We hit a trifecta with topics from using a trackpad or mouse, shifting gears to overtly violent movie series and how a particular part of tax works. If a variety show is what you wanted, well we got it.
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We hit a trifecta with topics from using a trackpad or mouse, shifting gears to overtly violent movie series and how a particular part of tax works. If a variety show is what you wanted, well we got it.
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Toast & Roast:
Georgie:
Geoff:
Geoff 0:07
And welcome back to another episode of Roast and Toast.
Georgie 0:14
No!
Geoff 0:15
I am your (laughs) I am your captain speaking, Geoffrey, Geoffrey Chong, and I’m here with my co pilot, Georgie Cooke. L, M L. Cook.
Georgie 0:34
M L Mrs.?
Geoff 0:36
I thought your middle name was started with an M. No, no it’s not. It’s C. It’s C. Georgie C L Cooke.
Georgie 0:45
Well I don’t use the L but... meh.
Geoff 0:48
Gotta keep your maiden name alive and well.
Georgie 0:51
I mean, I guess like, you know, actually it’s not that I wanted to drop the maiden name. I just thought, I don’t mind right. But I also for like cultural reasons, don’t mind my maiden name too much. But when I had it, right. And this goes like deep into some like internalised racism sort of experiences and stuff. Like when I had it, I just didn’t like it at all. But long story short, because this is written in a blog post that I wrote that you proofread for me. Thank you, Geoff. I didn’t feel—yeah, I didn’t feel like I appreciated my like cultural background until as my current partner, my husband, Nick, so. Yeah, I mean, but yeah, whatever. I’m just GC, I’m GC babes. Yeah, just go by the shortest, like, yeah. Or, you know, G dog, if you want to, if you are like, thug inclined.
Geoff 1:54
Yeah, apologies. I had the wrong microphone set up for the last minute that we, we were recording, but you know what? Oh, well. Um, shit happens.
Georgie 2:08
Is it correct now?
Geoff 2:09
Now it’s correct. Yes, now it’s correct.
Georgie 2:12
What a shame Geoff. You just ruined like the intro that was supposed to be like—
Geoff 2:16
Yeah, you know what, the shit happens. Speaking of shit happening, the past week actually, the past few days. Just been non stop, right? I mean, I got a new chair. Um, you know, when you get a pair of jeans that fit you? And you’re just like, Oh my God, how did I ever wear jeans that didn’t fit me? That’s what it’s like with my new chair.
Georgie 2:44
It’s kind of just like, why did I, why did I use a shit chair?
Geoff 2:47
Yeah, why? Why did I ever, why did I put it off for so long? To be fair, like I’ve been talking about getting a new chair and all the you know, health benefits of getting an ergonomic chair for like, five years but then I only did it recently. But this shit’s like not a chunk—it’s big chun—change. Right. So I wouldn’t say that. Yeah, I mean, I could have avoided it a long time ago but didn’t do anything about it. So well, here I am. Enjoying fitted chair like fitted pair of jeans. But yes.
Georgie 3:25
So it’s a good chair.
Geoff 3:26
Yeah, I also changed from Magic Magic Trackpad to a mouse change back to a mouse. It’s very strange.
Georgie 3:34
Really?
Geoff 3:35
Do you use your trackpad? Do you still use the trackpad?
Georgie 3:40
Dude, what do you think this is?
Geoff 3:42
Yeah, yeah.
Georgie 3:43
It’s a trackpad.
Geoff 3:44
I’ve still got the trackpad. But I need to switch between multiple computers.
Georgie 3:49
But I can’t believe you went back though.
Geoff 3:50
I need to switch between multiple computers. And this trackpad only does one computer at a time. So I had to, had to do something about that.
Georgie 3:59
Wait, as in, you wanted to use the trackpad for two different computers but at the same time.
Geoff 4:04
Not at the same time. Like,
Georgie 4:06
Okay, dude, I think that’s a first world problem because, like now I have like three computers and I just, you know what I do? Actually, I have the USB cable.
Geoff 4:15
I knew it. I knew that’s what you would do. You just plug it in.
Georgie 4:18
I force it. No, I don’t just plug it in. I force it to, to connect to the computer and then I go, right, get, I want my wireless now. So, I do that.
Geoff 4:29
So I was doing that for a bit. And I was like, nah, this is just too fiddly. So got a mouse.
Georgie 4:34
So you spent money on a piece of shit.
Geoff 4:39
Yeah, this is beautiful-looking.
Georgie 4:42
OK you bought an ergonomic one. You got an ergonomic mouse.
Geoff 4:47
Yeah, I didn’t get the—
Georgie 4:48
I thought you said you got the Magic Mouse.
Geoff 4:50
No, I didn’t get the Magic Mouse. Fuck that mouse. Man. That thing is like, I don’t know what they were thinking, charging port on the bottom. It doesn’t pair with multiple computers. So this one, like you switch between one, two, and three. So eventually I’ll get a PC and I’ll have to switch to that computer. So.
Georgie 5:06
Suck shit.
Geoff 5:08
Yeah.
Georgie 5:08
Actually, no, I don’t know why I said that. It’s not really like a PC is like necessarily bad. But yeah, the the Magic Mouse—a pain.
Geoff 5:17
Yeah.
Georgie 5:17
I use a trackpad because it’s just, for me, it’s more ergonomic.
Geoff 5:22
Oh, it’s great.
Georgie 5:23
It’s just more natural.
Geoff 5:24
Yeah. When you’re dealing with the Mac stuff. It’s really great. I’m like, whenever you’re dealing with a canvas of some sort, like being able to zoom in and zoom out and then just like, bounce around is the best. I’m tempted to just have the trackpad and the mouse simultaneously.
Georgie 5:40
That’s what Nick does. Nick has keyboard, mouse on right side and trackpad on the left side.
Geoff 5:47
Yeah.
Georgie 5:47
And he uses the trackpad to do the mission control thing.
Geoff 5:51
Yeah.
Georgie 5:51
The launchpad that stuff, which my friend Chris calls “Minority Report”. Because every time. Every time I do it, like I do this up gesture with my, whatever, three or four fingers and then I slide the screen. He’s like, what are you doing? He’s like, what the fuck is this voodoo? And then he likens it to the Minority Report movie scene, I guess.
Geoff 6:15
Yeah, the one where he has like, just a bunch of screens in front of him. And he’s like, throwing windows onto other screens and, you know, does that movie called Mars where they have like Matt Damon stuck on Mars. Matt Damon’s stuck on a lot of places. But in this movie—
Georgie 6:34
All I think of with Matt Damon is is the Bourne—
Geoff 6:37
Oh the Bourne series. Yeah. It’s like America, that was like—
Georgie 6:42
“I don’t even know who I am!” Yeah.
Geoff 6:46
I don’t know I don’t watch the Bourne series.
Georgie 6:49
Oh, dude, you haven’t?
Geoff 6:50
Yeah, I didn’t watch the Bourne series.
Georgie 6:51
I feel like I’m obsessed with them because they I find them very entertaining.
Geoff 6:55
Yeah. I only just recently got caught up with the Taken series—not Taken series.
Georgie 7:02
Oh, movie trilogy or whatever.
Geoff 7:05
No, no, I’m the one with Keanu Reeves.
Georgie 7:08
No idea what that is.
Geoff 7:10
Keanu Reeves movies... there. There is a series movie. John Wick so I got caught up with the John Wick series.
Georgie 7:19
Oh.
Geoff 7:19
Yeah. Yeah, who cares about the Bourne series. We need an out of control raging alcohol—nah, he’s not a raging alcoholic.
Georgie 7:26
So how many have you watched?
Geoff 7:29
I’ve watched one and two, I’ve been meaning to watch three. I can’t remember why I haven’t watched three yet.
Georgie 7:35
I know why I haven’t watched three.
Geoff 7:37
Why haven’t you watched three? You have a problem with Keanu Reeves? The nicest guy in Holyweed?
Georgie 7:45
Hollyweed!
Geoff 7:45
Hollyweed. Hollywood, anyway.
Georgie 7:51
No, no, it’s not it’s not him. It’s actually the franchise John Wick. It’s so I didn’t really enjoy it. Nick really liked it. Some people said it was violent to the point that it was like comical, and I get that. But I think some of it was maybe a little bit too, like it’s not gory, but there’s a lot of violence in it that just like made me feel very uneasy. In a sort of, like edge of my seat sort of anxious like holding a cushion in front of my face, kind of like, didn’t enjoy. Yeah, it wasn’t it wasn’t my thing. And it’s kind of like, like, I love love. I enjoy a good like psychological thriller.
Geoff 8:33
Yeah.
Georgie 8:34
But I don’t like a lot of violence in in films, and I found the fulms to be violent and also like, not jump scary, but it had the feeling like jump scare, like I was like, what’s gonna happen? Someone’s gonna come and get him he’s just gonna be like, hah!
Geoff 8:49
Oh, yeah, that forever suspense like—
Georgie 8:53
Yes.
Geoff 8:55
Yeah, all he does is walk around and at any drop a pin someone will try and kill him and he will kill them and you just like waiting endlessly for someone to try and kill him again.
Georgie 9:06
Yeah, yeah, he’s forever killing people, and forever being chased is is the feeling I get the whole film and I just don’t en—for me that I don’t enjoy.
Geoff 9:15
Yeah, I think generally, it’s just choreographed really well all the guns like gun scenes, which there are like you said plenty of, is is choreographed really well. He seems overly invincible for someone who is just like supposedly a regular dude. So I feel that a little bit unbelievable. Gets shot like three times at some stage, I’m like holy shit. Like we’ve we’ve watched like four hours of John Wick and he gets shot like three times in four hours. Oh my god. So—
Georgie 9:49
He’s like your anti superhero, but not in the way that Deadpool is?
Geoff 9:55
Yeah.
Georgie 9:55
In like a completely different way.
Geoff 9:57
Yeah. I mean, he thought simple drive, right, the simple drive is, you’ve wronged me in some way. And I am going to come and kill you. Like there’s a—I guess not to spoil anything but the movie does start out with his like, him getting ambushed in his house for seemingly no reason. And then he just goes on an absolute killing spree because some one dude decided to, I don’t know, steal his car. Oh, yeah, yeah, like one dude steals his car and he was just like, This is it. I’m ending you. I’m ending you, your family, your your, your family’s family. Like, dude, chill, chill out, you know? And then everyone’s like, ooh, you don’t mess with John Wick. John Wick. You don’t mess with John Wick. And I’m like, okay. But yeah, anyways.
Georgie 10:52
It feels a bit tired. Like after I’ve watched one and two. Like, I’m like, what could possibly happen now? Just more killings, more... So yeah.
Geoff 11:02
You’re right. What could possibly improve on the formula in the third one? Yeah. It’s not. It’s not too... it’s like very repetitive, repeatable. Two, two, three and there’s a fourth one, 2023. How about that? There’s another one coming? Yeah.
Georgie 11:23
I won’t be watching that.
Geoff 11:24
Yeah. I mean, so the Bourne series you think far outweighs?
Georgie 11:29
Yeah. Well, I don’t think it far outweighs, I just think it’s entertaining. I think maybe some people it’s kind of this. I think it follows the same formula across the different movies, but they’re also based on a book.
Geoff 11:41
Do you think Bourne gets wronged all the time?
Georgie 11:45
It’s just like, he’s always trying to run away. Like, escape someone killing him. Yeah. And he just he doesn’t know. This whole time is trying to find out, like his identity. I don’t know. I just find them um, slightly amusing and entertaining. I would say they’re more classic than, than John Wick. I don’t know John Wick has this twist on it. That’s like, I don’t know. Like, yeah, not my thing.
Geoff 12:14
Overdone. In your opinion.
Georgie 12:17
Yeah, maybe like you’re saying it’s, it’s choreographed really well, which is impressive. Right, some, some of the scenes are impressive, but they’re just like too perfect. They’re just too, even you said, even the character you said, he gets shot like a bunch of times, it’s like yeah cool, I don’t want to spoil it. But “I’m fine now”. You know, he gets through what most people will just you know, get shot and die. Just yeah.
Geoff 12:41
There’s is, there’s this anime series where, you know, like, in general, when you’re watching a TV show or something action based, you may find the protagonist is slightly underpowered. And then they, they’re trying go on a journey of, you know, learning about themselves or powering up in some way like leveling up. This is anime called One Punch Man. I don’t know if you’ve heard about it.
Georgie 13:05
I’ve heard of it but I haven’t watched it.
Geoff 13:06
Yeah. It flips that formula backwards where this guy is actually insurmountably powerful. He has reached peak godlike power. He kills everything in one punch. It’s kind of—
Georgie 13:20
Oh is that why it’s called that?
Geoff 13:22
Yeah. So it’s set in this like, kind of like Metropolis type city. And it’s, the city’s constantly ravaged by monsters. And they have a hero system. Similar to I guess you would call the boys, where the superheroes like quite like, prominent, there’s quite a few of them. And some of them are super popular. Anyway, so there’s a ranking system and everything. So this guy who who has like, is living out a very mundane existence. He’s like, go to the grocery stores. He keeps track of all of like the sales and go shopping and lives in his own little apartment. He himself has become the most powerful person in the world, but the simultaneous the most boring person. So you think that a formula like that would be really boring. Like, what’s the point in watching a dude, that’s super powerful, punching everything. It’s like nothing exciting about that. But they turned it into more of a, this guy, he’s super powerful, but he’s really unpopular. Like no one knows anything about him. He’s a really no-name superhero. And because he kills everything instantly, no one believes that. It’s like this plain looking dude is powerful. So he’s struggling with his popularity. He’s like, I really, I kind of want to be popular. How do I but he doesn’t know how to become popular. And he just goes around killing all the monsters silently without anyone noticing. So he like struggles with his identity more than more than his power. So it’s kind of like a different, a different issue for someone so powerful.
Georgie 15:02
Mm, yeah.
Geoff 15:03
“Oh man that guy’s really powerful, he’s gonna be instant hit, everyone’s gonna love him” but this guy’s like a really silent, like, sits at the back of the room kind of guy who gets overlooked all the time. So it’s a it’s an interesting take.
Georgie 15:18
So then yes, not really focusing on his powers like most of the like shows and stuff would do. Like oh hey this person’s got like human feelings.
Geoff 15:27
Yeah he’s a bit insecure.
Georgie 15:31
Wait. Hang on on on some other superheroes insecure about themselves and have their own problems as well but it’s never really like, explored?
Geoff 15:41
Oh, I mean Encanto kind of does that if you’ve seen the Disney movie?
Georgie 15:44
I haven’t seen it!
Geoff 15:45
Yeah.
Georgie 15:46
I haven’t seen it.
Geoff 15:46
Yeah, okay, you should watching Encanto. Yeah, I’m sure there’s there’s plenty of them.
Georgie 15:52
I think of like Spider Man, right?
Geoff 15:54
Oh, yeah.
Georgie 15:55
I feel like Spider Man is super insecure about his—
Geoff 15:58
Yeah.
Georgie 15:59
Like Peter Parker, but yeah.
Geoff 16:01
But he isn’t ultimate—he isn’t ultimately the most strongest being on the planet right?
Georgie 16:07
But he still got like powers and that’s what I mean. Like I don’t I just don’t think you know like Marvel Universe and stuff like that actually explores too much of that—actually. I don’t know. I, I would argue that I feel like Deadpool did this really well, but I could be biased because I just really liked it.
Geoff 16:24
Right. Anyways, what you’ve been up to? What’s what’s the latest?
Georgie 16:30
Moving shit.
Geoff 16:32
Yeah.
Georgie 16:32
Moving shit to our new apartment.
Geoff 16:35
When was the last time you moved?
Georgie 16:38
I haven’t, I haven’t moved the—oh. Yeah, I moved out of my parents. That was like five years ago. Whatever. Four years, I can’t remember.
Geoff 16:45
To this place?
Georgie 16:47
Yes.
Geoff 16:48
You’ve been living here for five years! That’s—
Georgie 16:50
Four or five. Can’t count. Something like that. Funny thing happened on our way—on my, our way—like myself and Nick’s way—to, to before recording this podcast. We were exiting our new apartment carpark. And there was some guy at the front gate in his car. And so I don’t know why but in our current apartment that we’re living in, that we’re moving out of, you just drive out, the roller doors will open automatically. In this new one, you have to scan your thing on the, yeah, I guess it’s more secure which is kind of kind of good. Anyway, we were wondering ah, does this guy not have a key or did he like was visiting someone so he had to dial dial pad for them open the door or whatever. But it looked like, well, Nick, Nick got out of the car and the guy, guy’s car had apparently just run out of gas. Around a, right, right inside. Yeah.
Geoff 17:48
Oh my god.
Georgie 17:49
Right at the exit his his door, like his driver door was literally next to the keypad. Or the—
Geoff 17:56
Geez.
Georgie 17:56
What do you call it? Like the intercom thing where he could have scanned. And so Nick got in front of the car and he helped him. He did a good thing and helped the guy pushed the car backwards and just into a free spot. But yeah, that was, I felt so bad for the guy. Like that, that happened? Like did he, just his car literally just break down right as he was exiting the building? Or was he trying to just get outside like on two drops of fuel? I don’t know.
Geoff 18:24
Yeah. Ours, mine. You just press the button and it opens the thing. You don’t have to scan on the way out. But you do have to scan on the way in twice. There’s two checkpoints. It’s pretty. It’s pretty bothersome to be honest.
Georgie 18:39
Yes. Yeah, my current one has two, but because it’s above a shopping centre, sometimes the first one is already open. But yeah, our new place will just have one. So yeah, there’s, there’s some nicer things about the new place. But one thing that I’ve just realised, just before we started this podcast, is the new place has two bedrooms, and we decided that I would have the second bedroom as like my study, and then it has a study nook, which Nick was happy to have as a study nook.
Geoff 19:11
Yeah.
Georgie 19:13
But because of like humidity and shit, the door to the second bedroom doesn’t fully shut.
Geoff 19:21
Oh no.
Georgie 19:22
So I’m like, great. I was, I, at first I wasn’t bothered right, we were told, told about this. And our property manager said the tradesmen said just you know wait until you know the seasons change a little bit and probably the door will, like, fit back in. So it’s just a little bit crooked, right? I was like cool. Not gonna bother me. We don’t really like close the doors anyway. And then we went into the master bedroom like yesterday, because yesterday is when we got the keys and we started like checking it out. And I was like, testing the master bedroom door to the rest of the apartment. I just closed while we were both inside the master bedroom, and I didn’t push it that much, right? I just closed it. And then I tried to open it. I was like, oh, shit, it was, like, humidity and pressure. It was like a little bit stuck. And then Nick was like, are you serious? Are we locked in here? But like, it just required a bit of pulling, but you know, not ideal, but we don’t really close the doors fully anyway, but I just thought the door would have been useful if we’re like recording a podcast and avoid background noise. But—
Geoff 20:28
Yeah.
Georgie 20:30
Whatever, dude, I don’t care. It’s just, it’s just a first world problem. And I just feel like I’m complaining now.
Geoff 20:35
You can, I don’t know you get one of them door, sweep things right. And you like sealing things and you get to stick it to the bottom of the door. And it just, it’ll probably provide enough friction for it not to like, open. But man, I went to another, another friend’s apartment. And it’s fairly old. So the whole, the whole, all the doors have like, like shifted, like the frame has warped just a little bit because it’s so old. And none of the locks work. Because all of the door locks are out of out of line. So not even the front door. Although even the front door, you lock the door knob. But because because of the slight disalignment of the door knob or the lock. It doesn’t work. So you just lock it, push, it opens.
Georgie 21:27
I hope your friend doesn’t earn anything like massively valuable.
Geoff 21:30
But the front door has a deadbolt. That’s why you get a deadbolt. The deadbolt goes all the way in and—
Georgie 21:35
Oh yeah, and you have to destroy the door to—yeah.
Geoff 21:37
Yeah, you have to kick down the door every time you want to go in. But like the other doors in the apartment have locks and we just tried them all and none of them, none of them actually lock because of that, of the warping of the door frames. Maybe it’s a seasonal thing. Maybe, maybe it will warp back. Yeah.
Georgie 21:56
Because, because this apartment building we’re moving into is like a year, or at least a year newer than our current one.
Geoff 22:04
Is that... That’s bad, right?
Georgie 22:08
If it’s newer?
Geoff 22:09
Yeah.
Georgie 22:10
Oh, yeah. It’s bad if it’s not just a weather thing. Yeah, but I think it was built by the same developer because the toilets are the fucking like, same style. The tiles are the fucking same style. It’s generally all the same.
Geoff 22:25
Oh my god. I think I saw the exact same thing.
Georgie 22:28
Yeah, where are they moving, like two blocks down the road. So it’s everything in this area is, is made a lot of things in this area made by the same developers. Oh, I remember—funny story. We had to get our toilet fixed. And the guy who fixed the toilet literally told me that all the toilets in this entire, in this entire suburb, are like basically the same. He’s like, yeah, I gotta service them all. It’s all the same. They have the same problem. But it’s like, you know, it’s pretty funny.
Geoff 23:00
They, they should they should just like put that on a timer, right? If they need to fix this building, and this building was built a year after the other building that that means in six months, I would have to go to that other building and fix it. So just have everyone available. Like like, like a clock, like clockwork, someone calls up. You’re, you’re on it. Or even like call them up, like “your toilet’s about to break”.
Georgie 23:27
Yeah, get a reminder.
Geoff 23:29
Oh, shit, I’ve got mold in my in my bedroom.
Georgie 23:33
Is that from recent?
Geoff 23:34
I think so. So here’s what’s really weird, right? It started maybe a couple months ago that I found out that my, my laundry hamper, which is fabric, was soaked at the bottom, like it was wet. And I was like, oh, maybe I just threw some wet towels in there and I didn’t notice. Yeah, and then it kind of dried up and like kind of went away. And then like just recently, more than 50%—you can see it because the fabric gets darker, right—more than 50% of my hamper was wet. I was like, dude, it seems like I just threw a whole bucket of water in here. Like what are the chances I threw a bucket of water in here. And then I realized the carpet underneath was wet. And then I realised there were white spots on the carpet. So I was like, white spots. So I checked, I checked with the with a mold person, and mold person’s like, we don’t really think it’s mold. You have to pull up the carpet to find out. I didn’t do that it’s in the closet, right? So I didn’t do that yet. And this is all very recent. But then I realised the carpet’s wet, so it can’t be just where the hamper is, it must be over to the sides. Right? So I realised the entire carpet along the entire two metre, whatever, closet, is all soaked wet. And I was like where is this water coming from? And then I just like, looked to my right, where the wall is. And you see this green mark on the wall.
Georgie 25:02
Wow.
Geoff 25:03
And it’s been growing since. Ah—
Georgie 25:06
Fuck.
Geoff 25:07
So I’m like, is it like, there’s a pipe behind there, but I can’t see any reason why a water pipe would be there. And then the, I mean, the only—there’s no one next to me, there’s no neighbour, it’s just air, because I’m a corner unit. So like, I’m like, holy shit. So my parents suggested I just go talk to the building manager and and you have to get strata to come out and check it. But they, they haven’t contacted me. When did I do this? Maybe like Thursday, last Thursday or something like that. So it’s been like 48 hours. I might have to foll—I have to follow up or something like that. But yeah, it’s just, oh, my god, what do I do? Like—
Georgie 25:46
That’s pretty bad.
Geoff 25:48
Do I lose my closet? Who knows?
Georgie 25:52
I guess you’ll have to repair it, right? Like...
Geoff 25:54
Maybe, I don’t know if the mold’s gone into the closet. It’s outside the closet at the moment. So it’s on the other side, there’s a railing. There’s the closet on the left, and then there’s like mold on the right. I’m like Jesus Christ. So that’s been fun.
Georgie 26:08
Damn, are you sure—wait. So you said you think it might have been a pipe. But are you sure it’s not like from rain like recently?
Geoff 26:14
Yeah. So that’s the theory at the moment, I think is that there’s a leak somewhere from from outside, and it’s just been pouring rain. So the rainwater probably just coming through the leak. And that’s why it happens only every now and then. Because rain only happens every now and then. It’s only so—
Georgie 26:32
Yeah, have you had the wet carpet, like, this isn’t the first time you’ve had the wet carpet. But this is the first time it’s gotten really bad?
Geoff 26:38
Yeah, I think it’s happened before I just didn’t notice that.
Georgie 26:42
Just like, oh, yeah.
Geoff 26:43
I was like, oh, it’s just a bit of soaking wet on my on my laundry hamper, maybe once or twice before. But then now it’s like the hamper is like half wet. I can’t believe that it’s just me throwing wet stuff in there anymore. It’s like, swimmers. You throw swimmers, if you threw swimmers in there, it’s still be just like the bottom half. Like there’s no way would it just be like, rising to the top of my hamper.
Georgie 27:08
Man. That sucks.
Geoff 27:10
Yeah. It’s, it’s not as bad as that that friend’s apartment that I visited. They have, there’s termite issue. You can literally stand on the floorboard, and it will dip down. Like that’s how bad the termite damage is. I don’t know which one’s worse, my mold or like a floor board, the floor that’s like sinking?
Georgie 27:30
I don’t know. But all house issues like bad. I think.
Geoff 27:34
True. True that.
Georgie 27:36
They’re all concerning in some way, you think like, “this could get worse” is like, I think the number one thing?
Geoff 27:43
Yeah.
Georgie 27:43
Like shit, what am I supposed to do, and it gets worse. And you feel uncomfortable. Living in space. Yeah.
Geoff 27:51
Because something’s wrong. Yeah, I mean, just before this podcast, I went to get paint.
Georgie 27:59
Oh yeah. Touch up. Shit. Yeah. Well, we have gone through that recently.
Geoff 28:05
Yeah. I like. I never mentioned on the podcast that I had hooks, they were hot glued to the wall.
Georgie 28:12
You did tell me this.
Geoff 28:13
Yeah, who hot glues hooks to the wall? Right. So I got some isopropyl alcohol and I spread it around to because apparently, Google told me to do that. And it just like, softened the paint around it. And I pulled it, the paint came off with it. I’m like okay, thanks. I guess. So I went and got some paint today. I I was like, How do I color match it? Oh, I just pull some paint off the wall and then bring it to the Bunnings and just like put it on the swatch.
Georgie 28:40
We asked the building manager like hey, what’s the color of the, of the walls? And they told us.
Geoff 28:46
My building manager is useless. So I asked them for a plan of the building so I can see what’s behind the wall where the water’s coming through. They didn’t have that. What? You don’t have a plan to your own building? Nah. The, I’m like, this is ridiculous. So I have very little faith in them. They only show up from I think, 9 to, 9 to 11 or something.
Georgie 29:14
And then, like yeah, I thought that was just COVID but then you’re like, oh no.
Geoff 29:18
Yeah, they stopped, they stopped coming in frequently. I’m like, why? Well, I get locked out of my apartment building all the time. I need someone here.
Georgie 29:31
Maybe you should be the building manager.
Geoff 29:34
I question myself. Like how much involvement do I want to have with my building? And it’s—
Georgie 29:39
My guess is like nothing, right? You don’t want to do this shit.
Geoff 29:43
All I want is a map. It’s like etched into one of the pillars outside the build—outside the, one of the towers, because no one knows where my entrance is. Speaking of which, I got delivery last night and I haven’t seen it. I have to go find it.
Georgie 30:02
Oh, no, what a disaster.
Geoff 30:04
Yeah. Amazon’s probably the worst.
Georgie 30:06
Geoff, you need your own podcast for like, delivery mishaps.
Geoff 30:12
Whoa, call it um yeah. Miss—mistaken delivery, like mistaken identity. It’s just me solo.
Georgie 30:26
Yes, this year just you talking. I took a big risk the other day and I said something to the new apartment.
Geoff 30:32
Ooh.
Georgie 30:34
It’s just a new handbag. But I was like, This is why it’s funny. There was a sale. This is why I was buying the handbag. It was on sale. And I’d been looking at it for a while was like 30% off sale, which was quite substantial for a bag was like several hundred dollars. But then it was like the day before the sale ended. And this store is based in the US. And I was like, oh, like if I buy this, like, I don’t want to miss out, right? Because it’s sale sale item.
Geoff 31:00
Yeah.
Georgie 31:00
And for something that expensive. 30% off is a lot. And I was like, do I send it to this apartment? Nah, or do I send it to the new one. The risk if I send to the new one is that maybe we’re not, might not be moved in there, but at least like have the keys the apartment. So if I miss it, they’ll probably put a missed delivery in the letterbox and stuff. And then I was like looking at their shipping estimates and stuff. And they said, oh, internationals to Australia will take like, I think three to seven business days or something. I was like, I should be fine. But I was like, kind of anxious, right? Because I was trying to buy it at the la—order at the last minute, so that they—because they said it takes like two to three days to ship. I was like, oh that’s plenty of time. I’ll be there by then. Right. But I ordered it like one evening and then I woke up in the morning and they’ve already shipped it.
Geoff 31:49
Oh shit.
Georgie 31:50
I think it’s, I think it’s still and it’s the weekend now. Which is—so I think it’s still somewhere in transit between the US and Sydney, so.
Geoff 32:01
It’ll probably take longer because I mean, we’re flooding so.
Georgie 32:04
We’re flooding, and pandemic.
Geoff 32:07
Pandemic. So, like my chair, I can’t remember when I placed the order. What is, I placed the order maybe early Feb, and they said they have a new shipment coming in twenty fourth or fifth of Feb. And then that was like a Friday and I was like okay, so Thursday so I’m like maybe I’ll get I’ll get it shipped out. Maybe they’ll ship it out on Friday, I’ll get it the first week of March, so I only just got it like yesterday or something like that.
Georgie 32:43
Alerady it’s the best chair you’ve ever sat on.
Geoff 32:45
It’s the best chair I’ve ever sat on. I mean, um, one of my friends it’s like oh you can get tax deductible right? And—
Georgie 32:54
If you work from home?
Geoff 32:55
Yeah, for the first time I actually looked up what a tax deductible does. Have you, have you looked up what a tax deductible is?
Georgie 33:03
Like as in, when you put—
Geoff 33:07
Yeah.
Georgie 33:07
When you put your your items on the on the taxes to get money back, or you talking about like when you make a donation?
Geoff 33:14
Oh no. The, you bought, you purchase something and then you, and then you add it to your tax. And—
Georgie 33:20
Yes I use an accountant and—
Geoff 33:22
Oh.
Georgie 33:22
He’s usually asking me like yeah, it’s always like, oh yeah, what are you at home, like do you use this? What are, what items do you use? Like do you use stationery, and like every time he says the stationery thing I’m like, I’ve had the same pen for like five—
Geoff 33:35
Just keep doing it.
Georgie 33:37
See this pen? It’s a pen with the Apple logo.
Geoff 33:40
Oh, wow.
Georgie 33:40
Nick gave it to me like before we even were together so, it’s an old fucking pen and it’s still got ink in it. But still, my, my accountant’s like, telling me to nod, it’s just like, just yeah, you use pens? Yeah. All right, I’ll put it down.
Geoff 33:56
Yeah, you use 25, 30 dollars worth of pens. So.
Georgie 34:01
Yeah.
Geoff 34:01
I read up on how this actually works and I was like I was thinking you know if you’ve made if you added something as tax deductible I thought you know what the price and you get 30% of it back or something like that however much tax—
Georgie 34:13
Nah it depreciates over time?
Geoff 34:15
Well, anyways, I mean, like, I didn’t think you could actually apply multiple times for the same item, you can only do it for things you bought in the same in the same like period of time, in the one period of time. Anyways, that aside
Georgie 34:30
Wait, no, you can do it over ti—if you’re still using the chair in like a few years.
Geoff 34:34
Are you serious? Whoa.
Georgie 34:36
Yeah.
Geoff 34:37
Okay.
Georgie 34:37
Like it—yeah. So my account when factors in like depreciation, he’s like, are you still using the same chair? Did you buy any new ones? I’m like, nah, I’m using the same chair. And then he somehow calculates like, how much it’s gone down in cost. It’s not a lot though. But if you have an expensive chair like yours then...
Geoff 34:53
So. So basically how I’ve figured out, I figured out it works more like, you, you make a certain income, say it’s $100,000 a year. And when you tax deduct a, I don’t know, $1,000 keyboard or—
Georgie 35:14
Phone.
Geoff 35:14
$1,000 phone, yeah $1,000 phone, it basically reduces your taxable income to 99,000. So you’re not getting a percentage of the thing you bought back. You’re reducing the amount of income you are taxed on.
Georgie 35:34
Wait, is this like a salary sacrifice thing?
Geoff 35:36
No, no. So So that’s like a completely different thing.
Georgie 35:40
A different thing yeah.
Geoff 35:41
Yeah, you take a look at your salary, how much you make a year, how much taxable income you have, and then you take time off, however much you spent on the thing that you bought, and you reduce that by however much, and that that’s how much you get taxed on your income. So if you moved brackets, like 50,000 to 100,000. And you spend $50,000 on something then you actually go to a lower tax bracket, you did get taxed on less. But yeah, it’s um—
Georgie 36:08
Really?
Geoff 36:08
I thought it was interesting. Yeah, it just reduces the amount of income you get taxed on I’m like, that’s a bit strange. But okay, if you say so.
Georgie 36:16
That is strange. I mean, I don’t know, the reason I guess. I just think they do magic things and you pay them to do their job and this they know what to do. So I’m like, alright, take my money and do the thing.
Geoff 36:27
See, I didn’t know I could continually like, like depreciate, just depreciate things I have, and then and then get a tax deducted again.
Georgie 36:37
I mean, I hope I’m not wrong. If I’m wrong, someone just at me on Twitter.
Geoff 36:41
Yeah, we’re not a finance, financial services. We, this is not financial advice.
Georgie 36:47
And I promise my my accountant’s not dodgy. He’s.
Geoff 36:50
Yeah, this is legitimate things, legitimate things. I mean—
Georgie 36:55
I could be remembering something wrong, is all I’m saying.
Geoff 36:57
Yeah, you got the pen, didn’t you, Georgie? Don’t worry. Don’t worry, hush hush. Like I was gonna say the IRS but we have something different in Australia. They’re gonna come knocking on your door. They go listen to this podcast?
Georgie 37:10
The ATO?
Geoff 37:11
I think so. ATO? The IRS.
Georgie 37:17
Let’s find out.
Geoff 37:19
Australia. IRS Australia, industrial rubber supplies. Internal Revenue Service. Ah, the IRS. Gov. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. We have one in—
Georgie 37:38
OK so it is related to tax stuff.
Geoff 37:40
Is it? Oh, it’s the Australian tax treaty. Okay, so Australia doesn’t have an IRS. But we have a RS ish. Is IRS equivalent in Australia? ATO. You’re right. Yeah. Australian tax.
Georgie 37:55
Yeah. So yeah, it’s basically the tax office, right? The shit that deals with stuff when you do tax stuff.
Geoff 38:04
And now that we’ve bored everybody with how taxes work, it’s in this one specific case. That’s all we have time for today. So—
Georgie 38:15
Yes.
Geoff 38:17
The foll—don’t forget you can follow us on @toastroastpod on Twitter and Instagram. Mostly Twitter with some nice audio clips on Instagram.
Georgie 38:28
Yeah, juicy. And you can find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify and the big... Can I get a big tax return?
Geoff 38:37
Gives you oooh... Next up, how do tax returns work? Because I mean—
Georgie 38:44
That’s too boring. We’re not doing that.
Geoff 38:48
Let us know on Twitter if you want to know about tax—no jokes. I only know these two facts about tax. Tax facts. And yeah, alright. New episodes every Monday.
Georgie 39:01
See you next week! Bye!