Geoff returns from another Pie-scapade (an escapade of pies) and the pair discuss the novelty of drive-in cinemas.
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Geoff returns from another Pie-scapade (an escapade of pies) and the pair discuss the novelty of drive-in cinemas.
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Georgie:
Geoff:
Geoff 0:08
And welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast. I’m your host Geoff and as always, I am with Georgie.
Georgie 0:16
Yes, you’re always, you’re always here. Wait, I’m always here.
Geoff 0:21
You’re always here. There’s no episode if there’s no Georgie. So I guess—
Georgie 0:27
I am the episode.
Geoff 0:29
I apologise for such a late start to this episode.
Georgie 0:33
Nobody knows that.
Geoff 0:35
Yeah, well, it’s like real life you know? So we ambitious, we were ambitious like me and my partnee are kind of ambitious when it comes to whenever we go out, we like we pack like a whole bunch of things to do before podcast and we never make it. So we went out to this place called Kangaroo Valley this morning. Have you heard of it? Have you been there?
Georgie 1:03
Oh yeah, I have isn’t it? Isn’t it like a couple hours away? It’s like 90 minutes to two hours away?
Geoff 1:13
Yeah, I guess depending on where you are could be up to three hours. But it is—
Georgie 1:17
That is, that is ambitious.
Geoff 1:18
Two hundred ish kilometers away? Yeah. And what did you go there for?
Georgie 1:26
Well, I didn’t go there, but I was looking into something to do there. I think there was like a treetop walk or some kind of interesting ropes course type thing.
Geoff 1:36
Is there?
Georgie 1:37
Yeah.
Geoff 1:38
Oh no, we missed out on a treetop walk.
Georgie 1:40
Or some, some something like that. And that was something I was interested in. I also know someone who went there for a farm stay, but that would have been an overnight thing. So I’m assuming that you didn’t do that.
Geoff 1:52
No, actually, we’ve been to this tree top walk.
Georgie 1:55
No way.
Geoff 1:56
I don’t know if it’s supposedly, it’s I don’t think is in the same area. Illawarra?
Georgie 2:04
I don’t know. I think there was a separate actual Kangaroo Valley. Something a little bit smaller. I think. That looks like a big corporation. Sort of.
Geoff 2:15
Yeah, there was a suspension. Some suspension bridge. Oh, look, tree tops. Oh, no, that’s like a three bedroom getaway.
Georgie 2:26
I don’t know if it was a treetop thing, it was some—what if you wrote ropes course? I have no idea. I just remember there was something.
Geoff 2:35
Yeah. But we went to get pie. That’s what we do. So we—
Georgie 2:42
I think you’ve told me about the pie before?
Geoff 2:45
Yeah, I think last time we were talking about Gumnut Pie. Gumnut Pie.
Georgie 2:51
We were talking about two different pie places where if the road is closed, you have to go all the way around.
Geoff 2:56
Yeah, yeah, that’s probably when I talked about Gumnut Pie and wanting to hit both Gumnut and Kangaroo Valley Pie at the same time, but then the road was closed between them.
Georgie 3:06
So tell me about this pie because is it supposedly like, the best pie in Sydney or something like that?
Geoff 3:13
It’s supposed to be like the best pie? I don’t know. But, in the world, let me—
Georgie 3:17
Meat pie? So savoury pie?
Geoff 3:19
Like a meat pie. So for those people who assume pies are dessert things?
Georgie 3:25
Well, they are but maybe that’s because it’s not.
Geoff 3:27
...in the world. Is it best pie in the world? No, that’s impossible, because it’s like tart crust data in Italy. Best pie in Australia.
Georgie 3:37
So I thought—
Geoff 3:38
It was... recently the best pie in the world has changed.
Georgie 3:42
We went to one and I think it might have been in Blackheath, or somewhere near the Blue Mountains.
Geoff 3:48
Yeah, so I think the pie has changed obviously like every other, every year the best pie changes.
Georgie 3:55
Okay, I don’t keep up to date with this so—
Geoff 3:57
Neither do I. But at one point, at one point, like someone I think someone recommended Gumnut Pastry. And didn’t recommend Kangaroo Valley but we decided that we needed to taste Kangaroo Valley for ourselves because can’t trust everybody’s opinion. Turns out, not a great pie. We honestly we probably bought the wrong pie. This guy at the counter was really pushy. He was like look, you gotta gotta trust me for some things and you gotta get the chili beef pie.
Georgie 4:35
(laughs)
Geoff 4:35
And we’re like, Alright, let’s get the chilli beef pie.
Georgie 4:38
Wait....
Geoff 4:39
Like chilli as in the the American version of chilli like the way they make a chilli dog or something.
Georgie 4:49
I think you might need to clarify for me because I’m not quite sure.
Geoff 4:53
Yeah, you know the mince that—
Georgie 4:55
What is it—
Geoff 4:55
The minced chilli version, like chilli.
Georgie 4:58
Is it like spicy likes salami or something? Is that what you mean? It’s not like—
Geoff 5:02
No, it’s like a, it’s like ground beef.
Georgie 5:06
Salsa?
Geoff 5:08
Yeah, kinda? Kinda. Chilli. Chilli...
Georgie 5:12
Like the tinned, like the jar of salsa. C—like chilli con carne chilli?
Geoff 5:18
Yeah chilli con carne type of chilli. Yeah, so you got beef, got the onion. Got some spices and you make this chilli. Right?
Georgie 5:27
Okay, are you a pie snob, though?
Geoff 5:30
Not—
Georgie 5:30
Would you say you’re a pie snob?
Geoff 5:31
...really? I prefer, I prefer to try the beef mince pies like I’m more of a beef mince or a steak and mushroom kind of pie. I guess.
Georgie 5:41
Like I’m pretty picky with my pies. And the one I usually go for and enjoy is like the steak and pepper corn.
Geoff 5:49
Yeah, so they have that too.
Georgie 5:50
Or just a good beef pie.
Geoff 5:52
Yeah. Just good beef pie.
Georgie 5:54
I would not try this as a first thing.
Geoff 5:56
Well, yeah, well, they were pushy, the weird thing was, right. Not to call them out. But they have a whole menu of pies. And they didn’t make all of them. And we wanted, we wanted different pies. So they were like “nope, we don’t have that”, “we don’t have that”, like chicken leek or... I can’t remember what the other one was. But they don’t make all the pies, so this was one of the pies that was available, plain pie and I guess steak and mushroom which I kind of wanted to get but at the same time I needed to try the plain pie as well. Anyways, so they gave us the pies. We, I accidentally opened the chilli pie before the plain pie because we were just gonna eat the plain pie. My god, it was so spicy. It’s ridiculously spicy.
Georgie 6:44
Woah. For you.
Geoff 6:46
Yeah, like I’ve done—
Georgie 6:49
So not enjoyable.
Geoff 6:50
Yeah, it wasn’t very enjoyable. So they weren’t very good. Which is unfortunate for like a two plus hour drive. So we got a got a lemon tart as well. Just because we like dessert too. We also checked out some of the historical—the thing is Kangaroo Valley is just old. We found—it’s just old stuff. They’re all about like his, historic, like all the buildings are historic. And they’re all still old—
Georgie 7:31
It’s like, is it like a village?
Geoff 7:33
Yeah, Kangaroo Valley town village ish. They do have like a main road with like, old stuff on it. But, yeah.
Georgie 7:41
But it’s a small town. It’s one of those small, not super rural, but small towns like out of the out of the suburbs.
Geoff 7:48
Exactly. So we, we were like okay, so we were going to do a hike, we got lost—
Georgie 7:58
Of course you were.
Geoff 7:59
...in the bush because there wasn’t, it wasn’t marked. Yeah, we do that. It was it was unmarked.
Georgie 8:04
Oh man.
Geoff 8:05
We were like okay, so they have a bridge which is supposedly really famous around Australia but yeah, overall we just went there for pie, we got our pie, and on the way back we were like, man that pie was really disappointing, let’s go to Gumnut. Because Gumnut is on the way, so we just stopped over.
Georgie 8:31
Get a redemption pie.
Geoff 8:32
Got a redemption pie. Yeah, got a redemption pie. Got a bunch of other desserts, I got an eclair, because MasterChef had an episode where they made eclairs and I wanted one.
Georgie 8:45
Was it good though, was it worth it?
Geoff 8:46
Oh, I haven’t eaten it yet. Like—
Georgie 8:48
Oh shit. OK. Stay tuned for the next episode.
Geoff 8:51
Yeah, yeah. I think I had the eclair last time—
Georgie 8:54
I’m not a big fan of them. They’re, you’re talking about the little sort of sandwich with the chocolate on top. And then a little bit of white, like—
Geoff 9:01
Yeah, a bit of cream, and cream inside.
Georgie 9:04
Yeah, I’m, I’m not a huge fan. I think it might be because I’m generally not a fan of chocolate in desserts.
Geoff 9:13
Oh. Interesting.
Georgie 9:14
Like stuff that’s very chocolaty. I do like I’ve seen some like, something similar to eclairs, like profiteroles.
Geoff 9:23
Yes. I like profiteroles.
Georgie 9:24
That have the choc top and I don’t mind that too much. But generally I’m yeah, I’m not a fan of chocolate flavoured desserts.
Geoff 9:31
Oh, I like the profiterole from the supermarket so much that I won’t pay for one outside of a supermarket.
Georgie 9:40
You mean just like the Coles one—
Geoff 9:42
Yeah just the Coles one.
Georgie 9:42
That you buy in like, it’s like a 20 pack or something?
Geoff 9:44
Yeah.
Georgie 9:46
Yeah. Wait, do you go to Costco?
Geoff 9:47
No, we don’t do Costco.
Georgie 9:50
Okay, but there is like—and I don’t go to Costco anymore, but my parents have a subscription—and they have these apple croissant, oh no, apple danish type things, like small, about profiterole ball size.
Geoff 10:03
Yeah.
Georgie 10:03
And they come in like a 12 or 20 pack. And they are so fucking good. (laughs) Like you just taste them and they’re just really—I don’t even know how to describe it.
Geoff 10:15
It’s—
Georgie 10:15
They’re super tasty.
Geoff 10:17
It’s like the the cheap tasting, like because they’re cheap tasting, it’s sort of like a good, like a good flavour. Like the cheap—
Georgie 10:28
Yeah there’s also something very novel about it.
Geoff 10:29
The cheap tasting thing is good.
Georgie 10:31
Yeah, like the only thing that I won’t do have a supermarket thing is doughnuts.
Geoff 10:36
Oh really?
Georgie 10:38
Supermarket doughnuts—
Geoff 10:38
...are so good, like you just put them in the microwave—
Georgie 10:41
No they’re not.
Geoff 10:41
...for like 10 seconds—
Georgie 10:42
Nope.
Geoff 10:42
And cinnamon doughnuts.
Georgie 10:45
I think I’ve been changed by like Portland Pips Donuts, like best cinnamon doughnuts ever. I just don’t want to I don’t want to go to supermarket doughnuts.
Geoff 10:53
It’s funny because I got an ad recently about how if you buy a dozen Dunkin Donut like cinnamon doughnuts, they will give you a free dozen. And I was like, are they trying to prove that they make they still make good cinnamon doughnuts, has everyone forgotten? Tryna...
Georgie 11:13
Wait, do we have Dunkin?
Geoff 11:14
Yeah.
Georgie 11:15
I think we checked this before right.
Geoff 11:16
Donut King, not Dunkin Donuts.
Georgie 11:18
Oh yeah, Dunkin is like US—is it US or Canadian?
Geoff 11:22
Oh, good question actually, Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts. America. So coffee—oh there, the company is actually called Dunkin. And they are Massachusetts owned by Inspire Brands, which is an American, all American.
Georgie 11:46
Cool.
Geoff 11:46
And so yeah, got the eclair, which was inspired by MasterChef. And then yeah, then came home. It’s just it’s just a bunch of driving really. But—
Georgie 12:01
That is some dedication to drive that far for.
Geoff 12:05
Yes. For pies.
Georgie 12:08
For pies. For food.
Geoff 12:10
My, when I’m, when I was back in Perth last year, we were on our way back from a pretty far away place, somewhat similar. Two and a half, three hour drive out. We also got my family to stop by a place to get a pie on the way back.
Georgie 12:28
Maybe you are a pie snob.
Geoff 12:30
I don’t know. I don’t think I’m—oh actually. Yeah, to be honest, like the regular pastry pies that people usually get from, I don’t know Mrs. Maxx, or just that that like brownish pastry just doesn’t do it for us anymore. The Gumnut pie is like super dark flaky.
Georgie 12:49
Thick?
Geoff 12:49
Like not thick, but buttery flaky. Kind of like a—not like a croissant because croissants are kind of soft and layered inside. But it’s a layered, crispy, kind of—
Georgie 13:02
Like a thick—
Geoff 13:03
Thicker.
Georgie 13:04
Flaky pie crust.
Geoff 13:06
Pie crust.
Georgie 13:07
There’s more like—
Geoff 13:09
Flavour. There’s more—
Georgie 13:10
Heft.
Geoff 13:10
Flavour, stuff going on. So yeah, we are now I guess snobs. Because now I can’t eat any other pie besides this, one and a half hour, two hour drive out pie? Oh, not to say we won’t try more pies. But yeah, I don’t know. Got really into these pies. So then, so yeah, we stacked a bunch of stuff and just kept like adding more things as we got disappointed by other things. But yeah, but most of it’s straight so I can just get my car to drive itself for a while. Yeah, do you do long drives at all?
Georgie 13:58
Oh, man, the last one I did was and I think I talked about it. The last one I did was to Hunter Valley when we had our Devcamp, so I don’t really—
Geoff 14:06
Oh you drove. You drove there.
Georgie 14:09
I drove there. Yeah.
Geoff 14:10
I didn’t realise. Did you—
Georgie 14:11
Yeah. I picked up Chris. And then I drove there. The worst part is getting out of Sydney.
Geoff 14:16
Yeah.
Georgie 14:16
Like it literally took us. I don’t know, maybe 90 minutes to get actually out and onto whatever it is. M1? F1?
Geoff 14:26
M1?
Georgie 14:26
Whatever. The big the big highway that just goes up to Central Coast, or up north. Basically. Everyone’s on it, if you’re going like long distance in that direction.
Geoff 14:38
Yeah.
Georgie 14:39
And yeah, it took ages to get just at that point. Actually. Wait, did I tell you that like we stopped for a break. Not too far from like, the place we had the whole conference and accommodation. And I was messaging someone who was on the bus, the coach that we booked.
Geoff 14:57
Yeah, why didn’t you go on the bus?
Georgie 14:59
Just decided to drive man. Also, it’s kind of good because I need to be more confident with driving. Otherwise I’ll just have a bloody anxiety attack or something.
Geoff 15:11
Yeah.
Georgie 15:12
Oh, okay, I’ll finish the story. And then I’ll tell you about this random thing. So I messaged, I was messaging someone on the bus asking them like, oh, how far are you? And they said, 15 minutes and like, oh shit, we’re 15 minutes away. That means the bus must be coming up the same way. And like, no shit. We’re just like running to the car, because we were just chilling and like having a break, just jump into the car. And I pull out of the park, like right in front of the coach.
Geoff 15:40
(laughs)
Georgie 15:40
We’re just like, gotta beat the coach, because we wanted to get there earlier to set some stuff up, because we were like, two of the organisers. And it turns out that the, the bus driver was honestly just speeding the entire way.
Geoff 15:56
Woah.
Georgie 15:57
And everyone was quite surprised that they, they were quite fast in getting there because they left, they left the city quite, not late, but they left the city at like eight— I can’t remember. But yeah, they were apparently—speeding.
Geoff 16:14
It’s a good thing. Your number plate is very recognise, recognisable.
Georgie 16:18
It’s not a good thing, yeah don’t tell anybody.
Geoff 16:21
It’s a good, it’s a bad, good thing.
Georgie 16:24
It’s a bad good. So we actually take the car for a rego check, because we have to renew the, whatever.
Geoff 16:31
Yeah.
Georgie 16:31
Adulting shit. And we go to the same guy. And he recognises it, because of the, he’s like, “oh, yeah, I remember this because of the number plate”. And there was another time or quite recently, actually. I did—oh did I tell you, we ran, the battery had to be replaced.
Geoff 16:48
Oh.
Georgie 16:49
And while, while it was in our car park.
Geoff 16:51
Yeah, that’s a rough one.
Georgie 16:51
Nick had to, I was I was out somewhere. I was out somewhere. And Nick was going to go and drive to see his parents. And he was like, the car won’t start.
Geoff 17:01
Eeh. Shit.
Georgie 17:02
Like oh shit. I’m just like, what’s going on, right? Like, and then he’s like, I’m just gonna go get there like, like an Uber or something. And he said, I’ve left my NRMA card, like, can you give them a ring? By the way? NRMA is—
Geoff 17:15
Roadside assistance?
Georgie 17:17
What’s it stands for?
Geoff 17:18
I think it’s a national—
Georgie 17:18
It’s like a roadside assistance.
Geoff 17:20
Mechanics Australia, I don’t know.
Georgie 17:22
It’s an insurance company. Everyone knows it. But what does it stand for?
Geoff 17:30
Don’t know. They do some... National Roads Association? No?
Georgie 17:37
Thank you.
Geoff 17:38
It’s... it doesn’t. What does it stand for? National Roads Motor Association, National Roads and Motors Association. Motorists. Sorry, yeah so the people.
Georgie 17:49
Yeah.
Geoff 17:49
Not the cars themselves.
Georgie 17:52
Yeah, so I call up roadside assistance. And they were like, oh, it’ll take about like, it could be anywhere in the next three hours. And I’m like, okay, I’m home. It’s fine. But then he only takes like 20 minutes and we find out the battery’s completely flat. And we had to figure out what caused it because I couldn’t—he was asking me how often do you drive this? And I’m like, oh shit. Like, once once a week if that for like, 10 minutes to go to the post office?
Geoff 18:19
It’s not long enough.
Georgie 18:20
And he’s—yeah, that’s the last time I drove. Like, like you were asking, like the last time. Like oh do we do long drives? I said, Yeah, well, I drove up to Hunter Valley, but that was like several months ago. Anyway, we find out the cause of the battery being drained was we had accidentally left the light on inside.
Geoff 18:38
Ohh. Classic.
Georgie 18:39
And I don’t know how that happened. Because I think when you stop the car—
Geoff 18:43
No one knows how this happens.
Georgie 18:44
I think when you stop the car, does it, is it on for a brief moment?
Geoff 18:48
I don’t remember.
Georgie 18:49
When you, when you park?
Geoff 18:50
I don’t know.
Georgie 18:50
Okay, I think mine is and that I think the last time we’d driven the car at that time was to go to my powerlifting competition out in Rouse Hill so that was a long ish drive.
Geoff 19:00
Yeah.
Georgie 19:01
And maybe I turned the light on to like gather all my things before we exit the vehicle to make sure I can see everything because it’s in the fucking apartment basement’s dark. Another thing is because Nick is quite tall I just wonder if his head just flipped the switch of the thing. (laughs) Like I’m not blaming him but—
Geoff 19:20
Being, being height-ist here.
Georgie 19:24
Speaking of height-ist, so you know the, your, wait, your car doesn’t have like the adjust seat, the seat—
Geoff 19:30
Yes it does have a seat adjustment.
Georgie 19:31
Like settings?
Geoff 19:32
Yeah.
Georgie 19:33
So you just press the button?
Geoff 19:35
Yeah I have two, have two buttons, one for the back part and one for the bottom part.
Georgie 19:39
But does it remember your setting?
Geoff 19:41
It does.
Georgie 19:41
Can you have multip—
Geoff 19:42
Yeah.
Georgie 19:43
Okay, so you can add another person and be like—okay, we need that right? Because no fucking joke, every time I get in the car and Nick has been driving, it’s so far away.
Geoff 19:55
(laughs)
Georgie 19:55
I have to like the the one that moves the seat actual seat, up.
Geoff 20:00
Yeah.
Georgie 20:01
I have to put that all the way up.
Geoff 20:03
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Georgie 20:04
And then I have move it like, all the way forward.
Geoff 20:07
It’s—
Georgie 20:07
And then when he comes and I’ve driven the car, he has to do the complete opposite with the car, I mean move the seat all the way back and put the seat height like all the way down.
Geoff 20:18
It’s hilarious. Actually. So I’ve got I’ve got a setting for chill. So that it like puts my seat all the way back and down so that O can watch the screen on the on the Tesla. But actually, we just went to watch... We went to the drive in in Blacktown.
Georgie 20:38
Oh, yeah, I remember that. It’s still there?
Geoff 20:40
Yeah, so—
Georgie 20:41
Is it vibing?
Geoff 20:42
Yeah, loads of people were there.
Georgie 20:45
Nice.
Geoff 20:45
So we went there and I wanted to like adjust, adjust the seat. The thing is about the seat, it just like goes really slow. So it’s like I press a button, it just, eeeee.
Georgie 20:59
What do you expect it to go at?
Geoff 21:00
It’s like, I want lightning fast, boom. Breakneck speeds. Nah.
Georgie 21:05
So, can you if you do it manually, is it any faster?
Geoff 21:08
There’s no manual, it is only buttons.
Georgie 21:10
Oh, it’s, oh.
Geoff 21:11
No cranks or anything in there. So it’s just funny because—
Georgie 21:16
Wow, shit.
Geoff 21:16
Like, when, whenever. And then after the movie, the movie finished, I just went to adjust it back to my settings. And the thing is, you can trigger the like, there’s a restore button. So I just hit the restore button. And then my seat goes back to what it remembered what I saved it as. So it’s just slowly going eee, back into its position.
Georgie 21:38
Yeah but like, how often, how often are you gonna go to the, the drive in?
Geoff 21:43
Yeah, that’s true.
Georgie 21:45
And have to move it very much.
Geoff 21:45
It’s not very often. And my partner’s basically the same height as me. So it’s like—
Georgie 21:51
Yeah.
Geoff 21:52
Ee, that’s it. Like, it’s the amount that had to change between us. So yeah, it’s pretty, it’s pretty amusing because I saw a Reel or something like that. Have you see, like there’s a police officer teaching you how to get out of a chokehold from—
Georgie 22:10
Okay.
Geoff 22:11
From—
Georgie 22:11
No, I haven’t seen this.
Geoff 22:12
Anyway. So imagine, for some reason that there’s a car jacker in the backseat.
Georgie 22:19
OK.
Geoff 22:19
And you, you put on is it, I can’t remember if she puts on her seat belt or not. But essentially, the the person like pull, throws a rope over the seat around your head and then pulls back so that yes, your—
Georgie 22:33
Around your neck.
Geoff 22:35
...head is against the back, against this headrest. And choking you. So the instruction is you take your two, you take two fingers, and as soon as the rope comes down, you slide your two fingers up to prevent yourself from being choked. And then you release the car back like seat adjustment to go back down so that—
Georgie 22:59
(wheezing laugh)
Geoff 22:59
The jacker can’t, loosens everything.
Georgie 23:03
(laughs)
Geoff 23:03
And then you and then you get out and then you, get out of the car, right. But with, electronic, it cuts—
Georgie 23:09
Oh my god.
Geoff 23:10
Cuts to this guy trying it out. He’s like, “Oh, no”.
Georgie 23:13
It’s like so slow?
Geoff 23:15
“I’m being choked!” And then like he adjusts the seat, eee. (laughs) He can’t get out.
Georgie 23:23
No. That’s so funny actually.
Geoff 23:26
Anyways, it’s been played so many times. It’s actually stopped playing like stopped coming up on my feed, but it’s just like, “This is how you escape a car jacker”. And then like, in real life, reality, the whole real life versus reality thing.
Georgie 23:43
Well at least I can do it with my car.
Geoff 23:46
Yeah, can’t. But yeah, it’s quite interesting. The drive in theatre. They’ve got, they’ve got these humps. And they’ve got poles, and I’m imagining those poles were there for when cars didn’t have radios, or couldn’t.
Georgie 24:04
Yeah.
Geoff 24:04
Just a small speaker that usually bring into your car back in the day. But it’s so funny because they send an email out before you go. And they said in some cases, because of so much technology, you may experience the audio cutting out every 15 to 30 minutes.
Georgie 24:25
Okay.
Geoff 24:26
If you use your car’s radio, so bring it, bring a spare FM radio with you. And I’m like—
Georgie 24:31
Wait that’s, really? Nah. Did you do it?
Geoff 24:33
I don’t have one?
Georgie 24:34
Yeah.
Geoff 24:36
Oh, for those who don’t know, when you get to a drive in theatre, you tune in to a specific radio frequency and they broadcast the movie’s sound over the over the radio, so it comes on, into your car. And it didn’t happen. But I downloaded an app for my phone to tune—
Georgie 24:59
Oh yeah.
Geoff 25:00
To the radio frequency. Didn’t need to. So that was really, really cool. They had a really retro diner. So—
Georgie 25:09
Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Because I went about, maybe about nine years ago now was when I went, it was the first time I’d been there as well. I was like, oh, that’s cool. And I think the band Lime Cordiale did a video. Like one of their music videos there, I was like, oh, I recognise this place. So yeah, I don’t know if there are any others in Sydney?
Geoff 25:28
Well the ticket said the only one in Sydney.
Georgie 25:31
Oh, because the other ones fucking closed.
Geoff 25:35
Yeah, it’s not profitable. I think it’s like $10 or $12 more than a regular ticket price.
Georgie 25:44
Man. The thing is, I don’t even like movies in general, right? But—
Geoff 25:48
Yeah.
Georgie 25:49
It was kind of novel to sit in a car and be like, oh yeah, I’m comfortable. I don’t have to like worry about—
Geoff 25:55
Exactly.
Georgie 25:56
Weirdness in a theatre. So but then I’m just like, could just watch a movie at home? Maybe? I don’t know. It’s a nice, it’s like a novel thing.
Geoff 26:04
Yeah, it was like nine degrees and we saw people who open up their boot and then like sit in their boots to watch the movie. Because they had reversed—
Georgie 26:13
Did you bring a blanket?
Geoff 26:15
No, because my car’s heated. Why you need a blanket?
Georgie 26:18
Oh it’s so fun—okay, like okay, so what do you call this like, throwback to some previous episode with someone I was seeing, didn’t want to call it an item, but I went with the person I was seeing, at the time.
Geoff 26:32
Still respecting their wishes about not calling it an item. But saltily calling out that—
Georgie 26:38
Salty, so salty. But I don’t think his, his car was kind of shit. So I think we full brought a whole like doona, which by the way is Australian for duvet I think?
Geoff 26:50
Oh, is that?
Georgie 26:52
Quilt?
Geoff 26:52
Americans call it duvets?.
Georgie 26:53
I think so. I think doona is Australian.
Geoff 26:56
Yeah.
Georgie 26:56
I used to make fun—
Geoff 26:59
See, doona, duvet, cotton, quilt covers and more. Okay.
Georgie 27:02
Giant blanket, basically. So we just bought a giant blanket in the car.
Geoff 27:06
Yeah, that’s what everyone was doing because I’m I’m thinking like when you shut your car off, you can’t have the, or, you can have the air conditioning on but it’s bad. I think carbon monoxide?
Georgie 27:18
Yeah, you can have the accessories on but yeah, it’s not super great.
Geoff 27:23
The engine’s not on and you have the aircon on, that’s a problem. So the, yeah, so everyone had to shut their car off anyways, and then they had like families of four so you can’t really watch it out of the one front windscreen. So they like put their seats back seats down and opened up their boot and they sat in the sat on the edge of the boot or whatever.
Georgie 27:47
Oh yeah.
Geoff 27:47
So, I was like nine degrees and these people want to do this? So, but we sat in our car it was pretty good. The funny thing is I wanted to turn the bloody big ass 21 inch screen off in the car, it’s stupid. It’s too bright.
Georgie 28:06
Oh, you can’t turn it off? The one—
Geoff 28:08
No, because it’s controlling everything. It’s kind of like the problem with other people, you know, if they turn the car on then A, it’s noisy, and B, the lights come on or something like that? No, you can turn your light, headlights off with the car on, can’t you? Anyway—
Georgie 28:24
Yeah you can.
Geoff 28:25
So it stays on, and then I put it into with like screen cleaning mode. So it goes black.
Georgie 28:33
(laughs) You should have just, I don’t know, you didn’t have anything to like cover it with even?
Geoff 28:36
That’s a good point. I should actually bring something.
Georgie 28:38
Like a jacket?
Geoff 28:38
But I don’t think we’re ever gonna do it again. Even though it’s really nice like you can eat popcorn, you can eat anything and have like small chats in between stuff and you can, can burp, it’s great.
Georgie 28:52
Yeah, but there’s something yeah there’s something about it that makes you go like ah I don’t particularly like, I’m not dying to do this again.
Geoff 28:59
Yeah. No way we’re gonna, it’s not worth the extra cost on top of something that we don’t generally do.
Georgie 29:05
Yeah, yeah.
Geoff 29:09
And you don’t have to worry about your neighbours like turning on their phones and blinding you.
Georgie 29:15
Yeah, you’re just in your own like space.
Geoff 29:17
It’s good.
Georgie 29:18
Did, did they still like run during COVID by any chance? Now I’m wondering like was it like actually like, a quote unquote, COVID safe.
Geoff 29:25
It would a COVID safe way to do movies. I don’t know actually. They... oh, they did do, there is one other place that did, that did a drive in theater. But I think it was for temporary time and I can’t remember what what it’s called now. They didn’t one specifically for EVs.
Georgie 29:51
Why is that?
Geoff 29:52
I don’t know, they wanted the hype marketing. Here we go. Popup—
Georgie 29:55
Exclusionary BS.
Geoff 29:57
New drive-in cinema is for electric cars only.
Georgie 30:00
Sydney. Okay.
Geoff 30:02
It was at the Entertainment Quarter.
Georgie 30:04
Oh, EQ. Yeah, yeah.
Geoff 30:05
It was only a pop up. So basically. Oh, actually, I guess you can see from the pictures—
Georgie 30:11
$49.90?!
Geoff 30:13
Yeah. $49.90 for cars up to five people. By the way, the pricing here is per—so for the Blacktown drive in, which is run by Event Cinemas, our most popular and biggest chain of cinema. They charge $35 per car, no matter how many people are in your car.
Georgie 30:33
Okay.
Geoff 30:35
Which is great.
Georgie 30:36
Yeah.
Geoff 30:36
But this one’s each ticket is $49.90 and includes up to five people per car. So you could say that they’re just charging a premium.
Georgie 30:45
Okay.
Geoff 30:45
But this is the only other one other than the Blacktown one that’s run. And it was sponsored by Polestar. The—
Georgie 30:52
Exclusively for electric vehicles. Then you have to pay $49.90
Geoff 30:57
Yeah. Oh, I didn’t understand it. No, this but Polestar electric cars are free—
Georgie 31:03
Because it’s sponsored.
Geoff 31:06
Sponsored by Polestar. Wow, that’s incredible. So only a bunch of Polestars showed up probably. They only did 1, 2, 3, 4 showings, which was Operation Fortune. Don’t know what that is. Avatar 2? Ugh. I watched it. Was like more of a tech—
Georgie 31:25
I haven’t. I haven’t seen 1.
Geoff 31:27
Oh, you didn’t see 1. It’s fair enough. It’s pretty much Pocahontas. But with blue people. Yeah.
Georgie 31:36
Yeah. I don’t watch movies.
Geoff 31:38
Super Mario Bros movie, which I’ve been meaning to watch, eventually. And Dirty Dancing.
Georgie 31:45
Is that, is that Dirty Dancing new. Or is that the original one?
Geoff 31:49
Old one.
Georgie 31:49
Oh, okay. Yeah, I’ve seen that.
Geoff 31:51
Yeah. With that line of move movies, no loss to the ICE community at all. ICE being internal combustion engines. So yeah, that was really interesting. But yeah, like you said, we don’t even we don’t even watch enough movies.
Georgie 32:10
Yeah. Did you end up looking at any Vivid stuff?
Geoff 32:16
Oh, no, not this year. No Vivid.
Georgie 32:19
Yeah.
Geoff 32:20
For those who are wathcing who don’t know—
Georgie 32:24
I feel like—
Geoff 32:24
Light?
Georgie 32:25
Light fest, festival that goes over a few weeks in the winter.
Geoff 32:29
Yeah.
Georgie 32:31
I maintain that it was cool. About 10 years ago, I think the first time I saw it was maybe 12 years ago. I was like, oh, this is the sickest thing ever.
Geoff 32:40
Yeah.
Georgie 32:41
It’s like cool. And then I don’t know, for some reason I kept, I was on holidays, every time it was on. Like, I was like escaping the winter here and going somewhere else. But then I also heard people just saying that it’s not that interesting. Now it’s really packed. And you have to pay for some events and stuff, as well.
Geoff 33:00
Yeah, it’s a bit strange. So they usually have a lot of light fixtures, public ones, statues lit up. They light the sails for the Sydney Harbour—
Georgie 33:18
Opera House.
Geoff 33:18
Opera House and the Harbour Bridge gets lit up. What else do they do? These light installations are—
Georgie 33:24
MCA?
Geoff 33:26
...artists as well. Yeah. MCA. I think I’ve been maybe once twice, maybe three times. And yeah, all diminishing returns really. Just so many people, so you don’t get to see very much. And not very many... Like it’s not worth that much effort to see so few things.
Georgie 33:51
Yeah, I think you could argue though, that some people probably go to it for the just for the environment of being around, people just enjoying lights in the dark and stuff like that.
Geoff 34:02
Yeah, things I don’t do is go to places specifically to enjoy the environment of having people around me.
Georgie 34:08
You’re just like, people? No.
Geoff 34:11
It’s not an environment I want to be in. Although I used to go to a lot of conventions, which had a lot of people at these—
Georgie 34:20
Yeah.
Geoff 34:21
Like the anime, and like Comic Con type conventions, used to frequent them. But alas, not my scene. I don’t like hanging around people who are big fans of stuff.
Georgie 34:42
(laughs)
Geoff 34:43
Like—
Georgie 34:43
Wow, not into any of, you’re just like anti fandom. You’re just like, I cannot handle anyone who is super into anything.
Geoff 34:49
Yeah, pretty much. I think—
Georgie 34:52
Can you handle people who are super into our podcasts?
Geoff 34:55
No, probably don’t, like—
Georgie 34:58
Alright, big fans, step away. If you were thinking of emailing us—oh wait, we don’t even give you our email. You’re thinking of messaging us on Twitter, just forget about it.
Geoff 35:09
You can message us, but it’s just like it’s not my, it’s not my thing to hang out with people who, like enjoy something incredibly, like a lot that and I don’t necessarily—
Georgie 35:20
What if you like it a lot?
Geoff 35:20
...like it either.
Georgie 35:22
If it’s something you like, does it make a difference?
Geoff 35:26
I mean, I like anime, but I don’t like talking—
Georgie 35:30
You don’t love.
Geoff 35:30
Love, I don’t love anything. How about that? Let’s just put it there.
Georgie 35:37
Geez.
Geoff 35:37
Don’t have a deep, like, because I’m not a, I guess I’m not I’m not an idoliser? I don’t have—
Georgie 35:43
So you’re talking about people who feel extreme?
Geoff 35:46
Yeah.
Georgie 35:47
Yeah.
Geoff 35:48
Extreme. Like, if you were to talk to me about, like theoretical fights between anime characters and you felt really passionately that one character would beat the other. I wouldn’t have the same level of passion to, to debate such a topic with you. And—
Georgie 36:07
You never, you never obsess.
Geoff 36:09
Yeah, I don’t have an obsessive—
Georgie 36:10
Yeah.
Geoff 36:12
Personality. Which is sometimes like it’s easier to buy things for people who have obsessive personalities.
Georgie 36:20
Because you know, like super like what they’re into and stuff.
Geoff 36:22
Yeah, super into it. That doesn’t, you can go no wrong. You can do no wrong when you buy something for a super obsessive people.
Georgie 36:30
I’m also hyper aware though that, obsessions can like just disappear. Like as in, they can pass as well. It’s kind of interesting. Like, I think I feel like Nick calls out when I used to be—not not obsessed, like, extreme, but I used to be maybe very into something. It’s like, hey, you don’t do that anymore. You used to be obsessed with that.
Geoff 36:52
I think it’s like—
Georgie 36:54
I guess one example was like, Perth. He was like, you used to be obsessed with Perth.
Geoff 37:00
Yeah. What happened to that obsession?
Georgie 37:02
Yeah what happened?
Geoff 37:05
Yeah—
Georgie 37:05
It’s because—
Geoff 37:07
You were obsessed with Portland, you were obsessed with Portland.
Georgie 37:08
Yeah, I was. Still obsessed with doughnuts.
Geoff 37:11
Yeah. I don’t know. Maybe I’m obsessed with pies. Maybe full circle. I’m still, I’m, I dunno. To be honest. I could sit here and say you know what? Never mind the pie. Like there’s no there’s no worries about not going to eat that pie. Yeah, I mean, I went to a concert, bunch of obsessed people, but it’s actually quite—
Georgie 37:34
Is this one the Twice one?
Geoff 37:36
The Twice one, was quite—
Georgie 37:36
Yeah, they would be, K, big Kpop fans right?
Geoff 37:39
Yeah, yeah, people were doing the dances and stuff. And now every time I hear the song, I see that person like in front of me, emphatically doing the dance. That’s pretty funny. So yeah, I guess I don’t like hanging around those people because I can’t match the passion. I can’t match the energy.
Georgie 37:57
So much energy. Yeah.
Geoff 37:58
I don’t have that much energy. (laughs) Even if you asked me like, what phone should I buy? I’ll, I’ll give you a bunch of options. And I’ll research like, deeply. Like what phones, but if you tell me like, that’s not for me. I’m like, yeah, okay. That’s fine. I won’t like, condemn you for owning an Android phone. But I will. But yes. I think I used to be a little bit more obsessed about things. I can’t remember. Time. But yeah, you’re quite you’re quite obsessed with your bands, right.
Georgie 38:38
Err. I started listening to Armor For Sleep again.
Geoff 38:40
See?
Georgie 38:41
The old stuff. The old stuff. Dude, you know the weirdest thing, right, it’s, because like, I consider it Armor For Sleep pretty obscure. Right? I don’t know if you would as well.
Geoff 38:48
I don’t know. Yeah, if I know it. I feel like I don’t think it’s obscure if I know it. But that’s that’s—
Georgie 38:53
Yeah, but you said you had some like emo music fan, friends, who have like—sorry, emo music fans.
Geoff 39:01
Yeah.
Georgie 39:02
Friends who were emo musi—my god. English. Friends who are emo music fans and I feel like they would they would know about very specific bands. I don’t know, to me, Armor For Sleep was not that well known in Australia. I don’t know. I do generally like obscure music. But you know how they released that album last year. I literally saw a guy at the bus stop the other day with a hoodie with that album on it. The Rain Museum.
Geoff 39:29
Woah. Yeah.
Georgie 39:30
I was like, What the fuck? I almost wanted to talk to him. But I’m also just like, I was with a friend at the time. Actually. I was with Monica. I didn’t wanna, I was like, Monica is more interesting than probably talking to this guy who doesn’t want to be disturbed because his his headphones on. But—
Geoff 39:44
Yeah.
Georgie 39:44
It’s just, I was surprised. Sometimes I’m surprised to see some people with certain band merch because it might be a band that I thought—not that I thought I was the only one who knew about it.
Geoff 39:56
But you feel like camaraderie, like some kind of connection—
Georgie 39:59
Some kind of like, yeah, because most of the music I listen to is not like top 40 type stuff.
Geoff 40:06
Yeah I get that because when you go to conventions it’s it’s basically the only time like all these anime and manga fans like actually like connect with other people who really enjoy the same thing.
Georgie 40:21
Yeah everyone’s your fucking friend.
Geoff 40:23
Yeah, then you can, you can, can chat about this stuff.
Georgie 40:26
You can bond.
Geoff 40:28
I am perfectly fine talking to my one friend who who knows the anime, like—
Georgie 40:35
You’re just like, I don’t want to talk to other people.
Geoff 40:37
I don’t want to talk to other people about it. But yeah, I think I was also I watched this—quickly—I watched this YouTube video where someone to a... a fan someone who’s like an otaku is someone who’s like kind of deeply invested in a specific niche of culture in Japan. And this, they followed this person who was an idol otaku, which is someone who likes idol idol groups, and, basically singers and stuff like that. And they, they explained it and actually kind of interesting way where they were, their fandom goes a little bit deeper than liking the music. They are almost personally invested in the growth and the trajectory of the group or and or person’s career. Like they enjoy watching them grow up because these idols they started like, they’re 12 and they like train for like, four or five years and then they become become a star. But—
Georgie 41:43
Yeah, I guess I can understand that. But do you mean they do it obsessively? Still?
Geoff 41:48
I don’t. I don’t know. Like, obsessively I guess to the extreme is like they, they disregard all other needs and wants in life to completely focus on that person. But I think there’s somewhere between the, like, extreme to the, like the, the lesser half where they’re like—
Georgie 42:08
Is it like they’re loyal, like a loyal fan just following them their entire journey?
Geoff 42:13
Yeah, they feel emotionally connected to the growth and the progress of this person’s like ability—
Georgie 42:20
That’s like, a bit too deep, honestly, like, I do care I like about the people in some of the bands I like, and I’m like, I wish you well, you know, I’m just gonna follow and support you in your career, but there’s not—the emotion comes more from like, admiring what they do—
Geoff 42:38
The artistry.
Georgie 42:38
And appreciating what they do. Yeah, it’s not just like, “I care about you so much, man”, like.
Geoff 42:43
Yeah, yeah.
Georgie 42:44
Unless it was maybe someone I like actually personally knew.
Geoff 42:48
Yeah.
Georgie 42:48
But yeah, that’s deep.
Geoff 42:50
It is deep. And then they like, like, all recreational money, like all money that they have after expenses, is like, can be dedicated to supporting this person in their career.
Georgie 43:04
What!
Geoff 43:04
It’s almost like investing. Even on the monetary level. Like—
Georgie 43:08
This is a bit too bizarre.
Geoff 43:09
Yeah, it’s quite deep. But yeah, you know, what else is deep? The ending to this episode.
Georgie 43:17
Should have said it’s not deep.
Geoff 43:18
You know, it’s not deep. That’s true.
Georgie 43:20
Yeah.
Geoff 43:21
It’s the most shallow ending you could possibly find. Because it’s all just plugs. You know, you because you can find us on @toastroastpod on Twitter.
Georgie 43:33
Gotta come out of the water.
Geoff 43:35
Yeah.
Georgie 43:35
You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts and the big drive-in.
Geoff 43:43
Yeah, nice and new episodes every week. So see you—
Georgie 43:51
...next time. Bye.