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TWI #4 Catching Up After a Long Hiatus: Wrestling, Rent Hikes, and Bubble Tea Adventures

• David • Season 1 • Episode 4

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Dave Morgan breaks his podcast silence with a refreshingly honest return to Team Wing It. After struggling with the content creator's paradox—living adventures worth sharing while forgetting to document them—he's finally put down his phone and picked up the microphone again.

This episode captures the beautiful chaos of Dave's life as he prepares for Easter weekend with his son Josh, featuring Beyblade tournaments and their shared wrestling obsession. At 47, Dave proudly declares his refusal to grow up, sharing stories from his 22-year career as a wrestling referee and his excitement about meeting Japanese legend Great Muto. His passionate embrace of wrestling fandom offers a liberating reminder that adulthood doesn't require abandoning what brings us joy.

The conversation takes a relatable turn as Dave confronts the harsh reality of today's housing market. With his rent jumping from $405 to $450 weekly, he weighs his limited options and contemplates working additional shifts—a situation many listeners will find all too familiar. Between his amusing first experience with bubble tea (likened to "drinking frog eggs through a straw") and his closing nostalgic song reference, Dave creates an intimate listening experience that feels like catching up with an old friend. Whether you're a returning listener or discovering Team Wing It for the first time, Dave's unfiltered storytelling and self-deprecating humor make for a podcast that's authentically human in all the best ways.

Ready to join Dave on his next adventure? Subscribe now and see what chaos unfolds in episode five!

Speaker 1:

Welcome back. This is episode four of the Team Wing it podcast and I'm your host, dave Morgan. It's been a while because really I've had not much to talk about and I've been doing videos on and off and I've had other shit occupying my time. So I thought finally I got something to talk about. So let's get on with this, shall we? Obviously specific red flag skipping breakfast. These people are scary as hell If you can make it to 1pm on nothing but rage and coffee.

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I had a couple of people at work find out about the podcast and I actually asked why didn't you keep going with it? It's not that I haven't wanted to, it's when I've actually sat down to do it. I don't have anything to say. I do plenty of stuff. Josh Leanne, myself, we all go out and cause chaos and run amok, and her kid you know the kid's girlfriend, ben and Sam come along with some things and yeah, the problem is I film stuff and I should do more videos, but I don't, because then I forget about that too and I get distracted quite easily because I've got the brain of a goldfish most of the time, except for details, and, yeah, I just keep forgetting. So I have done stuff and I have got lots of video on my phone that I really should do something with. But yeah, I just keep forgetting. I come home and one thing I have to get out of the habit of is I'll just look at Facebook. It's like, oh God, I need to get off that goddamn phone again. So this is why tonight is the night I've decided bullshit, put the phone down. You have no reason to be there. You have the house to yourself. There is no goddamn excuse, asshole. Get on that goddamn computer, do your goddamn podcast, put something out and, um, yeah, it may get listeners, it may not, people may have forgotten or they're just not at all interested, but either way you can say you've at least fucking tried. So that's why we're here. I figure you know what I told myself. I was going to make a real go of it this year and I've already just fucked it. So never mind, back on the horse. We get Tally-ho, we shall ride on, but my friends, if I fall backwards will catch me.

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So as I record this, it is the Thursday before Good Friday, so I can't remember the actual date, but we're in April and we're heading into the Easter weekend, which I'm working. Good Friday and Easter Monday. I've got Josh over the weekend, so Easter with Josh is going to be fun. He's got a Beyblade tournament on Saturday which he'll enjoy. He did his first one a month or two back Actually it was January, because it was Royal Rumble time and he came second or third in that Third actually and so we're going again. So he's going to have a blast. He's practicing Beyblades drive me nuts, but he's enjoying it. So, ah well, the things we put up with for our children, I guess.

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And then Sunday is day one of WrestleMania, so I'm looking forward to that. Josh and I will kick back here. Now the problem is day two is on the Monday. Now both these events start at 9 amam. So on Monday I've got to stay off Facebook to avoid spoilers. But then I think I'm staying at Leanne's place on Monday night, so I won't get to watch Wrestlemania until Tuesday. So that's going to be a long time to stay off Facebook. So I'm thinking I should delete Facebook off my phone for Monday. That way I won't get tempted to look at it and find out anything. So that way on Tuesday I can watch it and go ah, excellent, I have had no spoilers for this.

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And look, I'm 47. I like wrestling. So if you don't like that, I don't give a shit. But you know what? I refuse to grow up. I've been refereeing it for 22 years, got an event coming up and was a special guest the great Muto from Japan, which is, oh man, it's a wrestler I've loved watching for years and years, and years. So it'll be very, very cool. And he's another wrestler that spits mist. So hopefully by the end of the night I'm not covered in some sort of weird color, like I was a couple of months or last year with a Japanese guy called Tajiri. But I guess time will tell and, let's face it, if it happens I won't be too upset because, let's face it, I like getting involved in this sort of shit. The crazier the better. But you know, one person in particular was an asshole. But some of you are an asshole. And then that's when you know like Joey Mercury elbows me and I'm like, hmm, and he like wigs out. He's like, yes, you're an asshole. And I was just like, well, fuck you. So another news.

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Now, normally around this time of year I'm badgering the real estate people and going look, do I have a lease renewal? Am I offered to stay here another year and all this sort of shit. And without even asking, one guy sent me via email. I'm like, excellent. And then I read it they're upping my rent. It's like, yeah, bugger. So instead of $405 a week, $450. So an extra $45 for this place.

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Now, not many of you have been here, but it is a rather small little two-bedroom unit Not really worth $450. So I did a little bit of research Now between Baronia to Ringwood to Lillydale and sort of around this sort of area, there are three units in the $450 price range and none of them actually look any better than this place. So I was like I may just bite the bullet and stay fucking here. Now don't get me wrong. As I have told people in the past, I actually like this place. I've made it my home. Josh likes it. We have a good little blocky unit here. The people are friendly, there are dogs that I look after, the neighbors are all cool. There's a pool that I've never swam in, but that's beside the point.

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So I may actually have to pick up an extra shift here and there. I was enjoying working four days a week and living comfortably. Now I might actually have to work five days a week like a peasant, like I used to. Well, actually, I used to work seven days a week back in the day, but I'm not fucking going back to that. So, yes, sure, I'll keep looking, but yeah, I think this is where I'm going to be.

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Yes, hmm, goddamn market prices and all that shit. Yeah, what do you do? I mean it was bound to happen. I mean, I've been lucky to have it the same price for the past two years, almost three years, so I really guess I can't complain too much. I guess I really do have to start buying lotto tickets and praying for a miracle. And when I do, god damn it. I'm buying a castle, I'm building a moat, barbed wire, razor wire, landmines you name it and invite only Because I ain't telling you, bastards, where the landmines are. So it'll be a case of ha-ha. Josh and I will have cannons on turrets and it'll be great, illegal, but great fun, I'm sure, when you are asked to describe what you do for work, good evening. We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little. We are now qualified to do anything with nothing. So let's end it here Now.

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For those of you wondering everything's good with Leanne, I tried bubble tea the other week for the first time. Mine was good. It had like compost in it slices of fruit, but I called it compost. Leanne had one that had little bubbles of shit in it and I drank one. It tasted like a big bowl of snot and sucked up through a straw and it was odd. Apparently I've got to try a different type of popping bubble or something or other like that. So I'll give that a shot, we will give bubble iced tea another shot and I'll try and drink fucking frog eggs through a straw or whatever the shit they put in those things. So I'm looking forward to that.

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But as we leave you, I found this song on TikTok. Now I don't know who does it. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to research it, but I can't be bothered. So it's just a song. They're coming to take me away and people my age and older would probably know it. People younger will just go. What in the hell is this garbage you're listening to? Just listen to it. It's kind of fun. So yeah, on that note, thank you all for listening. Again, thanks for those who have come back, thanks for those people who are just finding this. Hopefully you find something interesting. Hopefully I make this more regular. So, you know, let's see how this goes, shall we All right? On that note, goodbye, everyone, and I'll see you for episode five.

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Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? Well, you left me anyhow, and then the days got worse and worse, and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind and they're coming to take me away. Ha-ha, they're coming to take me away. Ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha. To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats. And they're coming to take me away. You thought it was a joke and so you laughed. You laughed when I had said that losing you would make me flip my lid, right, you know. You laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed, you laughed and laughed and then you left. But now you know I'm utterly mad and they're coming to take me away. Ha-ha, they're coming to take me away. Ho-ho, he-he, ha-ha. To the happy home.