strap or can you do a camera strap? But I'm just thinking guitar strap at the moment because that's like the original. Yes, because you've only got two or three storage containers, not five or six to fill with boxes of unsold banjo straps because of a brain I fart, you know, back in 2025.

Oh, 26, I should say. I'm doing, I'm definitely doing these as pre-orders. I'm not just going to make a whole bunch of these on spec, but I'm going to get pre-orders before I have Steve make them over at the leather shop. Yeah, a thousand of these ending up in boxes around. Yeah. Yeah. Look, let's crack on. Ideas for podcasts.

Let's just get straight into it for a change. Kind of straight into it. All right. Would you like to go first? Are you bursting with an idea? I have an idea. I'm putting it out there, but I'm just saying I'm being polite and letting you go. I have one too, but there's no reason for me to be first or second.

Who should go first? All right. I'll go first. My idea is called scar tissue. Right. This is one of those ideas where it may be more fun for the guest than it is for the listener. Right. Because I think human nature, there's a tendency for us to enjoy walking people around our bodies

and describing the stories behind all the wounds and blemishes and injuries that inevitably end up on our, you know, mortal coil human flesh. Yes. This is a podcast where people come on and basically tell us the stories. behind every wound all over their body. Okay. Yeah, but fair enough, I like this. You know, we've seen it in films, haven't we?

Is it Mel Gibson and Renee Russo? Do they have a scene where they compare scars? Oh. And Indiana Jones running through all his scars in Raiders of the Lost Ark, all these injuries. I mean, sometimes they're really excited. I mean, bullet wounds, right? Where'd you get this? Well, I got this in Vietnam, right?

Or, you know, I got this when I was hunting. Actually, but often you say, well, what happened to your arm? Or what happened to your let? And people are going, oh, actually, interesting story. And they tell us the story. If it's a really obvious injury, then sometimes a person's told it a million times. And maybe they're a bit self-conscious about it. But I think that we have these other injuries that we kind of think are pretty cool.

They're like battle scars, right? So it's like, oh, let me tell you about that. That was an incredible day. Or that was, let me tell you about that tiger. Or, you know, there are anecdotes attached to. And often they're to do with childhood BMX races. and falling out of trees and skateboard injuries and silly little things like that. But every now and then there's some great stories.

So walk me around your body and tell me the stories behind your scar tissue. It's lethal weapon three. I just checked when René Russo and Mel Gibson compare all their injuries like gunshot wounds and knife wounds. We have a mutual friend who I don't know if he still listens to the podcast, but he did at one point. and he got some quite severe scars on his body in a way that did not bring honour upon himself. Let's just put it that way. But they were quite significant scars. And he then moved to a different place where no one knew his backstory and would have no clue about these injuries.

And sometimes the ladies would see his scars and say, oh my goodness, how did you get those scars? And he spent years telling the ladies that the scars. that the scars were from a shark attack and he'd survived a shark attack and he turned his ignomy into glory and I think it went down quite well There's a little bit of that mythology around Australians as well isn't there

and shark I mean is that the coolest injury you reckon what's the coolest wound? Is it a shark attack or what else is a cool wound? I mean a crocodile attack that would be up there too Bullet, bullet wound if it was received under the right circumstances. Certainly being surviving a shooting has like a certain fascination, if nothing else. That's right.

Depending on sort of, you know, your place in the story, of course. You know, it could come through some unsavory behavior. But if you're, let's say a hero, bystander, bodyguard diving in front of some, you know, small children, being peppered with bullets and coming out, okay, you know. Yeah, rapper. Yeah. That's right. Yes, that's right.

Just going out to buy the milk in L.A. Yes. I don't know about podcast. You don't have many drive-bys of podcasters these days, but not yet. So, but yeah. All right, man, go on then. Go on, man. No, you go first.

You go first. No, no. You go first. You go first. You go first. You've already got your shirt off. Look, people watching can see. You've already got your shirt off.

Brady's currently got his shirt off and he's turned around and he's showing me his back. And let me pull these trousers down. I do not have my shirt off. And I actually cannot think of anything. I mean, I have a pretty beat-up, unimpressive body. But it's kind of blemish-free in that way. Like I've had my share of injuries. But I can't think of anything on my body that is a remnant of an injury.

I can't think of a scar on my body. Oh, gosh. You're like Jesus. You're sort of like perfect, unblemished kind of thing. The old prophecies used to say he would be. I didn't want to be the one to say it, but yes, I am like Jesus. Of course, Jesus did end up with scars, that very famously. He did.

So watch out, man. No, I'm just, I can't think of anything, man. I can't think of anything. But that's a bit surprising for you because you're quite a traveled person. Like you've been on, you've been around the world, you've been, you know, up mountains and on safari, albeit reasonably comfortably. But, yeah. Well, look, here's where I, here's where I fell over and scratched my hand on the, on the luxury soap pump.

That was on the sink next to the room. There's where that silly concierge dropped that glass and I. I cannot think. of a permanent scar on me. I cannot think of one. Unless I've just gotten so used to them. Have you had an operation that's left a scar? No, I've never had surgery.

No, really? No. Oh, gosh. I've never, I've never been, I've never had a scalpel in size my perfect skin. Gosh. Well, you're very, very blessed there, really, aren't you? I am blessed and I'm also the worst possible guest for your podcast idea. I'm afraid. What about you? Are you, are you scarred? Oh, man. Let me tell you about my scars.

Besides from that moment earlier when I took my trousers off. That's right. But from visual scars, that's right. You can put your shirt back on, by the way. Tell me about your scars, man. I do have some scars. Most of my scars come from boils. Right. Yeah. So this is always fun to listen to, isn't it? So let me walk you through my boils.

Please. I had 42 boils when I was going through, you know, like puberty. Yep. All over my body. And most of them left scars. I had them on my arms and legs and all that kind of stuff. So those boils leave scars. Some of them do look a bit like bullet wounds.

And so to sort of enter, children sometimes on my leg next to my left knee. I've said, oh, you know, look, got shot there. And that's been impressive. What are the details of that shooting when you have to embellish on the lie? That I was hunting when I was young on the farm with a gun, just out shooting rabbits. Yeah, I don't make it sound like it was a shotgun, you know, with a big spray or that blew my leg off or anything like that. I say, oh, no, it was only a 22, you know, it's just a sort of one of those small guns and we were out shooting rabbits and, you know. I thought you'd come up with something better than that. Like you were, you're out on like the streets ministering to drug addicts and saving souls and

someone tried to shoot you and you like, you know, Jesus deflected the bullet or something. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's the real story, but I just mask it with a more humble story about shooting rabbits. Yeah. So you've got approximately 42 boil scars on your body. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Why do they leave a scar? Like, do you have to lance them and they leave a scar? Or, Why does a boy or leave a scar? Oh, yeah, because it's a hole. So it fills up and expands as a sack of pus, and then it finally opens up like a big wound.

It's like a zit, but the size of sort of half a tennis ball. Okay. And or golf ball, if it's a smaller one. Yeah, and then it goes down and leaves, it's a hole, you know, for a lot of pus to get out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So people are, you know, obviously loving this podcast already. Yeah. Nice. It's nice. I think we found our, I think we found our social media clip. That's right. I remember. Tell me more about that sack of pus.

When I was young, one of the things that my father did was he had boils when he was young, but this was like 100 years ago, right? So there was these old-fashioned remedies where they, I think I might have told you this story. They used to put a biscuit, a hot biscuit on the boil to draw out the pus and then wrap it in a lettuce. So dad tried that. You're going to say your dad used to get like a velociraptor to bite it for him or something. That's right. Yeah.

So dad tried that and I swore at him. So in the end we had to go see doctors and doctors engaged some, you know, medicine, which was unbelievably more effective than the biscuit and the lettuce dealing with the situation. But because I'm allergic to penicillin, I couldn't have that. And so that's why I kept having them. Okay. But look, I've got some other scars on my leg. I've got a couple of nicks from when I used to work at Foodland,

a big supermarket, and I'd fill the shelves. And so you'd have a knife in one hand, opening the boxes quickly, chug chug-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-stanley knife. And often you'd just nick your leg because you'd be leaning over doing it. And so I used to have all these little cuts along my leg on the inside of that same left knee. Do you still have anything there, or is that all gone? No, they were just nicks, so they're all gone. I mean, I've had Knicks, of course, man, but they're all gone.

I want to know what you've still got. I have had surgery, but we're not going to go into that. So there is a scar from that surgery. Okay, so there was a scar from a surgery. I'm not implying it's plastic surgery, by the way, by not revealing it. I'm just keeping us at a certain level. Okay. So there's like a proper scar, though.

It's like in a, you know, it's obviously not publicly visible. No, indeed. It's under clothing. Right. Yeah. Yeah, patron supporters only. That's right. That's Tim's only fans.

Save that for the request room. And then, of course, there are numerous emotional scars as well, man. We can go into those in a bonus episode too. What about your dad? Your dad actually went to war. Did he have any famous scars? Well, my dad did have a famous scar, but it's not from the war. It was just before he got married, like I think like a matter of weeks before he got married to my mother.

He was attacked by his family dog and his face was very badly injured and he had a massive scar from approximately his nose all the way down to his lip really, really, like a really severe injury. And so in his wedding photos, he's got all these stitches in his lip. but then he grew a moustache over that scar and my dad as you know Tim was almost famous for his moustache he had that moustache for the rest of his life and he had this sort of very bushy manly moustache it was like one of his trademarks

but not many people realised the reason he had that moustache was to conceal this really bad scar on his lip so you know I never really got to see that scar properly because he always had this moustache so dad had a moustache all his life to cover a really, really bad scar on his lip from his nose down. It's quite an irony, isn't it really, that your dad's scar at home was caused by a dog in the

safety of suburbia when he did two tours of Vietnam, working with dogs, you know, searching out mines and all the rest of it, ended up like they were so legendary and precious to him that he wrote books and you made a few documentaries about him as well. He went to war with dogs and came back without scars and then in suburbia at home. dog attacked him and he ended up with this major life face-defining scar. As far as I know, it was a sort of a much trusted and loved family dog too that they had had for some time. I have been told the exact story of how it happened.

I can't remember exactly, but it was sort of just in the backyard and something an innocuous happened that triggered the dog. And yeah, that was the dog's last day as well, for those who were curious. My dad had a massive famous scar down his front because he had open heart surgery. back in, I think they do it much more keyhole these days, but he had a big zipper all the way down the front of his belly, which Brady saw on numerous occasions when Dad would come out with just his jocks on to tell us to turn the TV down at night.

That did, yeah. The door would fly open. Yeah. And then he had these sort of extra little ones that go alongside of it, like just above his belly button. And like if you imagine your belly button's like a nose, You know, it was like his eyes just above it. And so we always talk about dad having three belly buttons.

But that was just all part of the surgery scars. A big zipper down the front. There you go. Perhaps some of the people listening will share with us their scars and the stories to go with them. And should we ask for photos? Maybe. Sure, yeah. Send us a picture.

Famous scars. I mean, burn scars. Often there's incredible stories behind those as well. Tragic stories, but incredible stories. sometimes heroic stories as well. But, yeah, wounds for all kinds of reasons. Good podcast idea, Tim. Good podcast idea.

I like her. I like it. I think we've lent pretty heavily into the kind of, you know, scars that are kind of, you know, small abrasions that have kind of, you know, have quirky stories behind them. But of course, there's hugely sentimental stories as well. They become quite defining for people as well. So this could be one of those really heart-rendering kind of podcasts, as well as they're having some heroic stories.

and all kinds of stories for all kinds of scars. A lot of scars, thankfully, can be concealed or not obvious. But obviously the scars that are really obvious, like on your face, for example, or ones that are really, really obvious to strangers are like a whole different genre of scar, aren't they? Because they do become like a story you can't avoid, a story you do often have to tell and confront. So, yeah, I guess that's next level, next level scars.

We could also feature Scar from the Lion King to talk about his experiences of being sort of, you know, the other uncle. Yeah, we could have Al Pacino come on and talk about his experiences making Scarface. Indeed, indeed. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So those would be filler episodes. They would be. And funnily enough, like initially you might think, oh, this idea from Tim would be better as a visual thing, like, you know, a video, like a YouTube series or a TV series.

So you can see the scar. but I actually think it's better as a podcast because you don't really want to see the scar in some ways you'd rather just hear about it and hear people talk about it. You don't want to be seeing scars all day long. So I think this actually is a nice podcast idea. Finally, there we go.

Well, that's it, man. I'm done. I'm going to retire happy. I hear all these jokes about how I poo-poo your ideas all the time. I do not think that's true. No? I think if you went back over the record and looked at whether I was a thumbs up or a thumbs down on your podcast ideas,

thumbs up would be a clear, clear leader. I agree. I think you often say, nice idea, man. Nice idea. Wouldn't work in real life, but nice idea. I think that's generally what you do. I mean, it is my nature and it is perhaps even a flaw of mine that I will then try and improve it and say, this is how you could make it better and then start almost taking some kind of only.

of it and jumping all over it. I will admit that. But at base level, I think your ideas overall, I am more positive than negative. Your names for the podcasts, I still think, are often questionable. But I think overall your podcast ideas are pretty good, as is today's. And today's name's okay too. It's pretty good, isn't it? Scar tissue. I thought about... Played it safe. Played it safe. Yeah. I thought I did sit for a while thinking about something about old, wounds or opening old wounds, because that's kind of a bit like conversation when you say the wrong thing, you open an old wound. But in the end, I thought of scar tissue and thought, oh, yeah, no, that's, that's more pithy, that's good. I think, I think perhaps a better name, maybe,

maybe, would be just, yeah, sorry, here we go, here we go, I had to do it. I think maybe some people might think a better name would be just scar, because it's such a a cool word and it's so like, it's so like, memorable. And I think just a podcast called Scar would be awesome as well. But scar tissue is perfectly, perfectly satisfactory. I think an even better name than that is stitched up. Mm-hmm. Don't you think? Scar tissue is a good name. Thank you for not spitting out the drink of cola that you took a sip on as I said that. I think scar tissue was good.

I think you should stick with scar tissue. How about we move on to everybody's favorite segment? Thank you, Brady. Yes. Well, today's spoon. Sorry, I like to lower my time for this one. You go on, go on. Brady.

Today's spoon, Brady, is from. from Alice Springs, Alice Springs, which is a city in the middle, right in the middle of Australia, very, very isolated town. I've never been to Alice Springs. Me neither. Me neither. I've been to Ares Rock, I think, three or four times, which is not far from them, which is like, you know, that's, you normally would go Aalus Springs than Ayrs Rock, but I've always gone direct to Ares Rock. I've never seen Alice Springs. No, it's quite a distance away, isn't it? So there's the Olgas and Uluru, Aes Rock, as you say. say it used to be called.

That's nearby. It's not that nearby. It's as in I too have been there and just didn't go to Alice Springs. But so I text mum and asked her, when did you go to Alice Springs to get this spoon? And she said that she never went there. She has no knowledge of dad ever going there either. So she just suspects that someone most of picked this up for us and sent it back at some stage. It's quite an old spoon.

It's from that Stewart kind of brand collection, which goes back quite a long way. Yeah, it's got like part of it is like got this sort of royal dark blue colour with the Alice Springs NT, as in Alice Springs Northern Territory, written on it in a kind of silvery gold in that kind of style and font and colouring that you see on so many spoons. So it's obviously, yeah, like you say, it's from this sort of family, this genre. It's got a church on it, actually, which is not what you'd expect with Alice Springs because it's not a spoon of the church. It just says Alice Springs's Northern Territory. but then the church is this pretty legendary John Flynn Memorial Uniting Church. Yeah, like normally these spoons will have like a landmark of the town.

Like if it was Sydney, you'd have the Sydney Harbour Bridge. And the building they seem to have chosen here is just this church, which I have to say is not very churchy looking. It's not like spectacular. You wouldn't even be, no, it was a church except it has like a cross on the facade of the church. I think it's a pretty deliberately architecturally designed kind of, you know, modernist 1950s or 60s

kind of church. But you're telling me this is quite a well-known church in the city, is it? Yeah, it's a memorial church

for John Flynn. Now, John Flynn's a pretty legendary guy. Well, he's on the $20 note. So, or was on the $20 note.

I'm not sure if he still is. I think he is, which tells you enough about how legendary someone is in a country if they end up on the note.

He was a minister, right? And he started the Australian inland mission and the Flying Doctors. So the very legendary flying doctors were started by John Flynn. So he's pretty legendary for that. How was this church related to him?

Was this his denomination? Is this part of like, you know? It is his denomination. It's also mine denomination. He was a minister in one of the denominations, the Presbyterian church that then, you know, united with a few others to become the uniting church that I'm interested of. Got caught up in the merger.

Yeah, yeah. But he was before the. merger, and this is a memorial church, which is now a uniting church, yeah. So I could go and be the minister at this church if they called me to. You've obviously never been to it, because you've never been to Alice Springs, but this sounds like when you need to check off the list of here, and go and get yourself a guest sermon there. Yeah, it's a beautiful-looking modernist church. It looks really great, actually. Really quite impressive, you know, for that mid-century kind of style. And John Flynn's a pretty legendary guy, and the Flying Doctors, of course,

its greatest contribution is not the sort of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives that's saved flying around the outback saving people, but the TV show that it produced in the 1980s, which featured Rebecca Gibney and that we both loved. Ah, love the flying doctors. Well, there you go. Lovely spoon. There will be a picture of it in the show notes, and I'll also link to the church in Alice Springs, and you can find out a bit more about it.

But this has come into the Hein family collection via methods unknown at this stage. Obviously, probably some friend of your dads went there to that church and brought him back a spoon. But we may never know, we may never know exactly where it came from. And that is the beauty of Spoon of the Week, the Mystery of Spoon of the Week. That's right. Someone would say the limitation of Spoon of the Week. Well, yes. Nearly no information about the Spoon's at all.

Others would say inadequacy or flaw. Mystery is such a wonderful word. It does. It covers a multitude of sins, that word. That's right. I mean, I text mum and she didn't know, so I guess that's the end of, we just have to leave it a mystery. Yep. Until AI can sort it out for us. I have an idea for a podcast. Oh, sorry. Go, man. Here we go.

Go. All right. I'm going to give this the working title of unduly proud. Right. Unduly proud. And this is a chance for people to come onto a podcast and talk about things that have happened to themselves, to others, family members, friends, things that have happened in life. Yeah. Which really are pretty inconsequential. And you have no right to really be proud of or boast about or brag about. But you're just dying to because it just made you feel this pride. And then any time you want to go and tell us, someone about it, you sort of feel this sheepishness about, well, this isn't really something I should be proud of. But I have to tell you, because it just filled my heart with bursting joy, unduly proud. Now, I'll tell you the moment that made me think of it in a moment. But last

episode, there was an example of it. And that was when I was telling you about when I was answering all those Star Wars quiz questions. Oh, yeah. And my wife was asking me all these obscure questions about Star Wars, which she was getting off the internet. And I was just hammering them, getting them all right with a success rate that boggles the mind. And I felt unduly proud of how much I knew about Star Wars. And I thought she'd be impressed, and obviously she wasn't, because it just made me look like a complete nerd who'd wasted his life on Star Wars. But I felt unduly proud.

But the moment that happened that made me think of this as an idea for a podcast and write it down in my notes on my phone for future ideas happened in an airport. and I was going through the airport with Kylie and Edward, my young son, who was even younger at this point, because it was probably six months ago. Oh, I know exactly when it was. It was just before the World Cup started, the soccer World Cup, because what happened was we were going through like a duty-free shopping area. Yeah. And there was some kind of promotion going on where there were like, you know, young people trying to sell you products. I don't know what they were trying to sell perfume or something.

And it was World Cup related, this promotion they were doing. And one of the young guys there had a soccer ball. And he saw us coming towards him. And I think part of the promotion was they were interacting with customers with the soccer bowl. And he kicked the soccer ball towards Edward. And I thought, what's going to happen here? Is he going to miss it? Is he going to just like toe punt it and boot it away and make a fool of me and all that?

And the ball went rolling towards him. He's only little. You know, he's just a little kid. And as the ball came towards him, he just deftly controlled it with one foot, just beautifully took the momentum off the bowl, just squashed down on it with his foot to control it beautifully, and then side-footed it with beautiful pass straight back to the guy that kicked it to him,

like textbook, like better than any, better than I could have done. It was just this magic, magic moment. And I think he is unusually good at soccer for a kid his age. I do think that, but I'm probably biased. But whether he is or he isn't, this moment he was, this moment he did it perfect, kicked it back to the guy, guy and the guy's kind of jaw just dropped because I think you probably thought this little kid was going to miss it or boot it or do something but he just handed it like lenal messy it was fantastic

and I cannot tell you how proud I was man I was like I was bursting with pride and I was looking around and I was hoping everybody saw and I wanted everyone to comment on how good he was and I know all this kid did was stopped to soccer ball and kicked it back to someone else there's no reason to be proud, but I was, and still am, unduly proud of that moment. And I think, and I think all of us, especially parents, oh yeah, now that I can finally speak as a parent after all these years, have a lot of these moments where you just feel so proud. And like, like, it happened again the other day. We were out with, we were out with him and some other friends that had little kids. And they can't read yet because they've just started school. So, you know, Edward can't, can't, can't

really read, but he knows letters now. And we went to a little coffee van, and they had a big sign out the front on a chalkboard that had the word coffee written in big letters. And we said to Edward, in front of all our friends and all the other kids who can't read, he said, Edward, do you know any of those letters? And he looked at it and he went, K-R-Fa-Fa-E-E, coffee. Nice. And like, I didn't, I didn't know he could do that. And neither did anyone, and none of the other kids could do it. And I was like, oh my God, my boy just read the word coffee, completely unprompted. And I just wanted to shout it from the rooftops. And like, you know, I know it's not a big deal, man. And both of your girls can read the word coffee. And, you know, it's nothing to brag about. But I was unduly

proud. And so my podcast idea is, like, is to give people an outlet who just want to brag about something that really they shouldn't be bragging about. Well, now I'm unduly proud of Edward, because I know how much you hate coffee. And for one of his early birthdays, I I send him a little toy coffee machine, and I'm thrilled. Now I'm proud that he knows the word coffee. He does. That was, I would say that was the first word he absolutely unambiguously read, unprompted. He can do his own name, but that doesn't really count.

This was the first random word out in the wild that he just spelt and got nailed. Wow, that's fantastic. Wonderful. Is there anything you're unduly proud of, man? Is there anything you want to brag about that you, you know, you shouldn't really, but now's your chance? Oh, I was thinking a few things. come to mind. I mean, there is a lyttoning of things from my daughters as well, but you've kind of

covered that base as well. Pictures when I've seen them out, paintings they've done, drawings, you know, just achievements, work they've pushed through. Oh, gosh, I can't tell you. You just carry it in your heart so heavily. It's beautiful. But I think one time it comes to mind, this is a bit of a funny thing. I guess they're all superficial things, aren't they, in a way. I was out with four guys, three of whom I never really see and one really close friend. And we were out catching up for a drink and some dinner and we're walking through a crowd in Heinle Street, which you know,

and I'll clarify, because you need me to clarify, is also a street in the inner part of Adelaide. It's quite a bustling street at night, like a kind of full of bars and, you know, also, you know, very similar to Rundle Street. In fact, there's an extension of Rundle Street that I mentioned in an earlier part of the episode. Although, Heinley Street, I know it's not like this anymore as much,

but Heinle Street was always a bit edgier, wasn't it? Because it has like, you know, some of the seedy establishments. I remember if I ever went into town on my own, I was allowed to go and run a mall and go shopping with my friends, as long as I made like a blood oath to my mum that I wouldn't set for in Hindley Street. That was like, you can go into the city, but don't let me find out you went into Heinley Street or you'll be in big trouble. Well, I hasten to add that my unduly proud story doesn't occur in a seedy part of Highley Street. No. We were in a different

kind of establishment up the more gentrified end. Anyway, we walked out, we'd just been chatting and one guy had mentioned, oh, how's the podcast going? Another guy said, what podcast do you do? And so I told them a brief sort of overview of unmade podcast and then kind of moved on. And then we'd left the place and then we're walking down to where we're going to have dinner. And as we're bustling through the crowd, a total and utter stranger in all of three seconds, but in front of all the others just stopped and just looked at me and just said, mate, love your podcast. And then just kept going and was disappeared into the crowd. And I just turned around, cool. Hello.

And they all looked at each other like, I cannot believe that just happened. I cannot believe that just happened. You should have said, oh, sorry, guys, I hate it when that happens. It's just a part of the job. Again, yeah, this is why I don't go out. Yeah, that's right. Next, a Channel 7 cameraman will be around soon asking me to take a swig of a drink. But it was one of those, like there's precious few moments when I've been recognized in public.

But it was one of those moments. And just the fact that it happened with these particular guys who were the kinds of who would find that hilarious and ridiculous. You know what I mean? It was a glorious moment. And I have to say, I felt, I felt, I'm ashamed to admit I felt unduly proud in that moment. No, that's deservingly proud, man. One time when I was back in Adelaide, I was out with my dad and we went to a coffee,

coffee shop. It was in O'Connell Street, which is a street in the north of Adelaide. We're in a coffee shop. Hang on, hang on, Brady, it's more of a cafe district. There are streets around and all that. Sorry, go ahead with your story. now. I was having a coffee with Dad and a guy at the table next to me came up and said, you know,

did the whole art. You know, I've really enjoyed the videos and then asked for like a picture and like a signature and all that sort of stuff. And that was like in front of Dad. And that was, again, that was like nice for me because it like gave me like a bit of creed with Dad. Like he kind of, you know, he knew what I did. But it's all an abstraction.

And when he saw that, he was quite like, he was quite taken. back for that kind of thing happened. So, yeah, if you ever see me walking around with friends or parents or anything, like, you know, that's a time to come up and say hello, don't be shy people. Were you wearing? In fact, if you could gush, gush a bit more than usual, if you can. Were you wearing your Yes, I'm Brady-Harrin T-shirt that you wear out when you're in Adelaide? No, no. I mean, I had paid the guy earlier, but yeah. Anyway, anyway, there we go. Unduly proud. There's my idea. Good idea, man. That's a great idea. I mean, yeah, lovely, because it's going to give rise to all kinds of little wonderful stories.

Some of them quite tedious, very personal. I think we've shown that. I think we've shown that. But still, we would like to hear from you guys with your tedious stories. And if we get a few good ones, I will read them out in the next episode. Tell me about something that has happened in your life that has just made your heart burst. But you normally wouldn't tell anyone because you would feel silly telling someone. because don't feel silly telling Tim and I, we want to hear about it.

We care. I think in some ways the best ideas for this podcast will be the most tedious ones. But there are times when I've packed the car for holidays and fit everything in in such a perfect way that I've just stood there. And then it's just like, that is amazing. Or a magnificent parallel park. Like there's a very small parking space on the road and you nail it first time. You just go in backwards and nail it first time. And like, you just quietly look at your wife sitting next to you thinking,

did you see that plaque? Did you see that? Happy you see right now, but she married me. Yeah. These moments, these moments happen. They do happen. Yeah. And like, yeah, they do happen often, often when, like, a bit like Edward's story with

the soccer ball. Like if you're walking past a bunch of people playing cricket and someone smashes the ball. ball towards you and you, you know, you're walking with your wife and the ball comes towards you and you just catch it in one hand. Just casually throw it back to them like, that was nothing. Like, yeah. The other night playing tennis, someone served a ball and it was doubles and I was the person

closest to the net on the other side. So I shouldn't be coming in my direction, but it did. And I just reached out, caught it with one hand, pocketed it. Yeah. And you, and the secret is to act like, that meant nothing to you. Not going, woo-hoo! Did you see that? Yeah.

It's just like, I do that. That's who I am. That's how I roll. It's like someone once said when you score a touchdown in American football, the trick is to look like you've done it before. You know what I mean? Don't go so nuts that it's clearly a novelty. You just got to act like, oh yeah, no big deal. That's cool. No worries. All right. I like it. I think we have a dishwasher simply to give me at least once a day a feeling of profound pride and accomplishment at the way I'm able to organise.

everything in the perfect symmetrical way for it all to fit in, particularly the big stuff down the bottom and in a way that doesn't immobilise or get in the way of the spinning around fan water. Or shield dirty plates from the water when the cycle starts. I feel like Kylie, my wife is very, like, she's very into cleaning and making things good and right and efficient. And she's the reason our life runs well. But she does not think about how additional.

dishwasher works. I'm convinced of it. Or do I think about it too much? Because the way she stacks a dishwasher, I'm certain she's not thinking about the way the water's moving and where the jets are going because she'll put like a big frying pan in such a way that will cover a whole bunch of other plates and glasses and they won't get the water. And I'm like, are you not thinking about what's going to happen when this starts? She's not thinking about the dynamics of the dishwasher. That's an, yeah, oppressive plates and oppressive objects that are making all the little people underneath remain dirty. It's a problem.

I'll tell you what I hate. My wife is equally good at it, but I find it frustrating that after I've done it, and I've turned it on and I've set it, it's not that she walks up with a plate or something like that. It's that she then opens it, you know, which I hate. I hate opening it after it's going, but she's very happy to do that mid-cycle, much greater than me.

Chuck and a late plate. But the thing that she does, while the doors open, she starts rearranging other things, like you're trying to improve it. Like she puts that plate in and then she goes, oh, hang on those cups there and move it. And I'm so, what are you, what are you doing? It was, what do we? And I feel judged in that moment. Like, you're, you think it's improved.

You don't think I've put it in in the best way. And I, from the other side of the room, I mean, you know, just dripping with Roth about what's happening in the kitchen. I hear you, man. I hear you. Yeah. Your competence has been questioned. I think it is. I'm being undermined in front of the children.

Mm. Hmm. Hmm. Mm. Sometimes in front of guests, damn it. Oh. Wow. This is not good. Tell us your unduly proud moments, people.

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