We swear we aren't sponsored by vacuum cleaners as we discuss the art of vacumming and pain of two storey vacumming, quickly swinging into memes about misheard lyrics.
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We swear we aren't sponsored by vacuum cleaners as we discuss the art of vacumming and pain of two storey vacumming, quickly swinging into memes about misheard lyrics.
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Georgie 0:08
Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast. I am still Georgie and I’m here with still, Geoff.
Geoff 0:19
We don’t know that anymore. It’s been too long am I Geoff? Who are we? Are we Toast & Roast or Roast & Toast.
Georgie 0:27
Well, we’re back.
Geoff 0:28
So we’re back.
Georgie 0:30
Haven’t gotten rid of—
Geoff 0:31
Yeah, I mean, it’s been a while. There’s a lot of things that have happened. Hey. So I guess the big one, right? You went on a three week—I didn’t realise you went on a three week holiday.
Georgie 0:45
What do you mean, you didn’t realise?
Geoff 0:47
Like, you were like, oh, yeah, I’m going on holiday. And I was like, “Oh, okay”. And then I was looking through the podcast schedule calendar. I was like, wait a second. She’s still gone. She’s still weekend. After weekend. I’m like, wait, she’s still gone?
Georgie 1:03
What if I never came back?
Geoff 1:06
Oh, well, then, I mean, could send some kind of help rescue? I guess.
Georgie 1:13
I meant, I meant what if I like—
Geoff 1:16
Oh, you had an epiphany out there? You were just like—
Georgie 1:19
Yeah.
Geoff 1:19
Or never came back to the podcast.
Georgie 1:23
I mean, but I could do it remotely. I could have just—
Geoff 1:27
You could, could have done it remotely. Yeah. But I mean, you’re on holiday. So that doesn’t sound like a fun thing to do. You like rushing back at? I don’t know what time it is. It’s like seven hours behind. So—
Georgie 1:42
I think it’s seven. Yeah.
Geoff 1:43
So yeah, you’d be maybe three, six, what’s at 9am? And then 8am. You’d be like rushing out waking up at 8am? Just to podcast?
Georgie 1:56
Oh, yeah, context. I, everybody I was in I was in Greece. So in case you’re wondering, what is seven hours behind Australia, or behind Sydney. Actually speaking of waking up at a different time to try and make like a meeting or something like that. I was trying to organise something with some people at work. So we have this like, weekly open mic kind of speaking thing where people can talk about whatever they want to share things about, like their hobbies or about work. And it’s kind of like this safe space for you to like, talk about, like, practice your public speaking skills, but also share ideas and things. So we were trying to organise a special edition of this thing before one of the co hosts was going to leave the company. And it just so happened that he was leaving the company, like I think the same week,I was going on leave. And so we’re trying to sort out, could we, could they do it while I was on leave. But then I could dial in to the meeting? And then I looked at the time, I was like, I’m not getting up at 4am on a day where we had planned to drive to the next town. So I was like, that’s not happening.
Geoff 3:15
Did you drive? Greece?
Georgie 3:17
I did drive. Nick drove.
Geoff 3:20
Did you all drive?
Georgie 3:22
I did—did I drive, oh did we drive everywhere? Is that what you mean?
Geoff 3:26
Yeah, yeah.
Georgie 3:27
No, no, we didn’t drive everywhere. But the basic itinerary was, so to go to Greece from Sydney, you can stop over a couple of places. But we stopped over in Abu Dhabi. And then we drove to Dubai, when I say “we drove”, just, just read it as Nick drove, I did none of the driving. So we spent like two days in—
Geoff 3:49
Why didn’t you drive?
Georgie 3:51
We’ll get into that. And then after we finished up in Dubai, we went back to the airport in Abu Dhabi. And then we went to Athens. And then from Athens, we kind of drove around the area, like we spent, like four days there. And then we drove around this area called the Peloponnese and then around the peninsula and then we kind of came back around to a town that was not too far from Athens, where we then got a ferry, and then we did a few of the islands. So we did Mykonos and Naxos and Santorini and then we came back stayed in Abu Dhabi for like, basically less than 12 hours, I think. And then we came back home. So so yeah, we only drove in one area I guess. But why don’t I drive? Is because, I don’t know. I’m not really confident. I’m not a confident driver, is one thing.
Geoff 4:46
You owned a car at one point, right?
Georgie 4:48
I have a car. We have a car.
Geoff 4:50
Yeah exactly, sorry, it’s your car.
Georgie 4:53
But Nick is is a more confident driver.
Geoff 4:57
That’s fair.
Georgie 4:58
And he also really hates being a passenger. Because he gets motion sickness when he’s not the one driving.
Geoff 5:07
Does it work out?
Georgie 5:07
It always works out, he always does the driving when we’re travelling.
Geoff 5:12
As in it worked out you met somebody who doesn’t like being a passenger in the car and therefore drive everywhere, because, and you, that you are not a competent driver. So kind of.
Georgie 5:23
Yeah, I don’t mind being a passenger. I don’t know what it is like, like I get to zone—not I get to zone out but I don’t get bored. Like I think Nick said to me once that he just finds it boring as well as not feeling very like, like feeling ill like when someone else drives.
Geoff 5:41
Yeah. Dorinda just plays DJ for like the like the entire time.
Georgie 5:48
Oh yeah queue up all the music. Yeah I like that.
Geoff 5:52
We started a short, esque, kind of music game, where we started with a song. And then we said all right, the the first letter of the song has to be the next song’s first letter, but then quickly realised that wouldn’t you just continue on the same letter forever, and then—
Georgie 6:14
Just play the same song again.
Geoff 6:16
Yeah, so it’s sort of like okay, then the last letter of the of the band, or artist’s name has to be the first letter of the song in the next song. And then that was like, wait, why is it so complicated?
Georgie 6:31
Why don’t you just use the song name?
Geoff 6:33
And then and then we just did, for one of them we did last letter of the song is the first letter of the next song. But that didn’t last very long. Because one of, one of the artists like remind reminded her of how much she she—she forgot about that artist essentially. So then we just went on a just went on a binge on that artist instead. Like we just ditched it.
Georgie 7:03
Yeah, that’s fun. Yeah.
Geoff 7:07
But yeah, we went out to... went out to. We did. We did a lot of stuff today, actually. But the—
Georgie 7:17
Even though it’s raining AF.
Geoff 7:17
Purp—hey? Sorry?
Georgie 7:20
Even though it’s raining AF.
Geoff 7:22
Yeah, yeah. It’s pretty funny. My dad notified us of our own weather. It’s funny, he lives in Perth, but he like tells us about New South Wales weather. So I was like, yeah, we’re just gonna stay in this weekend anyways. And then my friends were checking out a townhouse that’s in kind of the same neighbour, neighbourhood that—actually they bought a townhouse that is multiple blocks, like they’re all lined up, like behind each other next to each other technically, in, in columns, no rows, think of them as rows. So actually, interestingly enough, these townhouses, if one is facing, like, okay, how do I describe this? Okay, you’re walking along the street. You walk along the street, you look to your right. You see, like, the driveway goes in and on your right, there are garages. And on your left, there are entrances to townhouses. And the garage matches the townhouse across from it. So—
Georgie 8:34
OK.
Geoff 8:34
It’s not the garage matches the townhouse above it. The garage matches townhouse opposite facing it, which is kind of, was new to me. Anyways
Georgie 8:45
So is there anything on top of the garage?
Geoff 8:48
Yeah, so there’s another townhouse that’s on top of the garage, but that’s does that belong? But they don’t they don’t belong to—
Georgie 8:54
What the fuck? So you mean, like, you could live in a townhouse and downstairs is basically someone else’s car garage?
Geoff 9:02
Yeah, I guess you would hear someone like open the garage underneath your townhouse. And it wouldn’t be you. It would be your opposite neighbour.
Georgie 9:12
That’s a very bizarre concept, I guess. But that reminds me of our apartment carpark. Which in, in most apartment buildings, there’s like a whole dedicated area for everybody’s car, right? Also, it really interests me, the way that they organise that, like why isn’t it in order? Why is it always like 300 and then 823? So with, in our car park, there are some actual entrances or like doors to apartments straight from the carpark.
Geoff 9:42
Woah.
Georgie 9:43
Yeah. And so I think maybe like some of the people who live in those I think their car spot is close to or in front of that door. But then it’s next to other apartments, like other cars spaces that belong to other apartments. And so I find that odd. It’s like someone, random essentially, is also parking in front of your kind of door.
Geoff 10:09
Yeah, yeah. And I guess it’s only strange if you live in houses. Like if you lived in a house before where everything is just yours then then you can do weird-ass like com, combinations of parking. And yeah, insurances. But it was quite, it was quite interesting. But the thing is, the garage doors were manual, and I’m like, I can’t, I can’t deal with that. Anyways, so they were looking, they were they were doing a home inspection on a apartment that was in the same kind of area, a block of apartment, not apartments, townhouses, there’s the the home open was an open of a townhouse that had been renovated. So they just basically wanted to go see like the renovation and maybe do the same in their own apartment, or I think they are planning to do anyways. So we went just fun. We’re like, alright, I’m I kind of like going home opens tagalong see what see what’s up because like, I’ve always thought I really don’t like having a second floor. But owning a house in Sydney is freakin expensive. Owning an apartment of the same size of a townhouse is also frickin expensive. So, you know, it’s kind of like a middle ground. You might as well pay somewhat of the same price for a townhouse than you would an apartment.
Georgie 11:45
Hmm.
Geoff 11:46
Yeah, I mean, like, townhouses are still a bit strange and in their own configuration, like the garage things.
Georgie 11:53
You think they’re strange? Yeah.
Geoff 11:55
Yeah.
Georgie 11:55
I don’t know. I always thought they were kind of cool. Like the fact that they often have two stories, kind of like a terrace house.
Geoff 12:06
Yeah.
Georgie 12:06
Yeah, I don’t know why, but since I was a kid, I was and still am kind of fascinated by terraced houses because they seem like cute and shit. Like there’s a, there’s several levels sometimes and then sometimes the layout is really long.
Geoff 12:24
Yeah.
Georgie 12:24
I guess like narrow and and long. Some of them in Sydney have been recently renovated and they look nice inside. So they’re not just old buildings.
Geoff 12:36
Yeah, that’s a problem actually. All these facades and stuff. I’m not a fan of them, but they’re all like historical and shit. So they need to stick around. And I’m like, but they have such nice insides. These apartments didn’t look great on the outside, but they they looked fine. They look pretty good on the inside, after renovation. But.
Georgie 12:56
Yeah.
Geoff 12:57
There’s also another opinion, right? Like a townhouse is neither house nor an apartment. It’s a house that has all the problems of being in an apartment. So why not just live in an apartment?
Georgie 13:10
What, like what problems though?
Geoff 13:13
I guess strata, you still have, you still have like a left and a right neighbour. So whilst you’ve paid you know money, almost house level money. You don’t get house-level like freedom.
Georgie 13:27
Yeah, okay. Yeah.
Geoff 13:30
You can modify it, but you can’t really modify it, you know, can’t just go and paint your outside blue. But, when everybody else is red, so.
Georgie 13:41
Yeah. Interesting.
Geoff 13:44
It’s a pickle. Yeah, why are Sydney terrace houses still being built? We still building terrace houses?
Georgie 13:51
Yeah, I think there are some near me that are like modern and they’re just honestly pretty boring the outside. I find that—actually this is another thing that I was thinking about. You know how they describe. I think someone made a joke about this too. They describe homes as like, those heritage homes, and, the ones that have that sort of old, is it like colonial style? I’m not sure. But they describe them as having character.
Geoff 14:18
Yeah.
Georgie 14:20
You see this on Airbnb as well. Character calm I think someone said it was a funny excuse to just say that a piece of shit. Like an ugly thing, look, it’s nice.
Geoff 14:33
Just look at all this—
Georgie 14:35
Character, Geoff.
Geoff 14:36
So much so much character. It looks like it’s gonna fall over from character. But yeah, so so we went out had a look at the place it was quite nice. The thing is, also another thing was, logistics of cleaning a two storey like house, is that you have to go up some stairs and vacuum like in individual steps. It’s kind of kind of a pain.
Georgie 15:05
Yeah? I guess?
Geoff 15:06
Can’t have a robot. Like can’t just have one robot. You gotta have two robots unless you carry the robot up the stairs. That’s ridiculous. So.
Georgie 15:16
I’ve never thought about this.
Geoff 15:18
Yeah, logistics of cleaning it is hard.
Georgie 15:22
But doesn’t this then apply to just any place?
Geoff 15:25
Exactly. Yes. No, one storey is easy. You just have a robot. The robot cleans the entire story, that end end of story.
Georgie 15:38
I don’t know. I’ve not owned a robot vacuum. So I feel like—
Geoff 15:42
Oh.
Georgie 15:42
Not in this predicament that you’re apparently in.
Geoff 15:44
Yeah, yeah. So vacuums. You asked before the podcast?
Georgie 15:49
Yeah, you seem to have a vacuum, behind you.
Geoff 15:51
I haven a, have a new vacuum. So I do have a robot vacuum. Yeah, it’s fairly new. I do have a robot vacuum. But it’s not like the most efficient thing for the carpet pile that I have. So doesn’t pick up very much things. It’ll pick up on the hair that like you just leave on top of it. But like anything deeper, it’s kind of—
Georgie 16:15
Did you get a Dyson?
Geoff 16:17
I do have a Dyson. Yes. So I have all three types.
Georgie 16:20
That’s all I needed to know. This pod, this podcast episode’s over.
Geoff 16:27
So my Dyson is a V7. I think. We’re up to V like 13. So that gives you an idea of how old—
Georgie 16:35
Wait—
Geoff 16:35
...old this vacuum is.
Georgie 16:36
What does up to V 13 mean? What do you mean by that?
Geoff 16:40
Oh, it’s kind of like an iPhone, right? You buy an iPhone six, and we’re up to iPhone 13. So you’re about seven years. difference, right?
Georgie 16:50
Okay, so wait, we have a V8.
Geoff 16:52
Yeah, you have a V8?
Georgie 16:54
Yeah.
Geoff 16:54
And now it’s a v 13.
Georgie 16:57
Oh, I see.
Geoff 16:59
Yeah, I think might actually be 11.
Georgie 17:01
So they released a new model. And you’re saying that now that is called, wow, why does this trip me up? I didn’t realise this.
Geoff 17:07
They literally just released a Dyson vacuum called V11. It’s just a version 11 of the Dyson vacuum.
Georgie 17:14
Oh, I get it now. Oh my god. Sorry. I just thought (laughs) I thought they were literally different like, and even better vacuums. And so I didn’t know that there was—I actually didn’t really know there was anything past the 8. So my friend goes to me, my friend said to me that he has a V7—but I think he said he has a V7 because he couldn’t afford the V8 and so I was under the impression that like that they were two completely different models. Are they? Or were they being sold at the same time with like different prices? Because...
Geoff 17:53
Yeah, you can buy, you can buy them, you can still buy an eight you know that you can buy the sevens anymore, but you can still buy 8, 9, 10 and 11 I think. Let’s see, “buy Dyson. V8. JB Hi Fi” like... yeah, there you go. JB Hi, Fi you can still buy the V8s. Did they even have a V9? Are you joking? You gotta be joking.
Georgie 18:19
Oh no. They did an Apple.
Geoff 18:19
Did an Apple. Yeah, I just was talking about thinking about that, hey. So I have a V7. Which I don’t even know when that was released. Seven. Can you still buy a 7? My... Just the motorhead? Can you buy a full V7? So I got the V7. It was basically nine. Eight years ago, I count my years by job changes.
Georgie 18:50
Oh.
Geoff 18:51
Yeah, I spent three years at this job, two years at this job, two years at this job, therefore, it’s been four plus three, seven.
Georgie 18:57
Oh that’s really interesting actually. Because I don’t count, I don’t really count like that. I sort of remember when I graduated high school and when I was in uni, and I’m like when I did my bachelor’s degree and when did my master’s degree and that’s how I like calculate the years that have passed since then. Yeah, yeah.
Geoff 19:16
Yeah, actually no, yeah I calculate from when I got my first job, how long I spent there, and depending on how long from there I get, get to my current stage. Yeah. But I got this vacuum I remember after I left my second job, and they gave me a gift card. And I was like, you know what? Buying a Dyson vacuum with this gift card. So thanks. But these days, I’m like vacuuming the kitchen and and stuff. And then I go to mop the kitchen.
Georgie 19:56
Yeah.
Geoff 19:57
And it picks up all of this extra dust. I’m like, did my vacuum even do anything? Like? So? I was like, okay, so here are my options. I buy new parts and—because I cleaned out the vacuum obviously before I try vaccums.
Georgie 20:14
Yes.
Geoff 20:16
I buy new parts and assume that it will, you know, revitalise my vacuum. Or I buy a new Dyson, which as we see here a new Dyson costs upwards of $2,000. I don’t understand. I mean I understand why, but yeah, $2,000 is ridiculous. This is a MacBook or a Dyson vacuum. Can you, can you just put those things together and say which one would I buy?
Georgie 20:48
Why are they so expensive now?
Geoff 20:50
Yeah, I don’t know. They they have all this fancy shit.
Georgie 20:53
Is that that thing where they show you the dust?
Geoff 20:56
It shows, yeah, yeah, it does dust protection. It has a little screen that tells you how much dust it’s sucking. I’m like, Why do you have to tell me?
Georgie 21:04
I don’t buy that shit at all. I think it’s a scam.
Geoff 21:09
I think yeah, giving me a confidence level on something that I should have, like, you assume it’s doing anyways.
Georgie 21:17
Yeah, that’s the thing, right? So like Dyson has a reputation of being a very good vacuum cleaner. So why do they feel like I mean, are they trying to prove a point that like, we really do suck up like all the dust?
Geoff 21:30
Yeah.
Georgie 21:31
Or are they like, or have all their vacuum cleaners to date before this one actually not been that good? And this one is like?
Geoff 21:40
Haha, it’s finally the one.
Georgie 21:41
Yeah.
Geoff 21:42
They decided to make it good.
Georgie 21:44
Just seems gimmicky.
Geoff 21:45
Yeah, I saw like videos about it as well. This this is light. They have this like torch light. And you and it’s like moving around and you can actually see the dust because of the shadows reflecting off it and then like it’s again proving that it’s sucking up the dust.
Georgie 22:05
I just no, just no. I don’t believe this.
Geoff 22:09
Oh, there it is. Hard Floor vacuums. Barrel vacuums, upright vacuum, vacuums. Shop all cordless. Yeah. So you can see that there was a picture there. I can’t, I can’t really find which one has it. But, oh the Omni glide. Hey, the Omni glide, should have got one of these. Anyways, so I looked at—and then a deal. Of course, it’s like July. And obviously there’s tons of deals going on. So is this just an attachment? Please tell me this Omni Glide is not just an attachment, attachment. It probably is.
Georgie 22:46
It’s only $594. So it’s—
Geoff 22:48
It’s got to be an attachment, hey. In the box. No, it comes with the stick and everything.
Georgie 22:54
I think it’s just like a basic vacuum. Maybe it’s—
Geoff 22:57
Basic. It doesn’t tell me how much dust it’s sucking up. It’s probably really bad.
Georgie 23:03
Yeah, I don’t know.
Geoff 23:06
Anyways, so I looked up, and I’m like, oh, a Miele vacuum popped up on my—on OzBargain. Where I live.
Georgie 23:18
Haha, where you live.
Geoff 23:18
Yeah.
Georgie 23:19
Is there anything? Have you set found anything good on there recently?
Geoff 23:22
Yeah, this vacuum!
Georgie 23:24
This is, this vacuum, OK.
Geoff 23:25
This vacuum. So basically, one of my other friends who may or may not be listening to this podcast—definitely. Has one of these vacuums. And yeah, they got one of these because it’s, it’s actually rated to, rated for allergens, like—
Georgie 23:47
Oh that’s good.
Geoff 23:47
Actually removing allergens by some kind of UK health rating. Yeah, the UK have a page on the government website telling you of all of the vacuums that they have given a seal of approval for allergens or whatever.
Georgie 24:03
Oh, yeah, I think I’ve heard about this. Yeah.
Geoff 24:06
This thing has a HEPA filter in it. Okay. So, um, and I think Dorinda is also a little bit more sensitive to allergens and dust and stuff than I am. So I looked at this and said this was $460. And all I had to deal with was a 10 metre cable limitation. And I was like—
Georgie 24:33
OK.
Geoff 24:34
It’s like half more than half the price of a new Dyson. You know what, I’ll just get it. If it doesn’t work out, it worked out cheaper than the Dyson.
Georgie 24:45
So is that the one behind you?
Geoff 24:47
So that’s the one behind me. I got a grey one. Of course—
Georgie 24:51
Can I see more pictures? So is it is it like, oh, what do you call these ones? The ones that are like a, it’s not a stick vacuum. It’s a, what’s it called.
Geoff 25:01
Yeah, it’s a drag along little unit vacuum.
Georgie 25:06
I hate those.
Geoff 25:06
Yeah, yeah, I hate them too.
Georgie 25:07
I feel like I hate them with a passion because they remind me of my childhood when we had vacuums, vacuums with bags, everybody.
Geoff 25:17
Yes.
Georgie 25:18
Kids. Gen Z. If you were born in—
Geoff 25:19
By the way.
Georgie 25:20
In 2000. You probably don’t even know what a bag vacuum actually is. Shit fucking sucks.
Geoff 25:27
So, so for those who don’t know. (laughs) Vacuums used to have bags and the dust would go in the bag and then you remove the bag and you throw it out. Some people say that it’s better than a bagless because technically, with the bagless you have to you know, wash it all out, and, and from time to time and not everything comes out, whereas with the bag. Just throw the bag out.
Georgie 25:55
You know what I find the worst thing though, about the bag vacuums. Have you ever accidentally vacuumed something you weren’t supposed to? Like, I don’t know.
Geoff 26:04
Yeah, maybe. I can’t remember what.
Georgie 26:06
Let’s just say for argument’s sake, I the lid of a pen or a lip balm or something about that size. Like if you, if you have a Dyson like stick vacuum, and then you accidentally vacuum that up and you’ve got the clear contraption where you can see all the dust, you can see it and just take it out. But I don’t know why, right, even though it’s the same shit, the same dust, like crap and debris in the contraption—when it’s in a fucking bag of vacuum, it fucking sucks. Because the bag is opaque everybody. It’s like a paper thick paper bag.
Geoff 26:41
Yeah you can’t find it.
Georgie 26:42
Yeah. And the other thing is, you don’t know when that bag is full. Right?
Geoff 26:46
Oh, that’s true!
Georgie 26:47
If you want to be environmentally conscious, you don’t want to empty and remove and replace the bag when it’s not full of dust. So if you go like accidentally vacuuming things that you need, and you have a vacuum with a bag, you’re gonna have a fucking hard time and I fucking hate that. Because that happened to us with things like Lego pieces and other fucking shit. Fucking sucks.
Geoff 27:11
That’s true. Like this box like has a max line so you can kind of see when to empty it out. I gotta say from watching videos on how to clean this, it’s much easier than a Dyson. Even the new ones that eject the dirt forward. Like I don’t know if you’ve seen the how the new ones work, there it is.
Georgie 27:35
Yeah, okay. I didn’t know that. Because yeah, I actually don’t love when you empty the Dyson like, it’s like the bottom flap opens and the dust is supposed to, you know—
Geoff 27:45
Fall out.
Georgie 27:45
Fall out. But you know, it’s really not as graceful as I think it’s supposed to be, it doesn’t fall out. It’s just a hot fucking mess. And if you have hair of like, any length past like, I don’t know, 10 inches to nine inches even. I don’t know how, how long is nine inch, whatever. If you have hair as long as any more than let’s just say 10 centimetres, which is like four inches or so. And it’s in the fucking—
Geoff 28:15
You keep a ruler around? What do you keep a ruler around for?
Georgie 28:18
I don’t know, but I’ve had this ruler I probably, I think since I was in school, it’s come in handy, I’m telling you. Like it has multiple times on this podcast when we try and—
Geoff 28:28
Grant, granted.
Georgie 28:29
Yes. But anyway, the whole swirly thing sometimes just hair just gets stuck around it and so you, you’re hoping for the dust to just fall out into the bin but it’s fucking stuck in all like your hair, your partner’s hair.
Geoff 28:44
It’s a huge nest.
Georgie 28:44
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
Geoff 28:45
And I do a whole, I do, I do a whole like the like, the whole show about it, like, I go outside on my balcony, I put on gloves, I put my mask on, like, I’m like trying to not have the dust just fly straight back into the house, so close all the doors, and then I’m like surgically remove, removing the bunch of crap out of it. It’s just ridiculous.
Georgie 29:11
Are you the, are you the vacuum cleaner emptier of the house?
Geoff 29:16
Oh yeah, I guess so. I mean it doesn’t need to be emptied that often. To be fair.
Georgie 29:21
Yeah, I am because Nick is like allergic to dust basically so he can’t empty it without like his like nose going off. So.
Geoff 29:30
Oh, you should get one of my vacuums. It removes dust.
Georgie 29:32
The me, me—
Geoff 29:33
The Miele one.
Georgie 29:37
Miele. Never knew how to actually pronounce that one.
Geoff 29:39
But having said that it is a 10 metre cable. Oddly enough my apartment is tiny enough, not oddly enough, thankfully enough—my apartment is tiny, 10 metres from one end of my apart, this one—can actually have let me vacuum all the way to my bedroom on the other side of the apartment. So, like I live in a tiny tiny apartment and it worked out. I can.
Georgie 30:03
Nice.
Geoff 30:05
Yeah. So I got it and I had vacuum that the weekend prior and so I was like, oh yes got a new vacuum. All right, plug it in and let’s let’s give it a go. And my god it picked up way more stuff, I’m like, God damn. Like the Dyson one fails me. Having said that though, it’s probably because it’s carpet versus hard floors. Dyson on hard floors probably works well enough.
Georgie 30:33
Interesting.
Geoff 30:34
Yeah. I know a co worker who has two Dysons, one for the top floor and one for the bottom floor of their house. Their apartment, house, house.
Georgie 30:45
Interesting. I feel like I just use the same one. I don’t know. I feel like vacuum cleaners are expensive.
Geoff 30:52
Yeah, they are now $1,200 for a fucking Dyson vacuum.
Georgie 31:00
Not everybody can afford a Dyson.
Geoff 31:02
And Miele do have one that’s cordless as well. So you could do that if you wanted to. Miele cordless. I only realised I had a cordless one when I went into a Bing Lee the other day and I was like, oh shit, there’s a cordless one.
Georgie 31:21
Woah, wait. They still exist?
Geoff 31:24
Bing Lee?
Georgie 31:25
Bing Lee?
Geoff 31:26
Yeah.
Georgie 31:26
Yeah.
Geoff 31:28
You just don’t watch enough ads anymore. Like the whole Bing Lee ad?
Georgie 31:32
Well, the Bing Lee, I think it’s is it his daughter or his like, basically his descendants...
Geoff 31:38
I think so.
Georgie 31:39
Now do the ads. Because isn’t he, isn’t he dead now? Like?
Geoff 31:45
I don’t know. Is Bing Lee dead? Bing... is JB Hi Fi dead?
Georgie 31:51
What is JB, JB Hi Fi is not a person?
Geoff 31:57
You know, JB? Yeah, founder Bing Lee died 1987. Aged 79. Ken Lee was appointed chairman. Ken Lee died in 2007 of cancer at 75.
Georgie 32:09
Yeah, so yeah, I mean, I think now it’s like, I don’t know but there’s two women, I think, who are his descendants who have done the ads now that I’ve seen.
Geoff 32:20
Yeah, have a look. “Today 16 of the 40 Bing Lee retail outlets are run by franchisees after franchising was introduced within the business early 2000s. Bing Lee has held management rights to the Sony Centre concept in New South Wales”. Woah. “Later closing those stores”... interesting. I didn’t know Bing Lee the had the rights to Sony Centre. So who’s running it now? Lionel Lee, grandson CEO, wow it’s still family.
Georgie 32:50
Yeah.
Geoff 32:53
Speaking of Ken Lee, Did you know, did you know that meme? Where...
Georgie 32:59
(laughs) Sorry. I... I was just having a sip of my tea and you just, like I just knew you’re gonna bring that shit up. Oh, shit. Yeah, no, I know. And, um, the funny thing is, I am—I don’t know if this person minds me saying, they probably don’t. But I actually know someone by that name. Like, that’s their first name.
Geoff 33:22
Yeah.
Georgie 33:23
And so—
Geoff 33:23
Ken Lee is their first name? Both? Ken Lee? Ken hyphen Lee.
Georgie 33:28
No, it’s spelt differently. I won’t I won’t actually spell it in case. I’m not sure if they listen this podcast, but I just don’t want to reveal names of people specifically that could potentially identify them. But that’s yeah, that’s that name. And so it became a joke because everyone associated this, like we’d play this meme as a joke.
Geoff 33:48
Oh yeah, poor guy.
Georgie 33:50
Yeah. Poor guy. So this “Ken Lee” meme is um... Well, where was she from, which? Which Idol is that?
Geoff 33:58
Oh, ah...
Georgie 34:00
Bulgarian? Is that what it says?
Geoff 34:02
Ken Lee Know Your Meme... Here we go, phonetically interpret.
Georgie 34:07
It was some—
Geoff 34:09
Zvezdelina, in Bulgaria’s.
Georgie 34:11
Yeah. So Bulgarian Idol. Like American Idol and so on. There was a contestant who was singing—who was the original singer?
Geoff 34:21
Can’t Live by Mariah Carey.
Georgie 34:26
Mariah Carey.
Geoff 34:26
Yeah, Mariah Carey.
Georgie 34:28
Yeah, it’s a song that goes, “can’t live if living is without you. I can’t live if living is without you” and so on. And because of her accent, this contestant sang it as “Ken Lee”. “Ken Lee bidi bidau chu”. Something, something to that effect.
Geoff 34:43
It seemed like she just knew, she thought that that, those were the lyrics.
Georgie 34:48
Yeah. Because they asked her, “What are you singing?” And she said, “Ken Lee”.
Geoff 34:51
Yeah, Ken Lee. But she was actually saying “Ken Lee”. She wasn’t trying to say “can’t live”. You know, she actually thought the words were “Ken Lee”. But the rest of the lyrics are also just absolute gibberish because she’s like, dibby dibby dabba doo. And like didn’t even get nearly close to the lyrics.
Georgie 35:10
Like she was, she was really passionate though. Like, even though she—
Geoff 35:14
Misheard.
Georgie 35:15
Yeah.
Geoff 35:17
I mean, I have I have a couple of songs, you know, here and there where, you know, I think they’re saying something else.
Georgie 35:25
You know, there’s a word for it called mondegreens.
Geoff 35:28
Mondegreens.
Georgie 35:29
Yeah.
Geoff 35:33
Oh mondegreens, a misunderstood mater—oh, I think the most popular one is “star vexed lovers” in Tay—Taylor Swift’s song.
Georgie 35:45
What does she say in it because I can’t remember.
Geoff 35:47
She says “star vexed lovers”. And everyone hears it as “Starbucks lovers”.
Georgie 35:54
There was another one I heard recently.
Geoff 36:00
Blank Space, Blank Space.
Georgie 36:00
Oh, yeah, that’s right.
Geoff 36:05
Not Starbucks lovers.
Georgie 36:05
So star vexed?
Geoff 36:06
Star vexed lovers.
Georgie 36:07
Wow. Do you recall the song...
Geoff 36:12
Oh, what am I, am I wrong as well? Oh, “got a long list of ex lovers”. Wow, I even heard it wrong after that. “Long list of ex lovers”.
Georgie 36:21
“List of ex lovers”.
Geoff 36:22
Yeah, “list of ex lovers”, star vex—Starbucks.
Georgie 36:27
She must have sung it really fast. I mean, this happens to be sometimes as well. Like I mishear something but the one I heard somebody else mishear was, I think it was a Natasha Bedingfield song. I forgot the song was called. It’s probably her number one hit, whatever it is.
Geoff 36:49
These Words?
Georgie 36:50
Yeah. So she says “Release your inhibitions”.
Geoff 36:54
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Georgie 36:55
Yeah. And someone thought that she said, “Release your inner bitches”.
Geoff 36:59
Inner bitches?
Georgie 37:01
Inner bitches. Inner bitches. And it’s funny, because when you listen to it, you can see why you think she might have said...
Geoff 37:13
Woah.
Georgie 37:15
There’s also I think it was like a Jimi Hendrix song. Where he said, “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”.
Geoff 37:23
Oh, yeah.
Georgie 37:23
And people thought, “excuse me while I kiss this guy”. I think he liked, or thought it was funny. So at a concert, he when he was singing it, he actually leaned into one of the people in the band and like leaned towards him as if he was going to kiss him.
Geoff 37:40
“Excuse me while I kiss this guy”. That’s really good. That’s like a mark of a good a good sport. You know, they like lean in on the, like, imagine if Taylor Swift all of a sudden became an ambassador for Starbucks.
Georgie 37:57
Yeah.
Geoff 37:58
Speaking of leaning into things, you should really lean into the ending of this podcast.
Georgie 38:04
Damn. We only just got started.
Geoff 38:06
Yeah. So new episodes every Monday, you can catch us... You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Mostly Twitter.
Georgie 38:18
And... yeah, you can find us on Apple Podcasts. Spotify, pretty much wherever you listen to podcasts, and the big, I don’t know, the big inner bitch.
Geoff 38:36
Big inner bitch.
Georgie 38:36
Release your inner bitches.
Geoff 38:39
See you next week.
Georgie 38:41
Bye.