The Unmade Podcast - Special: Changing of the Glasses

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

We discuss Tim’s new glasses - plus a bit of dentistry.

See the YouTube version of this episode for lots of amusing pictures of Tim in glasses over the years - https://youtu.be/QHXraDErEaMAnd here is Tim’s bonus ‘home video’ wearing his glasses for the first time in Adelaide - https://www.patreon.com/posts/149771926Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFMJoin the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/USEFUL LINKSTim glasses photo gallery: https://www.unmade.fm/tim-glasses-photosDita New Yorkers - https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/dita-new-yorker-frame-frame-geek--150307706283444989/Moscot Lemtosh - https://moscot.com/en-vg/products/lemtosh?variant=8187774042216Moscot Gelt - https://moscot.com/en-vg/products/gelt?variant=8187760246888

When I say go, say hello. Hello. Go. Okay, this is a special episode, kind of an emergency episode, an unboxing or an uncasing. I don't know what we should call this, but this is a big moment in the life of Tim. I've always thought of you getting new glasses frames as like real inflection points in the life of Tim. It only happens every few years. And so it's not like, like at the moment, all the Formula One teams are bringing out the new model of their car and the new livery and everything like that.

But they do that every year. I don't do this every year. No, this feels, I didn't realize it was even that often. It's like, you know, Christmas comes every year. But this is like, this is, it's like a, it's like a leap year when Tim gets new glasses. In fact, you should do it. You should only ever do it in leap years. It has been about four years since my.

lenses were changed because the lenses are profoundly important to see and that's what drives you to the optometrist but of course the frames are the most important result of what happens at the optometrist like I sometimes wear glasses and I know other people who wear glasses it just seems like a bigger deal in your life and I don't know if that's unique to you or is it unique to people that have got such a relationship with glasses because you know in my mind you were born with glasses and you really need them. Like you can't function without them, it feels like sometimes. So maybe just like glasses are just a bigger part of your identity.

I think so. I mean, you probably don't end up in conversation with other people, but other people are thinking about it too. I'm not saying you don't end up in conversation with people. I'm saying you don't end up with conversation with people about their frames. They don't come to you to debrief them. Don't get me wrong. I think glasses frames is one of my wife's favorite talking points,

whether it's sunglasses or her prescription glasses. and she changes them every 20 minutes. Like she's obsessed with glasses frames. But it just seems like how is more gravitas with you? For her it's just like a fashion accessory and oh, these look good and these look nice and oh, I like Victoria Beckham's new glasses and stuff. But with you it seems like, you know, changing house, like moving house or changing religion or something.

It's like... I think because it's not a fashion accessory, I kind of see it as a bit of an extension of myself. If I stop and think about it, they're so personal. Like, I get up in the morning and I put them on

and they're the last thing I take off at night and apart from a shower, when I still often throw them under the tap sometimes and then wipe them down, they often get their own little shower. They're with me all the time. They're so close to me.

They're on more than my rings or my watch, which I take off when I get home. They stay with me. And they ennated. they enable me to, you know, operate in the world. I think it's more similar to, and I don't want to be disrespectful, because it is a little bit similar,

and that is to someone who has a wheelchair. You know, like, imagine having a wheelchair. It would be, you know, your way around, your mobility. But this I've had, because it's the way I see, I don't see without it, or a cane or the relationship with a seeing eye dog if you're blind. I know those are more extreme. in many ways. I'm not comparing them in that sense, but about the relationship with the thing that is, you know, your enabling instrument in the world. How old were you when you started wearing

glasses? It was when I started school. So I don't know why no one noticed before then, but pretty early on in what we call grade prep or reception in Australia, so the first grade, I ended up, you know, at the optometrist. But then soon afterwards, I got some glasses and I was moving on with life, but I do remember a couple of years later having to go up to Melbourne, the capital city, and I did all these special tests with wires all over my head, and that was really kind of bizarre in retrospect. Like electrical wires?

I don't know what they were. But it was a, yeah, it was, maybe it had nothing to do with my eyesight. Maybe it was some sort of other therapy or scanning that was going on to determine that I was human. I don't know. But I was wired up, you know, and having to make, answer questions about things on a screen and all the rest of it. And so there was some sort of deeper testing going on. But maybe that was just like the late 70s, early 80s, rudimentary way of doing what every optometrist now is able to do, you know.

It sounds kind of like clockwork orange or something, those tests they were doing on you, man. Yeah. Dad's not around for me to be able to inquire. Not that he necessarily would have known what was going on. No, I wouldn't be depending on him for reliable information about such things. Unless it was some sort of, you know, Dutch secret agent testing analysis of some kind. They were trying to see if I have a super Dutch power or something like that. And what were your first frames like in reception?

Like, did you look good? They were very similar to what I wear now. Plastic, you know, roundish sort of frames like Clark Kent, you know, that kind of thing. I remember wearing them at school. I remember taking them off, though, to do activities such as playing football and sport and even riding my bike home. You don't take them off for that now? No, I never take them off. I play tennis in them.

And one of the reasons my football career was cut short. Right. You don't swim in them, do you? No, I don't swim in them, no. Which is why that area of my life has flourished. That's when you become Superman, when you take off your glasses and swim. I have no need of them in the water. And has your preferred look evolved?

Like, have you had lots of different styles of glasses? Or would there be like a through line, a theme to them? Look, I did go through a whole period through the late 80s, and early 90s, or most of the 90s, of, like, steel-framed ones and not cool steel-framed ones, like John Lennon or something, more just daggy windsgreen kind of shaped steel ones. But the consistent theme... But why is that?

You've always been quite tuned into popular culture. I would have thought you would have been wanting to wear whatever the latest cool look was. There's a couple of things here. Similar to my blue gene situation, like I wasn't paying for them, right? So you get what is agreed from your parents. Right. But also, I don't know.

I just sort of walked in and went, oh, them and wore them. I wasn't particularly style conscious at all, I guess, in the 80s and 90s. Yeah. I guess you are the man that wore the fantas shorts. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, all I knew is that wearing glasses wasn't cool.

And so the fact that I had them, there was no kind of Harry Potter. There was no other style icons who were wearing, you know, clear-lensed glasses to look cool. But it was just, nah, you got glasses. So, yeah, that's, you know, bad luck, Tim. My ex-girlfriend who wore glasses always used to say, boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. Oh, wow, that's a harsh thing to say. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

I know, she used to say. I was her boyfriend, so, you know, I obviously made a pass at her. Yeah, well, that's right. Or maybe they do make passes, but they just, the girls don't see them because they're blind. I tell you, one thing that was a constant is all of those steel frames were silver. I was very clear that I didn't want gold frames. And there was another guy at school called Josh who had gold frames. And I'm like, nah, I'm not having that.

So I'm very much a silver frame guy through that period, very consistently, right up until when I moved into the lovely sort of, you know, more plastic renaissance that's marked the latter third of my life. Okay. Well, talk me through the plastic renaissance and where you are at now, up until the new pair that we're about to see. Well, I stumbled upon about 15 years ago the perfect frame, which is from a brand called Dita, D-I-T-E-T, they had a model called the New Yorker. And these were... Oh, we know it well. Oh, these were great.

They just suited me well. Well, I think, you know, I was like, this is good. There was enough of the sort of sophistication faux academic kind of about them to, you know, make me look a bit smarter than I am. But they also... They also... Let's not get carried away here, man. I did say faux academic. They were a bit Woody Allen too, and I was a big Woody Allen fan back in the day.

And they also had, I like that they were a bit different. They were a bit of a statement, too, at that stage. I think they're kind of everywhere. How did you find them? Were you just trying someone in a shop and you just randomly pulled them off the rack and were like, oh my goodness. It's like, you know, a match made in heaven, or were they recommended to you? Or did you see Ewan McGregor wearing them in an advertisement? I saw them in a place called the Opt Shop in.

Rundle Mall. It's just trial and error with glasses, really. You just go in and you put them on and you look in the mirror. Of course, these days, having a phone means that there's a few selfies that are taken, but this was, I think, back before then. And so you just sort of have to take someone with you and go, what about these? And they sort of, after a while, gets so sick, they give everything the enthusiastic thumbs up. So you go, you don't go solo. You'll take, like, your wife or something, will you? You peruse solo, but generally if there's a decision to be made, then you need to have a family member there. Yeah. And I came across them and I was like, yep, beautiful. And then I just kept ordering them again now through my optometrist. Because the thing

you got to understand, right, you know, non-glasses people may not understand this is you can buy frames anywhere and then take them to your optometrist and they'll put the lenses in. But of course, your optometrist is running two businesses. One is the, or three businesses, really. One is the eye checking business. Yeah. The other one is the ordering lenses, which a product and the third one is selling your frames and you know you can get your frames from anywhere and and bring them in but after then i got them to order them i think for me so i was able to have a few when you said you haven't changed your frames for like four years then has it been 15 years have you just been going new york detour after new york detour or yeah i've had over 15 years three

different pairs of new york deters yeah yeah you make your frames last as long as you can or is it Dita New Yorkers. Which way around does it go? Sorry, Dita New Yorkers. Yeah. Dita New Yorkers, right. Yeah, okay. Okay, so three on the bounce. But of course, we've discussed numerous times on the podcast that these have been discontinued.

So have you been on borrowed time for a while now? Holding on to these ones on my face, wrapping them in cotton wool, walking around, hoping that they don't die on me. My prescription has changed so significantly because my eyes have been deteriorating that if, you know, I've had to kind of get new frames every sort of five years or so to put the new lenses in. The lenses have been replaced a little bit more often. Couldn't you just put your new prescription into your old frames, though? Sometimes yes and sometimes no.

Sometimes the lenses are of a different shape or size that they go, oh, these ones have been burnt and melted and stretched too much to be able to safely fit the new lenses in. Also, there's wear and tear. You know, the hinges, they just wear, down and they get scratched and they're in obviously in the sun all the time and so they wear down and so you need to get some but you don't want to you know you don't want a new car every time you change the tires right so you do make them last as long as you can but uh eventually and and and recently i reached that point where my eyes need a particular type of supersonic new lens

which is called a multifocal and he goes look they're just i wouldn't trust them in these old frames. These frames won't hold them properly. You're going to have to get some other ones. So that's what you've done. You've looked everywhere presumably for new New Yorkers, couldn't get them. So you've had to completely change. That's right. I've scoured the earth. And we did this last time. And we found, I think, probably the last pair on earth in Hong Kong. And they weren't even black. They're very, very, very dark blue, like an ink kind of dark blue. if you look closely at them. And I've worn them for, I don't know, what is it, the last five years or so.

But, yeah, there's no more on earth. And I've even contacted the company and they said no. None. And they started pointing at other models and I just had to hang up. I'm afraid. That was just insulting. So, yeah. They don't understand.

I've really had to move away from DETA. I was getting too emotionally upset. So. So at this. inflection point now where you're having to change. Did you try and find a new frame that was as close as possible or if you said, it's like, no, it's time for a rebrand. It's time for a new Tim. I'm going to like completely reboot. Are you going back to the silver wires? Are you finally going to the gold wire? What have you done? No, I am who I am, right? I'm not changing now.

I don't need a new Tim. I don't need to go back to an old Tim. I'm Tim, right? So I literally did, just walk into optometrists and say, what have you got that's as close as possible as these because they don't make them anymore? And then they'd say, what are those? And I'd say, they're D to New Yorkers. And then they'd say, yeah, they don't make them anymore.

And I go, yeah, I know. I know. No one knows that more than me. Believe me, I've done podcast episodes about how they're not available anymore. Yeah. So then I've been trying on a few. There are a few that I've seen that I've gone, oh, that's a bit different. Let me try that.

And then it's been a quick, nah, nah, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, nah. No. Once a D to New Yorker, always a D to New Yorker. That's right. That's right. That's what people say. And that's, I found that to be true for me.

That's absolutely correct. Yeah. In the end, though, I've had to, I've found something, right? And I've had to move across and I've made the decision. And I've got in family members. I've taken a few selfies and sent them to daughters who have given the largely indifferent, but, you know, thumbs up.

And what did your wife say? And the wife has agreed as well, yes. So I've made a family decision. I'm yet to take it to church council at Melbourne Uniting Church for ratification before it sent off to endorsement at the Governor General. But I think... Did you, saying you brought it up, Did you pray about it?

No, no, I didn't pray about it. No. No. This doesn't, would that be a legitimate, like, subject for prayer? Or is that misusing prayer? No, that would be, everything is a legitimate, legitimate prayer. I just, why didn't I pray about it? I guess I'm just praying about, believe it or not, more significant things.

And this didn't come to mind. If you'd prayed about it, you could have a pair of New Yorkers right now. They may have done a Lazarus come back from the dead. That's right. I'll tell you one thing you might be interested in. I take my glasses off to pray. Wow, this is new information. Yes.

I don't always close my eyes to pray, which is what you traditionally do. But I take my glasses off, which is pretty close to closing my eyes from my point of view. What's your rationale there? It just feels like a different headspace. You take them off and I fold them and just put them in my lap or hang them on my t-shirt front. And I just, I often rub my face, you know, and through my hair or I'll lean forward and pray. I just, it feels like I've turned off the TV to have a proper conversation. That's what it feels like, you know, like.

Okay. Okay, put the phone down, put the phone on mute, take off the glasses. I want to be present with this. So, yeah, that's sort of something I've instinctively done for many, many years. Okay. For a long time then, I'd then light up a cigarette as well. But I don't do that anymore. Okay.

A post-prayer cigarette. So tell me about the ones you've chosen then. You found them on a rack, did you? And tried them on and it was like, was there like just a moment? It was like, this is it? Or was it more gradual? Well, there is a brand called the Moscot, right? And I've always seen them there.

And I've always viewed them as a bit of a Dita New Yorker light, right? Like, I've always judged them. Want to be. Partly because they're everywhere. Like, they're quite common. And so it did feel like, I actually thought of them as being like a more recent copy brand in that style. Right. So I just sort of was like, nah.

But I kind of have inevitably gone, okay, I guess I need to look at some mascots. And when I've looked into it, I've actually realized that they're. They're like a more sort of old New York company. You know what I mean? That I'd really appreciate it. They've been around for over 100 years and they were like a little corner store. Okay. That's actually the brand that Woody Allen wears and, you know, that Johnny Depp, you know, has worn.

And so I actually realized that there's a bit more to them than I thought. A bit of heritage. There's a bit of heritage. Yeah, that's right. A bit of that sort of look. So I started looking at them and I picked out the lemtosh, which was a pretty, sort of, I think it's kind of like their main, you know, model, their classic, if you like. Yeah.

And I started experimenting with the colours. Yeah. Oh, okay. And what colour have you landed on? There was a bit of a dalyance with like a deep plum, which would have been quite a different rebrand, wouldn't it? And there's also like this green, a deep green, because I really love British racing green, but these weren't quite that. But in the end, I've gone with a black. But, hey, I've forgotten to tell you as well.

I did actually get my sunglasses as a moscot. So I had dabbled there before from the sunglass, which is, sunglasses are like, if your main glasses are your home, sunglasses are kind of like your beach house, right? Your holiday home. They're, you know, it's sort of your second biggest investment, right? So, but you need them to be fun. They can be a bit more fun, a bit more relaxed.

you know, a bit more playful. But they still, but you still, you know, they need to stand up and they need to keep the rain out. And you need to be able to, you know, keep it secure and lock it up. They got a job to do. They do. They do. So these are, and these have been pretty good. These have been really, really great.

So I, there was some debate, but in the end, I just got some black ones. I ordered them. They came in. I went in. I picked them up. And there we go. Nice. I'm having a look at them now.

I'm trying to decide. If you sent this to me, would I have known straight away that they were different? They seem slightly thicker? The rims seem slightly thicker. Is that accurate? Yes. Yes. Slightly thicker?

And they're wider. They're certainly wider. They're bigger. Okay. And at the sort of, I don't know what we call it, at the corners where like the side pieces meet the face, at the part that faces you, your New York ones had like two little metallic dots, like flanking your eyes. and that's gone now in favour of like one piece of like shaped metal.

Yeah, and I'm not happy about that really, to be honest, because it feels a little bit too ostentatious. Right. Ideally for me, I don't like having a brand name there. You know, people have a variety of brands. I don't like that at all. I don't like anything there. And the DETAs have these little dots as their little symbol and that's fine.

They're pretty discreet. The mascots have this kind of. kind of, I don't know even know what it is. It's like a diamond shape, I guess. Diamondy, shieldy type thing here. Yeah. There's little metal dots on either extreme side, on the sides there. The frustrating thing is they used to just do them on, I guess we'll call them the stems, okay? Those bits going backwards, we'll call them the stem.

They used to be just there, but they've also moved them around to the front now, up in those corners. And so having both of them is a bit too much, but apparently that's what they do. now so they want their little symbol to be seen from the front as well as the side. That's a bit much for me. Have you worn them much around your friends and stuff? Have people seen them? And what's been the initial feedback?

I wore them to church on Sunday. Oh, did anyone notice or did you have to tell them? No one noticed. I didn't tell them because I forgot. Because once they're on, you kind of don't see your glasses. I totally forgot. Yeah. But no one noticed.

No one mentioned them. Nothing at all. So that's interesting, isn't it? Maybe that's a good sign. Maybe that's like, has shown that you've done a good like for like. Oh, indeed, yeah. I don't,

last thing I want to be is like Elton John walking in with different glasses every week. No, I think, but maybe people noticed them but weren't quite sure what was different or something like that. You know, it's so subtle. They thought, oh,

have you seen how haircut or... Or maybe they just know how attached you were to the DETAs. They didn't want to bring it up because it's like a sensitive subject and they thought it might upset you. Well, that's true. That's very sensitive.

incident. I mean, they're very caring people and that would be a very kind response. That's right. Or maybe people didn't recognize me. Like some people just didn't come and talk to me at all because they're like, well, who's that guy? They thought you were a special guest preacher from another church. Yeah, where's Tim? What's this guy up here?

That's right. Someone said, no, no, that was Tim. No, it wasn't. He wasn't wearing Ditas. Tim would never wear mascots. That's right. Who's this mascot intruder that's coming? Do you take your glasses off when you pray in church or is it only when you're praying on your own? I think, funnily enough, I don't really pray in church. Do you mean up the front or like when I'm sitting in?

Yeah, yeah, when you're on stage, yeah. Up the front, no, I don't, no. I don't take them off at all. Yep. I think when I'm sitting down, I might, but usually I'm not really. I mean, I do pray when I'm sitting there, but I'm also kind of running the service. so you're kind of praying, but, you know, someone's leading prayers up the front and everyone's praying. I'm also kind of like thinking, okay, what's next?

And, oh, yeah, no, that's what's going on here. And you want to be able to see the audience to see how impressed they are by your prayer if they're, like, nodding and saying this prayer to him and stuff. That's right. It's kind of more of a, oh, Lord. Here we are in these beautiful glasses. Oh, yeah, they're loving this. They're loving it.

Look at them. Look at them, oh. They're loving this prayer. You lord are the one who sees all, even as I, through these beautiful glasses, can see everything in this room. I did hear some whispers, though, that you're not perhaps 110% happy with the glasses and might be getting a tweak done. Is that true? Look, yeah, so this is the sort of addendum to the whole story. Look, it's a bit frustrating, really.

I know you look at my head and you go, how can a pair of glasses be too white for that? But I'm telling you, the bridge is slightly too wide. And so they're kind of not really sitting on my nose. So that puts the lenses further apart. The lenses are further apart. And it means that the, and I'm going to call them the scoopy bit at the bottom, right, are sitting on my cheeks. And that's not good.

Oh, they touch the cheeks. And you just want them just on the nose. If they sit on your cheeks, I had a steel pair back when I was a kid like, this and I didn't know better. But then you get on hot days and sweaty days, you end up with two lines, like two grooves underneath your eyes. It just wears and gets sweaty. And I don't want to do that while I'm playing, you know, elite tennis or anything like that. So yeah, no, so I've Yeah. Well, well. So what can you do about that? So I inquired and I said, look, my sunglasses don't do that. Why do these do that? And she's looked at them and said, oh, well, you.

your sunglasses, the bridge is only a 22, whereas in these, it's a 24. I'm like, ah, dear, I should have asked for a 22. You're a 22, man. Yeah, I'm a 22 in the bridge of the nose. Who would have thought? I'm a 64. Not on the bridge, man, you're not. No. Okay. This is the, this is the distance between your eyes. So she told me then, no, the lemtoshes, which is the ones I've chosen, they don't come in a 22. They don't. only come in a 24. Oh no. I'm like, you're kidding.

So I said, well, what are my sunglasses? And she looked at them and they're not lemtoshes at all. Jelt. G-E-L-T. Jelt. So I'm like, well, I should have just got jelt. I mean, she says, but they don't come in the matte black. They only come in the shiny black.

Yeah. So I'm like, well, I just sit down at that point. Right. I said, now give it to me straight. So what are you going to do? Well, the amazing thing with this, and this is pretty typical, this amazing optometrist, is you get three months warranty, not only on the lenses, right, but on the frames as well. And so she said, why don't you go and give them a go for a week or two and then just see how they feel?

And I said, are you sure? Like, I'm going to go out and use them. And she goes, yep, yep, no, totally. Up to three months. They will exchange them. And I'm like, wow, okay, all right. But, I mean, an hour later, right, I knew I'm going back. I'm going to have to get these replaced and get the jelts.

And even in the shiny black, it's going to be a different kind of black from a matte black to a shiny black. That's what I'm going to have to do. I have to go, I don't think they look as good, but you have to go with your sight and your comfort more, more than your looks. I know that's not, you know, it's a revelation for you, but. You can't have your dentee cheeks, but... No, no, that's right. No. I mean, another option would be to lose weight in my cheeks,

but, you know, that's undoing a hell of a lot of expensive Botox work that I've had done, so I can't do that. Did you consider the jelts with the clear frames? I quite like those. Considered it in the store. I didn't seriously consider it, but I did look at them and think, I know Tom Hanks wears those.

He wears them, like, in real life when he's just being like Tom Hanks. What, jelts or just clear glasses? Like, just clear glasses. Like, because that's a whole other look. Okay. Well, so, well, so does your good friend, Brady. Do you wear clear ones, do you? I can't picture, I suddenly can't picture you with glasses.

I do with black frames. Switch the video, switch your video back on. Oh, wow, look at that. Yeah, you do. With black stalks, black stems, but clear frames. Why did you choose clear frames? Because my wife told me they look good, and I just do whatever she says. Brady, are there any other glasses questions that you have?

Because I feel like we've explored this comprehensively, and I don't think people are going to want us to come back to this again. So now's the time to ask. No, and there are more things I could ask. But like, I don't know. Like, you know, some of them are too boring. Some of them are inappropriate. You know, like I could ask if you wear them during intimacy.

But I'm not going to ask that. No. Yeah. I mean, the answer is no. really like praying basically that's right that's right no

it is funny when you kiss when you're young and the first time you're sort of kissing a girl and there it was always a bit like oh will our glasses you know clash like

what did you only ever kiss girls who also wore glasses or I well no but I do remember thinking oh will that happen like is that going to be a thing but it's not a thing. It's all right.

Yeah. Fair enough. That's good. You know, so that's one less thing to worry about. Yeah, exactly.

There's enough to worry about when you're kissing a girl for the first time. That's right. Yeah, yeah. They'll wear your glasses are. That's right.

I mean, I could ask you a lot of questions about what to do, how to handle steam when they steam up and playing in the rain as well. I've got a lot of problems around that, but we'll do that off air.

Okay, fair enough. Yep. Yeah. In summary, I do love wearing my glasses and if I could have a superpower or be healed from the issues with my eyesight, I'd probably tweak some of the issues with my eyesight,

but I wouldn't totally remove my need to wear glasses. It's your trademark, man. It's your trademark. Yeah, well, that's right. And it's a real, and it's a real exciting time to be alive for another Tim Hine changing of the glasses. It's like, you know, it's like, you know, like a geyser that goes off really rarely or all these flowers that like only blossom every 30 years or something.

Yeah. To be alive and to be able to interact with you during a changing of the glasses is a real pleasure. It's a bit like the monarch, wasn't it? We had the queen for so long, and then now we've got the king. It's like, wow, we didn't see a coronation for a long time. Yeah. But then we're going to get another one reasonably soon, you would think. And so maybe it's with my glasses now.

Maybe I'll become more regular as my eyes deteriorate. You should know that when Tim first picked up his new glasses, he got a bit carried away. He got a bit Steven Spielberg on me and sent me. a whole bunch of films filled up my messages with them. So we're going to put them together as a little compilation for you, a little bit of entertainment. And we'll put that on the Patreon. So if you're a stakeholder, one of our Patreon supporters,

go to patreon.com slash Unmade FM and go and watch a special exclusive set of videos of Tim showing off his new glasses. But he's showing off, this is the 24 inch? Yeah, this is the 24. Not 24 inch, 24 somethings. the 24 bridge. This isn't his 22 shinies. This is the 24 mats.

No. So there will be a sequel that I'll film when I get those as well. But I did have a lot of fun with this, actually. I did have a lot of fun. There are a few surprises. So if you're a Patreon supporter and you've made it this far through our podcast, well, there's even more. Would you believe?

Would you believe? Oh, dear. Friends, like, thank you for sticking in with this episode because I did. Thankfully for the listeners, they won't know how many times Tim's internet dropped out and how many times he rebooted his computer and jumped back on the Zoom. This has taken us two hours. It has, yeah. And you'd like to be able to go, well, it was worth it.

You would like that, wouldn't you? I know, you would like to be able to feel that feeling. Yeah. But no. No. Do you know what we're going to do is, is once I get my new glasses, we're going to do a whole episode about Tim getting a new Mac. Oh, what a day that will be.

That will also be black and shiny and new and 22 inches. Tim has been talking about this for a long time. It will be a big moment. Let me give you one last piece of information, because it kind of follows on from you dealing with the optometrists and you're talking about all your customer service there. I am for the first time in quite a while going to the dentist tomorrow. Oh no.

And can I say I'm not looking forward to it? No. And not for the reason you think. Like, my teeth are okay. There's nothing wrong. I'm just doing a routine checkup because I haven't done one for ages. Yeah. And I'm not one of those people who's really hates having, you know, dental work, you know.

I don't like it, but I can handle it. I'm not one of those people who's scared of that. Yeah. You know, the sharp instruments and all that. What I hate is how dentists make you feel as a customer. I know I'm a patient as well, but I think they are, from my experience, from the ones I've had, the worst in the world for guilting you and telling you that you're doing a bad job. Like, can you imagine if you went like you employed a cleaner in your house, right?

And all they did was said to you, gosh, you're so sloppy. Your house is so messy and dirty. you really should look after your house better. They don't do that because I'm paying the money to clean my house. But dentists just guilt trip you and tell you what a terrible job you're doing at cleaning your teeth and, you know, they've got no bedside manner about them and I think they're bad at customer service. Controversial, but I've put it out there. Well, you wouldn't believe it.

I also have a dentist appointment in about a week's time. And I'm not looking forward to it either. I do feel guilty, but unlike you, I feel like it's my. my fault. Like, it's, I go in, like it's like a confessional. And it probably is. It probably is. And it probably is my fault, too. But they, they just need to find ways to be a bit nicer about it. My dentist is nice. No, I like my dentist. Okay. Good for you. She's good at it. Yeah. Good. Good. I have, I have had a series of dentists and so have other people in my family who are just like, yeah, you just come out feeling bad about yourself. I can't believe you get this

behaviour. I remember one time I was going to get dental work done, you know, on that bus from school when we used to get free dental service at school. I loved getting the dental bus, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I got it a few times. I had to have a bit of work done. You came along like once and your sister came along on that one as well. And she told me, we all went like at different stages out the back, you know, where all the chairs are and all that kind of stuff. And she, she told me that she was out there and you had your teeth checked. And then the dentist was like so amazed by how wonderful your teeth were. They were calling other dentists over to look at your mouth.

I remember this. Including the one that was dealing with her mouth. And so her dentist actually left her mouth to go over to admire how amazing your mouth is. I remember this. I remember this because I tell my wife this story all the time. My wife has very nice teeth. And I say, well, my teeth are good too because I once had a dentist. use them as like an exemplar for other dentists to come and look at.

And she refuses to believe this. She thinks my teeth are not exemplar. She thinks they're gapy and weird. And she laughs every time I tell the story. But I was so pleased with myself. Maybe I'm, I don't know. Maybe they were just saying that to be nice. And she was calling them over because my teeth were so weird.

And she said, oh, I just want the other dentist to come and see your teeth, Brady. Oh, because they're nice. That's right. Yeah. When really she's going, we've got a code red. Yeah. I do remember that though. Like, it did happen.

Oh, I definitely remember it. And your sister and I was sort of like, that's so typically Brady, you know, he's just got these perfect teeth. Whereas we're like, you know, brushing art every day and, you know, just scraping through life. Yeah. Well, there you go.

I'll tell you how I get on tomorrow. I'm seeing a dentist tomorrow. I'll see if he calls anyone over to come and have a look. Here's something. Why don't you take a game? gift. Like, take something to establish a deeper relationship first. Oh, that's a good idea. Not a bribe, just more of like, hey, I've baked you some scones or something. Yeah. Or here's a massive Lego set of the Death Star that you can have. I made you some sugary treats.

I bought this, I bought this toffee, this hard toffee. No, you should get a bag of those teeth, lollies. You know those lollies that are teeth and just go, I thought of you when I'm I got these. Or those little plastic ones that you wind up and they have feet and they chatter. Like one of those. How many of those they've seen? Yeah. Because I bet they never get them as presents.

No, no. That's right. All right. Well, good luck, man. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not trying to steal glory from your big glasses moment.

I just tagged that on the end. But so go over to Patreon. Go and watch Tim's videos. Go and watch his filmmaking. See what you think. That's right. There's a few attempted comedy moments. It's awesome.

I'm really, if you're interested in seeing a film that Tim makes when he gets his new glasses and then walks down Rundle Mall, then... I was being sent multiple takes. I would be sent a video and then a few seconds later, I'd be sent another one saying, use this take instead. It was like I was getting directing editing instructions for Tim in real time. I haven't even watched them all yet. There were so many. What I should have done is film it all, gone home and then chosen the best ones and sent you those. But no, I was too excited about them.

I had to send them in the moment, even though I know you're asleep and you've got your notification silenced. I'm like, oh, Brady's going to love this. Yeah. All right. Patron trait. Good stuff. Good luck with that. Tell us when the new shiny glasses come in.

Photos in the notes of Tim's glasses and old glasses. I'm going to harass him for some funny pictures. You can go and laugh at him. And we will see you again soon. two hours and five minutes it took us to make this episode. And I haven't even done the editing yet. You bet. I don't think we're listening anymore, man.