84 | Aussie Chippy Living in America ft Elijah Wood PT2

Elijah wood an Australian carpenter moved over to America. Here is his story
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SPEAKER_05 0:00

Part two, mate. Are you ready for motherfucking part two?

SPEAKER_04 0:02

Oh dude, I can't lie. Midweek, I was throwing the fuck off some of the messages I was getting, the comments. I was re I was rethinking my entire fucking Instagram account.

SPEAKER_05 0:15

Welcome back to this little ch white monster because I don't have one at six fucking seven o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

What are you gonna do with that? Well, I'm gonna drink it. I don't know coffee. Ew. That's brutal. Even I'm thinking that's cool to having coffee at the same thing. No. Ow.

SPEAKER_05 0:35

Um, I mean that that yeah, welcome back to the Insta Podcast, uh, the number one trading podcast in Australia. We're back for episode uh part two with uh the one and only immigrant Elijah Wood.

SPEAKER_04 0:48

Bring it on, let's go.

SPEAKER_05 0:50

Let's go. So what so what you said before is actually something that I wanted to dive into pretty well uh straight away because one of the clips that went off on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube and all that type of stuff is that there's no residential apprenticeships in the US. And I've had so many uh comments or read so many comments that apparently uh like a dairy farmer is a qualified mechanic. Um you've got all these different people that aren't qualified in different trades being trades uh people in these uh in these jobs. Uh and with construction there's a union. So there's a union apprenticeship. What the fuck is that? Damn it.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

Well well what are you alright?

SPEAKER_05 1:37

Yeah, I've got uh this is a swear jar, mate. So if you swear, you gotta send me money.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

Alright, no worries. Oh, nearly they nearly did. I'll I'll uh I'll I'll keep it quiet. Um well I I the thing is that what I've heard about the union, well, the the it's just like it's the same as union at home. You're not doing it's totally different to residential. And uh it's like oh sorry, not union commercial, like commercial work. I mean I'm scared to say anything now, that's gonna come for me. But um it's like doing a com it's like if a chippy or someone says, like, especially a carpenter goes, Oh yeah, I did my apprenticeship, but it was commercial work. You're like, Yeah, all right, you need to do another one for residential then, like, because you don't do the same work. So the union guys, from what what I know, get paid a hell of a lot, like they get paid better, but it's totally different work. So what I see, I should have been probably should have been clear on what I meant was like there's no mandatory residential apprenticeship the way there is here for carpentry. Like, so it's like you can go, I can go on a the job I'm working at, for example, now it's just people that you know just just go labor. It's like one something my friend actually made a good comment in one of the a good argument in the comments because someone was like trying trying to rip into me and he was like, Well, I'm I'm good because you know I've learned off good people. And my friend was just like, Well, you're actually just a skilled laborer, like there's no, there is no, you're not a carpenter by trade, because there's no proof of you being a carpenter, like you're just a skilled laborer.

SPEAKER_05 3:12

So I suppose that's in short what what it is, it's just a bunch of skilled laborers, but it legit is yeah, because there's uh like the amount of Americans that were trying to justify the fact that they like I think one of the comments were um, oh if you have to go to school for four years to learn how to build a house and there's something wrong with you. What the f I read that one too is that yeah, no, no, I agree.

SPEAKER_04 3:40

I I I I I was reading I was reading the comments for a few days and then I stopped because I'm not sure if you're aware there's there's still people going off on it. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of things. But yeah, there's but there's no there's no like it's there's no there's no mandatory apprenticeship, and I don't know why that's so like uh um controversial because there's just simply no mandatory residential apprenticeship.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

So it's uh it's because they're it's because they're trying to uh justify that you don't have to uh know every single thing about cars to be a mechanic, or you don't need to know the building codes or like the building regulations to it makes no sense in the way that like you know most people know how to drive a car before they get a license.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Does that mean you should drive a car? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know about that. It's so stupid.

SPEAKER_04 4:27

Well well, anything else, like so if if if you're a doctor or a nurse or a surgeon or uh anything else, there's no question. Oh, that person needs to go to school to get their license, so I'll go and see them because I know they've gone to school for this and they're actually good at it, but there's just the few things that don't, and people justify it. And I I yeah, it it was it blows my mind for a long time, and then after seeing those comments, I just I'm like, yeah, no, you use a retarded, have at it, I don't even care.

SPEAKER_05 4:57

Bro, it's so true, but it's also like you're building people's like family homes. Like yeah, I know the fact that you don't think that you need to go to school to learn the like the minimum requirements.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Like it's not like it's different. You're learning specifically regulations, how to do it right, all this other crap. Yeah, school.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Yeah, well, it's like you said, it's noticeable as well, right? Like on a job site, like compared to here, the quality is just shocking.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Oh, and uh like and when I see I gotta I've got to better clarify even more. When I say that, I mean like on what I've seen on average. Whereas if I was at home, I could make so I've made hundreds of phone calls like to find someone good to work for, and I've worked for some real cowboys in in regards to like terror, like a framer, for example. I worked for a frame art, it was terrible frames, like cut like a shit, a couple of inches out of um you know, like a wall's like a lot out of like plum. Like so it's sitting on and and that was just they'll they'll shot off and that was that was done, and it was just okay, like walls not straight, so then they haven't been straightened. So when you do the plaster in your like your countertops and your bathrooms, you can see the wave. And someone told me, Oh yeah, they the customer pays for the finish. And I'm like, it's not paying for the finish, man, that's just doing your job right. And so it's like all these little things in there where it is like on average, I know in places that there's some really good guys, and I'm not talking about them because we all know that there's all like in everything you do, there's like really good guys like that that have really gotten good at their trade. I think people obviously don't like they just assume what like they just literally cut what you say. I'm I'm not talking about that, I'm just saying on average, if I was at home when I needed a job, I could find someone good to work for and like five phone calls. Here, I've made hundreds, like literally hundreds of phone calls between both states that I've lived in, and it was hard to find someone good, and even there's someone, even my my like I'm very personal right now, so hopefully I don't know if they'll listen to what, but my boss right now is really good, like he's a really good carpenter, he he he's the owner of the business, but his crew isn't as good. So then he's getting these really good jobs, and they are really detailed jobs, but his crew's not executing them at all. So, like the house we just did, the walls are 15-20 mil out of level, so the walls on an angle, and then I've got to put my door in but put it on level, so it's sticking out the drywall up here, uh, or plaster up here, sticking out the plaster here, and then that much gap either side of the door. So I've got to create like like literally cut ripped pits of wood to pack out the arc, the arcs, and the skirting, so it's like level, or else the door won't open. And this is a $900,000 home. And I'm not see this thing is I'm not trying to shit on anyone, I'm just saying how it is. Like, this is from what I've seen from my experience, which is what people obviously like deny, but it's like that should never that I've never seen that in any builder I've worked for at home. I've never seen that. That it just wouldn't be acceptable. If someone put a frame up that bad, you'd be redoing it in your own time. Like, that's how I've always worked, and so it's just it was just crazy, man. Uh, it's got thrown off so hard. I was like, how are you denying this? Like, I don't get it how you're denying it. And I think I think it's just because they're like like I they haven't had one, so they know like they have to eat their words. It's like, no, you actually you can't call yourself anything, you really can't. You're just a worker, like that's all, and it's not even I'm not even trying to be disrespectful, it's just it's just all you are. Like, and I don't once again, that's all I am over here too. I haven't done an American apprenticeship or whatever, like I've done like so. I I'm just technically a worker, like so. I'm not sh like I'm not trying to shit on people by saying that, it's just what it is. Like it it's crazy. Uh the mechanic thing is crazy too, but right.

SPEAKER_05 8:47

I mean, the amount of people, I think they said that uh like one of them, their mechanic was doing his own electrical or his own plumbing, um, and he was doing just like all of his own shit because you don't like a lot of the comments were oh, there's like you realise there's standards or regulations that you need to follow, but yet like what you just explained that should be above like that uh like framing should be uh level, and if it is out, you should have to redo it. The fact that you've got to work your shit into a dodgy frame crazy, so dumb.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

Yeah, oh and and that's so and this is once again, I can't believe I have to say it like this. From my experience, every single job site I've been on has been like that, every single job, and I've worked for five guys in Tennessee, I've been I've been like to job trials, I've worked for guys in California, and it's just the cheapest framer, and I know it's not like that everywhere. God damn, I even have to say that. I know it's not like that everywhere, but but predominantly it's the cheapest framer. They've hired out to like a like here, especially where I am, hire out to Hispanic crew. A lot of them aren't legal, it's the cheapest, it's a cheap rate, and the contractors just haven't figured out that if you cheap out in your frame, everyone else's job is harder, so therefore the whole rest of the job is more expensive. And trying to explain that to people, they don't go, oh yeah, no, but I'm not spending that on a frame. It's like, yeah, but then you're gonna pay your Finnish guys three times what you could pay them because they've got to like even like doing skirting, right? The wall's not being square, so instead of cutting like a 45 or coping it or whatever, it's it's it's instead of being like a 90 degree and cutting on 45, you've got to like figure out what angle you're cutting it at. And like the doors are twisted, so instead of a straight 45 mitre around the door, you've got to change the angle. It's like you'd never have to do any of that at home. I find me someone like at least where I'm from, and most Aussies wouldn't do that.

SPEAKER_05 10:44

I know there's a problem in Melbourne, but I mean look, I'm gonna absolutely roast the fucking Aussies here because we can't build for fucking shit either. The amount of times that I've like gone to do um like skirting or uh like Scotia or even um cutting around architraves like timber architraves. Bro, I don't think we know what level is or straight or plum or anything. Yeah, or some people just have a wonky eye and they're just like fucking looks good for my house, mate.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

Oh, it's it's it is crazy, and that's I think the next comment that was huge too was like Aussies uh I'm watching the Smedja, so Aussie's not being great either. And I'm like, I wasn't even what like I'm not knocking that there's bad Aussies in the trade too. Like, obviously, everywhere you go, I would say that's it. I was talking about it here. Yeah, oh yeah, and especially now, god damn.

SPEAKER_05 11:39

Like some people just don't take pride in their work, like so. My job, my job isn't just like uh laying floors, I've got to measure off walls that technically should be straight that aren't straight, and if they're not straight, I have to figure out how I lay my floors straight to the wall without it looking fucking wonk. And yeah, if they like it's really, really hard, especially the new builds that uh these days, a lot of like builders or framers or bricklayers don't know what straight is and they're fucking useless. Yeah, more in there.

SPEAKER_04 12:17

Yeah, um, yeah, no, I that's hilarious to swear, Giles. Yeah, no, I agree. Yeah, it's crazy. I I I love what I do, uh, I do and I take pride in what I do, and but it makes me want to get out of the trade. The fact that every house you go into is cooked.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

So on the bonus side, you could just about go into any other trade.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Max without needing to do it. I'm basically a mechanic, goddamn, I'll just go do that and I'll just tell them like and that's a thing. It goes. Yeah, and and and the thing is, like, everyone that's told me here, like once again, I'm this might annoy a few people, but everyone that's told me here who isn't Aussie, who isn't Aussie that's moved here, has literally just said, Oh yeah, just tell them you can do it and figure it out when you're there because they don't like no one, that's what everyone else does. Like, so I'll ask guys, oh, can you can you do this? And they'll just say yes. And I've I I kid you not, I've had lead hands who I'm meant to be listening to tell me they learnt off YouTube for the task we're doing at hand that I can do, but I've got to listen to him who admits he's learned from YouTube and he's allowed to be a lead hand.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

So look, I'm gonna say it not on uh Elijah's kind of out of this, he doesn't really know, but you fucking Yanks are stupid. Yeah, if you get yourself in danger, um run.

SPEAKER_04 13:44

Yeah, nah. I'm moving house next week, so it's all good. Yeah, beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 13:47

I won't be posting that one. Yeah, I just I just can't I just can't believe it. It's um it's something, but even like even the Americans are agreeing with us. Like, not all of them, obviously. There's the ones that are big Suki Lala pussyoles, but you've got a lot of the Americans are like, yeah, it's stupid. Like there should be a mandatory apprenticeship for um electrical, plumbing, carpentry, uh, bricklaying, like but then you've got all these ones where they're just like, nah, man, I'm a fucking I'm a farmer. Broke, bro.

SPEAKER_04 14:25

Yeah, well, I I I saw one comment that was like, oh, you can't handle the freedom, and I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_07 14:33

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

I was like, yeah, man, I want I really I just want to know and bought a house that's good, man. It's not nothing to do with my freedom, like, god damn.

SPEAKER_05 14:45

So dumb. Um, what do you reckon? Do you think the site banter is it better in Australia or is it better in in the US? The fact that he walks around strapped has to say something.

SPEAKER_03 15:00

It has to speak for something.

SPEAKER_05 15:02

I don't know if that's banter or just like on the level of everyone else.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

Uh the banter, once again, from my experience, so much better in Australia. Uh if okay, for for example, last week, right? I don't know like what it's like where you're from, um, but I overheard a conversation where I had to remove myself because there I'm once again put myself like there was there's there was a chick crew on site, right? Obviously, no issue with a chick crew. They were doing the Venetian plaster. Cool, they were doing a great job. That's that's the that's what they're there for. The high the hire the best trade. One dude went up to one of the uh one he went up to one of the chicks, right? Went up to him and goes, Oh, where's the other chick? I I need to ask her a question. And they were like, oh no, it's not a it's not she, her, it's they, them. I fucking cracked up and walked off. I was like, I don't give a fuck what's between your legs, mate. If you bring that shit up on a job side, I'm gonna bully you. Like, there is no fucking way that we're doing fucking they, them. Well, how about we go grab them? Because I need an extra two sets of hands, bitch. Fucking hell.

SPEAKER_05 16:13

Holy shit. Look, I feel like it doesn't matter like what it is or who you are or what ethnicity you're at. Like, if you're on a job site, everyone's getting roasted. That's how it should be, shit. Everyone's getting Aussie roasted.

SPEAKER_04 16:30

That's just the way it is. And even again, like I'm fucking gonna get smoked now, but if if if in if individuals watch this, there's a dude who they will make so for example, my site, right? So you like you know, people tell you be diverse and shit. My site's got me the Aussie, black dude, a couple Mexicans, Americans from all over the country, uh, so the black dude, the the the the proper like south, the guy from the south, and the Mexicans are cracking like gay jokes, right? They're working together, making gay jokes. Who gives a shit? They're working together. Like no one's homophobic, it's just it's just literally you're at work cracking a gay joke. I I I don't need to get about it, but they were. One dude on the other side of the building, hears them, right? No, nothing to do with him, his name's not getting dropped, doesn't matter. He walks around. Hey fellas, could you stop the gay jok jokes? I've actually kissed the bloke before and I identify as queer. And they it's just like to me, there's obviously no issue with it, but to take it personal and to come around to the other side of the building when it has nothing to do with you at all is crazy, especially in America. Like, and there's I know I'm gonna get it's it's no issue with any of it, and as you just said before, it doesn't matter, like everyone's getting roasted, and it doesn't matter what for for, but here, no matter what the joke is, like literally no matter if I made fun of your jacket, right? It's like, oh yeah, you're fucking wearing a puffer jacket, whatever, right? You get you I get you get told off of that on a job site, it's crazy, like it's crazy. You can't say shit.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

Fuck face.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

It's like your favorite puffer jacket, you just had to call it a fat face.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

No, but I was just trying to use an example, had nothing to do with the jacket, that's my point. Like, I I don't I I don't make jokes like that. Like, I don't need to do that. Like, I I I'm not gonna get it, but the fact that like that they're c like if someone's making a joke about something that I like I value or whatever, or I'm like on a job site and it's not about me, it's not near me, I just keep working and ignore it, or you give it back, or you you you pick something like if they're doing something that's personal, you pick something just as personal to them and you give it back to them. You don't get offended, you don't have a cry. Like, it's obviously not about being gay that I'm talking about, it's just about being soft and not being able to like like I hear all types of shit on a job site about me, rude, but you don't take it personal. And absolutely in America, everywhere I've worked, you just have to bite your tongue, you can't say anything. There's no a lot of the job sites I've worked on, there's no job site radio, so it's fucking quiet as I wear my own headphones. I wear my own headphones at work.

SPEAKER_05 19:07

Nah, yeah. See, you have to, you have to nah. I I I couldn't do that. I feel like, like you said, it doesn't matter if they're like gay, queer, black, white, orange, like it doesn't matter what they are. If if I'm having a yarn with JP and I'm calling him gay, and another and some gay dude that isn't even in the conversation comes around and goes, hey guys, like can you please not do that? Like, I would respect him for coming around, but then you're getting roasted.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

Like, absolutely, that's the point. And and it was never about you being gay. No one cares that you're gay in a way of like, bro, you do you, man. It really does not affect me. I don't care, I don't think anything of it. But if you're gonna come over, I'm gonna be like, oh, shut up, gay boy. Like, like, not and then once again, once again, I don't care that you're gay. It's just because like no matter what it was, if you had boots on that I made fun of, right? I'd say, oh yeah, they're nice boots loser. Like, no matter what it is, it's not because he's gay, and I know like people, I I couldn't believe it. Just watching how that clip, like people just spun it so much. I was like, damn, these people are just crazy. Like, for one, it's like it's a 30-second clip off a 40-minute podcast, and they just take that that 40 seconds and like cream you for like some of them, even some of the direct messages I got. I'm like, fuck, I have to like you have to explain yourself, or you don't have to, and you just go with it, and who cares? But I haven't figured out where I'm at yet.

SPEAKER_05 20:36

Yeah, well, see, even like it, it it it doesn't matter, like the most straightest of straight blokes will get called gay and get teased for being gay. Like, sure. It's like it it doesn't matter what you are, like everything is on the table when you're on a construction site, and if you're gonna cry about it, you're gonna get roasted even harder.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

Absolutely, absolutely, it doesn't matter what it is, and you you have to harden up or or give it back, or just don't get offended if you don't like it, like you need to keep working. But it's crazy how the culture's changed. Like, um, to to discord to get off the topic a little bit, you are this is gonna, I think this might crack you up, to be honest. There's a local footy team, and when I say footy, I'm talking Aussie rules. Um, and one of the dudes, it was hilarious. He hit me up a few weeks ago. Good bloke. If you listen to this, he's he's Aussie, he's a great bloke, cool guy. And I went and you know, played, played one game. Uh yeah, it was alright. Uh played it, went to play I played, I got through half a game last weekend. I think I'm not sure if I told you. They couldn't handle the Aussie chirp. So I'm you know, the classic, where's his head arm? Where the fuck's his head? Or like whatever it is. The umpire, none of them, I I kid you not, none of them could handle it. They're like they'll they'll almost want to pick a fight with you, like they get so mad about it. And like, like, no matter what it was, the culture was it was. Dead, the game was quiet, people on the sidelines quiet, no one's yelling out, like using their voices. I'm here, I'm behind you. You know, to me, the game was just quiet. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_05 22:09

So I left halfway through, but so were all of them. I'm guessing all of them weren't Aussi. The bloke that reached out to you was Aussie, and the rest of them were American.

SPEAKER_04 22:19

Yeah, there was I think there were two or three Aussies, maybe one on the other side. I don't know if he was or wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 22:24

What you should have done is you should have worn gloves to the footy game, thrown them off like hockey, and then started punching people in the face. Start the wrong hand on people.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

The thing is, I don't even know if I'd throw it back. Like like it's it I just couldn't I just couldn't believe how soft people are getting.

SPEAKER_05 22:47

So that's today's day and age, unfortunately. That's why I always say we need to bring back supervised bullying.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, supervised bullying for sure. And just enough that you learn to stick up for yourself without you know someone top of themselves.

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Well, you did so you did say that there's no site radio on site. I would love to know what's your go-to music on site with your headphones in.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Well, headphones, well, you know what I've been- I know this is this is like 2012 vibes because I've been missing home. Bit of hilltop hoods and 360 get me through the day. Not bad. Yeah, that's good. That that was that's been like because lately I've been trying to in because my so when I moved over here, my intention was, well, what I thought was the right intention was to like, so I hadn't spent much time here, like you know, assimilate to a culture and and and you know, not just be like an arrogant prick, this is how I do it at home, blah, blah, blah. Like, I really tried to, oh yeah, how do you guys do things in in every way of life? Like in like, you know, job sites, job sites, of course. I'm like, I'm not gonna come over here and say, this is how we do it at home. When but when I realize oh I've learned better ways at home, um, I'm gonna do my better way. But what now lately I've been trying to bring back more of that. So the music lately this week it was a bit of 360. Um, and then I or like old Aussie rap. I don't mind a bit of country, but uh not like full-blown country, I suppose some of the newer age country. Um what's your go-to 360 song?

SPEAKER_05 24:15

Mine's Price of Fame.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

Uh I was just about to say price of fame. That's what I pumped on first. Uh, what's his other one? Shit. Uh uh, like obviously there's his most common boys like you.

SPEAKER_05 24:26

Yeah, you're a girlfriend. Yo, 360, get him, get him, get him.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

Who's it? Oh, oh no. Yeah, 360 is common for you, right? It's uh no, it's it's the one with not the other one with that goslin chick. I think it's ghosts or something, but I like that, it's not quite as popular. Um, and then yeah, no, it's it's it's it's certainly a culture shock, and I don't know what to do to be honest, because I more and more I think about getting out of the trade here because it just doesn't seem to be worth it.

SPEAKER_05 24:54

So then what what what what what E now you're a rock star, get to get on that still film. If you're thinking about getting out of the trade, what do you think would be a go-to job for you, like uh Walmart or short bus driver?

SPEAKER_04 25:13

Well, here's the thing that where I am in T like, well, here I also one thing as well. On my Instagram, I said I say I'm in Tennessee, like Chattanooga. Technically, I'm actually in Georgia, but I'm in North Georgia on the border. Um, so I just put on the internet Chattanooga just while I was you know testing the waters with the content to make sure people were happy. But we are moving to Tennessee next week, and the minimum wage in Tennessee is $7 an hour. So I wouldn't go work anywhere else because there's so a waitress or a server known here, they work for solely like tips, and their wage, I think once again I might be a couple a little bit off, I'm pretty sure it's two dollars an hour. So they get two dollars an hour plus tips, and their tips is an uncertain amount. So and then like the minimum wage, I think, is seven dollars in Tennessee, and and so then if you go work at like AutoZone, which is like um Auto Barn, yeah, it's like the same as the car shop, you're making like twelve dollars an hour, and it it it's like it's that's to me that to me that's insane. I I can't go do that. So that's why I'm gonna take it.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

No, I I don't know how they do it.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

What the what? Yeah, I don't know how they do it. How is it? I don't know. I suppose they're just billion dollar corporations. Yeah, that's what that's what I wanted to ask.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

Like tipping with like waitresses and waitresses. You have to bring out tipping at the grocery store.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Well, words are not working. Yeah, tipping culture. I think tipping culture is obviously mental. Yeah. Now you've been living there for a while. What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Uh my well, there's two trains of thought about it because the the individual working on $2 an hour, knowing that this is their livelihood, you you you're gonna tip because you're like, I know that this person's livelihood depends on it. So then I'll when I go out for dinner, you you tip 20% of the meal. So it's like that's like pretty go-to, which is I know it's a lot, and and but then do I agree with the sentiment of a business not paying their staff a livable wage, therefore the responsibility is put on the consumer. Absolutely not. Like, that's ridiculous. It's like it's 2026, you're charging you know $15 for a damn hamburger, you can afford to like you can afford to pay your staff now. But because it started, I think to my knowledge, tips started because they couldn't afford, they go, well, we can't afford to pay you, but you can work for tips off people. So I'm pretty sure that's how it started, but now it's like it's just a piss take. Like we went, you go get takeaway food, and the person serving you, the tip screen comes up, and it's like, what? You sold me a bottle of water. Like, I'm not giving you the three, like, I'm not paying you to press a button on the screen that really I could press. Like, so it's it's for everything. Like tattoos get tips, they expect a tip. What's barbers expect a tip? Tattoo artists, tattoo artists? I thought you said taguarists. I was like, what the fuck is that? Tattoo artists, shit. Yeah, like so it's just they're taking the piss now, and I think it's a joke, but it's hard because you you I know I know that with the servers, that's like their livelihood, and and and you're a dick, like you're a dick if you don't tip. Oh, like for servers.

SPEAKER_05 28:46

You have to be a right piece of actual dog dookie if you are going out for a meal and they're like absolutely amazing, they're waitress, they're coming around, they're giving you all the wicked service, and it's like, oh yeah, here's a tip, and you know that this like this is their livelihood, this is what they're they're working for to be nice to you, and you leave no tip. I can understand why they get so mad.

SPEAKER_04 29:09

Oh yeah, like two two dollars. Imagine imagine you work an eight-hour shift and you made $16 and you like that's crazy, bro.

SPEAKER_05 29:19

Pay your pay your people more, bro. Stop being a stupid asshole. I mean, especially if the food's not cheaper.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Like if I'm going to a restaurant and it costs the same as it does here, like where's that that money going? Pay your staff. If we compare, I don't know. If the meal was cheaper, if things were generally cheaper in America, I don't really know how to do it.

SPEAKER_05 29:35

Big restaurants, big big big business owners, pieces of shit, pay your people properly. I agree.

unknown 29:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

What about like fast food? Like you go get a Macca's.

SPEAKER_04 29:45

Oh, I I I haven't had Maccas yet, so I don't really know, but I presume it's still tips.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

Like I don't understand how that all works. Like, how is it because you just said the other jobs don't pay well either? Like, if you're at AutoZone, you're making $12 an hour, now you go get a $30 night out. You then have to pay that extra on top. Yeah. Like a day's wage gone instantly.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

I don't know how I actually don't know. Like, I'll just be like brutal it, brutal. I don't care, I'm open books. So, like, I make so I make $32 an hour, $32 an hour on wages, so not subbying. And I haven't met someone in the South, so I'm not like California, I made more in the south. I haven't met anyone on wages that would make more than $27, $28 an hour. And I'm sure there's plenty of guys that do. Like, I know of people that get $40 and stuff because they've been with their boss for years. And I told my boss too, I was like, I want 35 to 40. And he's just, it seems what I well, I from what I'm comprehending, it's just they actually don't know what to do with someone who can run a job well, and they're not used to it. So then when you say that number to them, like I've never paid anyone that you're like, well, I understand you've never paid anyone that, but you're a bit like you're about to because I'm worth it. Like, and and it's like it's so I don't know how people do it. Because I'm on 32, and that's like I can sit, I can save, I can live well, like we're we're getting a nice supply, we're we're getting a more expensive place next week because and that's like to everyone here, that's a decent wage. And to me, I was on way more money at home. I was like way more money, it would be way more here.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Like we would be on oh yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:23

So and and it's like that's like a good wage, and I just couldn't believe it. I I I know Americans like I I couldn't believe that 32 an hour is unheard of in this area where I live. I was just like, what? Like, you pay your top guy $25 an hour and he takes home like seven, eight hundred bucks a week, and he's got to pay a mortgage, he's gotta survive, like he's gotta like you know, buy his kids food and do his insurance and do all this stuff. And it just is what it is, and and no, no one really like seems to question it. Like, and then the people that do question it end up being the business guys, and then they do the same thing to their staff, so it's like the cycle never actually breaks. Right, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 32:00

Have freedom. I'm sorry, you you want to talk about freedom? You guys don't have freedom.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

You're getting one of these ones, you're getting stooged, brother. It's like the most brainwashed country in the world, I swear.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Freedom, freedom, use our shit. Uh that's horrible.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

It's it's really like, yeah. No, it's really like so and the thing is though, I still feel like being here, if you have the like, so how I look at it from being I've been here since January 2025, and obviously, like, you know, grew up in Australia, lived in Australia. Everyone, most people in Oz can have a mallow life, a good, a good, decent life from just working a regular job. Like, for example, my wife now, when she came to where I'm from in Mornington, there's the grand hotel, like the pub, she could go make, I can't remember where she what she made in the $30 an hour, just starting there. Whereas here, you can't do that. And so then I what I find is a lot of people, like not a lot of people, I think it's more rare, but if you want to do well, I think you can. And I know it's changing now, like because the wealth gap is getting way more, but all the a lot of people I've met that are bosses now, like you know, they start from nothing, they work 60, 70 hours a week, they hustle and they get above everyone else, but you couldn't do that just saving on a regular job. Whereas at home, I think you I feel like just from what I've seen, like you could still, well, not maybe not anymore, god damn, but like our parents could still but buy a house, yeah, definitely not anymore, but like could like my parents still buy a house doing regular jobs. Like, obviously, my age group, like that's part of the reason I was happy to leave because I'm like, fuck this, like, oh, there's the swear job, but um like you can't, but it it is so I don't know how people do it here. I really I really don't get it. I uh I just I work next to guys that are in their 40s on like 26, 25 dollars an hour and and they got three, they got three kids and shit, and I'm thinking, well, I make 32 an hour and this ain't enough money, I want more.

SPEAKER_05 33:56

Like, yeah, it's crazy. What's the I mean, in saying that though, like the house the housing prices are a lot cheaper over there compared to here.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

It's just none of them are straight, they're all wonks.

SPEAKER_05 34:07

Probably they're all built probably like shit.

SPEAKER_07 34:10

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

I know that the um like the the housing market is a lot cheaper over there, therefore, like those type of things. I don't know about food and stuff, but um in saying that though, you're also like tipping your waitress or your waiter. Like I don't know, like does it work out the Australian dollar compared to the US dollar, or is it like shitter over there? Because I feel like it sounds way shitter.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

I'm trying to I haven't done like I haven't sat down pen and paper, like figured out the numbers, but I have for example, obviously the big thing right now is like for anyone in their world is the fuel and like the price of fuel, and I don't know what you got what are you guys paying it currently? Well it's going down, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

I don't know. Yeah, just like a couple weeks ago, we were at uh for diesel we're at like three dollars twenty a litre. Now it's only like two dollars thirty, two dollars forty somewhere. Yeah, it's still above three, isn't it? No, what the fuck? I think.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

No, my unleaded has just dropped below two.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Yeah, diesel is you gotta go to which server? Some are still charging three dollars. Yeah, some are like what are you paying?

SPEAKER_01 35:26

What are you paying over in America?

SPEAKER_05 35:27

They pay per gallon, I think.

SPEAKER_04 35:29

I was paying. Oh, I I same thing. I knew which servers to do it to and not to go to, but uh five dollars fifty a gallon, which sounds like a lot, but it's still way cheaper when you convert. And this is where like I posted a thing about the price of fuel, right? Like just it was just taking the piss, like, and people were still getting butthurt, like Aussies were getting butthurt about it, and it's like, yes, yes, it is cheaper here, but I was paying $2.80 for diesel a gallon, and then two weeks later I'm paying $5.50, which is you know close to double. And then I've just told you how much people earn here, so then it's like, well, I don't know, because the the diesel is cheaper here, yes, to the Australian. That's like people are replying, oh bro, that's still cheap. Why are you bitching? I'm like, yeah, but the average person makes like $12 an hour here, so a double uh double in like price increase is huge to the average person, and even to me, it's from I make say I make I end up taking home a thousand bucks a week, right? It's really at home, I wouldn't even settle for that anywhere, not much at all. And but here it's just like that's top, that's top of the line, which is crazy. Like, I've I I I'm I won't settle for that. Like, I'll do it for a bit while I you know I've only been here five months in this town. But so then it's like if I'm taking home a thousand dollars a week, I was paying $120 to like for my truck to fill it up, and now I'm paying $205. It's like so it doesn't matter like when you do the maths like that, that's a fifth of my wage just just to fuel. So then it's like apprentices at home that I talk to on Instagram, they're making a thousand bucks a week and they're paying a day's wage, and so I'm paying the same thing, but it's just because you're earning more and the fuel is a different price. So I'm like, I don't know what the answer is, and I don't know what works out to be more expensive. I'm sure Australia works out to be more expensive or well, more not by much to not by much though. So it's like to your dollar, maybe to your dollar, it might like it might seem more expensive, be like, oh shit, that costs this much, that's crazy. But then it's like, yeah, well, over here, like as I said, it's like they're earning fuck all, and like some of these blokes I'm working with are like 27 an hour as a subby, then they're paying taxes and their own workers' comp and insurance, and it just it's like ends up being like not much at all that they're taking home, and yeah, well then it's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_05 37:58

The Australian it's 71 cents US to the Australian dollar.

SPEAKER_06 38:03

Oh wow, wow, that's uh better than when I moved here. Um $27 uh Australian dollars US is $37 Australian.

SPEAKER_05 38:21

Right. So you're they're working for $37 essentially in here in our dollar. Yeah, is where most qualified cheapies would probably be getting forty, fifty, plus. Yeah, and that's like on the lower end.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

Yeah. So $50 uh $50 on wages I thought was where I'm from, is that is that not normal? I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

He's he's shaking his head. I thought I remember talking to Rhode and stuff like chippy wise and Zeke. 50 plus an hour as a chippy? Where?

SPEAKER_00 38:57

What uh what were they making?

SPEAKER_05 38:59

What's what I said? Are you saying that's less?

SPEAKER_00 39:01

That's a lot.

SPEAKER_05 39:03

How much do you get paid? How much do I get paid? Yeah, I'm not a chippy. Yeah, but you're a mechanic, so and I'm FiFo. Yeah. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

So what's as a chippy in town? I thought like 45 is the absolute top you're gonna get. Like I was talking to Brody about it. It's not a lot. Really?

SPEAKER_06 39:23

Yeah, damn it. Straight out of my apprenticeship.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

Straight out of my apprenticeship as a subby. I got 55 an hour as a subby straight out of my time.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

Yeah, that's over easy, but it's a lot different.

SPEAKER_04 39:38

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

Over this side.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Wow. That works out to be shit everywhere, eh?

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Get Brody on. Send him the link. Um, divide time, what is he? He's somewhere. He's like seven hours behind, eight hours behind.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Oh no, forty-five fifty an hour is the average.

SPEAKER_06 40:01

I mean, that's not far off.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:07

Yeah, that's that's the average so the average uh hourly rate for a cheapie is forty-five fifty an hour.

SPEAKER_06 40:16

Yeah right. That's what that's what I thought.

SPEAKER_05 40:19

Yeah at least at home, yeah. That's fucking horrible. I don't know, to me like that because of what I'm on. Um I've got my own company though. I'm also of course you don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:31

So for tax reasons, he makes four dollars an hour.

SPEAKER_05 40:34

Yeah, that's right. I make way less than everyone else. But like just hearing that, um, and I guess the like what I'm used to, like 4550 just sounds way too low.

SPEAKER_04 40:49

It's nice to say, Yeah, it's cooked, like even now. So my boss, I don't know, because I don't know who follows me on social media, the guys at work. So, but my boss is a really good guy, and I I we think alike, and he does really good work, and then he wants me to run one of his jobs, his next ones, like because I haven't been with him long, but that's what I said I wanted to do. Like, I want to take some responsibility, and in in in sight of taking responsibility, I want to get paid more. Like, and and we want to do he wants me to run it, but then I'm seeing his guys, and I'm having a bit of a conflict because I'm like, I can't I can't run these guys, like you lead a horse of water, but you can't make a drink. I'm like, I can't run this crew, like I'm gonna tell them how to use a level, and the wall's still not gonna get put in level, and then it comes back on me, and it's it's a nightmare. So, and and then the money doesn't reflect it. It's like, oh yeah, could I get 35 an hour to run some duds and it just doesn't work?

SPEAKER_05 41:47

How do you think it would go if you did run a job site with those boys and you were to go to them and be like, yo, stop being a dodgy prick and actually do shit right, plumb this wall up, do this, uh do that. Do you reckon they would actually listen?

SPEAKER_04 42:01

I know the guys I'm with, I reckon they would. There's one of them who has a hard time listening to me because I'm younger than him, and he has said that, and he's a bit a bit of a condescending prick about it. And I just was like, I just put it straight and said, like, mate, may the best man lead. If you're better than me, you can lead. But if you're doing shit work, I'm gonna like in the boss has told me to lead, I'm gonna lead. So he, a couple of them would have a hard time because I'm younger than him, and partially, of course, I understand, but it's still bullshit. If the if the guy, if this guy's hired me to do this job, I'm gonna do the job if I'm equipped to do the job. So I reckon a couple of them would have a hard time. A couple of them would want to know and they would listen, but it would just be so hard. Like, he wants me to run a whole frame, a whole frame for a house with not one other guy who's a competent who's a competent carpenter. Like, it's like leading six or seven guys to just it's like having six or seven apprentices and no other carpenter. I don't know how the job's gonna get any flow happening. Like, it's just not gonna like how make someone someone make that make sense for me. It's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

Oh my god, America in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_05 43:02

Yeah, that's also the thing with construction sites as well, is that like once you work with a certain amount of boys for a certain amount of time, like you start to get um like a rhythm on how they work, and like you're watching what they're doing, you're like, all right, cool, I can go over here and I I can do that while they're doing this. And like you said, the flow, the flow is there, and it just makes everything so much quicker and run way more smoother. If you've got a bunch of people that just don't want to listen and it's like, I'm gonna go do this when it kind of contradicts like what someone else is doing, it makes the whole job so hard.

SPEAKER_04 43:34

Oh, yeah, absolutely. And that's not even like before anyone has a crack, like it's not even an American or Australian thing, it's just it's like it's just sh it's it's just shit. But then that's what I've noticed here. Like everyone, everyone like and and I know it's different on every job site. God damn, some of these people I know they're gonna come, but it's like that's what I've seen a lot is so many people individualizing their work just because people can't handle working together because that they can't like take criticism. Can't they can't take instruction, uh um instruction, not construction, sorry, and they they can't take it. So then, like, I've worked with a lot of guys where the boss is just like, then this is different crews where the boss is just like, Oh, yeah, just put your headphones on and you do a different task. And I'm like, why would you hire two people to work individually? That does not make any sense because the whole point of hiring a second person is like two people do three people's job together, like, and so it's like I don't, I just yeah, it's it's crazy. And I I do want to, I think in my area, my my the bot the guy I work for in my area, in my city that like the closest one to me, Chattanooga, which is like two hours from Nashville, they he's like one of the bet most well like great, he's got a reputation, and and so then it's like if I'm already with one of the guys who's got the best reputation in town, there is like unless I go to a bigger city, they're just I'm like shit, what do I do? Like, this is just the standard. It's not getting better, eh? No, that's what I'm trying to say. It's like I may as well quit. Hey, uh shit, you already capped out, brother.

SPEAKER_05 45:04

I know, I know, I already have, it's so obvious, too. But yeah, that's a difficult one, man. All I have to say is um Americans need to up their standards because y'all are shhh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

It's it but yeah, it's it's it's pretty the trade's crazy, but I don't like I try now because I I'm someone who like you know, I I try not to, but I'll take work home and I'll think about what I've got to do tomorrow. How can I plan the day out?

SPEAKER_05 45:35

I do it all.

SPEAKER_04 45:36

Yeah, save up if you're working with someone, or if say if I'm leading someone, I'll stick back an extra hour to set the next day up. Uh, so then it's so easy to explain because I've or for example, like crown moulding in the ceiling is real common here, like all the I don't know if it's cornice or whatever, I can't remember what it's called at home. It's real common here, and so then say like we're doing different angled ceilings, I'll stick back, I'll figure out the angles, I'll figure out all the different cuts we've got to do. I'll write on there. Like if I ask for a left piece or a right piece or a this piece, I'll have it all there. So then, so then like you can go, hey mate, I just need this piece cut at this. I've got a template for you if you can't find the all this, and that prick won't even rock up the next day. And it's like, are you fucking kidding me? Like, it you you go through all this effort and and and there just doesn't seem to be a point.

SPEAKER_05 46:27

Yeah. So whip out the pistol.

SPEAKER_04 46:30

Yeah, it's a bit of a oh my god, I got the grenade again. That's why. Or I'll just tell them, oh, oh boy, oh boy, shut the fuck up. Shut up. Oh my god, yeah. But I get that's still there from the last time, actually. I haven't moved it.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

Yeah, but um, right, I'd be I don't know, I don't know what to do with you Americans. Uh I don't give you any credit.

SPEAKER_04 47:00

Yes, but yes, and and I think you asked before we kind of went off course, like the housing price. Um around here, I think a living well, the houses we were looking at that we could justify living in it. And the thing is as well, I I I just um I know it's gonna be really hard to move into one of these houses and we're gonna have to rip it apart and rebuild it. But um 160,000, 200,000 around here seems that you could get a decent house. You can buy apartments for like obviously way less condos. But that's that's cheap.

SPEAKER_03 47:36

Yeah, well, and then for something of the same quality in this town, like one just went for sale um when I was down near your mate's place, and it's a two by one to get a little share out back and do like like it looks nice, but it's old. And it's like six hundred and forty thousand. Yeah, that's so that's over to off is above that.

SPEAKER_05 47:56

So two hundred thousand. Holy shit. Would you say is that like the the average? That's like a three by two or four or four by two in America.

SPEAKER_04 48:04

Oh, not for America. Uh uh so the California, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, New York, Maine, New England. Um, from what I've heard from the boys on site, like, and living in California, obviously, that shit's like home prices. Like houses, houses in California, everything is the same as home because like diesels, five dollars all the time, so they went to like eight dollars. Um, the homes, like we were living in this 500 square foot condo, and I think you could get 300 or 400 grand for it. It's like you know, one bedroom apartment that has no backyard, no nothing. So the prices are very similar to home, probably a touch cheaper, but the south, so like the south, the southeast, and all that is just like how how how can you put it politely? Like lower IQ, so then therefore everything else is a bit lower.

SPEAKER_05 49:00

You put the square brick in the circle hole, so so more like more like JP's uh type of people.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

My brother is in Christ.

SPEAKER_04 49:13

Yeah, and it's just like so then of like everything else, the standards are so lower in this area, but the South is like I didn't when I moved here, I didn't really understand like oh the South of America, like or like what what is that? Like, because they had the Civil War, and the North and the South had their war over like oh uh from what I know, and I'm only speaking from what I know, and I could be wrong, but like a lot of it they say now it was taxes, this and that, but it was like f free free labor, so slaves, and the south wanted it, the north didn't want it, and so now you've got the Confederate flag, which is the South, like so people hang that, they're proud of the South, and but that's what they were fighting for, so you question why. But I went to someone's house here uh in Florida, like I see the Confederate flag everywhere, so it's like it's the racist.

SPEAKER_05 50:05

Is that the one that's on the Dukes Hazard car? Is it it's like the blue crossing? That's on the on the roof, and it's got the stars on the blue cross on it.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Yeah, so it's not the greatest thing, and uh, I went to someone's house in Florida, you know, you'd think he's just a normal American, you know, he's a he's a he's like a site foreman, he's got some cool cars, lives in Florida in his garage, Confederate flag and SWAT sticker hanging up. I was like, holy shit! And this is like like I know his wife well, and uh we they we met him in Oz, and then so we met him in Oz, they live eight hours, we gave a set, and I was just blown away because I I it was just totally normal. Like we're sitting in his garage, you know, eating food, sitting by his cool hot rod, and I look over and I'm just like this motherfucker's got a like swat sticker hanging up, and it's just like it's just okay. Like, and it's it was just yeah, that that's a mind blowing. Like, I drive and see the Confederate flag hanging up people's houses, and they'll tell you it's like not that, but then it's I don't know what else it's for because like the big thing it was over was for slavery. So, how can you say it's not?

SPEAKER_05 51:11

The flag is racism and slaves and shit. Is that what you said?

SPEAKER_04 51:15

Well, I a lot of people will tell you it's not, but that's what the war was over. So then I don't know how it can not be, and that's what a lot of people will tell you. But then because the country's so politically divided, like the liberals and the conservatives, you how do you even get you can't really get a truthful answer from everyone because someone's like leaning too far this way or leaning too far that way. So I don't know what to think personally. Um, but most common ground I hear it's they're racists. So Jesus Christ. Well, how many branding flags are over there? Oh dude, oh god, I'm gonna I'm gonna get the I was in California and I didn't know I'm gonna go get myself canceled once again. I moved, I moved in. We can always cut it out. I moved into my father-in-law's condo, so he rented it to us, and we were in like the LGBTQ, like Mecca of California, like of San Diego. It was the rainbow flag town. So some of the shit, like I've seen grown men wearing bondage, fucking like hell yeah, I want to be a part of that. Uh not when you're working on your truck and they come and get you this close to you and they don't know how to tell how Noah is. And I was too nice, I should have just cracked him in the jaw, but instead I just tried to like further him away. And like just some of the shit, like rainbow flags, the whole town, every shop, rainbow flag, like the the the town that you can Google it, it's called Hillcrest San Diego, and it's like they're known for that. Even like one thing, like I know I'm going off topic, but it's just like cultural things I'll share. Like, like living in San Diego and going to see, I'll try and find the ad and I'll send it to you after living at like some of those mil multi-million dollar homes, but then driving half an hour, and you're on the border of Tijuana, which is Mexico, and I remember going to like it's like a swap meet, which is like a big market kind of thing, and it's a massive market, but people go and they just like sell shit cheap. And I went to the my first swap meet, and it was like being in Asia. Like, I saw I I I I I like won't unsee it. Like this span this Spanish lady in like a you know, what like a um van, like a soccer mum van, like you imagine, like you know, like a seven-seater, but she had that many kids that her boot to the seats was like you know, this far, and there was like four or five kids in the boot with the door closed, like on their face, with a fanful of kids, and that's just how poor they were that they had to put their kids in the boot this far away. Like, if I had if I did, if I had crashed into them, I would have killed all their kids. And so it's like to see the wealth difference within half an hour, or like, was that's the biggest thing for me for America is like the poverty. So I can walk right now, like literally right now, five minutes behind me, I can go for a walk, and there's people's houses that are bordered up with plywood that they're living in, but then I can drive 15 minutes, multi-million dollar houses, people that will never ever ever have to worry about money within 15 minutes. This guy can't seal his house up, so poor. This guy fucking throws money down the train because he's got so much of it, and that for me is the hardest thing I've had to deal with being here is the wealth gap. It's like because you just walk past it and you just see it, and you're like, like, holy shit, this person can't afford a car for their family, they've got all these kids without shoes on, but then half an hour away, there's billionaires living in San Diego, and that's been the hardest part for sure.

SPEAKER_05 54:49

Yeah, that is. I mean, you kind of just I was gonna answer uh ask that question, but you just answered it off the bat. Oh, that is. I think that is a good um good way to end that episode, mate. Oh, no worries. You're you're an absolute legend. What's the time there? Bedtime now? Almost?

SPEAKER_04 55:06

Oh, let's have a look.

SPEAKER_05 55:07

Uh it's 8 30, but same.

SPEAKER_04 55:10

We um yeah. Well, one one little cool thing about well, I know you said end it. We're going, we went today, we're rescued. I think we're gonna rescue a new dog. Uh that's pretty cool from a shelter. Oh yeah. But we've got to introduce him to our dog tomorrow, and then hopefully, I told you we'll get in there. We're going out country a bit. It's not that far, it's like half an hour from here, but we're getting 1.3 acres, three bedrooms, two carports, a garage, right by a lake there. I'm gonna get a boat, and that's only 1,500 bucks a month rent.

SPEAKER_05 55:40

So we're gonna I think we should uh fly over there and do some American shit with Elijah.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

You know the first thing. Absolutely. Alright, boys, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 55:50

Who's who's gonna have the airport and just have the entrance?

SPEAKER_05 55:55

We'll just have to re-write that Spider-Man move just all with weapons.

SPEAKER_04 56:03

You'll have to if seriously though, if you if you do want to come over, you have it, like you have a place to stay, and uh more than be more than happy to accommodate and show you around. And like it is a cool look, don't get me wrong, it is cool. There's plenty of things to do. Oh fuck, I'll tell you the country buzz. But before I can meet you there, show you around, just uh keep your belt on nice and tight, I'll tell you what.

SPEAKER_05 56:26

Well, I I I thought so. I'm gonna end the episode, but I had a thought of a good idea of yesterday's episode.

SPEAKER_03 56:34

What do you think the best power tool overall will be out of everything? Power tool brand.

SPEAKER_04 56:41

Okay, uh, I I have a complex answer because I I've I've attacked the DeWalt, I've attacked DeWalt a bit on my Instagram, so um I I don't like I don't I went for him a little bit. Um, but the thing is they I have Makita. I I have Makita, I've got a little bit of DeWalt, but if I was to go again, I'd honestly buy Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_00 57:07

I told you!

SPEAKER_05 57:09

All right, good answer. I reckon what you can probably do is like take that and right before he says uh Milwaukee. Just edit, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:16

He said Dewalt Milwaukee and Makita, so we can just make him say whatever we want. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 57:21

Motherfucker just I just dumped myself there, didn't I? I didn't even realise. I literally said all three of them. You can just clip that shit, fucking boom, boom, boom. He thinks they're all right there.

SPEAKER_02 57:32

I run up gay. I run you. I'm from Hillcrest. You're close now. Your ass is going to go a little more.

SPEAKER_05 57:41

Mate, I wanna I want to end that episode there. That was absolutely amazing for a part two. Um glad I could, or we could talk about some of the things that we unfortunately couldn't talk about last time because you dog shit internet.

SPEAKER_04 57:53

It was dog shit. That was totally me, I realised afterwards. I'm sorry, fellas.

SPEAKER_05 57:58

Um, so yeah, if you guys want to watch episode uh part one, uh go to the link below. Um, or if you want to go over to Elijah's Instagram or any um of his content will be below as well, and then all of our links are also below. Thank you guys for watching. Um see you next week.