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Episode: 4179
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Title: HPR4179: HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 5
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4179/hpr4179.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 21:00:46
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4179 for Thursday the 8th of August 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, HP or New Year's Eve Show 2023-24-5.
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It is hosted by Hong Kimagoo and is about 118 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, the HP or community comes together to converse.
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This show really is lacking, isn't it?
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This time, I don't know what it is.
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I don't like that. It's hilarious.
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Everyone over in the States is probably cooking their barbecue now.
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What time is it there? It must be...
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No. It's not fun.
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It's not snowing over there, but...
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I suppose it depends where they are.
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No, it's snowing over there.
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It's cold.
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Have you lived outside of Australia?
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No.
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Only in England for a year.
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And that was bloody cold.
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It worked up in the snow fields in Victoria, which is not far from here.
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And it gets minus 14 up there, which is horrendous.
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I don't know why people are up there for fun.
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On top of a mountain, a hill.
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Yeah.
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It's a mountain range. It's northeast of Victoria, not far from where I live.
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Well, yeah, exactly.
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So it's...
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Well, yeah, it can get cold.
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Sure, yeah.
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It's terrible.
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And on the other side, I've also worked in 45 degree temperatures.
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In the middle of a pettic.
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That's not very pleasant either.
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45 C.
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No, not C.
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More than maybe.
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Yeah, so it's camp.
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Ah, 40, yeah.
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Actually, that was a heat wave.
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And I'm going to use to say last year now.
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So last year, yeah.
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2023 to be clear.
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We're talking about...
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In Italy.
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And I think parts of Portugal as well.
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And maybe Greece.
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I think France got hit by summer as well in Spain.
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And we had this like the usual English sort of rainy.
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Like, oh, it's rainy and it's supposed to be summer.
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And we're getting all this rain and it's not very nice.
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But they were getting like 44 degrees C heat wave.
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And that really is a heat wave in Europe.
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And you know, we're not used to that in the UK.
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Or even these places where it gets a bit hotter.
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It's like 44 C.
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It's like, whoa, well, at 42.
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Even 30 and 35 or something.
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It's like hot and then 44, 42, whatever it was.
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It's like crazy.
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That's like a proper heat wave.
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And I mean, we've had an end and all the time that rained and it's cold.
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And even when it's supposed to be summer, it's supposed to be nicer than it is.
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Or that we didn't get enough summer heats and all this.
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And well, if we get a 44 degree heat wave, it's going to be an absolute and utter disaster.
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There would.
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Anyone who may be struggling with that.
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And then it's sounding like this may happen because global warming also they say as well.
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Maybe, you know, it could be this summer coming maybe.
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But it's going to be an absolute disaster because we're not set up for this at all.
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As in most buildings, homes or offices or shops or...
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Well, no, actually, I think the shops have a little bit of a conditioning usually saying that.
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But the most built, they'll see most homes have no air conditioning.
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There's no fans either that go around on the ceiling.
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Yeah, it could be a big problem.
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Plus the power to people who would air conditions in if they could.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And the power units got to run.
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We have ages during summer, fairly frequently.
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When they get a hot day and everyone's got their recons running.
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And the power goes off because it can't cope with the load.
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Because the power does too much at the door of the power, yeah, overload.
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The other problem you guys might have in schools as well.
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The schools won't be selling for either.
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Schools and hospitals less so because they're on these on a different grid.
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But you guys don't store very much water, I believe.
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So because you'd run so much, you don't need a big water storage.
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Exactly so with that one.
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Because what I heard when I was like a sort of heat wave here,
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maybe last summer or the summer before,
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when it was hotter than sort of respective certain places.
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Yeah, some of the water companies were struggling and they were getting,
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okay, it's hose bands again.
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You're not allowed to water your garden.
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And I've had that happen in the past in places too.
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But my water company, they were going like, oh no, no, don't worry about it.
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Yeah, we've got plenty of water.
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So don't worry about any heat or whatever.
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Yeah, I wonder because I heard that water storage per capita is very low compared to us.
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We store a lot of water because we have regular droughts.
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Yeah, it could be that as well.
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We have rivers and lakes and other places where the water grows white.
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Wherever the water comes from, yeah, there are places.
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But we have natural rivers.
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We have some lakes, well here, around here.
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In other parts of some lakes and stuff.
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There's bebres.
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I don't see the sea waters there.
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But I don't think it's, yeah, I don't think it's really,
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if there was a drought, as you called it, where it really is like,
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whoa, we're like a desert now or something.
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Yeah, we're going to have a problem.
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Again, as well when I said, you know, if there's a 44 degree,
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I remember a year when it was hot for like three weeks or something.
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I mean, hot.
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At first, it was nice.
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But then it was like, oh, geez.
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It's like 30 degrees in the day or something.
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And it was like, you feel really hot inside at night as well.
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And I went to a cinema just to cool.
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That one knows to get cinema anyway.
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But we also went down there to sit in air conditioning for a bit, yeah.
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Or some watching movie to cool off and whatever.
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But then I had to come back to the flat and the stuffy heat
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to that inside heat where, you know what I'm sure you know,
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I mean, where it's just like, oh, it's just not nice.
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Yeah.
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Where it gets like that.
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Yeah, it's all humid and stuffy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, it's like, oh.
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But yeah, if we get a 44 degree heat wave, it's going to be a problem.
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I mean, I mean, we don't even deal with snow poppy in this country.
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Right?
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We don't tend to get snow.
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We're not around here.
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And some of the Scotland poppy gets what they do in places.
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But England doesn't tend to get snow.
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And if we do get snow anywhere, it becomes the right panic.
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And it's like it affects transport.
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And people have things that snow on the roads.
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And people get a bit.
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People can't get silly about it.
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And then it's in some ways.
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The heat within the opposite is obviously heat wave.
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So it was hot before, but yeah, 44 degree.
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And the problem is as well, that's the sort of temperature
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that could possibly kill somebody, I believe, as well.
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Like old people and old people and things.
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Yeah, for sure.
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It's very easy to get dehydrated because you just sweat.
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Anything above your body temperature, like 39 or whatever.
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He's very problematic.
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So generally, you was up over 40, you just found out
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my cook spot to sit and just sit there and drink cold beer.
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I remember watching it on Greece last year, 2023.
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I think it was Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Greece.
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And I think it was even some of the locals.
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They were a bit like, yeah, we're used to getting sort of hot weather.
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But even this is a bit a little bit too much for even us.
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And we're getting, like, you know, we used to have in this sort of 30
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weather, nine maybe.
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I think it was one of actually seven TV.
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So yeah, so it's one of those things.
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And in some ways, yes, people fast.
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Oh, in England.
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Oh, yeah, it's raining.
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And oh, it's eight-core, it feels cold.
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Or may and it wasn't nice to sun out.
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And we've got sort of three weeks of summer in June.
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And then it's a bit of an odd one in a way as well.
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Because the school holidays begin at the end of July.
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And then it's all through August.
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And then into the beginning of September.
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But what happens is that some of the best weather can be that,
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what that week they call mid-summer, for example.
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But then the school is still on.
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So when it, and then it also gets dark, I do it.
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Like eight o'clock or something in August,
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not 10 or nine.
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So sometimes the schools are getting like from the worst bit
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of the summer off, really.
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But there's been like that for ages.
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Yeah, it's, I suppose it's hard to budget.
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At school.
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At school.
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Yeah, how long the school break is open?
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Well, of course.
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But it's the summer.
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Yeah.
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So we tend to tend to us.
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Because November, December,
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a lot of outdoor barbecues and stuff.
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And then January can be as hot as hell.
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And February, it's usually starts to cool down
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and back to the barbecues.
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Oh, yeah.
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You were just southern hemisphere.
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Yes.
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By the time,
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February comes or anything is brown and dry.
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Tender, tender dry.
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Oh, it's kind of like that.
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You can get swimming in the sea on Christmas day, basically.
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Ah, for sure.
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Yeah.
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So if you get, you get, you get sunburn in about five minutes.
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, I've heard that as well.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes in Australia, it really is like, you know,
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if you, if you're out and about sort of midday,
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or wherever the sun's at the strongest,
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it's just not a good idea.
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Especially as a tourist, I guess, that's not used to it.
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Well, that's what I tell tourists or people everywhere.
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I said, don't worry about, they worry about snakes and all that.
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They don't worry about snakes and crocodiles and all that.
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Don't worry about getting sunburned.
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It's the biggest problem.
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Yeah.
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You're probably not going to see a snake.
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And if you do see a snake, it's probably not going to bite you.
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And if it does bite you, you're probably not going to die.
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So don't worry about it.
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And the sharks that might be in the sea as well.
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Yeah, the sharks and the crocodiles
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see off a few tourists every year.
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But, you know, the stats are good.
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Your rods are pretty good.
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Look what?
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Your rods are getting, it's very low chance
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you're going to be one of the one or two tourists
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that get eaten by a crocodile if you eat it.
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That's about to get eaten, yeah.
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As long as you're not, you know, like,
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when you still do something stupid, they get drunk
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and they go for swim in a crocodile and festive river.
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What, yeah, I suppose so.
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Yeah, I mean, I mean, December,
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well, no, here it's like this.
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So, September, well, all this sort of is the end of the summer, really.
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September is kind of like, might get a bit of summer kind of,
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but it's more sort of going to autumn.
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So, it's getting a bit more cold.
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And so, it's dark a bit earlier as well.
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And then it's like, yeah.
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And then we got toberware.
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It can be a little bit like that as well.
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But usually starts to rain a bit more.
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And then the Vembo is basically a month full of rain for the most part.
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And on top of that, it gets dark at like five o'clock here.
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I mean, I'm half Swedish as well.
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There'll be even earlier there.
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But, um, December there's like three at the start.
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And then it goes rain.
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And the whole way, there's a mini lockdown here in the pandemic.
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In the Vembo that two, three years ago,
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because they realised that there's not really much going on in the Vembo.
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And the bonfire night,
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where the guy forks thing,
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that he can kind of cancel him anyway.
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And so, it's kind of say Christmas apparently.
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But, uh, the, uh,
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and then December is a bit like the Vembo,
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but yeah, dark early and rainy and cold
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and windy and gets really storms possibly as well.
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And then my brother had moved away to, um,
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my older brother to an island that's, uh,
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associated with England, really.
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But, uh, I'll Britain.
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But, um, it's actually much closer to France than it is to England.
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And, uh, it had some interesting wars in the past
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between the French and everything as well,
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like centuries ago.
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And, uh, and even in Germans,
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took it over when there was World War II.
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But anyway, they, they got hit by a storm over there,
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like in the Vembo.
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And they got, basically, they're actually hit as well,
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like hundreds of miles per hour as well, yeah.
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So, it gave me some proper damage as well.
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I remember, uh, learning in a history class about,
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I can't remember the details,
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but some battle between Germany and Russia.
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And it snowed, had a very harsh winter.
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Uh, it sounded, uh, terrible to say the least
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and all these people literally freezing out there
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and they're trying to fight a war.
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Well, there's a story of what, like I said,
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I'm half Swedish, but my mum's,
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my mother died that she was finished, right?
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And so, when, now, I think around World War II was well,
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there was this cold winter's war in the snow,
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and that's been snow as well, with Russia.
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Because of Finland, that is right next to Russia.
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And, uh, they had a war about,
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I think the Russians wanted to have some of the land back,
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basically, or had been Russia at once,
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they'd possibly even, but there's, there's part of Finland now.
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And so, yeah, I think it was about land for some reason.
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Yeah.
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So, they had started having this war,
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and it was cold, it was winter,
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and, um, sadly, one of my, well,
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my mum's brother, my brother,
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who was really dying in that war, he got killed.
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But, um, they, uh,
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and then Finland lost the war as well,
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and he was buried on the side of the king's Russia, I think.
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Because you never went over there.
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But, um, yes, some of these wars and things,
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and he had to, uh,
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well, we say, well, why were we saying that?
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But, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And so, there was that,
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when the Russians and the war,
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and then they lost the war,
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I think maybe they had to give the Russians some tanks
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or something as well.
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I think there was something else they wanted as well.
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I'm not sure, exactly.
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But, well, yeah,
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but I've actually been to where she grew up,
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which is interesting,
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because there's such a river down the bottom,
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and then,
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because we were like 14 and 16 or something,
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we were basically allowed to go near
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to what they call no man's land, which is the river,
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because on the other side is now Russia.
|
||
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Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And then the story is also like,
|
||
|
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if you go across into Russia without permission,
|
||
|
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then it's a problem,
|
||
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|
sort of thing.
|
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|
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Yeah.
|
||
|
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Like, you could be walking a dog in the Finnish forest,
|
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|
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and somehow end up,
|
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|
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and it'll have to some guy around me,
|
||
|
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and then it's like,
|
||
|
|
why were you in Russia?
|
||
|
|
And you're like, oh, am I?
|
||
|
|
Oh, oh.
|
||
|
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And I do know quite.
|
||
|
|
And I remember going back down,
|
||
|
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there was a tour,
|
||
|
|
a boat trip in the lake in Finland,
|
||
|
|
but then it's like,
|
||
|
|
hey, we can't go over there.
|
||
|
|
It's like, why not?
|
||
|
|
And they're like, oh,
|
||
|
|
because that's basically the border crossing
|
||
|
|
with the border with Russia,
|
||
|
|
so we can't really go over there.
|
||
|
|
It's like, okay.
|
||
|
|
So like, half way through the lake
|
||
|
|
is the border basically with Russia.
|
||
|
|
Well,
|
||
|
|
definitely some interesting history.
|
||
|
|
I think I read once about
|
||
|
|
there's a big area in France,
|
||
|
|
somewhere that's all things off,
|
||
|
|
because of this so much unexploded weapons,
|
||
|
|
the bombs, I suppose.
|
||
|
|
Or maybe it's some chemical warfare over there too.
|
||
|
|
I should read up on that again.
|
||
|
|
That was interesting.
|
||
|
|
It's a huge area,
|
||
|
|
all fenced off.
|
||
|
|
Due to some...
|
||
|
|
Oh, we're talking about the weather,
|
||
|
|
and I said, dude, no,
|
||
|
|
we're talking about ice,
|
||
|
|
I said the lake.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, now we go.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I said, yeah,
|
||
|
|
there's these two islands
|
||
|
|
between,
|
||
|
|
except England and France.
|
||
|
|
They're closer to France though,
|
||
|
|
in the channel,
|
||
|
|
in the channel.
|
||
|
|
And yeah,
|
||
|
|
so there was wind,
|
||
|
|
there was a storm and things.
|
||
|
|
But there's this castle.
|
||
|
|
I went and visited in
|
||
|
|
June when we went over there.
|
||
|
|
And there's a castle there.
|
||
|
|
It's been there like 800 years.
|
||
|
|
But when there was World War II,
|
||
|
|
because obviously France is about 12 miles away.
|
||
|
|
The Germans,
|
||
|
|
they're all,
|
||
|
|
they occupied France.
|
||
|
|
So they basically came over
|
||
|
|
and took over this island as well.
|
||
|
|
And took over this castle,
|
||
|
|
in particular,
|
||
|
|
and started using that as well,
|
||
|
|
as a base or something,
|
||
|
|
because it was up there anyway.
|
||
|
|
And there's some World War II history there,
|
||
|
|
and I have to go back and,
|
||
|
|
and like, see some of that stuff,
|
||
|
|
like the old hot wall,
|
||
|
|
World War II,
|
||
|
|
hospital and things,
|
||
|
|
there's certain things there.
|
||
|
|
But it was like the only place
|
||
|
|
that was basically the UK,
|
||
|
|
or sort of the UK,
|
||
|
|
that got actually invaded by the Germans.
|
||
|
|
At the time,
|
||
|
|
about the thing is Duke England
|
||
|
|
is quite a bit further away from that, really.
|
||
|
|
So, yeah.
|
||
|
|
I guess it would have been quite easy for them to have taken,
|
||
|
|
I would have thought,
|
||
|
|
because it's not a particularly massive island leader, really.
|
||
|
|
And then there wouldn't have been,
|
||
|
|
there wouldn't have really been,
|
||
|
|
it had much of a defence either, I don't think.
|
||
|
|
So, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Wasn't there,
|
||
|
|
people who think there was some cloud seeding going on,
|
||
|
|
over around the British,
|
||
|
|
around the channel,
|
||
|
|
at one stage,
|
||
|
|
there's some more of that.
|
||
|
|
Ah, some cloud,
|
||
|
|
someone said there's some cloud seeding,
|
||
|
|
someone up,
|
||
|
|
and put,
|
||
|
|
what do they spray up there,
|
||
|
|
is ammonia,
|
||
|
|
or liquid,
|
||
|
|
liquid,
|
||
|
|
to make it rain.
|
||
|
|
And it rained for about a month straight.
|
||
|
|
Remember, hearing about that,
|
||
|
|
is in the channel,
|
||
|
|
the British channel.
|
||
|
|
I don't know.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to Google it.
|
||
|
|
I'm curious now.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, there's some rights to be wore sometimes.
|
||
|
|
And sadly, the happening now was well,
|
||
|
|
you know, it was supposed to be like,
|
||
|
|
2020 freeds,
|
||
|
|
well,
|
||
|
|
it's a 2024 now,
|
||
|
|
you know what I mean?
|
||
|
|
And yet,
|
||
|
|
you know, we've got some
|
||
|
|
three walls going on,
|
||
|
|
things,
|
||
|
|
and it's like, why?
|
||
|
|
It's supposed to be like,
|
||
|
|
times now,
|
||
|
|
as well,
|
||
|
|
and mostly peaceful times, as well.
|
||
|
|
So we think, yeah.
|
||
|
|
But yet, there's still things that happen at times, yeah.
|
||
|
|
No, I mean,
|
||
|
|
can you hear me still?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I can hear you.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I'm just,
|
||
|
|
I've lost my,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
mumble interface.
|
||
|
|
I guess they won't bother attacking Australia
|
||
|
|
and New Zealand,
|
||
|
|
or they might do,
|
||
|
|
but,
|
||
|
|
there's still a little bit over there, aren't they,
|
||
|
|
compared to
|
||
|
|
any wells?
|
||
|
|
I suppose you've got the advantage that you can't just
|
||
|
|
drive over the border,
|
||
|
|
or, you know,
|
||
|
|
cross a river,
|
||
|
|
and get into the next country,
|
||
|
|
it's a bit,
|
||
|
|
a bit more difficult to get here.
|
||
|
|
It's a bit isolated, yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's about the islands where they aren't there.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And if they come in from the north,
|
||
|
|
they've got to get past
|
||
|
|
all the crocodiles.
|
||
|
|
I guess the link,
|
||
|
|
I guess the,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
you know, America's over,
|
||
|
|
but well,
|
||
|
|
it's weird
|
||
|
|
Pacific in a way,
|
||
|
|
isn't it?
|
||
|
|
How you can just fly
|
||
|
|
from, like,
|
||
|
|
California,
|
||
|
|
or somewhere down there,
|
||
|
|
and then,
|
||
|
|
sort of fly,
|
||
|
|
fly, fly, fly, fly,
|
||
|
|
and then suddenly,
|
||
|
|
yeah.
|
||
|
|
Because,
|
||
|
|
after some of online,
|
||
|
|
sort of Australia,
|
||
|
|
diversity in America,
|
||
|
|
and I was like,
|
||
|
|
I was like,
|
||
|
|
oh,
|
||
|
|
it's like a why, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
And then suddenly,
|
||
|
|
from a why,
|
||
|
|
if you go that way,
|
||
|
|
and fly, fly, fly,
|
||
|
|
on the plane,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
you're in Sydney, aren't you?
|
||
|
|
Um,
|
||
|
|
but I guess the,
|
||
|
|
the America,
|
||
|
|
it's not part
|
||
|
|
of what we call
|
||
|
|
NATO around here,
|
||
|
|
where a lot of the
|
||
|
|
countries are
|
||
|
|
joined up together,
|
||
|
|
so that if one gets
|
||
|
|
attacked,
|
||
|
|
then,
|
||
|
|
the others will probably
|
||
|
|
help them out,
|
||
|
|
sort of thing,
|
||
|
|
yeah.
|
||
|
|
But,
|
||
|
|
I think that's the three.
|
||
|
|
I mean,
|
||
|
|
well,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
there's nothing called NATO
|
||
|
|
around here,
|
||
|
|
like if one country gets
|
||
|
|
attacked as a NATO,
|
||
|
|
then there's a good chance
|
||
|
|
that the other countries
|
||
|
|
will help them out,
|
||
|
|
as well,
|
||
|
|
or possibly,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
it's all, like,
|
||
|
|
and stuff.
|
||
|
|
But, um,
|
||
|
|
and I,
|
||
|
|
and I guess Australia
|
||
|
|
and New Zealand
|
||
|
|
have probably got quite good
|
||
|
|
links with, um,
|
||
|
|
say America,
|
||
|
|
for example,
|
||
|
|
left something
|
||
|
|
was happening there,
|
||
|
|
I would have thought.
|
||
|
|
Now, right,
|
||
|
|
would you say that?
|
||
|
|
Would you say that
|
||
|
|
in Australia?
|
||
|
|
Yes, there was,
|
||
|
|
there was at the war
|
||
|
|
with, you know,
|
||
|
|
Australia or New Zealand,
|
||
|
|
or something,
|
||
|
|
some country decided
|
||
|
|
to attack them,
|
||
|
|
that America
|
||
|
|
would probably
|
||
|
|
come to your defence.
|
||
|
|
I think at the moment,
|
||
|
|
that's the,
|
||
|
|
that's what people
|
||
|
|
would normally expect,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
but it's,
|
||
|
|
whether it will actually happen,
|
||
|
|
or what scale,
|
||
|
|
I don't know,
|
||
|
|
and probably be best
|
||
|
|
not to find out.
|
||
|
|
Well, yes,
|
||
|
|
we can't want to
|
||
|
|
find out really, do we?
|
||
|
|
Just reading about that
|
||
|
|
thing I looked up,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
in 1952,
|
||
|
|
um,
|
||
|
|
one of the worst floods
|
||
|
|
occurred in Britain,
|
||
|
|
swept through
|
||
|
|
Devon Village,
|
||
|
|
wherever that is,
|
||
|
|
Devon,
|
||
|
|
I've heard of Devon,
|
||
|
|
I think it's on the,
|
||
|
|
on the coast.
|
||
|
|
One of the worst floods
|
||
|
|
occurred across the
|
||
|
|
Torsquen.
|
||
|
|
At 1952,
|
||
|
|
we started in Devon,
|
||
|
|
35 people died.
|
||
|
|
This is a torrent
|
||
|
|
of 90 metric tonnes
|
||
|
|
of water,
|
||
|
|
thousands of tonnes
|
||
|
|
of rock poured
|
||
|
|
off-saturated
|
||
|
|
X-Maw
|
||
|
|
into the village
|
||
|
|
just drawing homes,
|
||
|
|
bridges and shops.
|
||
|
|
So that's the one
|
||
|
|
that some people say
|
||
|
|
that the RAF
|
||
|
|
were experimenting
|
||
|
|
with cloud seating,
|
||
|
|
like taking dry ice
|
||
|
|
or ammonia
|
||
|
|
up into the upper
|
||
|
|
atmosphere
|
||
|
|
and letting it go.
|
||
|
|
I believe.
|
||
|
|
Here's an interesting
|
||
|
|
read.
|
||
|
|
I don't know how much
|
||
|
|
of its conspiracy
|
||
|
|
versus fact,
|
||
|
|
but it certainly
|
||
|
|
sound like it rained,
|
||
|
|
as usual.
|
||
|
|
Air dry ice.
|
||
|
|
They flew through
|
||
|
|
the top of the clouds
|
||
|
|
and pulled dry ice down
|
||
|
|
into the cloud.
|
||
|
|
And, uh,
|
||
|
|
it made the cloud rain.
|
||
|
|
It's a well-established
|
||
|
|
practice now.
|
||
|
|
I do it in the states.
|
||
|
|
Um,
|
||
|
|
the rumor is that
|
||
|
|
this was the one
|
||
|
|
of the first experiments.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Like totally different
|
||
|
|
topic.
|
||
|
|
But, uh,
|
||
|
|
I was thinking about,
|
||
|
|
like, yeah,
|
||
|
|
like,
|
||
|
|
like in the UK,
|
||
|
|
we have got
|
||
|
|
we're coming like,
|
||
|
|
we're not people
|
||
|
|
eat,
|
||
|
|
a lot of people eat meat
|
||
|
|
still.
|
||
|
|
That is definitely a meaty
|
||
|
|
country in certain ways.
|
||
|
|
But,
|
||
|
|
the, uh,
|
||
|
|
sort of veganism,
|
||
|
|
like, well,
|
||
|
|
very,
|
||
|
|
there's a bit of a vegan
|
||
|
|
hype in a way as well.
|
||
|
|
But,
|
||
|
|
the vegetarian vegan
|
||
|
|
true products are definitely
|
||
|
|
hitting off more,
|
||
|
|
or a bit more than they were.
|
||
|
|
Like,
|
||
|
|
that you can buy,
|
||
|
|
what we call,
|
||
|
|
we have, like,
|
||
|
|
corn products.
|
||
|
|
We do, um,
|
||
|
|
uh, mushrooms,
|
||
|
|
that's what,
|
||
|
|
and change it,
|
||
|
|
a bit Swedish region, I think.
|
||
|
|
Um, there's a
|
||
|
|
Fion meat,
|
||
|
|
American thing.
|
||
|
|
There's,
|
||
|
|
a thing there,
|
||
|
|
a sire,
|
||
|
|
etc.
|
||
|
|
There's,
|
||
|
|
uh,
|
||
|
|
various,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
starting to be more vegan
|
||
|
|
and vegetarian products.
|
||
|
|
Um,
|
||
|
|
uh,
|
||
|
|
the, uh,
|
||
|
|
stuff that's just,
|
||
|
|
vegetarian,
|
||
|
|
like, in Africa,
|
||
|
|
they don't seem to have much of this,
|
||
|
|
because I've met some
|
||
|
|
Africans recently,
|
||
|
|
and they,
|
||
|
|
and they all looked,
|
||
|
|
they all seemed very
|
||
|
|
confused when,
|
||
|
|
uh,
|
||
|
|
I was there with, like,
|
||
|
|
vegan vegetarian products,
|
||
|
|
or any,
|
||
|
|
or, like,
|
||
|
|
what's this?
|
||
|
|
You know,
|
||
|
|
uh, that's corn,
|
||
|
|
or,
|
||
|
|
that's beyond meat.
|
||
|
|
Um,
|
||
|
|
and,
|
||
|
|
what I'm,
|
||
|
|
what I was wondering about
|
||
|
|
is Australia now,
|
||
|
|
right?
|
||
|
|
What's it like it up?
|
||
|
|
As they,
|
||
|
|
I mean,
|
||
|
|
I've had it,
|
||
|
|
there was some girl,
|
||
|
|
actually apparently,
|
||
|
|
Australia,
|
||
|
|
who calls some
|
||
|
|
problems for some guy
|
||
|
|
with a meat restaurant,
|
||
|
|
I believe,
|
||
|
|
and,
|
||
|
|
and there was some right
|
||
|
|
problem with that.
|
||
|
|
But, um,
|
||
|
|
is it becoming more
|
||
|
|
a thing over there,
|
||
|
|
as well?
|
||
|
|
Is there, you know,
|
||
|
|
is there a good,
|
||
|
|
a good amount of,
|
||
|
|
like,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
vegan,
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vegetarian products
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available in the market,
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etc.
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And restaurants,
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yeah,
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the most,
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most places have,
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vegetarian options,
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um,
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probably less so vegan.
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But,
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there's a,
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there's vegan,
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well, we're both,
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we,
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we tolerate both vegan
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and vegetarians.
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Um,
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but it,
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it primarily,
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you know,
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meat eating country,
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I suppose.
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Um,
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but,
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uh,
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it is,
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there's,
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certainly,
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if you want to be a vegan
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or vegetarian,
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there's plenty of options
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available.
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Yeah,
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yeah,
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you're not going to starve
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if you're,
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if you're a vegetarian
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or vegan,
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come on over Australia,
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we'll look after you.
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Also,
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in the UK,
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we have something called
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their January,
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which I'd not sure what's
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going on for,
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2020 fall,
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but,
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I haven't really looked,
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but, uh,
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do you either
|
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is that you can challenge
|
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someone like,
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right,
|
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you've got 30 days to be a,
|
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to,
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to be a vegan,
|
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basically,
|
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|
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because,
|
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let's see if you can do it
|
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|
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or not,
|
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|
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but, oh,
|
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that's not just that,
|
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|
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so, because,
|
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obviously,
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companies have,
|
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kind of,
|
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|
got a bit more
|
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involved with it,
|
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|
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and may help,
|
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|
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and,
|
||
|
|
have some
|
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products available,
|
||
|
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make the buy
|
||
|
|
in restaurants
|
||
|
|
with all the shops
|
||
|
|
or whatever.
|
||
|
|
Yeah,
|
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|
|
I mean, I've
|
||
|
|
consciously reduced the
|
||
|
|
amount of meat
|
||
|
|
that I ate.
|
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|
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I used to,
|
||
|
|
most meals were probably
|
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|
|
two-thirds meat,
|
||
|
|
and now,
|
||
|
|
it's probably a,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
a third meat
|
||
|
|
that,
|
||
|
|
yeah, I've done
|
||
|
|
very terrible
|
||
|
|
until 2013,
|
||
|
|
although,
|
||
|
|
well, I've had,
|
||
|
|
some meaty,
|
||
|
|
sort of things,
|
||
|
|
by mistake,
|
||
|
|
it turns out,
|
||
|
|
since,
|
||
|
|
but, uh,
|
||
|
|
I mean,
|
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|
|
that, because there's
|
||
|
|
things like,
|
||
|
|
had gelatin,
|
||
|
|
and something,
|
||
|
|
that's one thing,
|
||
|
|
or you,
|
||
|
|
you know what,
|
||
|
|
rennet is?
|
||
|
|
Rennet?
|
||
|
|
That's not a one,
|
||
|
|
rennet.
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
What's it?
|
||
|
|
On the cow,
|
||
|
|
and it can be
|
||
|
|
in hard cheeses,
|
||
|
|
or even,
|
||
|
|
or even alcohol,
|
||
|
|
beer and stuff,
|
||
|
|
people don't realize
|
||
|
|
it's going to be cash.
|
||
|
|
But,
|
||
|
|
some of the beers and things
|
||
|
|
are not made,
|
||
|
|
they're not really
|
||
|
|
vegetarian or vegan,
|
||
|
|
and I'm known this for years,
|
||
|
|
because of how they're
|
||
|
|
made and things.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
I wonder what they're
|
||
|
|
putting in there.
|
||
|
|
Well, there's like,
|
||
|
|
the fish thing,
|
||
|
|
where they do
|
||
|
|
inkless,
|
||
|
|
whatever it was.
|
||
|
|
I think Guinness
|
||
|
|
were doing that,
|
||
|
|
but now, now,
|
||
|
|
he's stopped
|
||
|
|
apparently.
|
||
|
|
And then,
|
||
|
|
there's,
|
||
|
|
some of the beers
|
||
|
|
and, and even
|
||
|
|
wines, maybe.
|
||
|
|
They might have
|
||
|
|
rennet,
|
||
|
|
or I don't know.
|
||
|
|
It's,
|
||
|
|
there's things
|
||
|
|
that are,
|
||
|
|
it's annoying.
|
||
|
|
I went to a,
|
||
|
|
I went to a
|
||
|
|
vent, and I went to
|
||
|
|
brewery once,
|
||
|
|
in England,
|
||
|
|
somewhere,
|
||
|
|
a different city,
|
||
|
|
and I went there,
|
||
|
|
and I said, oh,
|
||
|
|
it's a very
|
||
|
|
terrible food,
|
||
|
|
there's nothing on the
|
||
|
|
menu.
|
||
|
|
It's like, yeah,
|
||
|
|
really?
|
||
|
|
I was like, oh,
|
||
|
|
can I,
|
||
|
|
I said, oh,
|
||
|
|
can I have a beer?
|
||
|
|
But,
|
||
|
|
I've never
|
||
|
|
about this
|
||
|
|
thing about
|
||
|
|
vegetarian
|
||
|
|
vegan,
|
||
|
|
if they're not,
|
||
|
|
or they are,
|
||
|
|
and I don't know,
|
||
|
|
and she was like,
|
||
|
|
okay,
|
||
|
|
we've got a brewery
|
||
|
|
today,
|
||
|
|
what I can do,
|
||
|
|
and check it
|
||
|
|
at the back,
|
||
|
|
and then she came back to me,
|
||
|
|
and she was like,
|
||
|
|
hey, can I have
|
||
|
|
this Hungarian beer,
|
||
|
|
if you want.
|
||
|
|
That's fine.
|
||
|
|
I'm glad they're worth
|
||
|
|
for it.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I'm like,
|
||
|
|
kind of lied to me,
|
||
|
|
but I thought,
|
||
|
|
okay,
|
||
|
|
far, Hungarian beer.
|
||
|
|
That's good.
|
||
|
|
And I found my city
|
||
|
|
and the big one
|
||
|
|
that you have,
|
||
|
|
and it was
|
||
|
|
in the old venue,
|
||
|
|
and it was like,
|
||
|
|
two or three tenths
|
||
|
|
there as well,
|
||
|
|
full of like,
|
||
|
|
beer and
|
||
|
|
alcohol and
|
||
|
|
spirits and all sorts of things.
|
||
|
|
Not just
|
||
|
|
because they were
|
||
|
|
going to sell beer
|
||
|
|
and everything,
|
||
|
|
that's fun.
|
||
|
|
Ah!
|
||
|
|
Because these were,
|
||
|
|
far,
|
||
|
|
a day new beer and alcohol
|
||
|
|
that was
|
||
|
|
totally fine in,
|
||
|
|
in the vegan perspective.
|
||
|
|
There's nothing
|
||
|
|
in-sector,
|
||
|
|
animal or
|
||
|
|
whatever and that,
|
||
|
|
you know?
|
||
|
|
which is funny because I thought the bee in its pure form would be vegan anyway
|
||
|
|
and the same with wine it's just what my I thought wine was just you know grapes
|
||
|
|
and water basically or scrapes crushed up grapes and then I don't know what
|
||
|
|
do they consider yeast is that yeast?
|
||
|
|
I was not going to buy a new yeast okay I was not buying beer like what got some
|
||
|
|
stuff anyway but I mean by looking at a shop online or something on a take
|
||
|
|
well someone's also might have bought something from you know and I looked at
|
||
|
|
some beer that popped up and he just said on there why Google the
|
||
|
|
particular beer and then it said basically because I don't know why but it
|
||
|
|
said quite clearly not suitable for vegetarian you know he's not a vegetarian
|
||
|
|
I am but I thought I thought well if it's not suitable for vegetarian I'm not
|
||
|
|
buying it anyway quite frankly and I know this so I didn't buy that and also one
|
||
|
|
year I went knowing this I went to Brussels this is going to sound silly in a
|
||
|
|
way but maybe not if anyone understands what I'm talking about I don't know if anyone's
|
||
|
|
actually hear this part of the podcast assuming it comes up and all that
|
||
|
|
you know but made either way I went to Brussels for a
|
||
|
|
positive one year knowing about the beer thing thinking like right I'm not
|
||
|
|
with where I'm vegetarian I'm trying to avoid egg like an egg in things and
|
||
|
|
what we'll do but I'm like I'll have milk by milkshake can I have I have to
|
||
|
|
vegan milk on a cereal from a cereal to pair around with but I knew about the
|
||
|
|
beer thing and I was thinking like well I've had I've had blonde beer and
|
||
|
|
Brussels anywhere Brussels beer it's right and I went somewhere with some
|
||
|
|
guys from my city as well because they will yourself be there with that here
|
||
|
|
that had the other events relevant and I went into this bit this bar or before I
|
||
|
|
went into this bar I would look at I'm thinking about my Brussels I should have
|
||
|
|
a beer really not coke because I mean there's lots of coke in Brussels you can
|
||
|
|
go in there and go I have a coke no problem but oh coke but I'm thinking like
|
||
|
|
well I'm trying to do this sort of I don't want animals or insects products so
|
||
|
|
I can't want a beer maybe actually because I was thinking like what beers are I
|
||
|
|
don't know about Brussels beer I don't have the same problem or what I start
|
||
|
|
looking on Google and it was like okay here's someone they've been in
|
||
|
|
Brussels it you have whatever beer and they went into they went so they had
|
||
|
|
beer in Brussels but I think it's at a hog farm playing or something and I was
|
||
|
|
like but that's a it was it was like it was like an apple I said no this
|
||
|
|
bit of beer is very terrible and it's in the hands of Brussels there's a hog
|
||
|
|
got I think it's a British beer so this is what it sounds kind of funny in a way
|
||
|
|
because when you get a Brussels you're supposed to have Brussels beer right if
|
||
|
|
you don't have a beer really not not right come in from England and now
|
||
|
|
I'm Brussels now I'm gonna buy an English beer because of what I'm saying but
|
||
|
|
even so yes I bought an English beer in Brussels in Belgium yes where you
|
||
|
|
supposed to be drinking Brussels beer really mean this year somebody insisted
|
||
|
|
he said to me you know if you're going to the beer then you'd better have
|
||
|
|
that a bit at least one beer come on and I was like all right finally yeah I
|
||
|
|
was a blonde again yeah well we we have a lot of beer here obviously the
|
||
|
|
no more alcohol in Brussels apparently as well the beers got quite a higher
|
||
|
|
amount apparently all right that is normally like four or five percent yeah I'm
|
||
|
|
sure there's eight percent but I looked up the agent or whatever it's it's
|
||
|
|
called it's just comes from a fish you look up they go up again it comes up from a
|
||
|
|
fish bladder and it's called eyes in glass and they use it in beer to get
|
||
|
|
the precipitate out the yeast make it clear so yeah it's part of the beer
|
||
|
|
making process comes from tropical and subtropical fish what does it you
|
||
|
|
risk or you car that's that's that's the fish product that they put in
|
||
|
|
yeah isn't is in glass yes I I S I N G L I S is is in glass on the other
|
||
|
|
side but um and of course some beer has honey in it which is probably okay for
|
||
|
|
vegetarian but not a vegan yeah well yeah I've had yeah basically yeah you can
|
||
|
|
have very Terry can have honey sure well I mean honey nice sometimes I don't
|
||
|
|
tend to have honey but honey yoghurt even actually yeah honey yoghurt is good as
|
||
|
|
well but obviously as a vegan that's that's a no-no because that's from a beer
|
||
|
|
etc yeah I ate a favorite of honey we've got a few um local a aperists
|
||
|
|
so that they call around they sell their honey straight from the I don't know
|
||
|
|
what they do with it they extract it somehow um it's good yeah yeah just
|
||
|
|
it this fish thing they had it in Guinness the Irish beer and crop of the
|
||
|
|
the cider from Sweden actually that they had it I think both of these got stopped
|
||
|
|
during that now we found another way to make it or something
|
||
|
|
but it sounds like it's just to make it look clear doesn't say it does anything
|
||
|
|
to the taste of it yeah but the finger the fits from the fish even if it's
|
||
|
|
just tiny little bit of something from a fish you know that's all that's
|
||
|
|
all it takes oh yeah I get that part of it but I mean in terms of the end result
|
||
|
|
in the beer I don't think it changes the beer much by not having it
|
||
|
|
seems to have pro production I'm not sure why it was done but
|
||
|
|
it just says it helps make it clearer it causes the use to get out of suspense
|
||
|
|
maybe they get the use out of suspension and they filter it out somehow I don't
|
||
|
|
know the weird one is when you buy like there's like a vegan kickcat
|
||
|
|
you know you have the kickcat as well over there I mean Nestle is fake global isn't it
|
||
|
|
yeah I've eaten a few things yeah they're good
|
||
|
|
have that over there they chop that bar Nestle kickcat yep we've got all that stuff all
|
||
|
|
the good stuff we've got you have those over there as well maybe yeah kickats
|
||
|
|
Mars bars crunches everything yeah yeah we did Mars and Twix and Snickers and
|
||
|
|
that's Mars but then there's Nestle with their kickcat and kickat chunky and
|
||
|
|
things like that yeah really have like a vegan kickcat more recently although it does
|
||
|
|
say on the back they're like oh it might have egg in it or something or it might contain
|
||
|
|
I've seen that with a vegan ice cream from someone Mars or someone before as well and
|
||
|
|
it so if you look at the back might contain egg that kind of defeats the whole point
|
||
|
|
then because if it's going to be vegan properly it can't have egg in it yeah they're probably
|
||
|
|
using egg in some other product they can't guarantee there's not
|
||
|
|
yeah well yeah cross-contamination yeah exactly I think that's all it means really that possibly
|
||
|
|
when they can other products nearby and so if you know on some sandwich some wave and it's
|
||
|
|
so it might have fish in it or pizza and you're like oh that should be very terrible but it's
|
||
|
|
a little bit frustrating that as well because I mean I do have fish at the beginning but then wow
|
||
|
|
the fish can feel pain as well also they probably can so they say and and also well I don't know
|
||
|
|
about you but I mean they say there's microplacid in the air and even like tap water and things
|
||
|
|
but definitely in the sea right so she eating like fish from the sea or things from the sea
|
||
|
|
then yeah there's a chance that you're eating some microplastic moisture on it as well some
|
||
|
|
or more yeah almost almost guarantee it but my theory is it just goes straight through hopefully
|
||
|
|
well that's the thing isn't it now I've seen stories like they found microplastic in bodies yeah
|
||
|
|
or or that maybe it can go into like organs or something yeah yeah that's the way you don't want
|
||
|
|
microplastic concentrate or maybe even baby you wouldn't have some in them or something
|
||
|
|
yeah yeah yeah yeah concentrating the ovaries or whatever that would be the concern
|
||
|
|
and I think they've any certain science around it but well they've done certain studies but I
|
||
|
|
think they're not to keep you sure so and then another one was about like I mean I think there's
|
||
|
|
a lot of stuff in bottles plastic bottles because well yeah I mean it's how it's sold that's how it's
|
||
|
|
sold a lot of drinks but but I saw a thing about how it had like different bottle water from
|
||
|
|
different countries and then and then they were to like experiment and that showed you how
|
||
|
|
you could on TV yeah I saw this for years ago but it showed you like different bottle water
|
||
|
|
from different countries or maybe even hating the same one really but with different
|
||
|
|
countries yeah something like that but it showed you like which ones have microplastic in them
|
||
|
|
or something and it was like oh and one theory was that maybe when we open the bottle we also
|
||
|
|
create some but I don't know oh I think it's everywhere I mean I come out it's not like a
|
||
|
|
string to drink now that micro fibers would be coming off or your clothes and everything it's
|
||
|
|
plastics it's just pretty much if you're aware now well yeah when you go out you can in the air
|
||
|
|
somehow yeah and you find it in tap water and then you can yeah we've done that we've
|
||
|
|
we've we've assumed we've you know we've done some bad things there really I don't think we
|
||
|
|
really know there's so many sources of potential problem is this you do the studies that say
|
||
|
|
cancer's gone up or whatever but it's very hard to find a this group of population that
|
||
|
|
haven't been exposed to plastic say for example so you can work out what the main causes are
|
||
|
|
because everyone's been exposed to the same stuff whether it's petrol fumes diesel
|
||
|
|
plastics you know antibiotics well maybe it's a bad like forest people that live in
|
||
|
|
certain remote very you said you live in a remote place but maybe not so remote because you want
|
||
|
|
the internet that's that you know like like there's some people that live properly in forest I think
|
||
|
|
in certain places that totally out of society and you know those kind of people but
|
||
|
|
that's a good point it would be good to see if it's been a study on some remote
|
||
|
|
exposed towns in Australia because I know they don't go and see doctors as often and often they
|
||
|
|
have conditioned they die of things that could have been treated they had have been identified
|
||
|
|
a bit earlier so they're quite a bit unique in that sense so and they tend to eat
|
||
|
|
fresher food they kill their own animals eat some of them do so it would be good to see if there's
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any studies comparing those people with you know people from the city for example
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but there are studies about tough one like the on the cooking fry pans yeah it's a terrible material
|
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and it has serious health consequences and there's a lot of worries and research about tough
|
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well yeah I've got a walk that's burnt again now wasn't there maybe the taverns come
|
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either the non stick was coming off my I don't know I think it's time to get another one probably
|
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but I've got a friend who said that to me he said to me like yeah if you if you drink it
|
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taverns bad and if you if you if you like eat enough eat some of that it's not good
|
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it's poisonous basically what once it's etched or if you cook on high temperature which is kind of
|
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|
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the point uh it leaches out there's a movie called Dark Waters with Mark Ruffalo uh that
|
||
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follows the true story of a lawyer suing DuPont um uh in the class action lawsuit that is still
|
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ongoing there's still not paying patients uh the paying paying pay defendants um medical bills over
|
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me uh another one was the uh oh was it bp aisle that plastic in bpd uh I think I think I
|
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think it's more an old way to the plastic bowl and then maybe America more so even but how
|
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that was supposed to be bad as well apparently and then that's changed I think or when you
|
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see Newark house I think and so if you have this one the plastic was bad as well
|
||
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here I did hear that um there were concerns about deflon but I haven't sort of kept up to date
|
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with the the progress that's interesting video I switched to just a standard iron fry pan
|
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partly because of the deflon thing but also a lot of the deflon fly up and they're very thin
|
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and they they buckle up and they uh they don't last very long so um it was a problem with them
|
||
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but how was that the cheap deflon fry pans you get here at least they don't last very long
|
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they they buckle up in the heat at the surface goes all brown and more non sticky or sticky
|
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the non-stick stops working yeah well yeah they they call it non-stick frying pans and then you
|
||
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can scratch them enough for whatever and then I know it's like oh everyone is this coming off now
|
||
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partly a while I think most of what I use ceramic coated so the glass basically yeah I used to use
|
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a lot of ceramic like tin plated tin ceramic plated tin um plates and cups and things but uh there
|
||
|
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was a wall of those a wall back they should be quite common so uh yeah micro plastic is worrying
|
||
|
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that's what we're talking about as a beginning I mean apparently it can do some damage really
|
||
|
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if that's true yeah we know it's true I mean when it was exported to production was uh sent to
|
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to China um uh not long after that we uh in the US some of the dog and cat food brands they found
|
||
|
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contamination in them because the rice for the uh pet food was being uh packaged or manufactured in
|
||
|
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the same building that they were spraying teflon on on products and it killed tons of pets in the
|
||
|
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United States it caused uh crystals to grow in their uh liver and kidneys and they think it was
|
||
|
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because of uh teflon in the same factories as the cat and dog food was being made.
|
||
|
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It's like an interesting movie I might have to try and track it down similar to that uh was it
|
||
|
|
Aaron Brockovich I can't be bored who her uh issue was was it asbestos I can't remember something
|
||
|
|
like that. Hey guys how's everybody done? Hello Lovecraft? Oh somebody else is here finally yeah last
|
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|
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yeah I just got back uh we went out to dinner earlier how you doing born and see? I'm doing good
|
||
|
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cool. Highland as wonderful. L is even more wonderful. Awesome. Why are you sore? We went to a national
|
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|
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park uh two days ago and walked uh several kilometers up and down in the mountains to view
|
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|
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waterfalls. Oh nice. That's pretty good Paul. Yeah well you try to flatten those mountains and
|
||
|
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you're going to get in trouble. That sounds like you're having a great time that's awesome.
|
||
|
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Glad else doing well as well. Well yeah well. Now it's nice hearing from the two luckiest
|
||
|
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gentlemen in our little sewing circle. That's good to be good to be heard from but I know I don't
|
||
|
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think we want to discount anybody else for sure just put the uh lucky folk out there. Yes that's
|
||
|
|
true but uh I have. He's a bit lacking this uh new year so he's actually not there so it's
|
||
|
|
nice for somebody else. Yeah they were just love that craft person. Yeah he's uh he's a good buddy of mine
|
||
|
|
sorry about that but I've had a kind of rough day too many jalapenos. Yeah I think I'm going to have
|
||
|
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to give up on uh the spicy pizza from 7-11. I like it but my system tends to violently object and
|
||
|
|
uh sometimes you got to let the the hardware win. Just take the pepperoni then. Uh no.
|
||
|
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They're actually their pepperoni is vegetarian. That's the highlight. It is meaner. That pineapple on
|
||
|
|
the pizza actually because there was a debate with some Italians about some that I know if two of
|
||
|
|
them if you know should have put a pineapple on a pizza or not but I don't know about you guys but
|
||
|
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I do like having some pineapple on a pizza sometimes. It's pretty popular here it's good. I think
|
||
|
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it I think Italians think he shouldn't have it. It's not the ways to do pizza but go ahead. Yeah pineapple
|
||
|
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and ham they usually a lot of places around here called Hawaiian pizza. Yeah well yeah I was thinking
|
||
|
|
that too it's called Hawaiian with pineapple and ham sure but if you but I can put pineapple
|
||
|
|
on a pizza basically it's vegetarian let's say and and I'm going to be fine but it doesn't tend
|
||
|
|
to go on pizza otherwise. Italians in most Europe that tomatoes were poisonous for the longest time
|
||
|
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well I've had although I guess well first tomatoes are in the nightshade family and nightshade is
|
||
|
|
definitely bad news and I guess if you eat the wrong parts of the tomato plant you will not have
|
||
|
|
a good time. Yeah I think it is an eggplant part of the nightshade family as well. By the way
|
||
|
|
I'm going to break bad news to you American guys but it's called tomato and the reason it's
|
||
|
|
called a tomato is because that is what we say over here in the UK and also we invented English
|
||
|
|
the real English British English. We now have some nice
|
||
|
|
where I like to elevate to and um apartment but those were Americanized words so yes to much.
|
||
|
|
I check it. To me there is wrong. What do they say? A culture divided by a common language?
|
||
|
|
Also actually it's a good one you know what a cure is and it really not a cure like in musical
|
||
|
|
composing or yeah I think that can be a cure as well but something else.
|
||
|
|
So I say that I go out somewhere and I stand in the queue. Cue sometimes you know what I mean
|
||
|
|
but you know I mean it's a line in a line. You do know good good good good because I went on a
|
||
|
|
video um speech thing in the pandemic or something and I think some of them looked at me confused
|
||
|
|
like what's a cue? What? Oh but they can't even go. I meant that yeah a line of people waiting
|
||
|
|
their time. Actually some years ago somebody had a Kiwi sticker on their vehicle. That's embarrassing.
|
||
|
|
And I was uh one of the few people who actually knew where that came from.
|
||
|
|
Chris said that. Yeah. The Australia didn't say that. Yeah we're always taking the mickey out of the
|
||
|
|
Kiwis over the pond. It's a flatless bird. But I thought to me he said that having the Kiwi
|
||
|
|
sticker on the vehicle was embarrassing yeah. Well no it wasn't it was a souvenir he got from a
|
||
|
|
New Zealander friend but no the sticker uh I'm in uh what is laughingly called New England
|
||
|
|
and we don't really have that uh many people who are familiar with your Nuka your Nuka
|
||
|
|
the woods so to speak. Mine or yeah yeah that's something else isn't it so I mean yes I knew
|
||
|
|
there's a place called New England in the America um there's a New Jersey alone. I don't know if
|
||
|
|
Jersey has any links so what I was talking about Chris earlier about the island channel islands
|
||
|
|
what germs get Jersey and Guernsey there might be a link although it order isn't I'm not sure
|
||
|
|
but also in Australia you've got places like what New South Wales yeah so there's links between
|
||
|
|
British and still isn't there. Yeah New South Wales in Victoria I think he's named after
|
||
|
|
Queen Victoria but I'm only guessing and of course Queen's land up north where all the
|
||
|
|
slow people live um in all the rest are pretty boring like South Australia,
|
||
|
|
Western Australia and Northern Territory. Tasmania I don't know what what the history of Tasmania
|
||
|
|
the name is. It's good doesn't it Tasmania? It is the island down the bottom.
|
||
|
|
Yeah I don't know the origin of that name but whoever named South Australia and Western Australia
|
||
|
|
didn't think too hard did they. It's named after it and then some of the place names of the US
|
||
|
|
that couldn't go by British name I think as well or the places in England can't think of them
|
||
|
|
out of something to them now but I think there are a few like yeah yeah we've got that in England
|
||
|
|
so it's been called that as well. Yeah there's a fair bit of that but yeah I just just uh
|
||
|
|
looked up Tasmania and the Able Tasman Dutch explorer. The Able Tasman was the name of the
|
||
|
|
ferry that used to go from Melbourne down to I think Hobart or Launceston can't remember
|
||
|
|
but that was used to be called Able Tasman and we've got a lot of English names I can't
|
||
|
|
I try and think of one. Hardleburg maybe. Is that English or is that German?
|
||
|
|
German. Hardleburg. I don't know Liverpool. Yeah yeah Liverpool. Yeah yeah. I've got a lot of
|
||
|
|
I'm just trying to think of some others now. City Liverpool. I don't know. I mean well you're under
|
||
|
|
and the so-called Commonwealth. Your Australia isn't America. You uh you basically uh
|
||
|
|
I don't know if you guys broke free from the British or whatever but um well I love the story as
|
||
|
|
with the fourth of July really but uh yeah Australia broke free as well I guess and so to come
|
||
|
|
I don't know it's still Commonwealth isn't there so although some people don't agree with
|
||
|
|
the Commonwealth and they're like why should the Queen of England or why should they be able to
|
||
|
|
come here or any of those people and they got like some sort of status symbol here even though
|
||
|
|
yeah my one agrees with it do they. About a push probably 10 years ago or maybe a bit more
|
||
|
|
to become a republic and they lost and the republic was lost convincingly.
|
||
|
|
Now republicans they wanted to make Australia a republic but they they lost pretty convincingly.
|
||
|
|
No I think. I think mainly because nobody could explain what it would look like. It's all very
|
||
|
|
well to say I we want to be separate from England that's fine but people saying yeah but what
|
||
|
|
does it mean for the average Australian and nobody could really put answer that's my impression anyway.
|
||
|
|
We all speak the same language as language with some state differences so yes I feel saying
|
||
|
|
that it's called tomato for example. Yeah but we can adapt like even when they say tomato I know
|
||
|
|
what they mean. Yeah I did do as well but I was saying another thing but we don't say
|
||
|
|
when I say potato we say potato. It's not a potato. Yeah well you know there are some things
|
||
|
|
we which are a little different like a car's wings which we call fenders in in the US.
|
||
|
|
What are we called mudcats here I suppose or bumpers. You guys have a trunk and we have a
|
||
|
|
big yep although I must admit that I've seen on some older cars some actual trunks
|
||
|
|
believe it or not they were. Sterling as well look um C-E-N-T-R-E-Center but the Americans
|
||
|
|
spell it the other way for some reason. Oh there's a lot of that is like culler and
|
||
|
|
yeah culler and fenders. Yeah favorite yeah a lot of the customise as a Z-Dur in this
|
||
|
|
is a lot of those little. We had a lot of that just in the same as well yeah.
|
||
|
|
We had thongs we were in our feet you guys called them flip flops. We call it what do you call it?
|
||
|
|
We call them thongs. Fog. Now thong. T-H-O-N-J.
|
||
|
|
Yes well in America that thong refers to a different sort of apparel.
|
||
|
|
In America that we call it a G-string but it can get very confusing when you have international
|
||
|
|
people you can talk about wearing your thongs.
|
||
|
|
Oh a thong. T-H-O-N-J. Yep that's it.
|
||
|
|
Although I think that's something else here.
|
||
|
|
Yes flip flops. I think the polite term is ladies knickers.
|
||
|
|
Yeah I know what you mean. I've got the image. I've got the visual image.
|
||
|
|
That flip flops is a good flip flops. For your feet and there um well yeah you can have those
|
||
|
|
on the beach I suppose. For your sandals in Australia.
|
||
|
|
We're taking drops in your flip flops at the same time. It's not going to end very well probably.
|
||
|
|
Especially if it was a hard object. Could we be like having it dropping on bare feet?
|
||
|
|
I don't want to call it nearly here.
|
||
|
|
Yeah I've done that a bit um it's not going to be a bit cooler but Australian work boots.
|
||
|
|
Well my brother is a long haul trucker but um compared to the Australian
|
||
|
|
variety he's a bit of a piker. Yeah how far do they normally drive?
|
||
|
|
But they're limited to 11 hours per work day and his truck is limited to about
|
||
|
|
a under a hundred kilometers per hour. He was at similar, similar rules here with
|
||
|
|
logbooks and whatnot but sort of um just out out west or fairway west and up north.
|
||
|
|
They've got road trains. I can't remember how many trailers they can have but maybe a prime mover
|
||
|
|
in three trailers, four trailers I can't remember. I've seen some pictures of those and my brother
|
||
|
|
has got a uh is assigned a substantial American long-nosed truck with sleeper and everything
|
||
|
|
but compared to those road train prime movers it's it's a bit lightweight.
|
||
|
|
And up until recently they in northern territory there was no speed limits so you could
|
||
|
|
go as fast as you vehicle on the road let you go. They're just introduced I think it's 140K an hour
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure. Well a lot of those roads are very straight and some of them are pretty flat so
|
||
|
|
well I think yeah so I mean thinking Germany for and in I mean they're like their fast cars
|
||
|
|
or so to say and having you got a road there where yeah you can drive very fast but and also in
|
||
|
|
England they've got like a national speed limit or 60 miles per hour. I mean I mean in the
|
||
|
|
middle way it's 70 miles per hour and as a top speed in most or in most of the middle way but
|
||
|
|
I'll see certain people are going to go it's 80 or maybe even 90 or a little part you know that's
|
||
|
|
but that's the motorway so it's pretty or cold and there's something right. But then there are
|
||
|
|
these like sort of country roads or not country roads but these sort of for main-ish roads and
|
||
|
|
in parts of them it can say you can drive 60 but then some of these roads have I like we've got a lot
|
||
|
|
of bends and stuff and it's a bit like really would want to drive 60 down there probably not.
|
||
|
|
Yeah my dad was from West Virginia. And some of the some of the roads there you have a lot of
|
||
|
|
rock on one side and a lot of nothing on the other side. You seem to be getting cut off was it
|
||
|
|
my mumble? It was alright for me. But here the speed limit in Victoria where I am is 110
|
||
|
|
the fastest roads and in fact it's common across most of Australia is 110 K now and they
|
||
|
|
if you get caught going above it I think if you listen 10 K it's on a 150 bucks but if it's
|
||
|
|
between 10 and 20 K over the limit it's like it's around a three hundred dollar fine and if you
|
||
|
|
get caught going over that you lose your licence for I think it's three months I'm not sure.
|
||
|
|
Oh yeah you've got a lot of people on there for two me kind of people just go any speed
|
||
|
|
completely or we'll be a right problem. I don't know if you'd drive out of it Adelaide there's a lot
|
||
|
|
of long straight roads and just pretty boring sitting on 110. So personally I think there's
|
||
|
|
opportunity to increase it but in some places that's just my opinion. Well I heard back in the day
|
||
|
|
I mean they've they've posted speed limits most places even in the western US where again
|
||
|
|
like parts of Australia and whatnot there's a lot of and my brother who's a long haul trucker
|
||
|
|
um we we joke about him if there's a middle of nowhere he'll find it with his long haul trucking
|
||
|
|
but yeah I heard that back in the day there were some areas of the wide open west where they
|
||
|
|
would just say resume speed once you got out of the towns. Yeah it was like that here before I got
|
||
|
|
my licence back probably in the 70s that a de-restricted sign which is a black circle with a diagonal
|
||
|
|
black line through it which I'm told literally meant it was unrestricted so a bit back then cars
|
||
|
|
generally slower than they are now but they didn't handle as good either so a bit plenty of
|
||
|
|
plenty of people rolled rolled cars back then got thrown out because they'd seat belts weren't
|
||
|
|
well if they were available they certainly went popular. Well I'm
|
||
|
|
as a kid I lived near the local police tow yard and I saw more
|
||
|
|
you know broken windshields one car rear ended a back hole and in the in the front grill there
|
||
|
|
was an impression of the you know of the back part of the rear shovel I think it even included
|
||
|
|
some impressions of like rivets. Yeah that'd be messy but just think about it out around
|
||
|
|
around here even this kangaroo is a problem and deer and then more out the central of the
|
||
|
|
Australia you get emus and camels as well so it's probably a fair chance you can run into an animal
|
||
|
|
if you'd drive it along too fast. Actually while my brother was trucking and one of his
|
||
|
|
earlier rigs he did get himself a deer of course on the north side of things we get pretty heavy
|
||
|
|
duty of with the North American moose and I would say elk but the moose is definitely the heavy
|
||
|
|
weight of the of the horn folk. Yeah it'll put a big dip in your car probably similar to a camel I
|
||
|
|
suppose there's more camels in Australia than there are in Saudi Arabia the interesting fact.
|
||
|
|
Actually back in the day back in the day the US actually had wild camels too. Probably the same
|
||
|
|
background they bought over for traveling and got let loose. So the animals you just don't
|
||
|
|
have a car in those animals definitely not they will not end well. Now I made them on hit a kangaroo
|
||
|
|
in a car and it came through the window. And then it's because it's set off the airbag and the
|
||
|
|
combination of the kangaroo on the air and the airbag on his lap he obviously hit the brakes
|
||
|
|
and slowed down but lucky you didn't hit anything else you couldn't see what he was doing.
|
||
|
|
We had to catch the ones up with the airbag and the kangaroo on top of them yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yep that's exactly exactly what happened then he had trouble getting out because he's got this
|
||
|
|
bit on the ground. Yeah and all the class and everything else. How do you get people some all
|
||
|
|
sorted in there? No you managed to climb out. That was right there. Yeah yeah I think he's got out of
|
||
|
|
the door but that car was that car was written off. I didn't get out. I think it's open the door
|
||
|
|
and got out but it wasn't it wasn't you know easy. You have to get the kangaroo off himself. Yeah
|
||
|
|
I push it to one side I suppose. Some of them are pretty big most of them are like not not too bad
|
||
|
|
but there are some big ones around. No I guess I was in the kangaroo as well then I'm all
|
||
|
|
up and then after they call the hand like you can't agree around. Oh not usually they usually just
|
||
|
|
get them off the road and they usually dead. In the old days every second person had a rifle
|
||
|
|
in their car and someone would shoot it but these days it's not the case. They probably just
|
||
|
|
put the wheels clean probably yeah. Yeah even the ones that get wounded they probably just leave
|
||
|
|
them on the solar road to die. No one carries guns around like that anymore so yeah so that's
|
||
|
|
probably what they do. Yeah and I don't think anyone wants to get close enough to give them the
|
||
|
|
coop to grow you know a good besides you guys probably don't carry hunting knives either anymore.
|
||
|
|
No it's probably not much of that going on these. Maybe in the air back probably a lot more guns
|
||
|
|
and knives around but certainly not in there. Do you know what a foxes or a badger? We've got plenty
|
||
|
|
of foxes here. No badgers, plenty of foxes. Do you know what a badger is there as well yeah?
|
||
|
|
Yeah I've seen them there like and white, white things. Yeah so we've got a lot of that in
|
||
|
|
well quite well well not as many maybe but there's enough badgers and foxes in the UK definitely
|
||
|
|
that I'll see occasionally you you day unfortunately hit by cars as well so you
|
||
|
|
actually might see like one that's been hit and what happens after that and it's not nice.
|
||
|
|
As I said side of life. Well around here we have a small small rabbits and
|
||
|
|
uh it was meant to keep them cutting off or it was just for me. Yeah I've had some audio problems.
|
||
|
|
No it seems to be okay for me. Yeah nothing sounds too out of the ordinary for me. That's strange
|
||
|
|
isn't it because of mine because everybody puts the idea for a man. Yeah well my audio sometimes flakes
|
||
|
|
but the the real problem around here we do have some deer even here in the suburbs of Boston
|
||
|
|
but we have a serious coyote problem. For some reason they've decided they've moved in even
|
||
|
|
into metropolitan areas. They're and they're pretty hard on small pets you know cats
|
||
|
|
and small dogs and whatnot. Yeah we have some parts of the place we have a wild dog problem
|
||
|
|
same sort of thing I suppose as a coyote but there's a bandy on them at the moment. 120 bucks for
|
||
|
|
a I don't know what you have to do I've never done it but you know 120 bucks to get a wild dog you
|
||
|
|
see the goers going out and they're huge. Are they are are those wild dogs wild dogs are they dingo
|
||
|
|
or are they different? Yeah they're wild dogs usually they're ex farming dogs or descendants of
|
||
|
|
so probably kelpies or blue healers or something like that but dingo is quite different and dingo
|
||
|
|
is a more prevalent sort of inland and up north and I don't know how much about it but dingo is
|
||
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to me look more like a fox than a dog and sort of in the middle they're bigger than a fox obviously
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but they yeah that's that that's sort of archioed I think is is like your dingo yeah by the way
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by the way I think what you're talking about is a federal dog problem you know yeah true yeah
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we call wild dogs with feral dogs probably a bit a night because that that way you know that
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there well my dad used to have a camp up in Maine and he said the real he was a deer hunter
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at least when he was sober and he said that the real problem they had was a lot of packs of
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dogs from from the towns would get to chase and deer and the snow machines well in the winter time
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there's a huge network of snow machine tracks snowmobile tracks all through Maine and once that
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the snowmobile had been over it it made a super highway for the packs of dogs
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yeah we don't have we have to snow here but not much but um big problem with the dogs here is they
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they get stuck into the sheep mainly and that's what it's the main problem because some areas
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up around a place called telling it are where they don't recommend people going bush walking because of
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the the wild dog risk yeah do you have much radio use problem not that I've heard of um but
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so I've never heard of it but I don't know for sure we've got it or not
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well here here in America we some there's sometimes a problem with with some of the animals
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getting rabies of skunks especially and some of the some of those you know sort of smaller or
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medium predators yeah I just googled it and but at the moment we we don't have rabies in Australia
|
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but I heard over there you have babies have rabies some babies are rabies um we don't have babies
|
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one of that sort of thing for anyway well yeah we don't have those babies here yeah well I
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yeah we have yeah you yeah well it's all you know um yeah yeah yeah you um yeah we have beavers
|
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around here also I've I've recently seen a video about reintroducing beavers into some of the
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western streams have helped regenerate the uh well water retention and and along the stream
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beds which used to be just barren there there are uh thickets and stuff starting to grow yeah I guess
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it makes sense they build their dams and creates a different sort of ecosystem for all sorts of
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things yeah yeah I mean um the only thing that would have that kind of effect I think in you
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you know Australia are the are the big crocs yeah that they mean that just eight people really
|
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not a people but they do you think no well I'm I'm just saying that the fact that they're going
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that you have an animal that huge and that heavy thrashing around in in your shallow streams you
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know just probably keeps things opened up yeah true I wonder um I know there's a river not far from
|
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here called the Murray River which is badly infested with carp and the carp to dig up all the mud
|
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the bottom of the river and silt it up it's a big problem but I don't know much about crocodiles
|
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I haven't spent much time up north and you've been up there a few times I've seen the crocodiles
|
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they're not hard to see um they're they wouldn't say that everywhere but they're fairly common you
|
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if you want to go and see when they're quite easy to find um but yeah I'm saying that's
|
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plenty of carp you guys have carp over there to to European fish well are are your carp
|
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European carp or are they from Asia oh I think they're European but you're the other one's a coy
|
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carp I think I think the one's in the revisit uh European carp well I'm just saying and I know
|
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that there there are a lot of carp from the far east yeah I'm pretty sure as a European I've
|
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had people to call them European carp and back years ago I used to in the lagoon so
|
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through bread in the lagoon then you see the bread popping up and down and you shoot them with a
|
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22 because you can't do that now these probably probably won't especially draw back down either um
|
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but yeah there's a lot of them what I found interesting was uh in England uh for hunting small
|
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game especially your rabbits and such that they're allowed silencers all right yeah we've got
|
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plenty of rabbits here not not a plague at the moment there has been in the past but
|
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it's still plenty around yeah and I understand that unlike America because of some of the biological
|
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|
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warfare that was tried tried to kill them off uh there is they're infected with some nasty bacteria
|
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yeah for years I've been using mixomatosis which I don't know whether it's a virus
|
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um and it's a horrible way to die um you see them when they're infected with it and then they
|
||
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reduce a release is called calisi virus as well um it keeps their numbers down I think and then
|
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|
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cuss the foxes get rid of a few and have various periods where they go around um guessing their
|
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rabbit warrants to try and control on a bit that way as well I don't think I mean people shoot them
|
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|
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but I don't think that shooting them really does much in terms of reducing the population
|
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|
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kind of hard to reduce the population that breeds like rabbits yeah that's right literally uh
|
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|
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and people used to eat them I don't hate people eating them now um but certainly in the 80s
|
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|
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plenty of people used to eat rabbit yeah we have a very small variety that's
|
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|
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they call the cotton tail around here we we have uh essentially two varieties of rabbit here
|
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|
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um one is a small well bigger than a squirrel but you know not not too much bigger and that's the one
|
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|
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that I see a lot locally right around my house um but in the in the in the woods around here we have
|
||
|
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what they call the snowshoe hare which gets pretty well gets ferrisized I mean it's not big big but
|
||
|
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good size for a rabbit yeah we get a few hairs out in the the wheat growing areas
|
||
|
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get the hairs it's probably set about a foot and a half high maybe a foot I don't know
|
||
|
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never measured them but there's probably twice the size of a rabbit yeah that sounds about
|
||
|
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right for for the same kind here of course um with our temperate climate uh the rabbits
|
||
|
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change color you know they have a summer duller coat and then wintertime they turn white
|
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|
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yeah that's interesting as it normally just a brown pretty plank and brown color well yeah
|
||
|
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but then you around here um the the camouflage is really needed um because a brown rabbit on
|
||
|
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on white snow would would stick out like a sore thumb yeah foxes foxes dinner
|
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|
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uh yep although I gotta tell you we have some uh some nasty customers some weasels
|
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|
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and then we get the big boys the wolverine I've only seen that one at a long distance and I
|
||
|
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would just as happy what's that like a dog sort of thing it's a big ass nasty heavy weasel
|
||
|
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but the size of a medium sized dog all right yeah we have weasels um all you need to have ferrets
|
||
|
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to go grab a deer so who's afraid of them well you have bees you you had you have your ferrets and
|
||
|
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I think in Europe they have something that's a little different than a ferret that they
|
||
|
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call a pole cat well okay it makes them want to have a ferret I never had them but the
|
||
|
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ferreting often come back without the ferret I think got a while went down in the rabbit hole
|
||
|
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like I had the rabbit and went to sleep I suppose well I mean I think in America there
|
||
|
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they used to be used you know for vermin control uh rabbits a lot of your rats and mice
|
||
|
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were controlled by fair by people you know hiring somebody who had ferrets
|
||
|
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yeah he goes similar here but he never got in a lot of farms of course had cats plenty of cats
|
||
|
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around for mice and rats because we had a big I don't know when it was but there was a massive
|
||
|
|
mouse plague quite a while ago um I see some of the video footage of it it's amazing how many mice
|
||
|
|
there were so I think after that generally farms had plenty of cats one of the things that I found
|
||
|
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yeah I mean I come from farm stock on both sides of the family my mother up in Maine and my
|
||
|
|
dad done in West Virginia one of the things that that I heard was that the female cats
|
||
|
|
actually set up daycare for their kittens different females will mind the store while the cats
|
||
|
|
are out hunting food or what have you you know just generally just the cats that we've had
|
||
|
|
the female cats envy better hunters in the males for more what I've observed I just had a look
|
||
|
|
1990 was the mouse plague 91 994 was the mouse plague I was talking about and um millions of them
|
||
|
|
yep oh oh I uh another thing since we're on a technology channel a lot of studies in America they
|
||
|
|
had a lot of studies about the behavior of cats you know in a rural setting and they would equip
|
||
|
|
them with radio collars and track them and they found that a lot of the cats everybody thinks the
|
||
|
|
cats are prowling you know ranging all over the place but they would they would find that the cats
|
||
|
|
would uh you know they they collar them they'd let them go out and they get into the woods
|
||
|
|
100 yards or whatever into a nice nice place to curl up and sleep and that's what the cats
|
||
|
|
were doing everybody thought the cats were you know all wide ranging and all over the place but
|
||
|
|
much of the time they would they would just go out of sight and find a place to curl up
|
||
|
|
yeah a lot of carnivores are the same and they get fun some to eat and have a have a feed and
|
||
|
|
sleep for the next day well also the cats um and with these coyotes around here they're
|
||
|
|
they're on the menu pretty pretty hard of one of our neighbors warned us to keep our cats in
|
||
|
|
because the coyotes will just eat them and we had a cat that I found in my back garden it
|
||
|
|
it was dead and it disappeared uh the carcass disappeared after a while so something came by and
|
||
|
|
snarfed it up but the cats being the size they are yes they're a predator but they're also small
|
||
|
|
enough to be prey for some of the bigger you know our opportunist predators either either uh dogs
|
||
|
|
some of the wild wild cats that we have here I mean we have a couple of sizes in the country we have
|
||
|
|
bobcat or links and mountain lion so uh the cats are sort of caught in the middle
|
||
|
|
yes they're predators for for a lot of stuff but they also have to be ready to to hit the road
|
||
|
|
so that they don't get preyed on it's the food so I got it uh they reckon um most carnivores
|
||
|
|
are probably not preferred to eat other carnivores but yeah if they hungry they eat whatever they
|
||
|
|
can find I suppose yeah well also well I mean a lot of the carnivores here well yeah there
|
||
|
|
are some meteors but you know we have a lot of omnivores too you know that it'll eat what they
|
||
|
|
get and get whether it's meat or whatever yeah scavengers we'll get a lot of wild pigs and he said
|
||
|
|
he said wow some particular they eat anything everything I think sadly that's most people
|
||
|
|
omnivores and I'm saying because I always said to Chris I've done very terrible at 10 years now but
|
||
|
|
I used to eat meat but well I didn't really think too much about what we're actually doing here
|
||
|
|
and when you and when you look at the mass production of meat as well a lot of it gets wasted on top
|
||
|
|
of that and we you know we don't all this stuff as humans but the difference between us and wild
|
||
|
|
animals we get this people saying this sometimes as well yes lions are supposed to eat meat dogs are
|
||
|
|
supposed to eat meat wolves in fact they can eat meat war as well without getting sick wherever we
|
||
|
|
would get sick usually what does that tell you makes you think that should we eat meat but um it's
|
||
|
|
also just nasty because that quite frankly well yeah one other thing is about about my dad um he
|
||
|
|
was a lifelong hunter and he would hunt rabbit he would hunt deer in season um
|
||
|
|
during their rut season here in November um he even got himself a black bear
|
||
|
|
but anything he got he uh he would dress and I don't know he can never only keep on cutting off
|
||
|
|
of my my end but yes if you hunt me and have to kill yourself then and you're doing
|
||
|
|
for food as well that's a slightly different argument but when you just go to a shop or a store
|
||
|
|
then you can just buy it without any attachment to the animal that used to be alive well that's
|
||
|
|
that's the problem we have and there's a side to it well also um and this actually is linked back to
|
||
|
|
England sort of uh when my grandfather in West Virginia's dairy operation was he couldn't run it
|
||
|
|
as a as a milk operation anymore he would raise a black angus beef for slaughter unlike many people
|
||
|
|
I have seen and been leaned on by some of those big boys you know what you may see is a neck roast
|
||
|
|
in the supermarket I've I've seen what to hide on leaning up against me
|
||
|
|
I mean using me for a little fence post or something now it's rather impressive especially as a skinny
|
||
|
|
kid yeah but my you know my dad is as always dealt with with the whole livestock thing as
|
||
|
|
as a farmer does not not as somebody who just goes down to the market also around here where we
|
||
|
|
uh have knocked off a lot of the natural predators that hunting of deer and other game
|
||
|
|
is a population control thing because if the populations get too bad and we get a bad winter around
|
||
|
|
here you can get a pretty heavy die off because that uh heavy snow can can trap the animals and they
|
||
|
|
can't get food here's a common thing in it we had we upset the balance of nature and it
|
||
|
|
one side effect is some animals contend to breed more and become a problem like you say
|
||
|
|
we have a similar thing with kangaroos in some areas where um they used to cull them for
|
||
|
|
malief at pet food well uh they stopped doing that actually also a lot of the hunting a lot of the
|
||
|
|
hunting and other licensed fees are paying for the conservation and people keeping track of
|
||
|
|
animal numbers for for a lot of game species and in like that so you know a lot of it's uh
|
||
|
|
yeah you know a lot you know it can be a useful supplement to just letting everything you know
|
||
|
|
somebody's got to pay for the that ranger or you know warden or whatever you want to call
|
||
|
|
out pay for who have to work for peanuts though it's going on that minor
|
||
|
|
I'd have had a lot just saw the rattle going on of course these gentlemen from the common wells have
|
||
|
|
have a far more pleasant voice in my mind but i'm just trying to keep up my side from the common well
|
||
|
|
who's in here from the common well well we have an Australian we have some folks
|
||
|
|
a variety of uh british uh we had some folks from england i think all over
|
||
|
|
course great that's crazy Australians yeah yeah well wouldn't it get me under the last time
|
||
|
|
I spoke to you you were um setting up a nice little one-liter system and I wanted to ask how that
|
||
|
|
turned out well i'm pretty satisfied with it generally lately one of my systems has gotten a
|
||
|
|
little flaky on the audio side but right now i'm talking on a i5 one-liter system with a couple of
|
||
|
|
screens and uh 16 gigs of memory and nice little system sounds pretty good how's it doing power
|
||
|
|
well they use a sort of laptop brick so they're pretty lightweight and again the one-litres are
|
||
|
|
can i do it like seven watts or something you know not raspberry pie but damn close
|
||
|
|
um i've got a small form factor which
|
||
|
|
um has a 180 watt power supply but is pretty efficient and
|
||
|
|
um haven't used it much or haven't set it up yet but it's you know some of the some of the stuff
|
||
|
|
once you get away from tower systems can be pretty efficient i think anything other in the tower
|
||
|
|
is pretty uh efficient i know mine is not exactly efficient at all but i love it and i can't
|
||
|
|
get away from a tower i love the modularity and the fact that my hands actually fit inside of it
|
||
|
|
all of that is just a balloon yeah well that's i mean i i had a whole bunch of towers here
|
||
|
|
and i got rid of fall but a couple and there's one that i built but i haven't really used because
|
||
|
|
power prices just got too high up here now if you'll excuse me gentlemen i have to
|
||
|
|
step what that's quite all right i see we have another gentleman in here who's that Chris
|
||
|
|
yeah yeah how's things happy new year it's it just heard new years on this hand
|
||
|
|
happy new happy new year to these coast we um 16 hours ago for us here 16 hours ago so you're
|
||
|
|
you're the uh all-stray and uh weird old then everybody else is is probably a sleep or something
|
||
|
|
by now and you're the only one still up that's okay that's afternoon everyone else here be
|
||
|
|
heaven the barbecue and drinking a beer i suppose most people just do it
|
||
|
|
what people know and stay is that mornancy oh look it's king
|
||
|
|
oh look it's king happy new year happy new year i'm just uh heading off to bring my daughter to work
|
||
|
|
so thought of popping and say hi and uh wish everybody happy 2024 here here
|
||
|
|
how are you doing some kind of that i'm doing all right uh feeling pretty good i uploaded
|
||
|
|
a couple of more shows knocked them out pretty quickly just to get the last two out for 2023 now
|
||
|
|
looking forward to clearing up the backlog on 2024 except saw them already pop them into the reserve
|
||
|
|
key there so i have i have two i have a show i don't know if it's worth doing i replaced a phone
|
||
|
|
a battery and a phone and replaced a fan in a oscilloscope but they're so specific to the models
|
||
|
|
that i'm not sure there's any value in posting them other than to say i did it well i mean we
|
||
|
|
are talking 2024 now so that the fact that you have a phone you can replace the battery in sounds like
|
||
|
|
you know oh no there's a story about that we need to hear that story that it's interesting
|
||
|
|
by itself that's my question that's a phone battery can be replaced oh can it now what want to
|
||
|
|
tell us all i want it okay guys okay guys i'll talk to you later somebody's good not using
|
||
|
|
headphones you should really use headphones all right again take it easy good day
|
||
|
|
avalan and phone guy at work who replaces screens and batteries and parts inside they have this
|
||
|
|
little heating pad metal heating pad and you dial you dial the temperature to the temperature
|
||
|
|
that the sealant the epoxy it seals the phone and and instead of those i fix it videos where people
|
||
|
|
use the heat gun and and it takes an hour to get the back off of something it's just like three
|
||
|
|
minutes at a specific temperature and the back just peels right off and it'll replace the battery
|
||
|
|
and put it back together i think my next is six p the i fix it video said it was a four-hour
|
||
|
|
process and he did it in like 10 minutes okay because what this is starting to sound like is
|
||
|
|
those guys who tell you that or you can run Linux on anything or you have to do is write your own
|
||
|
|
kernel that kind of thing i'm sorry it sounded like what did i are using push-to-talk or are you
|
||
|
|
using an active voice i think you might be using active voice because it it cuts in and out at
|
||
|
|
different like odd periods more than see i'm using push-to-talk all right i think you might be
|
||
|
|
or or you might have a delay on your push-to-talk to where it either you're letting go early or it's
|
||
|
|
it's cutting out earlier something like that i paused before talking and i'll pause before releasing
|
||
|
|
sweet sweet so that that tool you were talking about the metal thing that heats up and helps release
|
||
|
|
the epoxy in a reasonable amount of time is there something average consumers can get their hands on
|
||
|
|
or do we have to sign our souls over to apple to get it i just did a google search and i found some
|
||
|
|
different looking pads for heating up phones immediately not the same one but i'll keep looking
|
||
|
|
and see if i can find the one he uses okay and uh what what's a key word for that search just for
|
||
|
|
those of us that are going to be doing the show notes later on you got a key word we can use
|
||
|
|
if we wanted to look that up is it like heating bed or heating pad or or uh something like that
|
||
|
|
i will keep searching and i will figure out a good set of key words for the search
|
||
|
|
one of the first results said thermal pad and when i added thermal to the search i'm not getting
|
||
|
|
anything accurate well heating pad and uh LCD screen separator machine which may or may not
|
||
|
|
oh it's it's hot hot plate what is this h what's that is it's is this the same hp low crack
|
||
|
|
oh yeah yeah that's me oh hey what's going on man not much than how you been all right cool
|
||
|
|
yeah just i just turned new years here so it was just outside for a little bit
|
||
|
|
oh happy new years yeah happy new year to you too if you've got it already not your rewire
|
||
|
|
yeah we just hit it about 11 minutes ago oh sweet okay yeah we're in the same neighborhood then um
|
||
|
|
yeah i've had pretty good luck with the uh with the one leader is i'm having reasonable
|
||
|
|
luck with even a late model pie pie for one system which i haven't had good luck with is the
|
||
|
|
pie 400 don't don't get me to rage in about pies but where you uh you interested in picking up
|
||
|
|
the uh newest addition to the pie family the pie five i think the pie five for my typical use case
|
||
|
|
which is doing a lot of youtube doing would be it would be a very sweet machine and with an
|
||
|
|
appropriate cooling solution wouldn't be bad for for many server use because it doesn't have
|
||
|
|
say to i'm staying away from it well i i've been running my pies with usb3 to say to adapters on
|
||
|
|
ssd's and stuff so it's been working all right yeah they do work all right and i got a few of the pie
|
||
|
|
fours still in here and i'm gonna run them till they don't run no more and um i'm not sure if i'm
|
||
|
|
going to update to any of the newer ones until they sort out that storage issue because one of the
|
||
|
|
things i'm very upset about how they took this whole industrial path where basically it's a toss
|
||
|
|
up rather not you want to call it an educational board these days yes and no it's still possible
|
||
|
|
to use it for learning purposes but the the path they took with the whole shortage uh supply shortage
|
||
|
|
still has me a little frustrated how they catered to industry over education but that's
|
||
|
|
neither here nor there what i'm upset about is you still have the credit card size form factor
|
||
|
|
yes up until you need to do anything with it besides put a case on it and then you have to get you
|
||
|
|
know a daughter board and and ribbon and everything else so you're basically purchasing a one liter
|
||
|
|
PC but in a very terrible form factor at the end of the day you're much better off with just
|
||
|
|
getting in the x86 and i i'm just wondering why well i think again for for my use case
|
||
|
|
just running a couple of screens and a couple of web web browsers the pie five looks pretty sweet
|
||
|
|
um yeah but the the pie also uh yeah it depends depends on how power sensitive your
|
||
|
|
your operation would be uh you know uh yeah the the pie five uh is well it's a it gives my one
|
||
|
|
liter is a run for their money as a pure desktop well see one one of the things that i i was looking
|
||
|
|
into it actual playback on the pie five it still does not meet what i what i i think it should be
|
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as far as like a 1080p 4k playback because the pie four was advertised as a desktop replacement
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and i think that was a very big stretch um i also don't like those silly little uh hdmi ports that
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they put on at the micro hd i or whatever whatever they're called um so i think that the playback
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just doesn't match up i don't know if that's like a hardware acceleration issue or whatever but
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it seems like it seems like i can do much better well i'm again i can't hold on one second
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momla could you use a push to talk uh there we go what we what we got here is uh now i'm not even
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looking at 4k application i'm looking at 1080p or there are very close to it for for my applications
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and my old eyes and with that limitation the pie four pie five well the pie five smooths out
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some of the bumps that left over from the pie four but you know they're they're adequate like
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like you you know they're they're well they're sort of like that what like a modern netbook actually
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i asked my friend for the name of the device and uh he gave it to me and i posted it in the
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mumble chat along with a link to amazon and i think it's a fun heating station is uh what you
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can search for yeah uh yeah speaking of pies i've i've got mx linux cooking on a on a late
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model pie pie four the late model pie four is the 1.8 gigahertz stock clock machine uh which
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a pie for the pie four hundred has a good processor but unfortunately the power connection
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the pie foundation cheaped out on the power connection a little too much at least on my on my
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example yeah thank you uh more than see i went ahead and copied it just now into a quick low
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note pad so i couldn't respond at the time and also the um get the pie four hundred um i didn't have
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any problems with it uh i only had one that that well the other one may have died too but uh so far
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confirmed only one that died and it was in use like around the clock just running next cloud
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it's it's a decent little server so long as you're doing like single application use or whatever um
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the pie five i wanted storage not not mainly because i didn't want to store anything on it but
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it that was that's like the missing element though to be able to boot and run off for something
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other than the usb bus uh the same person at work my friend who uses the heating pad uh just bought a
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pie five with a one terabyte nmv drive in it and he says it it's booting from it great i'm
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i'm anti pie ever since they removed the ability to get the codex for the gpu so now all the decoding
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for graphics is done by the cpu which overheats the pies and burns them out um i believe the orange
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pies have the video codex in the graphics card and so you're not using cpu to transcode
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wait i mean i thought it was a software issue though that like didn't fedora went through the same
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thing uh the video codex you have to purchase the graphics card if you don't purchase it for the
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graphics card the cpu does the transcoding right but i thought uh maybe i'm understanding it uh wrong
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like i might be thinking it's something completely different but i thought that that was something
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that the user could add on later on like it wasn't packaged with the os or whatever but uh maybe
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thinking it's something completely different completely correct you had to purchase the codex
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directly from uh vick and mpeg codex the vick the bicc for television and mpeg for movie decoding
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you had to purchase the license uh directly from whoever owns that and you had to get the
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serial number from the gpu uh off the pie and then you had to lash basically flash the firmware
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with the code that you get back from them i have a pie one that decodes uh plays movie and tv
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recordings uh flawlessly uh whereas uh my pie three struggles because it doesn't have that in it
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and now it's no longer an option for the pies you can't purchase it anymore well yeah me and archer
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were talking about something similar that not too long ago about how licensing between uh service
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providers and manufacturers end up screwing the end user and what a situation like this we keep
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talking about um was it uh was that new uh it is not new uh av1 coming out and how uh that's
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supposed to be the new big thing or whatever uh intel and AMD are supposed to be making that a
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a better option so that way we don't have to rely on Nvidia i don't know much about the
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uh about that but the the uh the gpu um or the uh or there's a way to add it later and the
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raspberry pie foundation shows not to add it to the pies when they first came out and uh haven't
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pushed or weren't able to get it added later um there is one of the things that i must mention
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uh the pie five um for one thing it it has PCI bus uh has a one lane PCI bus option built built
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into the uh the uh the board also the pie five has a far more robust usb3
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environment than than a pie four now my guess is it would perform or it would be best to use it as
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just an edge device where i'm assuming you're feeding the uh storage there was something like NFS
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or whatever and uh in operating it that way but yeah i just i'm stubborn i just gotta argue with it
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yeah well i'm i realized yeah there i mean they're getting they're getting right it they're
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getting right in uh again uh i'm dealing with power limitations and stuff where
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where a pie five might fit in long term uh more as a desktop but uh again i haven't tried the latest
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mx pie uh to any degree and it might it might surprise me or it might be adequate for what for my
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pie four at the moment so i can take my time upgrading to a five i haven't even checked out rather
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not again the decent cases for with um with all the new expansion through daughter boards and
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everything that's uh coming out with it is uh flurker or geekworm or any of the seed studio any
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of those other guys came out with any um decent cases for like a aluminum cases or anything like
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that for a pass of cooling because uh from what i from what i see from raspberry pie this is
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going to be a active cooling situation due to the additional power that the uh CPU uh well the
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additional heat that the CPU puts out well um it it seems that the pie four
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was right at the functional limit of passive cooling uh pie five running at any
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re any sort of real load um it's definitely going to need active cooling
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i'm also a grab oh trying to keep up with them notes but um yeah i'm thinking the active cooling
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is going to be the uh big thing with it so where you get that benefit of not having a fan noise
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or whatever and you can have the device relatively close by that's what i enjoyed the most about it
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there were a few times especially if you're using something like the um the argon one case
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and this is with the pie four if you're running like the argon one case and you have the uh the
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m2 style ssd's in there those things get a little bit hotter than like a two and a half inch drive
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and then you start to get your fans kicking up then with those type of drives in there but the board
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itself didn't didn't feel like it got any hotter the um the the m2 case which has an aluminum
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top and a plastic bottom would keep the CPU cool but that that that drive is what was adding
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the additional heat and that small form factor yeah i've had that's the one thing that some of the
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one layer boxes when you use the uh the uh m2 drives they they do i i am getting some
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heat uh issues or or error codes which are indirectly related to heat um one of mine sends me an
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error code that says please clean the uh uh the filter the the air filter and there really isn't one
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in this in this particular configuration so the the error code is is being generated by a
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machine that's unhappy with its cooling um yeah uh also i got one of those uh argon one cases
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but bad soldering on the hdmi connections made it unusable i mean if i had the right soldering iron
|
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and was willing to uh melt the solder blobs that they put put anchoring and anchoring the hdmi
|
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connections and wake up a bunch of the excess solder i probably could get something out of it but
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it was just just a pain in the ass and i ended up not using that case i like the form factor of it
|
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it it makes it nice and small and it gives you your um it transforms the two uh mini to the full size
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hdmi but um the fan was a little bit of a uh i think if i remember because i got two different
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cases that required little uh adjustments to get the fan to work is like a pie script or something
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like that you have to run to get the uh fan to auto um i think by default the the fan is always on
|
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or something silly like that and you have to run a pie script to um to get it to give you a decent
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fan curve i i really haven't messed with any of that i mean um i think i have fans in both my 8 gig pies
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but i'm not i haven't really messed with the fan or whatever um
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um
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also i uh
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i have heard that a pie 5 can run on the older power supplies but it is going to be real happy um
|
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so you know i'm just keeping an eye on things at the moment going to see what my finances are once
|
||
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once i deal with a few things and then then look at it but the pie 5 maybe
|
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something that i just got to keep uh you know nice to have but i've got
|
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sufficient more than sufficient machines for what i actually do
|
||
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it's the same here and one of the one of the things that i think about when getting a new machine
|
||
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is like okay if i'm going to be decommissioning an older machine or something you know it's
|
||
|
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it's on its last legs and i need to upgrade for something a little bit more power efficient
|
||
|
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and uh you know power for it at the same time then that's where a new pie will come in
|
||
|
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right now and i have an an old laptop that i'm running a few services on and it's doing a
|
||
|
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a bang up job the only problem with it is it's one of those cheaper laptops that has the plastic
|
||
|
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shell so each time i have to open it up to like swap out of driver or something like that
|
||
|
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on the inside the shell that it's in just gets a little more the rickety and terrible so
|
||
|
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so as long as you never have to touch it it's perfectly fine but i imagine they will come where
|
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i'm probably either going to have to just you know it's going to be more duct tape than shell
|
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|
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or or i'm just going to have to get a new one yeah well i'm
|
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|
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um as i said i've got got this pie for running a couple of 1080p plus well one of them's 1080p flat
|
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|
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and one of them's 1920 by 1200 um and that's putting the pie pretty close to its limit
|
||
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i think for for video and stuff i'm not i'm not even looking into the 4k side of things because
|
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i'm i can't afford the 4k style screen yeah i'm i'm a i'm a savage i i don't even do a lot of
|
||
|
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1080p most of the time be honest with you most of the stuff that i watch on like youtube or whatever
|
||
|
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i watch 720p just to keep the bandwidth down but outside of that i mean i'm an audio book guy anyway
|
||
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so if i can get audio books and podcasts i don't need 4k
|
||
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well that that's just it even on youtube if you look at what they're actually delivering
|
||
|
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if you look at the actual video quality settings it's not even 720p unless you set it
|
||
|
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uh their default is somewhere around 480p yeah they default 480p and i think they changed that
|
||
|
|
um roughly after covid hit when everybody was well actually i don't know let me not speak too much
|
||
|
|
on that but i do remember them talking about a change around that time when it was more work from
|
||
|
|
home happening across the industries and there's more bandwidth being used by users they made an
|
||
|
|
adjustment or or talk of that during that time yeah and i don't mind it's just it be honest with
|
||
|
|
this it's just not a lot that i want to watch that especially that comes from like a movie studios
|
||
|
|
and things of that nature you know the the Hollywood type so whatever they don't produce anything
|
||
|
|
that i want to watch anymore um most of the stuff that i want to watch comes from just your run
|
||
|
|
of the mill content creators but the thing is with them nowadays like if you try to contact them
|
||
|
|
and say hey look you make a good product if you put that on the desk i'll buy it from you you know
|
||
|
|
what i mean you don't have to overproduce it or anything just let me purchase a physical thing from
|
||
|
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you and and i'll be i'll pay double of whatever you want just to get a physical thing from you
|
||
|
|
where i can have that and it it doesn't even have to be like a DVD disc that i put into a DVD
|
||
|
|
player and play it it could just be the data files on the desk just let me buy the desk from you
|
||
|
|
and i'll be perfectly fine but um yeah that's a big ask these days they want you to gain access
|
||
|
|
to their content through their new app and it's like no i don't you don't get it i don't want to
|
||
|
|
lease the content i just want to own it i want to purchase that and have it offline
|
||
|
|
what i never have to talk to you again unless i'm coming to get more content yeah well the one
|
||
|
|
one one thing that that i did save out of a machine that i scrapped i have a blu-ray writer um
|
||
|
|
hold on hold on give us some details now we're talking we're talking to uh was it the five and a
|
||
|
|
quarter bay or are we talking at two and a half they're like the laptop one five this is five
|
||
|
|
and a quarter oh baby did you get an enclosure for it haven't yet got the enclosure but uh
|
||
|
|
nor do i have the media but but but i figured that it eventually might be worth putting in an
|
||
|
|
enclosure yeah that that's another reason why i love having a desktop i definitely still have a
|
||
|
|
blu-ray desk and matter of fact i updated my blu-ray desk um well actually upgraded to a blu-ray
|
||
|
|
desk i should say to correct myself it used to be just a cd dvd uh desk uh about maybe four
|
||
|
|
years at three four years ago something like that i went to um uh what's called micro center
|
||
|
|
and they had these great deals on just a simple blu-ray desk and one of the reasons why i
|
||
|
|
purchased it the way they had it packaged it wasn't in a fancy box with nice colors and things
|
||
|
|
that nature it was literally the drive inside of like a thin plastic cellophane sitting on like
|
||
|
|
the floor stacked up just a bunch of them and i thought they were like refurbished drives or something
|
||
|
|
and i was like no those are all brand new that's just the way they shipped and i was like
|
||
|
|
deal give me give me one i mean i haven't i haven't spent the money for the for the case
|
||
|
|
but uh i figured it was worth salvaging for you know kangaroo sp3 case all of it now where you go
|
||
|
|
i like it because i like to own my media now because i got a kid i understand she's gonna want to
|
||
|
|
watch certain things but i'm i'm breaking her out of it by introducing her to basically her own
|
||
|
|
creativity and things of that nature um i have to admit in early days okay girl like you uh hey
|
||
|
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peep peep jay you uh how you doing today i think i'm much richer or something fall asleep if you want
|
||
|
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hey you your your private conversation is being made public peep jay i don't know if it is it pet
|
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i guess it's supposed to be peter or something like that i can hardly make it out myself with
|
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|
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lower case yes i peep jay
|
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