The trials of overloading your washer and watching precision perfect performers on stage. This washing machine talk has gotta be the most adulting conversation they've had.
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The trials of overloading your washer and watching precision perfect performers on stage. This washing machine talk has gotta be the most adulting conversation they've had.
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Geoff:
Georgie 0:09
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Toast & Roast. I am your co host G and I'm here with G.
Geoff 0:17
Hey, G. It's G. Yeah, I was just telling Georgie that I had... It's been a while now. But I changed my Slack, or rather, internal communication messaging tool or whatever you use in your company, to just like the letter G. If someone wants to tag me in the conversation, they write @ G and then that's it. So removed Geoff. I removed my last name, everything standard letter G.
Georgie 0:47
How is that going for you?
Geoff 0:49
Well, at first people were like, just making a little bit of fun of it. They were just like, why is Why is Geoff’s name just G? I've developed a slight reputation for deleting things, like just—
Georgie 1:03
Your whole name.
Geoff 1:04
So I said, Yeah, I just, on brand, you know, I just didn't need the other letters, a minimalistic G. And then I get asked a couple of weeks later, like, oh, I didn't realise your name is now just the letter G. And then I said something along the lines of “Yeah, I'm the only Geoff in the entire company. So I have to assert dominance”. And that's a something that our team is like—
Georgie 1:29
Yeah.
Geoff 1:30
Known for joking about internally, just like, yeah, the, you just gotta assert dominance.
Georgie 1:36
Yeah, I know what you mean because like, I actually started with my handle as G, in my work Slack. But, and it felt good, because I'm just like, I have the—it's kind of like when you join a new social network.
Geoff 1:50
Yeah, that's it right.
Georgie 1:51
And you have the shortest username and you have just your name. It's just like, yes. Winner.
Geoff 1:55
Yeah, like it didn't seem like any of one of my team knew about this. Like this niche internet, the—I guess this niche like this internet thing. Back way early, when you joined a social network, getting your name was the best because obviously, the more people that join, the more Geoffs and more Georgies there are, so you can like assert dominance with just your name. And even single letter stuff looks cool, you know?
Georgie 2:22
Yeah. So the problem I had with it, though, is people started writing e dot g dot, for—
Geoff 2:28
e.g. Hahaha.
Georgie 2:30
And then I would get mentioned because like, you can turn on a mention, like to get notified for certain keywords like maybe—
Geoff 2:37
Yes.
Georgie 2:38
“React” or something like that. So, for example, I get notified when someone says my name, even though they don't @ me because my hand is emojiqueen. So if they just say Georgie, blah, blah, blah, because I think I'm the only Georgie in the entire organisation. But with the G.
Geoff 2:55
You think.
Georgie 3:00
e.g, got me and then we have some we have some variables or some tokens in our design system that have like something dash g dash as like a global token. And so every time someone wrote out one of those, I would get mentioned, and it was nothing to do with me.
Geoff 3:16
Yeah, but I mean, like, there's that other thing where I don't, I don't, I look for my full name. I don't actually look for like, the letter G.
Georgie 3:26
But oh‚
Geoff 3:27
You can get it to highlight full names. Maybe in the past it did. But nowadays, if it's not my full name, then it, it won’t tag me.
Georgie 3:38
Because imagine if your name was @ a.
Geoff 3:42
Yeah.
Georgie 3:42
And someone was just like, “a bed”. (laughs)
Geoff 3:45
Just any of the vowels, I, A E, I, O, U.
Georgie 3:48
Are you sure, though, even if you put spaces after a G. Like—
Geoff 3:52
Yeah, it doesn't come up.
Georgie 3:54
Maybe they fixed that? Because it was like, a little bit.
Geoff 3:57
Yeah, there's a difference between... Well, on on on Slack, there's a difference between what people use to tag you, like you said, emojiqueen, and your actual name. And so what I did was I in the high like, in the highlight section, I put Geoff, and Kaizen as like the highlight words, but if anyone just wrote the letter G, it wouldn't work out unless they’re like trying to do at G.
Georgie 4:25
At Gmail?
Geoff 4:27
At Gmail? Yeah. Or e dot at g. Yeah. I think, apologise. I had to like um like, adjust my volume. So if anybody notices my voice get incredibly loud, I apologise.
Georgie 4:43
There was just one time you accidentally changed the microphone in the middle of recording and I had people say to me, “oh my god, what happened to Geoff’s audio?” And then they'd message me like two seconds later, being like, oh it’s back.
Geoff 4:54
Back when we had fans. Yeah, I mean, that was was when I think my microphone disconnected and then and then like, I think the recording, like, reconnected to my headphones or something like that. And that was just horrible. So you got a new piercing?
Georgie 5:13
I'm totally still recording on my phone.
Geoff 5:16
Yeah. I mean—
Georgie 5:18
OK if I get a microphone, I'm not going to tell anyone and you have to tell me if it sounds different.
Geoff 5:26
Yeah. So you got a new piercing?
Georgie 5:29
I got two new piercings. So now—
Geoff 5:30
Of course.
Georgie 5:31
I have further imbalance because like you pointed out last time you're like, how do you have six in one ear and five and the other like? So now I have eight in one ear and five in the other.
Geoff 5:42
Wait. Why did you do it that way? Why didn't you just balance it?
Georgie 5:45
Okay, so the last ones I got were in the ear that have more. And they're still not quite fully, like healed. So it kind of makes more sense to get more on that ear. So that I continue to avoid sleeping on that ear.
Geoff 6:03
Right. So you stack ’em?
Georgie 6:06
Yeah, like you just keep building it up instead of like, going between the two ears. Now the funny thing is, I got this one, which is the one, it's called a tragus piercing. And it's the one where you kind of you can't wear AirPods. You can't wear any—
Geoff 6:23
Oh yeah because of the flap thing.
Georgie 6:25
Yeah, it's a little flap, like right next to the side of your face. So not everybody has that piece of like ear. Like—
Geoff 6:32
Oh.
Georgie 6:32
Some people just have it like fully, fully straight. So there's no like room.
Geoff 6:35
Oh, I don’t know anyone like that.
Georgie 6:37
So yeah, apparently—this is why I find ear piercings quite interesting, because everybody's ear is actually different. Like it's all unique. And you can do different piercings with different ears. So some people can get a certain kind of piercing. And some people can't. But the funny thing is right, now the when you get a new piercing, the bar that goes through your ear has to be pretty long to allow for it to swell while it's healing.
Geoff 7:00
Gross.
Georgie 7:00
And like now I can—yeah, I know. And now I can feel like in my ear canal is like slight blockage because of the bar that's in there now.
Geoff 7:11
I mean, when you dig your ears, does it, doesn't that doesn't these, don't these piercings kind of get in, the, especially the little flap one, tragus piercing.
Georgie 7:23
I probably can't even put my finger—I haven't even tried like, literally, at least today. Right. And so my test was, if I can’t, it, like my test was, I know I can't wear AirPods with them. But I kind of gave up on them like a couple of weeks ago because they got really fucking annoying. And I also, TMI, I got like an ear infection in my ear again. And I feel like it could have contributed, like the fact that—you have tiny ears too, right. And so we were like talking about the new AirPod style that just like in your ear. So—
Geoff 7:55
Yeah. I tried wearing my partner's one like I think that the AirPods 2, not the Pros, and the two are the same shape as the Pros without the rubber tip on it. I tried. I try them every now and then. And they just like slowly just exit my ear. (laughs)
Georgie 8:10
Like they just look like they don't even fit in the ear canal.
Geoff 8:13
Yeah.
Georgie 8:14
So my reasoning for getting this tragus piercing, I was like, You know what, fuck it. I'm just gonna get something that doesn't even let me put AirPods in because I've kind of dealt more with the over ear headphones now, even though right now I have like one of them off, because like I can put it on and it's not painful. But I think if I leave it there, the piercing’s gonna hurt after like maybe an hour or something. I don’t care. I don’t care.
Geoff 8:44
I mean, you're not going into the office. And—oh yeah, speaking of the office—
Georgie 8:48
Oh my god.
Geoff 8:48
Joined the co working space. How's that been going?
Georgie 8:50
Oh, my god. I don’t... I want to die. I went in on Thursday.
Geoff 8:55
Yeah. It’s not that good.
Georgie 8:57
And we had like a kind of a hackathon day kind of thing—a hack day kind of thing.
Geoff 9:01
Wow, you held a hack day at a at a co working space.
Georgie 9:06
Well, we have like our own space in there.
Geoff 9:10
Okay, yeah, right.
Georgie 9:11
You have to, you need a pass to get in.
Geoff 9:13
OK.
Georgie 9:13
But we did a survey to see how many people would come in on the day because a lot of people just still stay at home. And it was only like 10 or less people. But when I went in there on Thursday, it was... there were like 20 plus people. And I actually couldn't stand it. I went outside into the common area and just did work because I wasn't participating in any of the hack pro, projects. But it was pretty chaotic. And now I just want to be a hermit and not go to the office for like a month.
Geoff 9:45
Got too shocked by the...
Georgie 9:47
Yeah.
Geoff 9:48
Amount of people.
Georgie 9:48
Someone made a comment that was like, ooh COVID has changed us. I'm like, bruh, I've kind of been like this since forever. But the fact that we downsized, and then now there's more people than 10 people coming in, it, you do feel like there's actually less space and you feel cramped so I don't like it.
Geoff 10:05
Lower, lower tolerance for people. It's like I had a low tolerance before but now I have an even lower tolerance.
Georgie 10:14
Plus, working from home is, I still enjoy the flexibility. And I don't mind my home setup. Also, I get a lot of sunlight in this apartment and it's really warm, especially now that's like getting really cold.
Geoff 10:26
Yeah, that is true. I noticed something else with because we're not going to the office as often. Someone was talking about my uniform again, they were saying they actually started talking to the other co workers about not minimalism specifically, but removing choices, like if you don't have to, if you reduce things like your closet, the down to very few items. Like I always wear a black shirt and jeans, regardless of the weather. Just because yeah, the idea is to reduce choices.
Georgie 11:05
Yeah.
Geoff 11:06
So I've been doing that for a long time.
Georgie 11:10
You have like few choices already. How fewer can you have?
Geoff 11:15
In any case, I can have, well I used to have two—did I used to have two pairs? No, I used to have only one pair of jeans, right? The like charcoal grey or something like that. And they started tearing holes in them. Because I realised that having one of everything kind of sucks because you're wearing that one thing all the time. That one thing will break very, very fast. So... So I was talking to them about how I got new jeans, which were the Indigo like deep indigo ones.
Georgie 11:46
Is this is the one that like left—
Geoff 11:47
Still bleeds. Still bleeding colour, right? Yeah, I've mentioned it in episode like 10 or something.
Georgie 11:55
You know what, I think it's actually nine. Now I really want to find out.
Geoff 11:57
Yeah, our fash, fashion choices. Anyways, now that you all, I have caught everyone up on the fashion context. They, I.... So the thing with Nudie Jeans is that you can actually a) get them repaired for free as many times as you want. So I repaired them like twice, three times, maybe, like the knee part breaks open.
Georgie 12:19
Yeah.
Geoff 12:19
And then they sew it up. But then because they've reinforced where it broke before. That just breaks again above that reinforcement, because you just stress it. Anyways, and I'm not one for holes in my jeans. Think they're ridiculous. Why would you buy jeans for more with less material?
Georgie 12:39
They were trendy like once upon a time, and like, I understand if you want that look, but yeah, you could totally just do it yourself. For far less money.
Geoff 12:47
Yeah, actually, one of my uncles. He made like the biggest dad joke right. He was just like, “oh man, if I knew that holes in my jeans was gonna be trendy. I wouldn't have thrown away any of my jeans”.
Georgie 12:57
Aww. He could have been a cool uncle.
Geoff 13:00
He could have been Cool Uncle. Anyways. So I was explaining all of this to one of my friends. And I was thinking, oh, well, you can trade these jeans in for 20% off a new pair as well. So for recycling—
Georgie 13:16
Using fabric for like, whatever.
Geoff 13:17
Yeah. So I was telling them like, oh man, I haven't had a chance to go get 20% off another pair of jeans because these jeans are like, I don't know. $180? $200? And before you @ me, they’re the only pair of jeans that fit me in the—
Georgie 13:35
Oh yeah, that's right.
Geoff 13:36
Yeah.
Georgie 13:36
24 inch tiny Geoff.
Geoff 13:38
Yeah. 24 inch waist. 25? 24. Yes. So no one not—for some reason. No one else sells 24 inch waist Geoff, Geoff jeans. Anyways, so I was explaining all this. And then I realised I had been wearing my indigo blue jeans for quite some time since episode nine. So what are we on? Like episode 90?
Georgie 14:02
Yeah, it’s been like two years.
Geoff 14:03
It’s been two years. And it hasn't broken at all. Like it doesn't even have any signs of wear and tear. And then I realised, it’s because I don't wear them every day. I wear them once a week. Maybe twice a week maximum. So hey, kind of working out, like now my clothes have longer life, because I don't go to the office and wear my jeans? I wear track pants at home now. Which is nice.
Georgie 14:27
Yeah.
Geoff 14:28
Yeah. So that's that dilemma, out the window, the window except now what do I do with my broken jeans? I can't trade them in—or maybe I could.
Georgie 14:39
You just haven’t been like to a Nudie store. So you haven’t—
Geoff 14:43
No sales. And I don't really need a second pair of jeans. That'll just introduce more options. I don’t need that.
Georgie 14:52
And then you don't want to keep the jeans because then they're just lying around and you're—
Geoff 14:56
Exactly. So yeah.
Georgie 14:58
You're just like what do I do?
Geoff 15:00
(laughs) So do I store a broken pair of jeans or do I store a perfectly new pair of jeans that I spent over $100 on again?
Georgie 15:07
I literally have in my wardrobe, a pair of, not broken jeans, but a pair of jeans that I cut up after I ripped them.
Geoff 15:17
Oh.
Georgie 15:17
I cut it up to make a pocket for this jacket on my chair that didn't have pockets, but it had zippers, but it didn't have pockets. So it's—
Geoff 15:26
Oh, interesting.
Georgie 15:27
Denim, make a fucking pocket, which actually in hindsight—I did it myself—in hindsight, I should have just taken it to someone to do because it took me so long cuz I know to basic sewing. But I had to like, like, if you imagine this just just a zipper, aesthetic zipper.
Geoff 15:43
Yeah.
Georgie 15:44
Coz you know, women's clothes are stupid—aesthetic zipper. And then I had to get like a piece of fabric, like a piece of denim and then fold it but you know, so one part to one part of, edge of the open zipper and the other part to the other open end of the zipper and then sew it on and then sew down the sides. And I was like, why is this so... It's... I mean, it seems easy. Like you know how to do it. It's like an engineering thing. It's like, you know how to do it when you actually do, you’re like, fuck this is taking a really long time.
Geoff 16:15
What's that? What's that? Like? medical surgery is it I think it's—
Georgie 16:21
Gauze?
Geoff 16:21
Like a maybe it's a beautician thing of beauty thing, but the they take the fat out of your like thigh or something. Is it to inject in your face or something, botox.
Georgie 16:32
Something like that. Yeah.
Geoff 16:33
Something something. Yeah, like moving fat around, your denim is like that. You took it from your, your thigh, your thigh then attached it to your side, your arm. In any case, you transplanted successfully at least.
Georgie 16:49
Yeah.
Geoff 16:50
There is a seamstress or like an alteration slash laundry place in the Westfield. And I'm like, it's the closest place I could—
Georgie 17:01
Sketchy about it?
Geoff 17:03
Huh?
Georgie 17:03
Are you sketchy about like, are you—
Geoff 17:05
It looks kinda sketchy.
Georgie 17:08
The ones I’d go with other ones that are owned by like Asian aunties, in like the backstreet because they actually know what they're doing. And they're cheaper. Like, I reckon ones in the shopping centre, are like a rip off.
Geoff 17:21
Well, this one is like the closest one and I was thinking maybe I could get—they do sneaker cleaning or something like that. So I’m like, oh yeah. I could just try them out.
Georgie 17:29
Why don’t you use do it yourself?
Geoff 17:30
I'm lazy, right? And then I look up on Google stars. And they have like, 2.4 or something like that.
Georgie 17:37
Yeah nah.
Geoff 17:37
I'm like, you're the most convenient. Yet, you're the shittiest one. OH well.
Georgie 17:44
I think it depends like how much you value your clothes as well. Like you wouldn't take something super expensive and maybe like really—
Geoff 17:51
Yeah.
Georgie 17:51
...to a shitty place.
Geoff 17:53
Yeah, that's the thing, right? I got my, I got my suit and I can't—there's no like convenient, dry cleaning. Now that that one's 2.4 stars.
Georgie 18:03
Yeah.
Geoff 18:05
Having said that, I have no reason to wear the suit yet.
Georgie 18:09
What is your take on on dry cleaning?
Geoff 18:11
I don't know. It's something that you need to do, apparently, for certain pieces of clothing that I've never owned before.
Georgie 18:18
I disagree. I disagree. Because like back when I lived with my parents, my mum would buy me a lot of clothes because I didn't really pick out my own clothes. And she'd buy me some really nice dresses like obviously on sale, because my mum be frugal like that. And they were really nice. And they'd say like “dry clean only” or some BS. But if you do enough research depending on you know what the fabric content is of the clothes, you can actually just hand wash them.
Geoff 18:43
Right.
Georgie 18:44
And so my mum did wash like a lot of like, nice fancy dresses that are supposed to be dry clean only. Honestly, they were quite fine.
Geoff 18:53
Yeah, you know what laundry is one of those things where I think that I follow, I follow the labels, religiously. But at the end of the day, I have no idea what effect it has, you know, like I kind of understand the science—
Georgie 19:12
It’s mostly a scam to save their ass, like the—
Geoff 19:15
Yeah, maybe it's kind of like you know, woollen stuff you shouldn't put into hot, because it will shrink etc. You can’t put in the dryer, etc. So I like I understand a little bit of that. Like, that's as far as I understand the science, but depending on like, I don't know, my shirt my between my black shirts and my black pants. It's it's like all right, so in a long term, I have no idea what a cold, a cold delicate wash versus like a warm delicate wash will do to my clothes that wouldn't necessarily shrink in hot or cold water. You know?
Georgie 19:53
I think the warm is, I've seen warm delicate wash the some like underpants and it’s usually because, like warm will remove bacteria better.
Geoff 20:04
That's true because it's 40 degrees water technically, so yeah, it would take out—
Georgie 20:09
Wait so is 30 cold and 40? Well, this is the thing that I actually don't know. Like, what the heck is the temperature supposed to mean?
Geoff 20:17
My, my washing machine has cold and 30. So I’m just like um, it's cold. It's cold and 30 is kind of cold, but warm is definitely 40?
Georgie 20:30
Yeah, I agree with that. But 30 to me seems like—
Geoff 20:34
Yeah.
Georgie 20:35
Not cold.
Geoff 20:36
No, not very cold. We didn't even have hot water connected to my washing machine for a long time. It it seemed okay without the hot water. And then I was like, wait, this is, we had this pipe because we had a problem with the one of the pipes dripping, the cold, the cold water was dripping. And then I realised, hey, how come the hot water pipe isn't installed? And installed the hot water pipe. And suddenly, I mean, I'm guessing here, but I ran a wash. And I ran it at like 90 degrees just to make sure that the thing—
Georgie 21:08
Wait you have 90 degrees on there?
Geoff 21:10
I do. I do. I do 90 degree?
Georgie 21:11
What the heck? I just have, I just have three settings cold, warm and hot.
Geoff 21:16
Really?
Georgie 21:17
Yeah.
Geoff 21:18
That's, that's pretty. I mean, I enjoy that because no decisions to be made. But—
Georgie 21:24
Less choice.
Geoff 21:26
Less choice.
Georgie 21:27
Less options.
Geoff 21:28
Yeah, so I ran it at 80 or 90 degrees, I can't remember now. And then it started heating up. I’m like woah, did I not have hot water before? Apparently, apparently, washing machines have their own heater inside it. So you some of them, you don't, you just need to pump cold water in and it will heat it up. But some machines don't.
Georgie 21:48
What? I didn't know that. Ours is just plugged into the hot water. So like you feel it when you, when it starts filling up—
Geoff 21:52
What?
Georgie 21:53
...with water. Yeah it starts filling up with water, and then it does take a while for it to get hot. But if you pick a warm or hot wash like and you feel the water coming out, it does take, like it'll fill up quite a bit before you're like oh yeah, it's coming out warm.
Geoff 22:06
Really? But wait—
Georgie 22:07
That’s how mine works!
Geoff 22:08
It's only plugged into hot water?
Georgie 22:10
No as you can like it is it is plugged into hot water.
Geoff 22:13
Oh. Okay, it is. Yeah.
Georgie 22:14
It's not the kind that you just said. Which I only just literally learned that it, the machine does it. That’s new to me.
Geoff 22:20
Yeah, I mean, that's my parents. I don't know when the last time my dad looked at a washing machine. He makes all sorts of statements sometimes that are dubious at best. But yeah, that was a whole thing. But apparently you’re meant to replace the cable, like replace the pipe—
Georgie 22:40
The tube thing?
Geoff 22:41
The tube thing that connects to the water. You’re meant to replace that every now and then.
Georgie 22:45
Like how often though?
Geoff 22:47
I have no idea. Like every couple years, maybe?
Georgie 22:50
OK, I think we've had ours for like six years.
Geoff 22:53
Six years. Yeah, so I think I had mine for five? Also six. Yeah. So watch out for the water starting to leak.
Georgie 23:03
Oh, okay. I get that because I think like my parents like kept theirs for as long as possible and then it would like crack and shit and then—
Geoff 23:10
Yeah, yeah, the the cable. The cable looked like it was like warping like it was some kind of diseased organ.
Georgie 23:20
Oh my god. This is such an adulty thing to like talk about.
Geoff 23:23
Yeah, not not to mention that yes, you should apparently empty the empty the filter or something in your washing machine.
Georgie 23:32
Do you mean washing machine or dryer?
Geoff 23:33
Washing machine so. So for mine, there’s a little pipe—
Georgie 23:36
It’s at the bottom, right?
Geoff 23:37
It's a little pipe at the bottom and you open it and then it drains out a bunch of water, a bunch of shit came out. I’m like, oh man, you’re meant to clean that out too.
Georgie 23:46
We did that once. So like we've had our machine for like almost six years. We did that once maybe... trying to remember? Oh shit, it could have, it maybe about one and a half, two years ago, I think before we moved into our current place.
Geoff 24:00
Right.
Georgie 24:00
And literally, a fucking sock came out.
Geoff 24:04
(laughs) What.
Georgie 24:04
I don't know how it got there. But I do remember losing a sock.
Geoff 24:09
Oh man.
Georgie 24:10
And it was just like, I think Nick had to like clean it. Because like he was the one who was like, “I think there's a problem”. And then he decided to be the brave person to like, pull it out. And it was like...
Geoff 24:22
The...
Georgie 24:22
I'm like, “Oh my god. That's where the sock went”.
Geoff 24:26
The funny thing was in this whole debacle because like, we were testing the washing machine and the water wouldn't go away. And then there's a there's a little pipe at the bottom—
Georgie 24:41
From inside the machine? Yeah.
Geoff 24:42
Because I just did a wash. I mean, I did it empty. And I think we had to stop it because we were messing around with things so I stopped it, and I'm like, okay, it's definitely okay to working. Anyways. So the only way to drain it is with that little pipe at the bottom, there's a hole. There's a hole one and there's a, like a small pipe. And not kidding, I didn't even think about it, but I unplugged it. And like, hot water like, I know, I know, I just said that I did a hot water wash.
Georgie 25:16
(laughs)
Geoff 25:17
But I opened it without thinking it and the boiling water it just started pouring out of the washing machine, I’m like, shit. So got a bucket and tried to like—thing is it's on the floor level. I don't understand why it’s there. Why like, who's gonna have some really weird shallow bucket to empty water into. It's ridiculous. Anyway, so a bunch of water comes out, I’m like climb, kind of trying to close it. And then I finally drain everything—oh right, so so I'm trying to drain it out into this bucket, the bucket’s too tall so I keep pulling and pulling.
Georgie 25:53
(laughs)
Geoff 25:53
And I and I dislodged the pipe. And then all one side of—
Georgie 25:57
Side of the machine?
Geoff 25:57
Rushing down the bottom of the machine.
Georgie 26:00
(sniggers)
Geoff 26:00
Oh my god, oh my god. Oh my. My partner's parents were like helping us out and every time they went off to get a new new tubing, and then I was like, oh my god. I don't know. Did I just break the thing? Do I have to buy a new one? Because I dislodged this pipe. So like a lot of things are happening with the washing machine and I just making it worse, by trying to do stuff. And then my partner’s parents come back and the dad, her dad is just like, “Are you gonna buy a new one?”. I'm like, that's exactly what I was thinking. Just buy a whole new one. And then her mum is just like, “I see the hole, it's not like a snapped pipe”. That's what I thought. it was like the pipe had snapped and you can't like reattach it. But no, it's like a plug with when the rubber pipe goes over the plug hole over the hole. She's like I can see it, like you just have to plug it back in. So just got her dad to like wiggle it back in and everything was hunky dory. I’m like oh my god, I'm sorry. I'm not going to touch it anymore.
Georgie 27:12
(laughs) Oh shit.
Geoff 27:12
So so we just replaced the water pipe and then didn't touch it anymore. The, so the moral of the story is don't mess with your washing machine.
Georgie 27:27
Have you ever put in like too much, too, like, too many items?
Geoff 27:32
I don't know what too many items is. I put in a lot. But I don't think I’ve—
Georgie 27:37
When I lived with my parents we were washing a blanket, like a big like throw blanket on its own.
Geoff 27:43
Yeah.
Georgie 27:44
Like in but, you know, you imagine when it gets when the when the machine is filled with water. And the blanket is wet. It's quite heavy. Also, by the way, I had no idea when it says like that a washing machine can hold like seven kilos. I have no idea like how to visualise that. So if anyone’s like a frickin guru with this shit—
Geoff 28:02
Yeah, huge pile of clothes.
Georgie 28:03
All I know is that because when, because I've, we've moved a couple of times, right? All I know is that clothes can be fucking heavy, just like carrying a bunch of clothes, like and you’re just like, this is only like 20 pieces of clothing, but they can be heavy. Anyway, my mum wasn't at home at the time. And my mum was like the washing machine guru of the household, like my dad didn't really know much. But anyway, the blanket’s going around in the machine and then suddenly the machine is beeping.
Geoff 28:29
Oh no.
Georgie 28:30
Like it's like come, come, attention please. I need to be, I need to be looked at, something is not quite right. But it looked looked in there and it was fine. Like it was like it had stopped during the cycle. The washing machine was half full of water, or it may have yeah, I think is the one before the spin like when it needs to drain the water and then spin the items inside. But for some reason, even though we turned it off at the power point and everything, we couldn't get it to continue the cycle, like all that we could do was like fucking cancel it or something. Like it didn't want to go to the spin. But we somehow managed to, like get the water out of the machine. So yeah, we had to just drain, the only thing we could do is drain the water out of the washing machine. And because the blanket we couldn't put it for a spin we had to take out this wet blanket. Big blanket.
Geoff 29:25
Did, could you benchpress it? Just because then it'd be 85 kilos right.
Georgie 29:28
Dude I was weak as. Like, nah my benchpress is 47.5.
Geoff 29:31
Squat, you can squat it.
Georgie 29:34
But like it was just so funny because like me and my dad carrying this blanket and it's like dripping wet.
Geoff 29:40
Yeah.
Georgie 29:40
And you don't realise like okay, as an adult, I think you just don't realize how important that spin cycle is to get fucking water out of the stuff that’s like, like taking it across the lawn on the hills hoist—wait, what do you call it in the US?
Geoff 29:56
I dunno the umbrella—
Georgie 29:57
The triangular—
Geoff 29:57
Triangular washing spinning—
Georgie 29:59
So we’re like putting the entire thing there, and it’s just like, we're like, we can't, it’s not gonna dry if we just leave it dripping so we just like literally, by hand—start squeezing like parts of the blanket by hand like all of the water going on the lawn and shit.
Geoff 30:14
Oh man, back when we had lawns. Yeah, it's I just imagined you trying to squat like squat a blanket.
Georgie 30:27
And it’s just like, I just get covered in it because I’m small.
Geoff 30:30
Yeah.
Georgie 30:33
Other times, like we've put too—I don't know, it's like, Nick tells me it's because I don't spread out the clothes in the machine, once I—
Geoff 30:40
What? Oh right.
Georgie 30:42
And it's like they come together in a big like—
Geoff 30:44
That's so annoying.
Georgie 30:45
...mass. And it just, you hear the machine shaking going, doop, doop, doop, doop.
Geoff 30:49
Oh, that's why that shakes. Yeah, sometimes, it like shakes violently.
Georgie 30:52
Yeah you need to spread it if you’ve got lots of denim in there or something. Whatever, but you only have one pair of jeans, so.
Geoff 30:56
Well, the thing is, I start, I started putting the blankets and stuff in the in like a really big delicates bag so that—
Georgie 31:05
(laughs) But the bag doesn't spread out as much as the blanket, right?
Geoff 31:08
No, but the thing is, I don't want other things getting trapped inside the bag. That's sometimes it collects everything into a big ball, right?
Georgie 31:17
Yeah.
Geoff 31:17
So I put it in the big delicate bag so that things don't go inside.
Georgie 31:22
Yeah, yeah.
Geoff 31:22
But you're right, it probably comes even like more because the blanket can't be spread out. Oh, do you mean like line the entire thing with the blanket and then put stuff on top of it.
Georgie 31:35
No. It's more just like, just don’t—
Geoff 31:37
Like a pizza.
Georgie 31:38
Don’t drop it in like, you know, when you carry it in your arms or whatever, you just drop it in. You should spread out around the centre.
Geoff 31:43
Err, oh OK.
Georgie 31:43
By the way, we're talking about a top loader, right?
Geoff 31:45
Oh, right, sorry, I have a front loader. How do you freaking do that on a front loader?
Georgie 31:52
I think it's just like, not gonna be, but yeah, try to just quote unquote, spread it out. But yeah, when the washing machine starts shaking, and making like knocking noises, it's probably because the load inside is just moving around in one big mass.
Geoff 32:09
Yeah. Yeah. So that's our hot tips on how to do your laundry. Yeah.
Georgie 32:15
I need to relink that video where the guy, the one, you know which one I'm talking about. Right? The washing machine chop change where he puts he puts—
Geoff 32:23
What?
Georgie 32:23
...a brick in—
Geoff 32:24
No? Maybe. I mean, it's been a while.
Georgie 32:27
I think we watched it on the pod like two years ago.
Geoff 32:30
(laughs)
Georgie 32:31
The guy just like out in the yard. He puts like a brick or something in a washing machine. And he just lets it go.
Geoff 32:38
Oh, yes, yes, I remember. I remember now. Yeah. He just lets it go.
Georgie 32:41
It goes dances across the lawn, whole thing is falling apart. It's the motor is like still going and I dunno, think that you can tell like, you don’t see the guy's face, but the guy recording is obviously laughing in tears. And like, I've watched that so many times. Because I think it's hilarious. (laughs)
Geoff 32:58
Yeah, yeah. The... oh, yeah. Another thing quickly, because, I dunno we’re at the end, did we talked about a concert that I went to? I remember telling—
Georgie 33:11
Did you go to Twice?
Geoff 33:12
Yeah went to Twice.
Georgie 33:13
Oh, yeah. You told, you said you were going to it.
Geoff 33:15
Going to it, but I actually went to it. My god. I think my partner said it best when they, they’re robots. They're like if you go to watch a like a Kpop concert. They're just so precise, on point. These are nine people that need to know, like, what how many songs did they do? They like did... was it a three hour concert? Was two and a half to three.
Georgie 33:38
That’s pretty long. I mean, yeah, two hours is long.
Geoff 33:40
Three hours? I honestly can't remember, it's two and a half to three hours right?
Georgie 33:48
Wow.
Geoff 33:50
And—
Georgie 33:50
That's hectic.
Geoff 33:51
It's nine people. What's it oh, how many songs is that? I can't remember how many songs.
Georgie 33:56
That’d be like 20 songs?
Geoff 33:56
Anyways. I should search. Twice concerts. I should know this because I mean.
Georgie 34:03
Because you were there.
Geoff 34:04
There’s a website for setlists. Did you know.
Georgie 34:05
Yeah, I know that. Oh my god, I have a story about this, we talk about it another time.
Geoff 34:11
So they have a—
Georgie 34:12
It’s like a community driven thing, setlist.fm.
Geoff 34:15
Yeah. it's quite interesting. Here we go.
Georgie 34:17
So you can get some fake shit in there. Like we saw something that was like a rumored secret show and we kept looking at it but it was added by someone who probably wasn't super credible.
Geoff 34:26
Yeah.
Georgie 34:26
But... yeah.
Geoff 34:28
28 songs, right. 28 legit songs. And nine people, 28 different dances, 28 to the power of nine. That's how many positions they have to remember. That is that's quite insane.
Georgie 34:44
And everything's like quite different?
Geoff 34:46
Yeah, so they all have very, they'll have very unique dances and and people like learn those learn, like all the dances as well. So, but like, they only know like the chorus part of the dance and like, the whole choreography for it. Like, it's a lot. And they're all position on point. They never miss their lines. They kind of have a backing track in case they do I guess but...
Georgie 35:11
Was it good though? Was it good because I've never seen like, like a band like this.
Geoff 35:15
Yeah, it's quite it's quite good. They had a live band for for like, I think the second half of it, they sang most of the songs to a live band was quite good. So I think it was really good. Like they split it out into like, what one, two, three, four, four acts. Quote unquote, acts.
Georgie 35:34
Woah that’s full on like, show-show.
Geoff 35:35
Yeah, show-show, like dance, Like, yeah, it's pretty much dancing, singing. They had props that moved around on the on the stage, they would climb up on them the stage moved up and down, as you would probably expect from most modern, modern stage shows. The encore was a roulette wheel. They had they had a wheel, a spun, they spun a wheel with lots with a bunch of songs, they hadn't hadn't sung. And then that's like different every every show. Yeah. So I guess it's enticing to go multiple times to get, to see them sing different encore songs.
Georgie 36:22
Yeah, that's just the encore.
Geoff 36:23
Yeah.
Georgie 36:24
I feel like that’s maybe not worth it?
Geoff 36:26
Probably not. There are lots of fan clubs that will go every show. But I think yeah, overall, pretty good. They did a section where they did solos, because there's nine of them.
Georgie 36:40
Yeah.
Geoff 36:41
They decided that each person could pick a song to sing solo, not that they created nine solos for this performance. Yeah, just the performance. Apparently they had never like performed like to an audience solo. Because they're always—
Georgie 37:01
Really?
Geoff 37:01
...a group of nine. Yeah.
Georgie 37:02
Was that, was that a new thing for like, like—
Geoff 37:05
Yeah, for the group.
Georgie 37:05
For the Australian tour or the entire like—
Geoff 37:07
For this tour? Yeah, this world tour.
Georgie 37:10
And were they good?
Geoff 37:12
They were pretty good to, doing like their solos. One of them did Seven Rings by Ariana Grande, the other one did a dance to Beyonce’s Move, New Rules, Dua Lipa, Done for Me by Charlie Puth, man. She started singing this, I had no freaking clue what she was singing, but at the end, my partner’s like, “Oh, that was Charlie Puth’s song”.
Georgie 37:38
I don't know. Yeah, I'm not familiar with that song.
Geoff 37:41
Yeah, and who were Colby Caila... is?
Georgie 37:45
She sang Bubbly or something like, about 10 years ago?
Geoff 37:51
Who is this person? Yeah, Try? Bubbly? Cocoa?
Georgie 37:54
Bubbly.
Geoff 37:55
Bubbly. Yeah. Interesting. Anyways, so they picked some, some artists that oh, it was a piano acoustic. To be honest, sounded kinda like a Frozen song. I was like, solo from Frozen? I was I was disappointed. But yeah, I think like, generally pretty good. The, the funny thing is, and my partner said this was the most disappointing part. It was the tour called Ready To Be, after their new album. But they sung, they sang like three songs, three out of six songs.
Georgie 38:38
And ther others—
Geoff 38:38
Two out of six songs.
Georgie 38:40
Are the others like older songs?
Geoff 38:41
Yeah. They were from older albums, which are good. But it is—
Georgie 38:45
Considering they sung like what, 25, 28? Songs?
Geoff 38:49
Exactly.
Georgie 38:50
Only three of them are from the new album? Sad?
Geoff 38:52
Yeah, that is sad. By the way, the album’s, like six songs. And two of them are—one’s Korean and one’s the English version of the same song. So—
Georgie 39:00
Oh so, wait, wait, there's—
Geoff 39:02
There’s only four.
Georgie 39:02
...only six songs on the album?
Geoff 39:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Georgie 39:05
Is that even? Like, you know, it's funny. It's like EPs are usually like—
Geoff 39:10
Yeah.
Georgie 39:11
Five, six songs.
Geoff 39:12
Two, three, four, five, six. Sorry, seven songs. And two of them are the same song in different languages. Yeah. And on that note—
Georgie 39:19
Eh. It is what it is.
Geoff 39:22
You're not gonna get an encore from us, but—
Georgie 39:24
Yes, no you won’t.
Geoff 39:25
We'll get, you'll get a closing. You can follow us on @toastroastpod on Twitter.
Georgie 39:31
And you can find our podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you find your podcasts, and—hmm.
Geoff 39:39
Hmm. What's something big we talked about?
Georgie 39:41
I dunno. Big washing machine. The big blanket in the washing machine.
Geoff 39:45
Yeah. And new episodes every Monday. So—
Georgie 39:50
See you next week!
Geoff 39:51
See you next week. Bye.