Toni and Ryan - What Keeps You Up At Night?

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

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Welcome to the Tony and Ryan podcast. My name is Ryan. This is Dr. Author Tony Lodge. Hello. Sorry, I was just having a yawn. Do we, for privacy reasons, do we normally not say like a full name? We don't, but sometimes we do. We're about to call Lucy Fist. Better than a tidy fist, I guess. And I've always... Lefty Lucy, righty tardy.

Hello. Lucy, it's Daniela. How you doing? Oh, my God. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Fuck you.

How excited were you to take that out of the chest, Lucy? Honestly, I was just listening to today's episode and I was like, are we really going to continue this? Yes, I hope this episode that I'm on airs in June. So I'm pulling it out then. Yeah, I like it. Lucy, I've just looked at your email address. Is that your...

Don't dox her. But is that your real name and have you been teased mercilessly your whole life? It is. I've been teased mercilessly or it's people get it wrong and they don't think it's what it is. They're like a carby fist. Even when I spell it.

Well, how do you say it? Yeah, exactly. You know, I say it fist. So I'm like F-I-S-T, like a clenched hand. And they're all like, oh, so S-I-F-T. And I'm like, no, that's just not right. Oh, or do they try and like protect you and they go, oh, feist or something? Like they're trying to like.

Like tarjay. First fish. Or saying like microwave instead of microwave. Yeah, no, they always try and have an extra letter. I know that happened like five years ago, but I still say it. Yeah. Oh, same, same. It's a microwave for now.

Yeah. Well, exciting office chat. Tony and I have just invested in a microwave for the office. I'm so proud. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lucy. Now we can have tuna and rice in the office.

Yeah, but I'm disappointed in us that we, through all the microwave chat, have not used the term microwave. And I'm really sad for us. When I unbox it, I'll go, oh, look at this microwave. And then we'll go, oh, Lucy Fierce. Yeah. Oh, my God, I've made it into, look at this micro hover, and then we'll go, oh, Lucy Fist. Oh my god, I've made it into the office. I'm so proud. It is an honor. You should be proud.

Lucy, will you approve today's episode? Of course I will. She's fisting us right away. Punch in the air. Hey, it's Lucy Fist from Melbourne, and I approve this podcast. All right, happy new year and coming up today, as Tony mentioned yesterday, she's got a big pitch,

a big idea that doesn't come around very often. Is it involved the two of us or everyone listening? Everybody listening. I think it's like a pact we could all, you and I, obviously, because we're on the billboard, but everybody listening will be involved in a pitch for a pact that as the TARP community, because we're part of the TARP community. It's not Tony and Ryan and the rest of them. No, I'm a TARPer. We're all one big group of TARP community, because we're part of the TARP community. It's not Tony and Ryan and the rest of them. No, I'm a TARPer.

We're all one big group of TARPers. Someone tweeted I'm a TARPer and it came up on my Twitter feed and I replied and I said so am I. Me too. Yeah, exactly. I consider myself a TARPer. And so for all the TARPers to come together, it's a big one. All right, that's coming up soon.

But first, what have you once said that still keeps you up at night? June, but first, what have you once said that still keeps you up at night? Tapa Maxine created this thread in the Tony and Ryan Facebook group. Oh, hi, Maxine. Maxine said, one day it was a really busy Christmas shift where I work at Lush. Oh, okay. And my head was spinning and this lady bought some lovely bath bombs as a gift.

And instead of saying, have a nice day, I went, have a nice life. Oh, that feels very final, doesn't it? And I think about that moment every single day. What's this bath I'm going to do to me? He's going to radox me into a paste. Like what's going to happen? I love Lush. Like I, oh, do you have any stuff from Lush?

Or have you ever used stuff from there? No, but Bridget is a bath haver. So yeah, a bath bomb or a salt. Yeah. Lush make this body wash. It's called Happy Hippie. And it's like. That's my area. It's like grapefruit body wash. It's called Happy Hippie. That's my area.

It's like grapefruit body wash, and it smells amazing, and I buy it by the truckload. Good. Just back it in. Every time we need it, I'll buy like four litre bottles, like four one litre bottles. I hate it when you get a little tube and then you have to go get some more. And it's all the waste as well because you're like throwing a bottle

out all the time. I'm like give me a fucking, you know when you buy like a big sack of rice? Yeah. If they could just give me a big sack of this Happy Hippie soap. Or a wine barrel's worth. Honestly, if anybody is in the market for a new soap, go to Lush and get that one. It is fucking amazing.

The smell, every morning when I'm doing it, doing it i'm like oh it like zings you up it's like beautiful this is not a fucking ad it sounds like a fucking ad oh sorry mate is tony getting little personal kickbacks on the side here because i didn't this didn't come across my desk no no no no kickback just genuinely have been buying this for like almost 10 years now and i fucking love it hey and you know what? Yeah. Have a nice life. So severe. Yeah, it's fucking brutal, eh? Do you know what keeps me up at night? What?

When you go to the cinema and they're like, oh, remember back in the day they used to rip your ticket once you'd gone through? Oh, I'm old. Now they scan the QR code or fucking whatever and they go, oh, enjoy your movie and you go, you too. It's the same as like the waiter. Oh, have a great meal.

Oh, you too. I think we're going to do this segment again, dare I say it, because so many taffers have worked at McDonald's and said stuff like that, that I'm going to group them all together and we're going to do a McDonald's edition. Oh, amazing. Of what have you said at work. Amazing. But here's another one.

Matt Singh once called her university professor dad. That is. That is. So I understand that like when you're in primary school. Oh, Mr Dunn, I called out mum once to Mr Burridge. Yeah. Mum, oh, Mr Burridge. And then all the other kids go, ah!

And so they should. Yeah, they did. But at uni. At uni. Yeah. But I guess I always think of, you know, I've got like a big respect for a university professor because they're like obviously really smart and become an expert

in their field. And just like they have big like respectable dad energy and just like that like seeing them as a father figure type and then be like, Dad, oh, yeah. Imagine if it was like a psychology professor and they're like, okay, class, should we all dissect that together? Yeah, yeah. How about we break this down?

A lot to unpack here, guys. Guys, great example. Yeah, yeah. Matt Singh, say that again. Yeah, what have I done here? Now, what did your dad treat you like in your teenage formative years? Or what year did he leave us? Yeah.

Fucking hell. Also in a university. Tapa, Jennifer worked as an academic advisor, which means people who were doing like a thesis or a research paper. She would like support and mentor them through the year. Oh, cool. So when I did my like year-long thesis, you get like one person and you catch up every week

and it's like a very, like it becomes a pretty close relationship. That's cool. I guess you need a lot of support because like you can't talk to anyone else about it because everyone's thesis is about something different. Yeah. And there's not like regular classes like that. You're just on your own, like slugging it out. So it's half a Jennifer, academic advisor.

She every year wrote a handwritten welcome note. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. And sometimes, says Jennifer, I wrote, please contact me with any questions. Other times I wrote, don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. And I guess I'd written a few, so I accidentally combined them and wrote and mailed to someone, please don't contact me with any questions. And it was like later that day she went.

I wrote the wrong thing. I think I've written and I've mailed that. So I was like, welcome to, you know, it's a big, important time in your life. You're doing this great research. Please don't contact me with any questions. All the best. And just the best of intentions from Jennifer on that.

And she's like, and she goes, I can't remember which one it was. So you just, yeah. It just. If it's handwritten, I think I'd forgive something. I'd be like, oh, I can probably guess what's happened here. If it was emailed. Oh, but when you're new and they've gone to the trouble of handwriting, it's not a typo.

It's not an autocorrect. Yeah, that's true. And because obviously university professors also have like little quirks. Yeah. And so some of them are quite. So some of them might be like, please don't ask me any questions. Yeah. And so sometimes. Some of them are quite. So some of them might be like, please don't ask me any questions. Yeah. Like that's someone else's job.

Don't ask me the questions. Ask X, Y, Z the questions. Oh, you'd be. Oh, and imagine opening that letter. Oh my God, mail. That's not a bill. And then someone being like, don't fucking talk to me. Oh, sorry.

Haven't even met you yet and you already hate me. Tapa Lisa works at a bank. Okay. Oh, sorry. Haven't even met you yet and you already hate me. Tapa Lisa works at a bank. Oh. She says a regular who I speak with every week or so, she hobbles in on crutches. Oh, my gosh. And I said, oh, my God, what happened? And she looked at me with confusion and said,

I had a foot amputated three years ago. I guess I just never noticed. I did, yeah. I never noticed. Oh, just playing like, oh. Oh. Or just playing like, oh. Sorry, I'm not.

That's cruel. I think it's the fact they're a regular. You've built up a relationship. It's sort of the like how once you've met someone three times, you can't ask them what their name is anymore. It's like if you didn't. No, but I think it's also just like when you work closely with someone and like once you've met someone, you said this to me once and it's like stuck with me, once you've met someone more

than two or three times, what they look like doesn't matter anymore. You just know that that's who it is. Yeah. So this person obviously just like never noticed and then one day maybe it was like they were in a bit more pain than usual or something, hence the hobbling in, and they've gone, oh, my gosh, like I've never noticed you. Like, are you all right?

And they went, yeah, like I'm always, you know. That was like three years ago. Yeah. I mean, someone that I've known for quite some time the other week was like, how long have you been wearing glasses? What? Yeah. And I was like literally the whole time.

You came out of your mother as a four-eyes baby. Yeah. No, but I've worn glasses since I was like 14 or something. And they're like, how long have you worn glasses for? And I was like, what? I mean, I put them on this morning, but if you mean like combined literally 15 years. Did you like if you were going out on the weekend wear contacts

or not wear glasses? Because I feel like there's a few photos around of you glasses-less. Yeah, there's probably times when I didn't wear them all the time or I'd go blind. But who was that? It wasn't Torbs, was it? No. Hey, it's Lucy Fist from Melbourne and you're listening to Tony and Ryan.

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She's on her way to school right now. I bet they're listening in the car. Love you, girlfriend. Random question. Random question. Is Lush Cosmetics, or Lush whatever it is, is that Australian? I'd say okay. Because I reckon when I was in Austin, Texas.

Oh, no, it's everywhere. Right, okay. It's British. It's British. I just looked it Texas. Oh, no, it's everywhere. Right, okay. It's British. It's British. I just looked it up. Okay, right, there we go. Hate to be that guy, but I've actually bought Lush in Japan when I was there visiting one of the two times I've been.

Okay, you want to know something random? Always. We were talking about your fake Facebook pages yesterday. I clicked through your, like, cover pics and background photos of your page. I was trying to figure out if it was the real one. And, like, your cover photo used to be this, like, picture of Japanese, like, landscape.

Did it? Yeah. Like, you'd obviously taken, like, this cool, like, shot. On my personal one? No, that's Vietnam. Oh. Well, excuse me. Yeah, well, thanks.

Yeah. You're excused. That's Vietnam. Oh, well, excuse me. Yeah, well, thanks. Yeah. You're excused. That's Vietnam. And it was from like a big rooftop. And I took a, do you remember when panoramas were a big thing? Yeah, it was. That's what it was. Yeah.

And you'd have to do it really like because the arrow would be in the middle. And if you shook at all, it would fuck the whole thing. It looked like there was some shaking. Do you remember that iconic fucking internet meme? And it was like, I'm taking a panorama but my dog walked across the thing and the dog was like this long. Maybe we should do that one of us.

Like Tony. Yeah, and I'll start but it ends up looking like human centipede. I'm like this whole time. But do you also remember the internet meme where you would start in it and then you'd walk around the back of the person doing it so you'd be in it twice? Oh, I never did that. That's cool.

That's making more work for us. But we should do a video that's like remember panoramas and do all the dumb shit. Oh, look, there's five pippers in the shot. It's so funny. And I thought that was so artsy, which is obviously why I made it my cover foo too on Facebook back in the day when people used to use Facebook like that, RIP.

Hey, um, you came in hot yesterday saying, spruiking a pitch. I've got a pitch. So, um, tomorrow, this is, this is so thrilling to me, right? I don't really understand it, but I love it. Tomorrow is the 29th of February. Doesn't come around that often. It doesn't. Every four years, and I get that it's because every year is like 365

and a quarter days. So every fourth year it's like that extra quarter adds up to that one full day. So I understand it, but I still kind of don't. That's fine. That's enough. But so because I find it fascinating and we'll share a couple of birthdays tomorrow as well. There's a few very young taffers in the group.

Yeah. I liked your joke about the nine-year-old taffers. Are you actually nine years old? Yeah. I remember this thing from when I was a kid. I don't know if, like, anybody else. It popped into my brain when I was thinking about this. The old-fashioned thing of, like, women are allowed to propose

on the 29th of Feb. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Do you remember that? And it's like this. I totally forgot about that. Right. And Ib. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Do you remember that? And it's like this. I totally forgot about that. Right. And I thought.

Oh. Is what you're pitching marriage? No. No fucking way. I've got a pitch and it's you and me together forever. Yeah. What do you reckon, baby? Until death do us part.

And you go, so I'm actually in a relationship with Tony Lodge LinkedIn. I'm not going to. I'm not available. That's my status on Facebook. But I think it's like an old Irish tradition or something. But, like, isn't that – Any plans? No, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely not.

Why not? No, because I would marry Torbs at the courthouse in what I'm wearing now yesterday. I don't care about the shebang. Then do it. But he does. Well, he's got 365 days, four years to do whatever the fuck he wants. And the next one.

Yeah, but, yeah, he should have thought about that before the 29th of February. Because I don't care about the thing. I just am like, oh, I just want to be married to you. So whenever that. Tomorrow. We'll see you at the courthouse. No.

So the whole thing is like, I don't care when it is or how. Yes, it's the answer to the pitch. Can you fucking listen to me? If you want to be a married woman, this is what it's like. This is not what I'm doing. I just, I remember it actually because it was like an arc in Home No Way that it was like, she's breaking all the rules because she was like not going to propose on the – anyway. Oh, my God.

And then did she die when her car went off a cliff? Yeah, probably. And like she's driving to the wedding and the car exploded. There's only two ways people die in Home and Away, and it's if a car goes off a cliff or if a car explodes. Yeah. In fact, if I was on Home and Away, no cars. Yeah, literally.

I'm like, yeah, so I only ride a bike. Yeah. The car explodes and hits the bike and then something else happens. Anyway, but I was thinking like about I wonder if like men ever back in the day like waited for a proposal the way that light women are supposed to. I'll be doing my nails. Yeah, I'll be getting prepared. Oh, what are we doing today?

Yeah. Oh, you're having the day off work, are you? Have you seen the movie Yes Day? It's like this Netflix original that came out a couple of years ago. It's got Jennifer Garner in it and Jenna Ortega, who was Wednesday. Yes. Yeah. Have you seen that movie?

So basically it's like the parents agree to Yes Day. Yes. And the parents have to say yes to whatever the kids ask for 24 hours. Sounds very much like yes man. Don't want to accuse the writers of plagiarism but okay. Well, it's a bit different though, isn't it? Yeah. I actually heard there's a thing that like actual parents do this now.

It's like a funny quirky thing. Yeah, because it would be fun. Like, oh, can we have KFC for dinner? And the parents like have to say yes. You know, like I think it's quite funny. But does it always, let me guess, they're divorced and one of them is like, you have to get back with dad. No, they're together.

Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. But you could write that movie yourself if you wanted. So to me, and that movie isn't set on the 29th of Feb, but the 29th of Feb feels like a bit of a lawless day. Like anything can just, like everything's fair game. It's Luxembourg. You can do whatever you like.

Because it's like The Purge, you know, but with less blood. It's like, well, I mean, up to you. I think I read somewhere that any crimes committed on February 29th. That is not true. I'm looking right into the camera like that is not. No, no, no. But is that what you're saying though? No.

Well, I mean, it is what I literally said, but that's not what I mean. Which bank should we take? No, Ryan. Macquarie Bank. No, I bank with them. I bank with them. They can afford it. They're all rich.

They're all rich. They're all rich. If you do Macquarie. Well, Macquarie actually no bricks and mortar. They don't have any stores. Everything's online. That's what I mean. Yeah. Well, then where are you going to go? Hack them They don't have any stores. Everything's online. That's what I mean. Yeah.

Well, then where are you going to go? Hack them. To the internet? Yeah. Where do they live? You can't hack anything. You can't even log into your own email. The capital letters fuck me, all right?

I heard a thing the other day. I saw this on the internet, so it might actually not be true, but bear with me, that if you put full stops in an email address it doesn't matter it will all and like on gmail no if you if you own johnsmith at gmail.com you also own john.smith you own like john like so then why is my email ryan.john.dunn.69. I don't know. It sounds like what you picked. Because you're like, oh, Ryan John Dunn's taken.

Fine. Put a dot. Put another dot. I don't know. I just saw this, like, that Gmail apparently, if there's dots in the email, you own all of them. So the email will, like, go to the correct place. That's genius. So anyway, so I feel like the 29th of Feb, it's tomorrow.

It's like this lawless day. Yep. So. What are you pitching? My pitch is that tomorrow you and I can tell each other one thing. We'll share it with the tapas. Yeah. And then we all have to forget it.

So it can be anything. Like a secret. Like maybe something you need to get off your chest or a little secret. I don't want to confuse with confessions, but it's like we can say it, get it off our chest, and then the next day. And then, oh, that never happened. Who cares what that, like it's just that's done. Because I have something that I need to get off my chest.

Will make you feel better? That will make me feel a lot better. What have you done? You killed a guy. Well, if you agree to this, I'll tell you tomorrow. So you'll get to know. No, but see. No, no, no, no.

So you'll get to know, but then slate's clean. And you can tell me know. No, but see. No, no, no. So you'll get to know, but then slate's clean. And you can tell me something. Yeah, but. Nothing mean. It's not fair. What's not fair? Because I, like, told the story about the poo towel. Sweetheart, you didn't come up with this idea like I did.

And that's your problem. Years later, I'm still copping shit for it. And I feel like. You're the one bringing it up now. In fairness. Oh, but it gets brought up so often it's fucking whatever. But I feel like you've created this excellent idea and it means you can put your poo towel in there and then be like.

My poo towel? I can play my poo card. Yeah, you can play your poo card and then be like, oh, I'll never hear about it because it's into the void of February 29. I'm like, no, I've had to deal with this for years. Okay. the void of February 29. I'm like, no, I've had to deal with this for years.

Okay. What if the deal was that on the podcast in four years on February 29. I can re-ask questions. You could ask more questions if you have them. Deal. And I can ask more questions about if you've got a, do you have something that maybe you'd like to get off your chest? Yeah, I do actually. Okay.

I do. So hang on. But so on the pod, we can ask the follow-up questions and tease you and mock you and whatever. Have a do actually. Okay. I do. So hang on. On the pod, we can ask the follow-up questions and tease you and mock you and whatever. Have a full conversation. And then it's done. And in the Facebook thread, maybe we'll even delete the Facebook thread. We'll delete the Facebook thread.

So it'll be up for the 24 hours Australian, Eastern, Dalat savings time? I will give it... Three days. I'll give it until it's February 29 still somewhere. Okay. So when it gets to midnight in what is it, probably Hawaii? The furthest place.

Yeah, the right. It's going back around. So everyone's had their chance. Yep. I don't want anyone going to like drop a bomb and be like, oh, well, it's fucking not New Zealand time, so it's too late. Yep. Okay. Fair.

Fair. As long as it's February 29 somewhere. It's fair game. And then we delete the thread. And then we're going to delete the thread and any comments henceforth thereafter will also be deleted. Until February 29, 2028. Yep, so the next Olympics. We're prepping for the Los Angeles Olympics.

Yeah. Hopefully that fucking bridge from the LAX airport to the Uber pickup terminal thing. I was about to say it'll probably take that long to, yeah. They want to have it done by the Olympics, they reckon. And I'm like, well, if I know anything about this town, good fucking luck. But we'll talk about that and we'll have follow-up,

only follow-up questions about what's said tomorrow. Yeah, or, I mean, if you've got another secret in the next four years, we could also do that. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry? We not delete the Facebook post, we archive it. Oh, yeah, that's fair. And it gets unarchived in four years.

Yeah, and we can ask new questions. So tomorrow both of us have something we need to get off our chest. Is yours illegal? I think so. Okay, but as per my ruling, it's fair game tomorrow. Yeah. It's the purge with just as much blood. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's not actually a purge. Just letting it hang on. Let me just one more time. So it's not. Right in the streets. We can't. No, no, no, no, one more time. So, it's not a... Right in the streets. We can't, no, no, no, no, no, no. We will not be responsible for anything that people do.

But, you and I... I'll put trash in the recycling bin. Don't do that. It's February 29th, what are you going to do about it? Okay, well we're not going to make it to the next fucking purge day because the planet's going to be dead. Alright. Say whatever we want. We each got one confession or something to get off our chest.

Then the Facebook thread will stay up until the last second of February 29 in the world. Yep. And then it's gone. Is Hawaii the last place on the international dateline? I don't know. Papiate? Somewhere like that? Yeah, I feel like it's between New Zealand and, but there's heaps of islands there.

All right. Deal? We're shaking hands. Shaking hands. Well, it's nice and grippy over there. Thank you. My hand's a bit sweaty. No, that's all right.

I liked it. Nice and warm. It's the South Pole is the. The South Pole's every time zone. Yeah. But that's the end of. But isn't that all the way around? Yeah.

The South Pole. Yeah. It's not all the way around. No, but it's. It's every end of. But isn't that all the way around? Yeah. The South Pole. Yeah. It's not all the way around. No, but it's. It's every time zone. Because it's in the very centre. Time zones start and finish at the North Pole and South Pole. It's like the middle of a clock.

Yeah. It's all times all at once. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, James. And put your fucking hand up next time if you're going to fucking up. Wow. Yeah.

In fact, and if you had said this tomorrow, James, I wouldn't have brought it up every day for the next four years. But now I can because I didn't have it tomorrow. I'm going to love to see it here. Nice. This is from Marber. Hi, Marber. She lives in Everston in Illinois.

Where's Everston? It's near Chicago. I love Chicago so much. We love the shit out of Chicago. I'm pretty sure Everston might be where, oh, if I'm wrong, this will be embarrassing. It will be. Northeast, Northwest University.

Northwestern. Northwestern, yeah. Where Cooper went. Yeah, right. My brother. I love Chicago. I'd happily live in Chicago. It was really cool.

I came upon this message for Tony and I had to share it. On the beach, someone had just written Tony in the sand, like carved it in real big so people flying over could see it. And then this is Merba's dog, Sheila, just decided to start guarding it because she's like, oh, that's Tony. I know her. I've got to just protect the space. So she like stood there like protecting the Tony.

And people would have passed and she'd be like, oh, no, don't break the thing. And just like became real protective of it. That's so funny. How sweet. What a cute dog too. What did you say, Sheila? Sheila's that dog.

Look how cute she is there. Protecting Tony. Isn't that nice? Near Chicago. You'll also love this. Marbo says, oh, by the way, I also know who Rove is. That's funny. That is funny.

For those playing along at home, Rove is the second most famous person from Perth. If you know Rove, you know Rove. If you don't, see ya. Anyway. Get rich or die roving. Roving Enterprises. Love that. Thank you, Merba, for sharing that.

That's very cute. And cute dog too. My love to see it's from Clarkie. Clarkie's been popping off in our Patreon recently. They joined us on the live stream, do you remember? There was heaps of comments and stuff. And Clarkie messaged and said, I'm 42 this

year. I've been doing Irish dancing on and off since I was 11. I reached out to a few schools, but the support for adults that want to do it and want to compete isn't great. It's kind of like a kids game. Finally decided to bite the bullet and speak to like an elite school.

They mostly do like take kids and teenagers, but all of the ones that are qualifying for like world championships. Yeah, right. Clarkie did a trial class and got in. What the fuck? At 42. Clarkie says these kids are great, so supportive, and I'm at least 20 years older than all of them,

but we're on track to go to nationals later this year. How exciting. Yeah. Just another you love to see, it says, Clarkie, and reminder that you're never too old to give it a go. Am I? You love to see that. That's amazing.

Good for you for just going and doing it. That's so sick. I've got a question for you. Question for you. Me going and doing it. That's so sick. I've got a question for you. Question for you. Me. It's actually going to take both of us a little while to be able to just, like, figure out what I'm asking, but stick with me.

No, no, no. I'm the other half of your brain. Two bodies, one soul. What did Clarkie say again? What was his final quote? You're never too... She said, you're never too old to give it a go. Am I at 36 too young to be saying you're never too old to give it a go?

Yep. Okay. I think so. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I do know what you mean. But also... Because you never hear an 18-year-old going, and that's why I've said you're never too old.

You go, what? But I felt old when I just, like, wasn't at school anymore. And then I felt really old when I wasn't at uni anymore. And then I felt really old when I, like, had a full-time job. So have you felt old your whole life? Well, I just feel like because you're always the oldest you've ever been. You've never? Sorry, Tony's mind has just fallen off.

Actually, though, you're always the oldest you've ever been. Yeah. You've never been older than right now. So I think that naturally you kind of go, that chapter in my life's over and you think you're too old to do stuff. But I thought I was really old when I was 19. What's crazy? But now that I'm 30, I'm like, oh, I've got so much left to give.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, I always think it's crazy when you're... You give less of a fuck when you get a bit older, I reckon. Yeah, and that takes the edge off. When you're 22... Yeah. 22!

Sorry, I said it would be Swift 3 after last week. Say you enrolled in a university degree. At 22? No, no, like when you finished high school. Oh, yep. Or you did an apprenticeship or whatever, and then you realise at 22, oh, actually, I'm not quite as passionate as I am anymore.

I'm more passionate about that, but like 22, I'm so old. Exactly. I can't go and start this other new thing. Because everyone else is 18. Yeah. But then at 36, if a 22-year-old said, I'm too old to start that new thing, I'd be like, shut the fuck up and go and do the thing you want to do. So Dave Parsons, he went and did his apprenticeship.

Because apprentices get the first year paid not very much. No. I think he started his apprenticeship when he was like 25. What does he do now? He's like a carpenter. Oh, is he? I didn't know that. Yeah.

But like at the time, you're like, oh, my, starting an apprenticeship at 25, like, oh, my God. Especially because of the pays. But you kind of go, oh, you can't afford to. And then it's like, nah, bro, you're never too, like. Never too late. In fact, let's start a thread of shit you started when you were older. Yep.

Because I just love to hear that. Start the fucking blog, but never too late edition. Age edition. Yeah, it is very start the blog. No, but I think it's important to remember that, like, you can always do whatever you want. I was the opposite. I always felt really young because when I played in volleyball teams,

like I played in for the Melbourne Falcons when I was 18. Yeah. But the next youngest was like 25. Yeah. And they were all like older guys. So I was just like sitting on the bench doing my time. But I felt like a baby when I was 18. Yeah.

But then when you finish primary school when you're 13, you're like, oh, I'm pretty old now. I'm the king of this school. Yeah, I'm a big kid. Yeah. Yeah. And then you go to high school and you're, oh, I'm just a now. I'm the king of this school. Yeah, I'm a big kid. Yeah. And then you go to high school and you're like, oh, I'm just a baby again.

I think life is just a series of events that humble you and remind you that, like, there's other shit going on. It's like wiping the back of the microwave. Yeah, yep. But also that just reminds you that, like, oh, no one really knows what they're doing. Like, we're all winging it. I've got an update.

Yeah. Because this has reminded me of me having a weekly fall and seeing when it's me having a fall versus just falling over. Yeah. We're trying to find out the time. Yep. Someone messaged through and said, the difference between having a fall and falling over is if you laugh.

Oh, that's good. At 35, I fell over and you pissed yourself laughing. She goes, oh, there you go. But when I fall and you go, oh, are you okay, mate? Then you go, oh, he's old now. Oh, because there could be damage. Yeah. When someone falls over and you're younger, it's just funny.

Yeah, because you know they'll get back up. Yeah, but when an 85-year-old falls over, you don't go, suck shit, you fucking clumsy dickhead. Yeah. You know what I mean? Where's the line? You can't do that. And that's how this tarpa says, that's how I judge.

How old's your mum? Fucking put me on the spot. Sorry. I think she turned 70 this year. Or 69. What would you? Mando! If your mum fell over, would you laugh or would you be like,

Mum? First of all, sorry, I think I actually spat from you doing that. Yeah, 69. If my mum fell. You're always doing your age, aren't you, Ashibi? If I, shut the fuck up, Trey. If my grandma fell over, I'd be like very concerned. Oh, totally.

Oh, if Betty fell down, I'd be like, oh, my Lord. But Mandy, no, I think I'd be concerned. Yeah. So maybe it's around 69. All right. Well, tomorrow we're back for the purge. Tomorrow could be fucking heavy by the sounds of things. Tomorrow, leap day.

If you've got any thoughts, I hope that you're listening on the day because after tomorrow. That's it. Fucking out of luck, thoughts, I hope that you're listening on the day because after tomorrow, fucking out of luck, sweetheart. And for those of you catching up who... By the time you get to this, it's done. You can't comment. Should we delete the episode? No, no, no. I bet there's no correspondence.

Alright, we'll chat to you tomorrow. Love you, bye.