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Georgie:
Geoff:
Georgie 0:07
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast. I’m your co host Georgie and I’m here with Geoff.
Geoff 0:15
Hello. Welcome back.
Georgie 0:20
So. We were talking about if, if we were to get sponsors for this podcast—would even sponsor us? Who would sponsor this terrible podcast?
Geoff 0:30
Yeah, we don’t even have like a topic. But who sponsors the other ones? You know there’s the “just call me daddy” or something?
Georgie 0:40
I don’t—
Geoff 0:40
Call, Just Call me Dad.
Georgie 0:42
Don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, so...
Geoff 0:44
It gets, it gets quoted by other people. What’s the other one? The really popular ones, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan guy?
Georgie 0:53
Oh.
Geoff 0:53
Joe Rogan?
Georgie 0:54
Yeah, not a fan.
Geoff 0:55
Yeah. I guess Daddy podcast has—
Georgie 0:58
It says relationships.
Geoff 1:00
Yeah, sexual relationships, human sexuality.
Georgie 1:04
So it could be stuff like sex toys, or something, psychologists, or something. But like, we just talk about shit. So like—
Geoff 1:12
So maybe we should get sponsored by like a bidet company.
Georgie 1:19
Okay, who would you want to sponsor us?
Geoff 1:23
If I wanted free shit.
Georgie 1:25
Oh, okay. Wait, you want swag and stuff?
Geoff 1:28
I don’t want swag. Swag. Swag’s a waste. So.
Georgie 1:32
So what’s, actually like as a service or something?
Geoff 1:35
Maybe if Spotify and Netflix—
Georgie 1:37
Otter!
Geoff 1:37
...sponsored us? Otter? Yeah, Otter AI sponsors us.
Georgie 1:41
Yeah. Does Simplecast sponsor?
Geoff 1:44
Yeah, exactly. So if we got sponsors for the things that run our podcast, and, we’ll be running the podcast for free and that’s good.
Georgie 1:52
Yeah. Because we don’t, we also don’t get money from this. We’re just like out of our pocket type thing. So you wanna be sponsored by a bidet, Toto.
Geoff 2:02
(laughs)
Georgie 2:02
Wait, no, Toto makes toilets, do they make bidets, though?
Geoff 2:05
We need like the fancy Japanese bidet. Like they give us free bidets. That’d be great. I want to—it is Toto. Yeah.
Georgie 2:12
Oh, so they make...
Geoff 2:13
So, serene bidet. I think Toto is actually the bidet...
Georgie 2:17
Wait, actually question. If you wanted to install a bidet without—can you install one without actually, like replacing the whole toilet or part of the toilet? If you know what I mean? Like because I’m renting my place, right?
Geoff 2:30
Yeah.
Georgie 2:31
Is there like some attachable bidet solution or is that not really great?
Geoff 2:36
Yeah. So oddly enough, I listen... I’ve watched this guy called Ludwig on on YouTube. Every now and then he’s like a common he’s doing commentator type stuff. He used to play games. But in any case, he actually owns a bidet company. As a side hustle. It’s really weird that—
Georgie 2:56
Right, that’s random.
Geoff 2:56
Twitch streamer has, or YouTube streamer, has a bidet company. But I watched someone install his bidet. And yes, you can do it. You can take the toilet seat off, you, I think that’s primarily you take the toilet seat off. You put the bidet on top of it. And then you hook up the piping into into maybe like a tap or something that’s next to your toilet. If you don’t have that then there’s other... But yeah, you don’t have to replace. Toto smart bidet. I’ve always wanted one. But have you used a bidet?
Georgie 3:30
Yeah I have!
Geoff 3:31
Do you like them?
Georgie 3:33
Well, I like them better than—OK, so growing up with my parents because they’re from Indonesia. They they lived, like when they lived in Indo, they had a very rudimentary like water spray. So it was like a handheld, like water spray like a hose. And so they installed one at home. So growing up, I used that. And I didn’t mind it too much. But it’s a bit shit compared to like a proper—
Geoff 3:56
Haha, a bit shit.
Georgie 4:00
(laughs) Yeah.
Geoff 4:02
Actually, I’m pretty sure on the last episode, we talked about shit too.
Georgie 4:06
We did.
Geoff 4:07
Anyways, shit part two, back when we lived at my grandparents place, a very humble abode. Or even in Malaysia in general. Like they, the—yes, I had maids—they would bring pails of water. And then they would just like pour it down your back.
Georgie 4:28
Oh, so they do it for you.
Geoff 4:30
Yeah, they do it for you. So that was my manual bidet back in the day.
Georgie 4:35
Well, actually I think some of like Indonesian public toilets like in the middle of nowhere, they have a bucket with, a huge bucket with water and then—
Geoff 4:44
Yeah, a pail.
Georgie 4:45
Pail. Yeah, that’s yeah, but you do it yourself. Well, obviously it’s a public toilet.
Geoff 4:48
Yeah. Well, at home we don’t have like, I don’t remember there being a bucket or anything. They would just fill it in the sink that’s further away from you and then pour it in. Of course, yes, you don’t have to have a maid to do that. But we had one and they did it for me. A spoiled little brat. But yeah, we left all that life behind and then came to Australia and then dawned on us. Yeah. Anyways, so um, yeah, a bidet company could sponsor us for all this shit talk we do.
Georgie 5:24
Actually speaking of toilets. I feel like I need to invest in like a stool. Because you know how—not that, a foot stool.
Geoff 5:36
What other stool are you talking about?
Georgie 5:37
Like, like as in the medical—
Geoff 5:40
Oh, the medical term for it.
Georgie 5:42
Stools out of your—
Geoff 5:43
(laughs) I gotta invest in some stool samples.
Georgie 5:46
(laughs) Yeah no, not that. Not stool samples, but like a foot stool. Because I don’t feel like when I’m doing a number two, that I have that optimal angle. And back at my parents’ we always just had the footstool there if somebody needed it, especially when we were kids. And the toilet seat, it was, I mean, the toilet seat when you sit down, your feet would be like dangling, which is not really great when you’re trying to take a shit.
Geoff 6:09
Yeah, people people like look, look down. (laughs) Look down on the hole in the hole in the floor toilet, right? People look down on that, literally and figuratively. But like it is the optimal angle.
Georgie 6:23
Yeah, the funny thing I find is most people who like, shit on that—ha ha—they will often like go camping. Maybe? Like they’ll they’ll have the experience of camping and dig a hole and do a poop in the ground.
Geoff 6:36
Is what they do? Madness.
Georgie 6:37
No, no, I’m saying as in like, they have that experience. So they’ll shit on the fact that some people will use squat toilets or they’ll just laugh at squat toilets. But then they go camping, because a lot of people go camping, then they have to do a poop in the ground. And they’re like, oh, wow, it was a really good poop.
Geoff 6:53
Yeah, yes.
Georgie 6:54
Then, and then I guess it’s just like, well, now you know, the, the angle by which the waste exits your body is, more comfortable, or whatever.
Geoff 7:02
The other funny thing is that, you know, when cultural divide was broken down. The Asian culture has been well versed in, in squatting in holes, and just, you know, sadly, they started squatting on regular toilets.
Georgie 7:20
Western toilets.
Geoff 7:20
And yeah, that’s why there’s a lot of sp—a lot of signage that says, please do not stand on... If anybody was curious why those signs are there? Yeah, everyone’s more optimal over...
Georgie 7:36
Yeah, actually. Can I ask you a question since like, we are kind of the same height, we’re small people. Have you ever sat on a toilet and like it’s just actually been too high? And you’re like, what the fuck? Like, just at a hotel or somewhere?
Geoff 7:53
Yeah, I think so. At some stage like when when like, the feet don’t necessarily touch the floor.
Georgie 7:59
It absolutely shits me, sorry I know like it sounds like I’m deliberately putting these puns in here but—it seriously, how to use a squat toilet?!
Geoff 8:10
The WikiHow on how to use a squat toilet. Look the faces, oh look see squat toilets apparently have a, the automatic well the default cleanup process is a pail with a water. Hey look, there’s some community questions, here we go.
Georgie 8:29
Alright.
Geoff 8:30
Public restrooms with squat toilets sometimes don’t give a lot of privacy because they are wide open to other people in the restroom. That’s a problem, not a problem if I need to pee but what if I need to poop. Helpful89, “go quickly and be discreet. I always bring a sweater to place over my crotch area to cover my private parts while going. Understand that this is a normal part of life everyone looks the same going so don’t be embarrassed”. This is kind of like onsen like mentality, I guess.
Georgie 9:00
Oh. Yeah. You’re all naked.
Geoff 9:01
Hot water springs. Yeah. Saw a lot of dong. It kind of phases all out eventually. Going with friends though, that’s like a real Japanese thing. Like going to hot springs with friends is yeah, not my, not my idea of fun. I went with my brother, was very, like good, solid period of awkwardness.
Georgie 9:31
Oh I like that one. “What if I fall in that hole? You cannot fall in the hole as it is usually too small to fall down. Just be careful not to fall in your own waste.”
Geoff 9:37
Yeah.
Georgie 9:40
Have you ever, have you ever heard I ever happened to you that you dropped something in the toilet?
Geoff 9:45
No, no, I’ve never dropped something in the toilet.
Georgie 9:47
Have you ever? Have you known anybody who’s dropped something in the toilet?
Geoff 9:49
Yeah, my mum, she dropped something into the toilet one time.
Georgie 9:53
Oh you know what this reminds me of? My mum. I’m sorry mum, if you’re listening. She sent this, I’m not gonna, I don’t want to call it like a fear mongering article. Right. But she sent an article that was—
Geoff 10:05
Most articles by our parents are fear mongering articles. I just gotta say like, 90% of them are like fake hoaxes.
Georgie 10:13
Yeah. Alright. This one was a real news article, the incident actually did happen. But it’s a little bit funny because I would not, I do not think, I would find myself in this situation. I honestly don’t think I would let myself get in the situation, but it is quite tragic. So someone dropped their phone in like a cesspool, like one of those toilets out in the, you know, the ones that just a hole like out in the bush.
Geoff 10:42
Oh, right.
Georgie 10:44
It was that style, though? But like, I think it might have been in China or something. Someone dropped their phone in there. I think it was. I think it was a woman. A grandma.
Geoff 10:56
Yeah.
Georgie 10:58
Or maybe it was, was her daughter? But because she dropped it in there. Both. I think they all tried to go in there.
Geoff 11:08
Oh god.
Georgie 11:10
So she jumped in. I think the grandma jumped in, her husband jumped in. And they died because the like the fumes were just so—
Geoff 11:19
No way. What!
Georgie 11:21
And they I think the tragic part is that they had like a few month old child, and now the parents are dead.
Geoff 11:30
This is absolutely insane. Why would one jump in after the other?
Georgie 11:35
Because like they were starting to, like drown. So then they tried to try to stay, but then fell in, and I think that’s what the story was. So they, so it’s quite it’s quite, it’s quite tragic. It’s terrible. Actually. They just wanted to save a phone.
Geoff 11:53
Yeah. Yeah. I mean like—
Georgie 11:55
I’d admit defeat at that point. In a, like in a cess pit?
Geoff 11:59
Yeah.
Georgie 12:00
If it was in your home toilet, okay, fine.
Geoff 12:03
Perhaps the reason is that, I mean, there’s a lot of people there, so I wouldn’t say this, this is the reason for that to happen, but I mean, maybe you’re out in the wilderness. You probably need that phone. Alright, drop it in there.
Georgie 12:16
I think this was in a village town, but like, yeah, if this happened—
Geoff 12:20
Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, that’s that’s really dicey. I mean, yeah. If, if the hole is big enough, and you look down and you can’t feasibly see a way of like retrieving anything, I probably just wouldn’t like—
Georgie 12:33
Yeah.
Geoff 12:35
Probably not. Man. That’s rough. Three people just jumping in.
Georgie 12:40
And then they just died. And now that kid’s orphaned as well.
Geoff 12:44
Yeah, my my propensity for cleanliness probably would have not let me do anything.
Georgie 12:50
Yeah, like I would have—
Geoff 12:51
Yeah, that.
Georgie 12:52
It’s gone, it’s in the shit.
Geoff 12:54
Yeah.
Georgie 12:54
It’s just, say goodbye, you know.
Geoff 12:57
Yeah, there goes my phone. Oh, well, I guess I’ll have to go buy a cheaper phone. If that was, what do I use to dry myself? Brought some toilet paper. The thing is, if you just used, and then just—oh I guess it’s cleaner because it’s water and then paper, not just toilet.
Georgie 13:14
The gripe I have with like when I go to bullets is sure I’m clean because I’ve washed myself. But then I put my pants back on. And I feel wet. It’s not that nice. And then I’m pretty sure that’s kind of like a potentially a breeding ground for bacteria. Right?
Geoff 13:31
If it’s wet? Maybe.
Georgie 13:33
Maybe. If you’re in a hot country, like maybe it would dry and shit, but it still is not ideal. Actually, can I add, as a woman, like I go to the toilet sitting down? And pretty much 100% of the time I need the toilet paper to wipe, can’t shake off you know?
Geoff 13:55
(laughs) Like a dog.
Georgie 13:55
So using like a bidet or a spray? If it doesn’t have any like if it’s rudimentary and it doesn’t have like a drying thing then, I’m like, great. I need to bring the toilet paper in with me, put it in the bin, or, you know, wash myself and then walk around with wet pants.
Geoff 14:12
Imagine the bidet having like a dryer.
Georgie 14:17
Some of them do!
Geoff 14:17
Really?
Georgie 14:17
Yeah in Japan.
Geoff 14:18
I guess in Japan everything is. Here we go, self cleaning want jet, silicon based want jet, they’re 43 degree angle jet position, eco friendly, placing it, adjustable warm air dryer. There we go. That’s the ticket.
Georgie 14:35
Yeah.
Geoff 14:36
Have you ever considered doing underfloor heating?
Georgie 14:40
Oh, like to heat the tiles in the bathroom?
Geoff 14:42
Heat tiles. Yeah.
Georgie 14:44
I’ve never considered it but when I’ve stayed at like Airbnb or hotels that have it, it’s been—
Geoff 14:50
What Airbnbs you staying at that have this?
Georgie 14:53
Maybe like a farm? Really nice solar panels? Yeah. Oh actually, I think in Europe is quite common.
Geoff 15:03
Oh yeah. Yeah. Because it’s cold.
Georgie 15:06
Yes, everywhere I’ve stayed at a place that has the floor heating, I’m like, makes sense because it gets cold here. But at home nah, I don’t think so, like, I feel like the bathroom gets kind of like warm enough.
Geoff 15:21
Yeah.
Georgie 15:22
It’s after taking a shower that the cold tiles are not really even cold.
Geoff 15:26
I watched this YouTube, this guy who did a full IKEA kitchen. And he was like reviewing it. But one of the points he made wasn’t even to do with the IKEA stuff. It was more to do with the kitchen having like a heat. And he was saying like he opted out of a heated floor. But he wished that he that he got the heated floor, because it actually—
Georgie 15:51
Would it dry any water droplets if you—
Geoff 15:53
Kind of. But also it’s more efficient for heating, because if he had to heat the, he has to heat the entire room in order to have like, a warm, like kitchen to stand in. Rather than just heating the floor inside the kitchen and the heat generally just, so it’s more power efficient, it’s one way.
Georgie 16:13
Interesting.
Geoff 16:14
Yeah. And I conditioning here is absolute dogshit, like, it blows really hard in the bedroom. And then there’s just one singular vent—
Georgie 16:24
In the main room?
Geoff 16:25
In the main room.
Georgie 16:26
Yeah, I have that.
Geoff 16:26
It does shit all, like I don’t feel any air, but like you go into the room. It’s a winter wonderland.
Georgie 16:32
Yeah, that happens to me in this exact weather in this heat here. I turn the aircon on and I close the door in this office here. And it’s like yeah, like you said, a winter wonderland. I walk outside and I’m in this steaming like hot pot.
Geoff 16:46
Yeah I guess that’s it right the air is too slow that it just it just makes it more like a steam room, because the heat is just ridic. I thought it was something that was broken with it so, I’m happy to hear that it’s just our shit houses in Australia, apartments that are I think someone called it one time, glorified tents.
Georgie 17:10
Is it because they get hot inside, is like the apartment tends to get hot, or is it the air conditioner’s actually, actually shit?
Geoff 17:19
Well, my apartment is kind of hot and I guess the air conditioning is just not strong enough to combat that. Or in in the living spaces, freaking one vent. Yeah. But hey, that’s that’s what we get for our overpriced glorified tents. Like when the heavy rains came, a little on the top floor started having holes in their ceiling because the water just—
Georgie 17:43
You got leaks and stuff?
Geoff 17:44
The water just dripped, dripped, dripped all the way through and then all of a sudden, it reached the entire roof ceiling.
Georgie 17:51
The roof itself is shit and couldn’t handle like having so much water.
Geoff 17:56
Yeah, I guess it’s kind of like in the UK. I think when they had the heatwave, like their houses are just way too fucking warm because it’s sort of like it’s all built.
Georgie 18:06
Yeah yeah, they built, yeah.
Geoff 18:08
Built for a specific type of weather. But no, these apartments are just flat roofs, I guess. What do you expect? Just gonna stay there.
Georgie 18:17
Yeah.
Geoff 18:18
Would you live in a tiny house?
Georgie 18:21
I don’t know if I’d live in a tiny house but you know, terrace houses?
Geoff 18:24
Yeah, terrace houses.
Georgie 18:26
Yeah. I when I was growing up, and my parents would just like drive places which passed like Redfern or something. They look so nice. There was something about them that I really liked. I don’t know what it is. Maybe—
Geoff 18:38
Oh these are town, townhouses or terrace houses?
Georgie 18:42
Sometimes townhouses are not so like close together. Sometimes townhouses have not joined but they might be in the same complex ish.
Geoff 18:52
Oh, look at that, Domain.
Georgie 18:55
We meet again.
Geoff 18:57
We meet again, Domain. For context I used to work for them. Freestanding we know what they are, terrace, typically found in a city, terraces is pulling hundreds—I don’t want a history. Ranging from single storey—
Georgie 19:11
I think that’s where they came from though. They are old, like houses.
Geoff 19:13
Basically. Terraces are sometimes freestanding, but more often share party walls. See that’s where a strata is involved. You don’t want strata.
Georgie 19:23
Yeah.
Geoff 19:25
And then semi detached a single dwelling shares one common wall, the semi was once poor cousin of today’s semis are often more affordable. You know why, it’s because the other freestanding houses are just way more expensive.
Georgie 19:39
Wait how does something becomes semi detached in the first place. Do you build it like that? Or do you—
Geoff 19:44
I guess wall to wall is just—
Georgie 19:47
But then how is that different from a duplex, which is the next one—because my parents have built a duplex and I grew up around a lot of those.
Geoff 19:55
Yeah, modern equivalent of a semi. Here we go, duplex is defined as two dwellings. under one roof with one, one shared wall, whereas a semi detached—
Georgie 20:07
What’s its just modern equivalent? So duplex is basically the same as the semi detached?
Geoff 20:11
Same same.
Georgie 20:12
So there’s just one shared wall?
Geoff 20:14
I mean, you look—
Georgie 20:14
It looks connected.
Geoff 20:16
Yeah, you look at the two pictures and they’re exactly the same pretty much.
Georgie 20:20
Except one looks newer.
Geoff 20:22
Yeah. Townhouse. So any semi that was built after the—
Georgie 20:27
A certain time.
Geoff 20:27
A certain time is now a duplex.
Georgie 20:29
Okay.
Geoff 20:30
Townhouse is, the buyer owns a dwelling but shares ownership of land and common property with owners. Oh, so duplex is on a single plot of land.
Georgie 20:40
Yeah.
Geoff 20:40
There’s two, but actually, and you still share ownership of the land. But a townhouse is like part of a complex, yeah. Friend of mine just bought a townhouse. And it’s very tempting to buy townhouses except for the fact that it’s a two storey thing. And...
Georgie 21:01
You’re not into that?
Geoff 21:02
No, I mean, like, why do you want to walk up stairs? I’m really sleepy and have to walk up a friggin flight of stairs to go to—
Georgie 21:09
Oh, so you I think you brought this up before like you went past some houses and they had elevators?
Geoff 21:16
Oh, yeah. Up the stairs.
Georgie 21:18
Install an elevator.
Geoff 21:19
So I install, like I preemptively install my own the elevator that goes up.
Georgie 21:24
Yeah, so there is actually, there’s actually a bunch of I think it’s either townhouses or terrace houses. I think it’s terrace houses. Limited edition terrace houses that are being built like some, like, some neighborhood near me. And they’re gonna have like, four levels with an elevator in it.
Geoff 21:45
No way.
Georgie 21:46
Like four bedroom. Yeah. And there’s like seven—
Geoff 21:49
That’s huge.
Georgie 21:49
Only seven of them. Anyway, long story short, we were like, let’s find out how much they cost. Because you know, interesting.
Geoff 21:55
Two point five.
Georgie 21:55
And it was—
Geoff 21:56
Really? Three?
Georgie 21:58
Higher.
Geoff 21:59
No way.
Georgie 22:01
Elevator.
Geoff 22:01
Four point five. Oh, true, elevator.
Georgie 22:02
Yeah, yeah. It was like 4.5. And we’re like, oh no.
Geoff 22:09
In America apparently—
Georgie 22:10
Four levels, four bedrooms, whatever. How many bathrooms and car car space, and of course your own elevator in your own bloody building?
Geoff 22:17
Yeah, I was thinking maybe a, for a townhouse.
Georgie 22:19
Brand new.
Geoff 22:21
That’s pretty insane. To have like a complex like escalator. But it’s—
Georgie 22:27
Like outside, to go—
Geoff 22:29
No, inside.
Georgie 22:30
Oh, an escalator inside.
Geoff 22:32
Yeah. But if no one’s ever been inside a townhouse, like the stairs are pretty much a zigzag, I guess. Like you go up and then like, you turn to the left and then you go up again and then you turn to the right. So putting an escalator is not like, efficient. Oh I was gonna say in America that installing a lift is actually kind of inexpensive, apparently.
Georgie 23:00
What. Not fair. No, it’s fine.
Geoff 23:01
Yeah. Cost of in. Electric chair lifts in Australia? How much does it, does a home lift cost?
Georgie 23:12
Oh, you’re talking about a chair? Wait.
Geoff 23:14
No, I’m talking about elevator.
Georgie 23:15
Like a proper enclosed one?
Geoff 23:19
Yeah, look at this. It’s a glass elevator. That’s awesome. Photo. Here you go. Whoa.
Georgie 23:25
Yeah, that’s, that’s like, you know—
Geoff 23:27
That’s legit.
Georgie 23:28
Moderately sized or whatever.
Geoff 23:29
Yeah, you don’t need like the whole like, encasing, like we do in apartments and hotels where they have like a hole.
Georgie 23:38
Yeah, like you just need a glass box. Yeah.
Geoff 23:42
Yeah, exactly. Oh, shit. Get a Quote. Drive system. They won’t give me a price. See this is ridiculous. Where they have a huge shaft and like, surrounded by glass all the way up and down.
Georgie 23:55
Is this a common area though. Or a mansion? Maybe?
Geoff 23:59
Yeah. See? It’s A Series, C series, and E series, because screw D. How much is it? They won’t tell you. In any case. Oh, here we go. $33,000 to install like a through floor.
Georgie 24:13
Yeah, that’s still quite a bit of money.
Geoff 24:15
Two level lift.
Georgie 24:17
That’s a lot of money.
Geoff 24:18
Yeah, comparatively.
Georgie 24:20
Yeah.
Geoff 24:20
But I don’t think the cost of the elevator is what has driven the cost of that apartment to 4.5 million.
Georgie 24:27
Oh, no. I think it’s the fact that it’s limited edition.
Geoff 24:31
So they said it’s only seven of them.
Georgie 24:32
Yeah, they’re gonna make only seven. It’s rather luxurious. I think there might be some smart—
Geoff 24:38
Four floors. Oh, it’s near you, isn’t it? So I don’t wanna doxx you.
Georgie 24:41
Yeah, I don’t wanna—yeah. Further info.
Geoff 24:48
Yeah. How much does a home elevator cost? Yeah, see? Yeah, I think it might be a really cool novelty that it could could actually add like, if people don’t look it up. If you tell anyone there’s a lift in your house, house or your apart—or your, your house? Yeah. You’d probably think that that’s pretty expensive. And that you’d need to pay top dollar for it.
Georgie 25:08
Yeah maybe, but I also thinking about people who use wheelchairs who might need an elevator installed and I don’t know what the options are for that, like there might have a more rudimentary one that, that yeah.
Geoff 25:21
Oh you do the chairlift, right?
Georgie 25:23
Yeah, that’s like a chairlift type thing, which we have in our apartment building for like, some of the entrances, are just really small.
Geoff 25:32
I looked up chairlift, I got the ski lifts! One of these. Yeah, straight up, you can sit in it, it goes up. Hey, looks reasonable.
Georgie 25:42
Yeah, so. Yeah, yeah, you’re right. I don’t think like an elevator in, in these in these homes. is actually making it 4.5 million. I think it’s the area I live in. Anyway, that’s enough on like, potentially, where I live and people trying to like find me.
Geoff 26:01
It’s Chatswood!
Georgie 26:06
(laughs) It’s Marsden Park.
Geoff 26:07
It’s Marsden Park. Oh, no, we just doxxed somebody else.
Georgie 26:11
Wait, did we?
Geoff 26:13
Nah, no gonna say who. Someone who listened to this?
Georgie 26:17
Yeah actually I think I know someone...
Geoff 26:19
Oh, no, no Marsden Park’s not, not where they live. Marsden Park’s further, see I, keep mixing up Marsden Park and where they live.
Georgie 26:25
Oh, I know. I know which one you’re talking about. It’s another park isn’t it?
Geoff 26:29
No, it’s actually a field.
Georgie 26:34
Oh it’s a field!
Geoff 26:34
It’s not a park.
Georgie 26:34
It’s a field! Wait, is it field quote unquote?
Geoff 26:38
Yeah, yeah. It’s like Marsden Park, but Field.
Georgie 26:44
Yeah. Yeah I kinda, I kinda.
Geoff 26:48
Anyways.
Georgie 26:50
Hey, it’s better than Peter’s ham!
Geoff 26:51
Yeah, Peter‘s ham and Lewis’s ham. Sandwiched between two hams.
Georgie 26:56
Yeah. No diss on those areas. We’re just laughing at the names.
Geoff 26:59
Yeah, yeah. This is a really awesome lift. I really want one now.
Georgie 27:02
Geoff, I feel like you could watch this elevator going up and down, like all day. Be enthralled.
Geoff 27:06
I could. I feel like it’s so inefficient, though. Like, like, imagine you’re like, oh, no, I need I really need to get upstairs to use the bathroom or something like that. You get one of these and you’re like, eeee.
Georgie 27:23
What if it’s like less of a box and more of just like a four walls thing. I mean, maybe you could injure yourself accidentally.
Geoff 27:29
Oh, that’s true.
Georgie 27:30
But just like a—
Geoff 27:31
Little barrier, like a platform?
Georgie 27:33
Yeah just a platform that goes upwards. And I think the fact that in this video, pic, whatever. The fact that the hole in the floor is the exact same size—
Geoff 27:43
Yes.
Georgie 27:43
As the, as the elevator, but if it wasn’t and if you had a larger space?
Geoff 27:49
Yeah.
Georgie 27:50
Actually, I don’t know. But—
Geoff 27:53
The efficient, the efficient thing about this elevator is actually the the height of it is exactly the height of the room. So when it comes down, oh, no, it doesn’t. Sorry.
Georgie 28:05
No, it’s shorter.
Geoff 28:05
I thought it seals the top one. But actually it has a separate door somehow. Anyways, this is—
Georgie 28:10
You know what I’d do? I’d just climb on top of it. And climb into the hole at the top.
Geoff 28:14
That’s the emergency way of doing things. Get a ladder and a fire pole.
Georgie 28:18
Actually, just roll down.
Geoff 28:25
Oh, there is a floor piece and then the elevator pushes against that floor piece and pushes it up. So when it comes down, it leaves the floor piece back down.
Georgie 28:33
Oh...
Geoff 28:34
Genius.
Georgie 28:35
That is kind of weird as well though.
Geoff 28:38
Yeah. Anyways—
Georgie 28:40
I think so. I think the fact that has a door and is enclosed is to prevent any kind of injury because like you could have, not not have the door. So you have to wait for it to open. Because—
Geoff 28:48
Yeah.
Georgie 28:49
But then like, you know, you could get your arm stuck or something.
Geoff 28:53
Or your balls to the wall stuck. (laughs)
Georgie 28:58
(laughs)
Geoff 28:58
You just don’t want to clip your hand on your way up.
Georgie 29:01
Yeah. So it might may be inefficient, but I think it’s so you don’t get injured.
Geoff 29:07
It’s really cool, though. I think it’s like the most, it’s pretty modern looking. But I mean, it’s a two floor house. The only reason why you’d get this as if you had some some mobility issue. But anyways, enough about lifts in houses. Because in most mansions, yeah, maybe the lifts in the house would sponsor us.
Georgie 29:26
No, it doesn’t make sense. Like what would actually fit our podcast?
Geoff 29:32
Oh, I don’t know, what did we talk about that would actually be able to? I mean, if we said, what are, we don’t even know who our audience is? How do we know who to are selling what to?
Georgie 29:42
Well? I feel like some of our audience that I know of, are my friends from work.
Geoff 29:50
Yeah. The, the thing is—
Georgie 29:53
Talking about tech, but I don’t want any framework to be like sponsoring this.
Geoff 29:56
Apple, sponsor us Apple. Um, oh, man if we got like, React to sponsor us. They’re an open source project being spons... Yeah. We want conscionable sponsors, right. Is that—
Georgie 30:10
Would other podcasts sponsor us?
Geoff 30:13
No. Why would we shout out other podcasts in our podcast?
Georgie 30:16
Oh actually. That’s a good point.
Geoff 30:19
Marie Kondo, would she sponsor?
Georgie 30:22
I don’t know. What about some minimalism people?
Geoff 30:25
That’s why Marie Kondo exists, right? She’s like the queen.
Georgie 30:32
Yeah, she’s not really minimal.
Geoff 30:33
Same, same. Who knows the difference these days?
Georgie 30:37
I don’t know.
Geoff 30:37
These guys have a 4.9 google rating with 1661 Reviews.
Georgie 30:42
That’s pretty good.
Geoff 30:43
That’s crazy.
Georgie 30:44
That’s pretty reputable.
Geoff 30:46
Sorry, I’m talking about the lift again. Who would spon... Like, did you know you can be certified in KonMari?
Georgie 30:56
What?
Geoff 30:57
Yeah.
Georgie 30:58
What does it allow you to do? Can you go around and help people?
Geoff 31:01
So KonMari, like, is a whole institution, like you can become...
Georgie 31:09
Oh no.
Geoff 31:09
You can be become a KonMari consultant, and you have to be certified. Here you go. It’s uh, it’s it’s even got levels. It’s even got levels. Here we go. Here we go.
Georgie 31:19
Actually, I just wanted to say like, good for her for being able to like make an entire bloody empire out of this.
Geoff 31:26
Yeah. There’s also been like this, she also released some statements saying like, now that I have a fourth child, I understand that like KonMari is actually quite difficult, or rather the art of tidying up—
Georgie 31:39
I didn’t realise she had any any children.
Geoff 31:41
Yeah.
Georgie 31:41
Fourth child. Wow. Okay.
Geoff 31:43
The third, third or fourth, she she like, publicly said that, you know what? Tidying up is difficult. And we’re like, yes, yes, it is. So—
Georgie 31:53
So she, wait so she didn’t really realise that earlier on? Or she was just publicly saying, I, I sympathise?
Geoff 32:00
Yeah... so Marie Kondo admits tidying up is difficult. Like she understands that there’s a limitation to—
Georgie 32:11
Woah, “kind of given up”, that’s some big words, the Guardian.
Geoff 32:13
Yeah sensationalised, the bloody Guardian.
Georgie 32:17
Yeah.
Geoff 32:18
Yes, the world renowned Japanese decluttering any expert admitted that with three children, here we go, three, “to look after her family home was messy and tidying up was less of a priority now. ’My home is busy, but the way I’m spending my time is the right way for me at the time at this stage of my life’.” I think this still matches her like philosophy. Like tidying up is make—
Georgie 32:39
Keep what sparks joy. And if that’s her children, then, and her place is a mess, whatever.
Geoff 32:44
Yeah, exactly. Screw that, screw tidying up. “Up until now I was a professional tidier. So I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times, though. Through interpreting, I’ve kind of given up on that in a good way. For me. Now I realise what is important”.
Georgie 33:01
That’s good. Good.
Geoff 33:03
And I think that like relieves some pressure I guess, on people, who are just like, how does she do this? Like it’s impossible to keep up and...
Georgie 33:11
Yeah, no one has their life together. By the way. Just a general reminder to everybody.
Geoff 33:18
So here we, go three stages of becoming a KonMari consultant. Step one, a three day virtual course. Step Two consultant in training and Step Three, certification evaluation. Standard course benefits, basic course benefits.
Georgie 33:32
Snacks, delivered to your door, that’s all I care about.
Geoff 33:36
Oh shit, really? Complimentary. Wait. Snacks. Yeah, exclusive merchandise, snacks delivered. I mean, one year of access to five additional business workshops on how to get clients, how to price your services. I swear there was like tiers. Business. But hey.
Georgie 33:55
Maybe it was just those two.
Geoff 33:56
Find a consultant.
Georgie 33:57
Okay, now we know what we’re doing when we retire.
Geoff 34:00
Becoming a KonMari consultant? No I don’t want to clean other people’s houses.
Georgie 34:06
I’m joking.
Geoff 34:06
I mean, I’m happy to throw other people’s shit out.
Georgie 34:11
Yeah that’s not how it works. (laughs)
Geoff 34:12
Because like my sister likes to say, like, likes to ask, for advice on whether or not she should throw something out. And I’m like you’re asking the wrong person. I will, I will say yes, every single time. I’m like, yeah, why not? Yeah, why not?
Georgie 34:29
Because you’re a minimalist and like oh yeah, if you’re even asking me like, just throw it out?
Geoff 34:33
Exactly. I think I think 80% of the time when someone asks a question. They they know the answer.
Georgie 34:40
They know. They want validation. It’s true.
Geoff 34:42
Yeah. It’s like, I think my cousin told me this when I was back in San Francisco. I can’t remember what the question was exactly, is like, oh, should I should I do this or do that? Oh, go or stay or whatever. And he’s like, you’ve been asking this question for like, two, three days now. I think you know the answer if you’re asking the question. That’s true. It’s like yeah, you know the answer. You just don’t want to admit that the—
Georgie 35:12
You don’t want to decide, I think, or you just don’t, yeah, you don’t want to vocalise that this is the answer.
Geoff 35:17
Yes.
Georgie 35:17
Yes, I want to go to the bar or whatever.
Geoff 35:20
Yeah, you’re, you’re fighting against instincts. But anyways, speaking of fighting instincts, I am instincted. So you can follow us on @toastroastpod, toast, toast roast pod on Twitter.
Georgie 35:39
And you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you find your podcasts and the big elevator.
Geoff 35:47
Yes, I might get one now.
Georgie 35:49
You will not.
Geoff 35:50
I will not get one. And so I guess, see you next week.
Georgie 35:56
Bye.