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82 | Aussie Chippy Living in America ft Elijah Wood PT1
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Elijah wood an Australian carpenter moved over to America. Here is his story
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SPEAKER_01I was wondering how you were going to address that. Just want me to make the sound effect. Yeah, put the window open. What are you going to open? Yeah, open that.
SPEAKER_03Are you ready, big Elijah? Yeah, fuck ya. Welcome back to the Interstate Podcast. The number one trading podcast in Australia. And now in the USA. Welcome, Elijah. We've got a fucking absolute weapon on.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03Now it is uh I think it's gonna be a little bit different because um you know, we're more superior to the people that you you are surrounded with over there.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, Aussies, without a doubt for sure.
SPEAKER_03Um, I'm I'm actually super excited to hear your story and what and what your um why the fuck you moved over to the USA. Um if anyone doesn't know who Elijah Wood is, he's actually from Lord of the Rings.
SPEAKER_00Oh fuck, Frodo cut, let's go.
SPEAKER_03I'm fucking Frodo. Um no, he yeah, he is obviously in Aussie, as everyone knows, and um he's living over where whereabouts you live in?
SPEAKER_00I am in South Tennessee. I am on actually technically on the border in Georgia, but close enough to yeah, chatting every bit of town's cold.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, Chad.
SPEAKER_00I never heard of it, so yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's that's a that's a wild move. Mate, I want you to start from from essentially the beginning. Uh give us a a bit of a backstory from um why you why you moved or like what you do um why you moved from Australia to the US. And how you found us. And how you found us, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or how we found you. Sounds good. Alright, alright. So, first up, uh why I'm here, obviously a lady involved, my now wife, uh, but we met in Mount Martha, uh, a bit more like you know, Lamoines Peninsula. She's a Jewel citizen, so she was over visiting family at the time, and I actually quit a job and went for a skate. Uh, Meadow Mount Martha skate park. Uh, she skates better than I do, and that that caught my attention. And uh, so that's how we met. Uh, and then she was here with family for a while, gonna go home. We met, hung out for a couple of months, uh, decided that, oh yeah, like we were doing like long distance for a while, and we decided like oh yeah, one of us is gonna meet somewhere. So in 2024, I flew over to just outside of Tampa, so St. Petersburg in Florida, and we she owns a condo over there, so we well, I renovated the condo so she could rent it out, and then we drove from Florida, which is like I say on the map over here, over to San Diego, California, uh, because that's where her family was, and then we left her like truck and her belongings in San Diego, flew back to Australia, and this is all 2024, and then started filing my paperwork so I could uh move to the states, and that I filed a K1 fiance visa, which yeah, it's in its name a fiance visa. So we took about a year, Christmas Eve of 2025. We got approved, and we were like, fuck it, and two weeks later we permanently moved over here. So I've been here since January shit, start of January 2025, so I don't know how over a year coming on a year and a half. Um, and that's like how we met, that's why I'm here essentially. But why I'm here in Chattanooga, Tennessee is crazy. Like there is no reason why we're here because we left California, San Diego in October, I think, with absolutely no plan. Two of my trucks, and we just drove across the country, and we just drove for a few weeks and stopped at every town in between that we thought we might like. And then we got to Chattanooga, and I'm not sure. I see, I don't remember, I don't I can't remember what I knew before I moved here, but there's a big uh I don't know if it's fast food, a fit restaurant chain called Cracker Barrel, and you can sleep in their fucking car park in your truck for free. So we camped at the back of this restaurant's car park until we and we found a rental here. But the problem is like when you get a rental, you need a job, and when you and like so one of them needs like job needs a rental, rental needs a job. So we kind of were applying for everything we could because we didn't know a single person here. There was really no reason why we came here, we just decided to. Um, and then we stayed here, and then we've been in here, we've been here since October, and we're actually like on the border. So I work in Tennessee, our friends are in Tennessee, but we live technically in North Georgia, right on the border. But we're gonna get out of North Georgia because at the moment we're applying for rentals because North Georgia, you pay federal taxes and then state income tax, so like taxes to the federal governments, taxes to the uh the state government, but in Tennessee, five minutes away, you don't pay the state taxes, so you save like 10% of your wage. So that's kind of we're actually trying to get into Tennessee now. So that's kind of a backstory of where we are and why we're here, and then how I found you guys, uh I reckon it maybe I I know I know I knew Zeke. Uh, we had a mutual friend group, Zeke Hosking. Um, and then I think the one that caught my eye was the opposite of what I am, the American in Australia doing the um the measuring. And I remember I commented it's fucking as retarded as it seems, and I think that's how I saw you guys. So that's I hope that covers everything.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was beautiful. Come in, JV. Beautiful little intro. I want to ask something because we we spoke the other day, and you said that there's uh a time difference from where you work to actually where you live, and it wigged me the fuck out because it's not far of a distance.
SPEAKER_00Yes, so in so Tennessee itself, so Tennessee has two time zones, which is crazy because the state's not like you know, it's I actually don't know how long it takes from top to bottom. I presume like you know, four or five hours, maybe more, but it has two time zones. So even in Chattanooga, the city, so it's like Chattanooga, I'm like right here, it's 10 minutes, it's 10 minutes to this like the city, it's not a big city, and then half an hour out of the city, the time change is an hour. So if I'm working 45 or 50 minutes away from home that way, it when it's nine, it's when it's 9 a.m. at home, it's 8 a.m. at where I'm going. So it's 45 minutes, it's it confuses the fuck out of me.
SPEAKER_03It's funny. JP asked me a question yesterday and it weaked me. I was like, I don't know how it fucking works. So do you start, do you wake up like three hours beforehand to get to the job on time?
SPEAKER_00Well, everyone, so to my knowledge, everyone I work with is on the the same time, like the Chattanooga time. So they all just set their phones permanently to Chattanooga time and then ignore the time difference. But it's super hard if you have an appointment after work and your phone automatically changes because you're like, oh fuck me, it's only four o'clock, my appointment's at six. You're fucked. Like, because it takes an hour to get there.
SPEAKER_02So fuck that. Fuck that.
SPEAKER_01That's the why can you imagine that? You go, yeah, yeah, cool. I've just you know clocked in, your alarm doesn't go off because it's in the other time zone, and then it doesn't it just that hurts my brain too much.
SPEAKER_00So today I've been in two time zones because I was over there at work today, and then I come down here and I was like, fuck yeah, it's a headphone.
SPEAKER_01Two time zones. I feel like that's America in a nutshell. Tax problems, time problems.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So alright. Um, I don't know if we've actually gone over the fact that you you're a you're a chippy, you're an Aussie chippy living in the US.
SPEAKER_00Correct. Yeah, I I'm a qualified chippy, so yeah, chippy charges, chippy by trade, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And would you say that it's the hardest trade?
SPEAKER_00Oh well, I I I don't know anymore because dude, I I know this is like an elaboration on your answer. I can't I haven't given a direct answer, but over here, man, they are fucking useless. So by far, it's the hardest trade when you're dealing with fuck with. It's like it's like, god damn, like it's not hard, it's really like I feel like it's like anything. Like my my mind has changed when I move because at home you're like used to working with people that are like at least decent. Like in most trades, like I know, like, oh yeah, he switched on, he's a good mechanic, or he's a good this. But here it's like, bro, I won't take my truck to a mechanic. I do, I learned to just do it all myself now. They're on average, they're just fucking useless. So at home, um, I don't know what the hardest trade was. I can't even remember, but I think the foundation is a carpenter, isn't it? On a job site, so they're gonna be the best up, but but it's that without it, isn't it?
SPEAKER_03But that's fucking perfect, mate. That's a perfect answer.
SPEAKER_00Why does it why is it um why are they so I want to say retarded, but there's no residential apprenticeship here, so it's like I'm I'm working next to people that call themselves a carpenter, but they've done no formal training, they've just learned off fucking YouTube or their dad or their mate or or their boss who's not even good. So every single job site has a different standard, so it's not like you go to this site and you go, Oh yeah, they they they uh frame the exact way because they have a Victorian standard or you know a nation standard. Like I go to different jobs and you're like, you fucking do that? Like they don't even know what nogs are. Like, like I'm sure we if we've ever been on a job site, we know what a nog is. Timmy, what's a nog?
SPEAKER_01I don't even know what a chippy is.
SPEAKER_00Well, they don't know what chippies over here either. So when people go, oh, what do you do? I'm like, oh yeah, I'm a chippy mate, and they're like, the fuck is a chippy? And so then it's like uh yeah, it's because there's no apprenticeship and everyone, there's no apprenticeship. Uh I think there's like apprenticeship in like the union, but who the f like it's not that's not a real apprenticeship either. So it's like there's no apprenticeship, and then I don't know about the other trades. I think like HVAC, which is like mechanical plumbing, uh maybe electrician, but they get called a helper until they sit their test. So even their training isn't formal, they just hope they've done it right, and then they sit a test, and then it's yeah, it's fucked.
SPEAKER_03Bro, I'm not I'm not letting any American talk fucking shit ever again.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, fuck no, bro. We could be Einstein over there, and that's saying something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. We're not the smartest bunch of people. That's fucking funny.
SPEAKER_01But we're definitely not the dumbest.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, fuck no. Some of the shit I've seen here, man. I I just cannot I cannot believe it. Like I've been in like a California, I like I worked with people that were like family, family and family friend related, and they already had big businesses, and you know, it was kind of okay because they were established, but their work was decent. Here, not knowing a single person, I have had five jobs in five months because I just kept quitting because I was like, no, I can't do that. Like, this is someone's home, I can't do that. Sorry, bye. And then you do it again and again and again, and it's just it's on average. I probably made in the five months I've been here, I reckon I made a hundred to a hundred and fifty phone calls to like builders, and you just ask them like you know, you just ask them a few questions how they build, and you're like, oh fuck no, like not a chance I'm working for you, and it's on average, it's a nightmare. That's the wildest thing to hear, honestly. But I'm sure I'm sure, like, don't get me wrong, because I I've spoken about this on the internet, and fuck me. Like, I literally got death threats, so it's like I'm sure I know there's 50 other states, and I'm sure other states are better, but well, from my experience, that's how it's been.
SPEAKER_03That's fucked. Have you have you actually gone up to an American and called him a cunt?
SPEAKER_00I've been like, oh, like, shut up, cunt. And they like look at me like, what the fuck? And I'm like, I was I but I don't realize because I just like talk and they just a lot of it as well, they can't understand you, like your accent or what you're saying, but they just like oh yeah, oh yeah, and they go along with it. I'm like, Bob, if you don't understand me, just fucking tell me you don't understand me. So like when I call them a cunt, I think they're just too fucking offended to say anything.
SPEAKER_03So too too offended to say anything, they're just shocked, they're like, fuck you. That's fucking hilarious. But it's fucking hilarious. Well, I want to hear, I want to hear a little bit about where where you grew up in Australia. Um, because there's a few things that you've told me where I actually had to Google, which is pretty fucking juble. Yeah, I I jubled it and it's fucking weird. Um so tell us a little bit about that, mate.
SPEAKER_00So where oh I grew up in Mornington, uh, Mornington Peninsula, and now for those that don't know, like our southeast of Melbourne, uh opposite on the Bay of Geelong. Uh I spent my most of my life on the peninsula and then the last couple of years in like Frankston South, Frankston area. Um, and now I'm just curious on what what what where this is going with what you Google because I told you a few things about my upbringing. Is that what you're trying to go?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay, cool, sweet. So I was like, fuck, I could go straight. So anyone listening, and then obviously you guys, if you Google, it's fuck, I'm just gonna say it how it is. Mount Eliza, if you Google, you'll come up. Mount Eliza sex scandal cult, like, or Mount Eliza Ashram. Um, I know it's for this kind of symbol. She's lost in the back. Um, yeah, it's I I grew up in a fucking cult. Like, I know it sounds I wasn't a part of it, like I was fucking my biological dad and his girlfriend were, and so like 0 to 12. I had to go there every second weekend, and then obviously with our school holidays, it was half of school holidays, and it was I'm not sure what you read, but it was literally like a fake Buddhist cult. Um his name's Russell Cruckman, he's this piece of shit. Um, I don't give a fuck. Like, I told him I'm gonna I'll fucking kill that come one day. I'm not sure if I'm gonna say that on the internet. He's a pedo, he's a rapist, he rapes the men, he rapes the women, and you know, you can imagine, oh no, what happened? It's right, it's just oh god, get that fucking filter. I am covering it, but the one thing I did is I I know oh no, I can't, I can't even look at I couldn't even look at him. I had to cover that. I know it's like funny, but the cunt's a fucking pedo, and I grew up with him for 12 years. Um and so in saying that I bought a little array of things that are illegal at home next to my computer because I wasn't sure what you guys would want to see. Like um, I was about to whip it out and point it at the cunt, but uh in saying that, yeah. I grew up there, my dad's a piece of shit, so if he's listening, fuck you. Um, he was there, he was like the so he was just a doll bludger. I'm not sure if that means like you know, lived off tax money, like and it was just a pet scum of the earth, and he lived at the ashram for free, and in exchange for that, he cooked all their meals when they had their fucking chanting bullshit, and then his girlfriend lived, I can't, I don't even want to lived in the main building where this cunt lived, and she fucking changed her name, shaved her head, they all wore orange, like what he was just wearing. Then I can't believe he put that up. Gave me a bit of PTO still. I was about to jump. Um, and then and so then she did all that shit, and there's like a it's still there. Like, if anyone lives there, you can drive the road's tower road, and it's the main hall you see behind their sign, and he lives in there, and all the women are in there, and essentially what happened was he like blackmailed them and then fucking raped them, and then and then their husbands would come to him for counseling and be like, Oh, my wife's been distant. He goes, Oh, yeah, that's that's a you issue, like that's your fault. And he's just fucking the lady while the husband's getting counselling from him, and like so. That's how that's where I grew up, and then like and then it turns out I found out a couple years ago actually, because like a lot of people left, but I I I swear to god, a lot of people are still there from when I was a child and they know what went on, and they're so brainwashed they're still there. But a lot of people left, and so then you kind of like you know, literally 10 years later, like I'm I'm 23, but 10 years later, you you're not you're meeting people because I was the youngest kid, I was the only kid that lived there, and I was the youngest kid that lived there, but kids would go there on a Saturday night when their parents would go fucking chanting all that bullshit, and so you hear all these stories of like the parents and like like my mates, my mum, I won't name them, but my mate's mum, who they like, you know, invited her in the car and like telling her they've got to come do all this shit, and she's like, get the fuck away from me. And like my mum went to court over it, like because she went one time, like when they were together, and it's like oh, or she went for a bit, I don't know, but she's like, Oh no, this kind is fucked, this is fucked, like we're staying out of here. And she lost the court battle, so I had to go, like, court, the court fucking said I had to go, so I had to go, like, because that's where he lives. Um, so yeah, to answer your question, that was my upbringing. Then when I was nine, when I was 19, I went to like Vietnam and stuff for like six weeks, and I came home. And you kind of just when you remove yourself from an environment, realize how bad or good you've got it, and I realized how shit it was at home because my mum's he doesn't even deserve the label of my stepdad. He wants he's a piece of shit, and like he was an abusive drinker. I I I when you when I left, I started remembering, oh my god, like that's not fucking normal. I've seen him grab my mum, I've seen him choke my brother, I've seen him do this, and I was arguing, I wasn't actually arguing with my mum. This is this, my my my my brother, this is all fuck, and I'm just dumping it. My brother at the time was talking about being like a transgender and all that shit, and and he's 20, he was 25, and I was like, man, like I'm gonna be straight up with you. I'm like, that's fucked, don't do that, that's it's all rubbish. Like you just gotta get off your phone and go put your feet in some fucking grass, mate. Like, chill out. And and I I was like saying that to my mum, and and and my mum agrees with me. And the thing is, my stepdad agrees with me, but he just didn't like that I was arguing with my brother, and I was and he was like just screaming at me over a conversation he misheard, and I just was like, fuck it, fuck it. And he's looking at me like he's gonna hit me, and I was like, you know what, cunt? If you're gonna hit me, you better do a good job, so I'm gonna fucking put you to sleep in your own house. And he just came, he just got he just came over to me, put me on the fucking wall, choking me, and my mum was in the middle of it, so then I just accepted I'm getting choked because I'm like, I'm not fucking gonna risk hitting my mum. And so he was just choking me on the wall, and I was like, holy shit, like, and I was about to pass out, like my face was going funny, like he was just not letting go. And I'm like, Mom, like, I'm gonna fucking drop if you don't move. So she she moves and he ran, and I was like, Oh, and then that's when I was like, that fucking dog came out. I was like, no, fuck you, cunt. You don't use my mum as a shield, then run. So then I just I don't know, I don't know how to say it politely, but like fucked him up, and then when a bit like he he I told him I was just it gets funny, it's not funny, but you laugh because it's like a little bit uncomfortable, and yeah, it is funny. But he I told him I was gonna come. I had a few friends that you know would have done this. I was like, I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna kill you in your sleep cunt. So I'd be sleeping with one eye open, and the neighbor said he didn't come home for a week. And and then when he was and then when he didn't come home, I was like, fuck this son of a bitch. Went in his garage, snapped all his carbon golf clubs, slashed his trick his trailer ties and shit. I was like, and then and then I was fucking I wasn't homeless, but I packed up what I could and I just left and I didn't have anywhere to go. And at the time, I this gets crazier. At the time I had dengue fever and a parasite because when I was in Asia, they fed me cat instead of beef, and so I had a blood infection and a gut infection and no job and nowhere to live. And I was like, I was 19, I think, or 20, and I I was pretty fucked. And if family took me in and I lived with them, and honestly, without them, I would have been homeless and like because I was too sick to work, and um I they took me in. I they didn't, I I I paid as much, I paid when I could, and now like now I'll send money over and stuff just to help them out because I I didn't pay, they didn't charge me rent. And I mean if any of them live listen to this, they know how much I love them, and they're that's who I call family now. And my mum's actually coming over in four or five weeks, and I don't know, it's really weird to know she's still with the bastard, and so I just can't look her in the face, and yeah, it's like I don't like that the whole family, my whole family cut me off, and my mum didn't talk to me for three months when I didn't like I was fucking homeless, and uh, so it was like real hectic, and then and then a year later I moved country, so it's like I haven't I barely saw her, and now I'm seeing her, and she's like, you know, I have a dog, a wife, and uh this is like everything here I pay for, and and It's a different, you know, different responsibility and having her come and step into it. And I I didn't even at I'm not even sure she'll listen to this, but at first I didn't even want her to come. I didn't even want to see her. But uh now we're gonna see her and it'll be interesting and she'll stay here. But yeah, I know I've a lot uh it said a lot, but it's hard to like say some parts, especially on the internet too, because they're fucking just they clean you up if you say anything or like it's so I just wanted to s you answer your question.
SPEAKER_03So no, that was fucking good, bro. That was like that was a roller coaster of emotions, Jesus fucking Christ.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, I I it's it's certainly like it's funny I choke up when I talk about it, but but I'm 23 and I think that's I actually had a crack at a cunt the other day at work because he's like he was 40, he's 44. And to me, age doesn't matter because it's like you don't fucking know what anyone's experienced. Like you could be a six-year-old cunt who's had the same job for 45 years and left and never left his hometown. I could tell you all that shit I've done by 23, and so I was like, I can't stand when people bring age into it because you're like, you don't fucking know, mate. Like, like you why judge someone on that? And this cunt at work was like, Well, I'm 44 and you're 23, you should listen to me, and I just turn around. And that's when I said, Shut the fuck up, cunt. You don't know shit. Like, so it's pretty fun, it's a challenge, like the emotions is like you just I think as well, like I don't drink or smoke or drugs or anything because I just learnt like you you suppress it and it eats your life, like holding on to all that anger, the like the frustration, the feeling of like being stuck, broken, whatever it is, like and a lot of those emotions, like some people just don't understand because it's like that hopefully you never have to feel that shit because it's fucked.
SPEAKER_03But yeah. That's wild. That's fucking wild. Jesus. Where the fuck do I even go from all that?
SPEAKER_00That's fucking oh, I can show you my Glock if you want. Yo, show us your Glock. Alright, so this is my pistol. So that's this is my holster. This fucking yeah, these guys in your pants just yeah, and then fucking bomb, can't even say what you can see. So that's my pistol, and now uh better for safety measures on the internet. That's the magazine out. There's no fucking there's no bullet in there. So that's my pistol. And uh, I've had that for about uh as soon as I got my green card. So in California, I can't believe I just had your pistol. It's America, bitch. Give me a gun!
SPEAKER_01Like a true American. I'm now American. Yay! Here's your green card, here's your gun, have a good day.
SPEAKER_00In California, it's a it's a prick to get a gun, especially like carry it. Uh, you gotta sit a bunch of tests, you gotta pay money. Oh fuck my camera just fell. Hold on. Um, you gotta do all this shit. And where I am now, I had it in fucking 12 hours, and I can carry that without a permit. You don't fucking know who's got one. And that and that's the and that's that's why I got it, because uh you see the imprint on some people, and you're allowed to carry it openly too. So I can carry that on the outside. And when the first time you you see a cunt with a gun on his leg, you're like, well, if that cunt's got it and he looks like a fucking hillbelly, I sure as hell want one. And that's like was my train of thought because there's more guns here than people, like, like the fact that I don't have an AR-15, but the fact that I, as a 23-year-old Australian immigrant, could go buy one with no issues is is insane. I'm just gonna make sure this is still filming. Yeah, cool. It's insane because that's when I was like, fuck, I need something in the house, like because every other cunt's got one, like all those stories you see, like I've seen a lot of that. Like, you and so it's like that's why I got it, but then I didn't have that at first. So before that, before I got the pistol, these things are legal in most states. I got a little taser, so you can uh you can taser cunt if you have to. And then and then this is by the way, these are just off Amazon. Like, you can just fucking you can get and then you can get just some pepper spray too.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say, is that pepper spray?
SPEAKER_00Police sprayed pepper spray. And you can buy like the big can the cops have too, so it's like fucking this big, and you just fucking and it sprays hell fire, eh? Yeah, but then when you get a pistol, you're like, yeah, I don't need a taser up pistol no more um, I don't need a taser up pepper spray no more. And then like this is another thing you can get.
SPEAKER_04Like oh wait, this is what I think it is hold next to magazine. Oh my god, I thought it was a grenade. My camera just found dude.
SPEAKER_03Fuck I was just looked like holy fucking daddy grenades. I was like, there's no way you just pulled out a fucking grenade from your carrier is that?
SPEAKER_01It looks like a bomb! Bro, all of that stuff I've just heard combined with an IQ of four collectively through that population scares me. That's fucking horrible.
SPEAKER_00And so this is not this is just an extra magazine you can carry on, you're not a grenade.
SPEAKER_03Yo, that's just deep as a fuck, bro. I thought you were gonna pull the pants as soon as his hands were to put on, like, duck for cover.
SPEAKER_01We all just like hold eye looked at each other.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that is that's fucking diabolical. That is, that is wild. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it's fucking like it's funny because I forget how unnormal it is to have a pistol. Like some days I'll just be like, fuck, when I put my pistol, I can't find it. And then so then you just gotta go for a walk around the house and make sure you've got it still.
SPEAKER_03Bro, it's so it's so like because you were you you said to me the other day, as a joke, right? You said to me the other day.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, no, this is fucking what are you gonna say?
SPEAKER_03Um, yeah, you're like, oh yeah, fucking uh, you know, I gotta be a fucking piss and I shoot myself in the fucking head because this is fucked, right? Like, just like a oh, this job's fucked. I don't want to do it anymore. That's the type of thing that everyone knows. To me, that hit different because I was like, You have something on you and you could easily do it.
SPEAKER_00Not that's not saying you would, but no, no, no, but like I'm gonna be serious. It's like I know you don't have to peace on the internet, but it's like you think about everything I just told you, like, of course, at some point with all of that, I fucking thought about oh, just offer myself, it'd be easier, right? But then I'm never gonna do that, I'm never gonna do that. But the the thing is, is like if you have that feeling so so strongly, like some people do, and I've had it like that before, like, then to have a pistol in front of you, like, holy fuck the self-control that you've got to have. I know it sounds like it's a joke, but it's really not. It's like fuck me. Like to actually have a pistol like right in front of you and feel that way, I'm like, this is fucked that people can just go and get them, and it's like it's a whole different, it's fucked, like it's crazy.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's um like I I it's not okay to say because it's not a good saying to say, but like we say it, like it's just like the the way we say cunt and fucking fuck you, like all that type of stuff. But like to us, it's like cool, I don't have a pistol in front of me. If I was to say it's kind of like, oh, it is what it is, it's fucked. But like when you said it, I was like, it legit felt a different way because I was like, you could easily just fucking do it. Like it's crazy how easy you could, and it's so sad that like you said, people can just go out and buy a fucking AR-15.
SPEAKER_01I mean, a lot more of America is making sense now in the fact that like you hear about the shootings and stuff, yeah, and then it's just like, yeah, and I'm like, oh shit. And he's like, Yeah, I got a green card, and then just give me one, you know? It's like a right. Meanwhile, in Australia, you can't even buy three packs of paracetamol.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, literally shit. Yeah, no, it literally is like I I have so right now I have the same rights as an American apart from that I can't vote. Um, and everything else I can do, so I got a firearm, the constitution, it I I have all those rights apart from I can't vote. And we probably don't need to get into politics, but I wouldn't vote anyway.
SPEAKER_03What's your favorite amendment? Oh, the Second Amendment for sure.
SPEAKER_00Is that even a question? Because the Second Amendment protects your first amendment. I'll I'll say whatever the fuck I want, because I got a pistol in my pants, bitch.
SPEAKER_03That's fucking that's everyone's fucking thing. Yeah, that's fucking wild. Yeah, yeah, holy fucking shit, man.
SPEAKER_00That's that's a I can't get over the no trade, like no like apprenticeship. You just you just pass a test and you're on. I'll send you some fucking work that I've seen. So I've got it scheduled, it hasn't posted yet, but I was just about to post a reel of like this deck I built, and so I joined this guy late. So they built the house, but I built I come and built the deck and the handrail and shit. And I'm finishing the deck and I'm just gonna do the handrail and I'm just looking at the posts. I was like, oh yeah, I'll just make sure the posts are straight, right? And I'm like, fuck me. So I'm gonna try and give this because obviously now I work in the Imperial system. Oh, ew! It's uh about seven hamburgers out, freedom units, freedom units, retarded as fuck. And so say the four posts, one is like a a quarter of an inch or whatever, and then the next one's half an inch, the next one's an inch, and they're all creeping in, and then the next one kicks out, so you can just see on this porch eight eight hundred thousand, eight hundred thousand dollar home, the porch line just goes like it goes in and then kicks out, and I'm like, I've got to make a handrail work in that and make that my handrail look straight, and it's like so shit like that on every job I go on. It's just there's and and where the county that I am in right, like working in right now, there is no inspections for carpentry, the only inspection is for electrical and and the HVAC so mechanical plumbing. So you can build whatever the fuck you want, and there's no one coming to tell you otherwise, doesn't matter how you brace it, this or that. Now, the builder I am working for now, fucking I know I just talk shit about that, but he's a really good dude, and I think the problem is it's like he's really good, but when you're hiring people that have no, you don't know what formal training they've had, and and then the competition is some dude that smokes meth, you're like, well, and I'm not even I'm I'm genuinely not joking either. Like, and so that's your competition. It's like, oh yeah, this guy and this guy, and then you're hiring people that say they know what they're doing and act confident, but they've had that they're shit. Like, imagine trying to hire, like, imagine like being good and then trying to hire, and you're like, hmm, crackhead, uh, someone with no formal training, someone with a big attitude that says they're really good and he's shit, or like it would be a nightmare to hire people because you don't know. Oh, yeah, we're a fucking Aussie immigrant who says he says I don't even say anything. Oh no. About frozen.
SPEAKER_01Whoa, you're cutting in and out. Two sex, Elijah. We're losing you. We've totally frozen Elijah, so just give us a minute here.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01I can't tell if he's still talking. Alright, listeners, we're just having some technical difficulties. We'll be right back. This is what happens when the four brain cells get together. Yeah, you'll make it. Can we make elevator music? I the only instrument I want is one of those like big uh it's like a a donut looking thing and it has a little impression. And then you'll wear like a skirt with uh it just covers your orange wearing motherfucker would do.
SPEAKER_03What are you doing? What is that shit?
SPEAKER_01You mean uh what is it? The Scottish wearing.
SPEAKER_03Uh a kilt, kill, uh yeah, but it's more like a it's more like a sheet. So we've had uh a little bit of technical difficulty with Mr. Elijah Wood over there with the internet. So we are good we just teeed up a part two, we're gonna finish it off, and um yeah, that was a fucking that was a funny ending.
SPEAKER_01It was very wild.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, um so yeah, we're gonna tee up a part two, get this episode finished, and ask Elijah a little bit more about America. So thank you guys for watching. Uh stay tuned for part two, and we'll see you next week.