TWI #14 How Tech Habits, Retail Trauma, And Pro Wrestling Shape A Restless Mind

Ever started a show by admitting you lost the plan? Same. We kick off with a messy, honest check-in, thank listeners from Melbourne to South Korea, and then wander into something real: how to stop fighting your brain and use simple tools to make life easier. Dave finally leans into Notes, Reminders, and Calendar, strips the iPhone of noise, and watches screen time drop. It’s not a tech flex; it’s about designing your inputs so your attention serves you, not the other way around.

From there, the energy spikes with a righteous rant about Christmas creep. Decorations on 1 November, ads everywhere, Mariah warming up in the distance — retail veterans know the dread. We unpack why seasonal overreach feels suffocating and how to push back without becoming a hermit: curate your feeds, mute the triggers, choose streaming wisely, and protect your headspace. The thread connects neatly to our earlier theme of intentional tech use and attention management.

Then we step between the ropes. Dave previews a no-rope barbed wire main event, remembers light tubes and scars, and sets a milestone that means something: keep refereeing until 50, making it half a lifetime in the ring. There’s grit and joy in choosing to stay where the work still matters, even when it bites back. If you’ve been juggling craft, chaos, and a calendar that keeps slipping, you’ll feel seen here.

Hit play for a mix of candid comedy, practical habit shifts, and a love letter to the strange communities that keep us showing up. If this landed with you, follow, share it with a friend, and drop a review — what’s one small change that actually made your life easier?

Transcript

Cold Open And Self-Intro

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Take off your fancy crack up here! A cornucopia of stupidity masquerading as a podcast. Critics have hailed it as everything from and The only announcement is that there is no announcement.

SPEAKER_07 0:15

Hello, welcome back. This is the Team Wing It podcast, and I'm your host, Dave Morgan. We are now at episode 14. Which well, to tell you the truth, I've struggled to get here, wildly inconsistent, as per normal. But you know what? Anyone that knows me knows that's what to expect because, well, it's just who I am. Time poor, I get distracted very, very easily. So, look, let's face it, I'm lucky to get 14 episodes in one year, and I still have a month to go. Or a month and a half, actually, till the end of the year, so let's see what I can do in that time, shall we?

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Those tattoos will make it harder for you to get a job. Yeah. Well, so will my personality. I'm gonna have to pretend to like people all day long. At least I can look cool while I do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:08

Those tattoos Now, before I talk about what I want to talk about on this and why I'm not gonna talk about what I should be talking about, I would like to say thank you to all my international listeners. Don't get me wrong, thank you to all the Melbourne listeners. Most of them are my friends, and most of them will only listen to it because they either know me and they're just waiting for me to say something stupid, or they're just actually genuinely interested and supportive. So in that case, thank you very much. But I looked at my statistics, and it's something I generally don't do because, well, I don't really care that much. But I got a little bored, so I went and checked this out. Now, Oceana, so Australia and Asia, make up 72% of my listeners. Most of that is Melbourne, Australia. But 1% is South Korea. So someone in South Korea is listening to me, and thank you to you. Hopefully you just like the accent, because you probably don't understand what the hell I'm talking about. Now, uh Europe, 9%. So thank you for the people in in Europe, Switzerland, and these those sorts of places. I naturally write down individual countries and cities. And North America has 15%. So I appreciate it. I appreciate anyone from that doesn't know me that actually listens to me. I mean, man, you're taking a risk. I don't know what I'm talking about half the time. So I know you're not gonna be following this. So the only places that don't have listeners are South America and Africa. Now, to you lot, pick up your game, raise your standards, start listening. Team wing it, goddammit. But thinking again, if you're not listening, how the hell would you hear this? I really haven't thought this through very well.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

And if you hit a motherfucker once and ain't nobody to break it up, you need to keep hitting him because when you stop hitting him, he's gonna start hitting you.

SPEAKER_07 3:07

So what I have been doing lately, well the last couple of episodes that I've been recording, is I've been writing stuff down that I want to talk about. Generally I'll either flick through my photos so I can see where I've been, what I've done, what I remember, or if I think it's stuff, I'll write it down. And um so I made a list. Then I lost the list. And I've spent the last half an hour looking for that goddamn list, and I really cannot find the damn thing. I can remember one thing that I want to talk about that was on that list out of a list of a few, and for that I needed Josh here. And Josh is not here, and I will not have Josh till the weekend, and we're not gonna be here this weekend, so it's a case of God damn it. The one thing I can remember, I don't even have the person I need here, so it's like god damn it. So which leads me on to my next topic.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

This album has been made possible through grants from the following organizations the Institute for Yahtzee Theory, the Society for the Preservation of Spanish Rice, the Bank for People on Horseback, the Ancient and Honorable Order of Pricks, the International House of Cream and Sugar, Local Twelve of the Ballbusters Union, the Laser Enema Foundation, and the National Society of Total Peckerheads.

SPEAKER_07 4:29

Now, for someone like me who's into tech so much and I love my tech and all the smart stuff and all this sort of thing. I'm not very well organized, and so I have actually started using the calendar on the phone, reminders on the phone, notes on the phone. So yeah, I've started actually writing shit on the phone, so 'cause I always have my phone. So I figure why not actually use the technology that I actually love? So from now on, there'll be no lists written down on paper because I obviously cannot be trusted unsupervised here to just keep hold of shit. And um so yes, I've actually been figuring out that with my iPhone I can use notes and reminders and calendar all in one thing, and with all the Apple products in my house with speakers and computer and TV and all this sort of thing, you know what? This really should simplify my life so much more. And it's amazing that I've it's taken me this goddamn long to figure it out. I mean, really. How the hell have I managed this long not knowing how to do that? I can hook shit up, I can connect shit, I can do all that. But using reminders using a calendar I mean seriously, before every family do, I always message my own mum and go, What time of the hell what time are we meeting and where is this venue? Because I just uh my memory is terrible. My friends know this. People who don't like me even know this because most of the reason is because I've stood them up because I've forgotten that we're meant to be catching up. And um a lot of shit on my phone now. So I have simplified my phone. I've gotten rid of a lot of the bloated shit that I had. And it's just basic now. It's actually quite good. Trying not to use Facebook and all that so much and um just actually use it proactively. It's amazing. I've like halved my screen time by taking half that shit off the phone, which is another topic entirely. I don't know how I got onto that from this, but you know what? Just follow the bouncing ball, people. I did get asked if I had ADHD the other day, and uh no, never been tested all this. Yeah, but you just think different, and yeah, I don't know what they mean by that. I mean I think I have a pretty straightforward way of thinking. It's not like I divert or take tangents or get distracted easily. Not in the slightest. I don't know why people ask me these sorts of things, and the fact that it costs like fifteen hundred dollars to get tested. Don't ask me why I've looked that up. But if you get a healthcare card, maybe you could do that, and I need a healthcare card. That reminds me, I have to do that too. Welcome to Intermission.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Yeah, Intermission.

SPEAKER_07 7:46

Now, since I planned on doing this podcast a week or two, a week and a half ago, Josh and I went to Eastland and it was November the first, and we were walking around, and it was a Saturday, I'm sure it was Saturday. And it was like what the fuck? There are Christmas decorations everywhere. It's November first. Halloween was the day before and Eastland is covered in Christmas trees and Christmas decorations, and storefronts had all these Christmas displays. It's like how goddamn early my birthday's in January. I'm sure they're just gonna start loading it from there. Wait, January, Dave's birthday, Valentine's Day, let's do Christmas. How about let's not? Because I'm starting to get annoyed. And then on the Sunday the second, I was watching HBO Max or one of these streaming services that have ads and stuff, and there's a Christmas ad from Woolworths. No, get stuffed. I will not be dealing with this. On that alone, I almost cancelled my subscription because you know, first world problems and all that sort of stuff, bitching about shit that I can control. And this is why TV is just not right because there are too many goddamn Christmas ads already, and it's only a matter of time before I start hearing All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. And oh god, she was actually playing in Melbourne last month, and a friend of mine from work went and saw her, and her favourite song was All I Want for Christmas Is You, and that was the encore, and it just pissed me off hearing about it. So, yes, this whole Christmas in November thing is just really upsetting me right now. Don't know why. It just I think it's the 24 years of retail instead of the 12 days of Christmas, it was the 24 years of retail that scarred David and made him horrible. Just around this time of year, David just gets err and just wants to start strangling anyone in red suits.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

And pull your damn pants up. Won't you kid these days?

Christmas Creep Rant

SPEAKER_07 9:49

And here we go with the wrestling portion. I promise I'll keep it short. So Friday, December the 5th, will be my final wrestling show of the year. And it will be headlined by a no-rope barbed wire match. Whereas Mad Dog and Cracker Jack, yes, that is right, I said Crackerjack and Mad Dog had one of these matches around December last year, and Mad Dog broke his arm, needed surgery. And um it didn't go so well. So therefore, why not? One year later, let's do it again. Now these guys have been brutalizing each other since before I got into referee. So they've been stabbing and beating each other with various objects for many, many years. Mad Dog loves his doing his death matches. He's the one that hit me with fluorescent light tubes in a match and caused me to bleed all over the place one time. Crackerjack has beaten me up too. So the fact that I'm going to be stuck in a ring with no ropes and just barbed wire around it as the ropes. And I'm going to be in there with these lunatics on December the fifth. I make really bad life choices. But what do I say? I enjoy it. And I'll probably talk about this on the next episode. If there is an episode before December the fifth, knowing my track record, there may or may not, who knows. But I had a thought. Now I'm 47, turning 48 in January. If I referee until I'm fifty, I would have been refereeing for 25 years. I would have been refereeing for half of my life. So I think that's actually pretty good. I think I might try for that. Because I figure, you know what? I'm having fun. I'm like, it gets the end of each year, and I sort of think, uh, do I really want to do another year? Do I really No, I'm actually having more fun now than I have in a long time. So god damn it, I will referee until I'm 50, maybe beyond, who knows? And I will continue doing this and babysitting these lunatics. Because, well, who else is gonna do it?

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Let's get ready to remember. But you know, one person in particular was an asshole.

SPEAKER_07 12:10

Now, I've ended this. It's time to close. And to tell you the truth, I couldn't find a song that I was really feeling the vibe of right now. So I thought, you know what? While I was looking for a song, I found a bit of comedy from a guy called Stephen Hughes. And I don't know if he's still doing comedy at the moment. I know he was sick for a while, he had some something wrong with I don't know. And he did this bit about why we should not watch TV. And I thought it was great because I don't watch a lot of TV. And so I just thought this was hilarious, and I'm gonna throw this in. And I hope you all enjoy it. And I will see you next time because you know what, it's getting late, it's time to end it, it's time for me to go to bed and get my beauty sleep. So, you know what? Hopefully, I can get back to this very soon. And I will see you on the next episode. And don't forget to follow the YouTube channel just in case I ever get around to doing new shit. So, yeah, I'll see you so later.

Wrestling Finale And Barbed Wire Match

SPEAKER_04 13:10

Well, fuck the world is mental, isn't it? I saw the TV. I know that's just some people go, well, I see it every day. Well, you fucking shouldn't. You should stop. That's why they're called TV programs. Stop it, don't watch it. Bad I've watched it for ten years, and I'll tell you why, because I'm intelligent.