Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie“Sure, you can borrow it!” Famous last words. We share stories of borrowing gone so wrong, from shattered to dented to stinky. What happens next? The awkward “hey, so…” conversation. Loves it.
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There's a term lying flat that's being thrown around, and it basically means and this is a movement. We know that people aren't that keen to coming to work anymore since COVID, I think, Tommy, we're slowly getting a few more back in the building here at Nova.
Yeah, five days a week for most people here.
That's great news. And on level three we've had three or four brand new vending machines put into entice of stuff.
Working hard, muscle, How they work?
Are they work working hard? They're working hard.
Well, we're still getting some toast, Vegjim, what else do we get in there? We're getting the toast, he's a toasty Still free you're at Nova, Yeah, still free, and the little bags of Smith's chips and some cupcakes.
But don't forget the Garlos poste. You can have a sausage roll at nine point fifteen.
If you feel any.
Time of day you want good. Is that there's a sign that says when they'll be ready to.
Darryl bray Wait. Performing horses on a Friday is good for me in the office.
I love that.
Yeah, I know it costs the company quite a bit, but it just gets everyone up.
We booked him for a year every Friday, good luck, Daryl. This term lying flat means basically, we're not interested. This is sort of the thirty in below. We're not interested in joining a workforce where we're going to spend thirty years plus dedicating our life to somebody else's business. We want the freedom to do what we want, when we want, and if there's a bit of work in it, then yeah, I'll get involved.
It's actually, do you know what? This is an interesting conversation. I've been having it with my best mate. He's a national sales manager right makes the company a lot of money, Kate, and he's been.
There for quite a while. Asked for a pay rise, got knocked back and I went, what you need to do?
You need to find out how much money you'll bring it in for that company and then get a percentage of that. Yeah, he goes, I know, mate, but it's too hard. And you know I've got a good relationship with the boss.
But I said, but.
This, I think the boss has taken the po belizhead of you, because you know what, You've been doing this job for so long and you've built that company up, you deserve a cut of that.
Yeah.
And also I think that in this day and age, loyalty, you know, it should be if that person is turning up day in, day out, and as you said, has worked for them for a long time, it'd be nice to think that that doesn't go unnoticed.
And the other thing is too, I think in workplaces, like any relationship, it has to work for everybody. So if you've got your mate FITZI who's disgruntled because he doesn't feel he's being paid enough, then he's got to have that conversation with the boss. And I think there needs to be a bit of a balance here because they're working for me anymore.
Because you give me more cash.
The next step is the older all right, Well I might go and have a look around.
Yeah, just to see what their reaction is.
And they can say that too.
Well, you know, if you won't do it, somebody else will.
And it works because we say at to Tom at nine am every morning and he goes, what you're going to get someone else?
Guys? I will get that.
Yeah, and they'll go and get us something from the vending machine. Do you know what. There's a lot of sort of you see it on TikTok a little bit too. On the talk where you have you have people and they're going.
This is you.
You're the only one on TikTok in the tam Yeah, Jess loves TikTok.
Am I on TikTok.
I don't know.
Some people send it to me and then I happen.
To be able to watch a TikTok. But I don't think I'm subscribing.
Should have to ask you not on TikTok?
You should? You should put your video of the Anzac biscuits on TikTok. That would raw go, oh my god, Kay, Richie say, I hope you're listening, biscuit queen, but do you know what's on TikTok. They've got those people and they get this like an American voiceover, and he goes, why would you work in a dead end job for fifty years to put a meal on the table and at the end of fifty years you still don't have anything. It's like, oh my god, it's so true. Why do we work month to month to put a meal on the tip?
But don't you get is it about the journey not just the destination?
Guys?
The end of it, you're going to be broke anyway to.
Survive value You get to survive what if you weren't working?
No?
Are you eating?
No, that's not the point. The point is he's saying, why wouldn't you follow your dream instead of working for the man? Why wouldn't you give your dream ago knowing that it could be something that could actually put the meal on the table and that you might actually enjoy that.
It's risk, isn't it.
People to take the risk.
Get to a point in their life and they're married, with children and a mortgage and school fees and swimming lessons and life and food and et cetera. Like taking a risk is even riskier than when you're twenty two and you kind of.
Imagine there's fancy American voiceover says, and then you wake up in a bet of regret.
Oh God, because this sounds I've got to get on. This sounds so uplisted.
And then when and then he finishes by going, give me one Mugarita, going so.
Why did we do this whole story just so you could sing one Margarita?
Do you know what I've only just been I've only just got up with brother.
I don't even know what that is. Is someone going to explain that to me, mate, or get out?
It's as simple as that.
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Owning a van, well, I mean it's good.
I mean obviously larger families have bigger cars.
To transport their kids.
But when you have a van for work or something like that, I think in a friendship group it can be. It's the worst because you know what, all your mates want to borrow it. Yeah I can.
I've got to go pick up a couch.
Can I borrow your van, housemate? Can I steal your van for a night? Yes?
So in our friendship group it's Coops. Coops has got a van. He's got two larger vans. So they do sort of.
What kind of is it a nice van?
Moving van?
It's a great it's a great van. Cooper and co And what they do, Kate, They basically will do your house up before you sell it, right, So they've got a huge warehouse full of furniture, so they just have to fill up the vans all the time to go and do people's houses up before they sell them.
You know that.
My wife, she buys a lot of clothes from op shops and my mum and her then they sell it.
We had to get the.
NRMA to come out because she's absolutely drained the battery. So the first time she's borrowed the van, Mum and BJ did a market right and they had the sliding door open the whole time, which left the light on.
So for the whole day at the markets the lights on. Kate. They go to start it up to take it home and it's not starting.
That's not good. At the end of it, the.
Battery was fine, the starter motor was stuff. So Bjay's stuff that first of all. Last night she said to Lee and I said.
I said, you've already stuffed up with Coops. Maybe give it a bit before you ask again.
She said, no, no, I need I need to go pick up something from Bunnings and it won't fit in the back of our car.
Yeah, booming.
She gets on to Coops. Coops goes yeah, that's fine. Bj no worries borrow it. She said, oh, can I take the dog with me? She goes to Bunnings beast She leaves Beastie in the van. Kate, now, Beastie, no windows down. It's a different environment for Beastie. He's never been in the van before and he gets a little bit nervous. And then two words that you never want to hear when someone borrows your car is anal glands.
I didn't know what you were going to.
Say, Oh you never Normally the two words are thanks, mate. The two words are different today than anal glands.
So if anyone's had a dog that has had problems with anal glands, you will know that this is the word smell.
Can you explain, Ryan James for the non dog owners.
So dogs have these glands at the back that they build up, right, and it's basically, Kate. To get rid of these, You've got to go to the vet and the vet basically has to what you have to drain them and it is the worst.
Does it smell?
Does it hurt to think of?
No?
Well, I've always been sedated, so.
Everyone in the room was sedated by the end.
So what they on the inside or the outside.
Are you talking about testicles.
And they're on the inside. Well, it's you know what, it's similar to a hemorrhoid. But you can drain them and get rid of them and they're gone. But then they build up again. So when dogs get really nervous, Kate, unfortunately they leak. So it's leaked all into the van and you cannot get rid of the smell.
Just as.
At the bottom, Coop leaks out.
It has to go to work today and it smells like a teenage boys bedroom.
It's out of Could.
You imagine that, right? Could you imagine? Then he's got his furniture. Coops is someone's hie Coops and co And they want what the furniture, the new couch in the living room and maybe a throw to go over the back of the couch. And it just stinks of dog anal.
It is the worst smell. Did you break something that you borrowed?
Shana?
What did you borrow from a friend and break?
I actually borrowed it from I borrowed my boyfriend's car at the time that I needed it for a couple of minutes. Slide about how long I needed it for because he'd be at work and I hit a pothole going down the highway in Armadale to tamwith and I blew three tires. I had a team for myself. How no one else to course, I had to call him crying.
You said you were going to have it for a few minutes, but you were on your way from armored to have one.
Yes.
Yeah, I was like, I just need to dust down somewhere. It'll only be a few minutes. It was a minute.
That's a whole on the phone. Have you blown more than one time?
Not a very good one.
But it is.
The city and with a with Kate Whichie podcast.
The good news is Jesse, if you can kick off a bit of love. Kate Ritchie has been on a date this story disguised as one of her friends. Yeah, I've got a friend I made who did that as well.
Know it was my friend. I knew you would do this.
My friend. What did you wear, Kate wearing?
Oh?
Well, well, I was wearing my flannel at pajamas at home while my friend was texting me about.
This disaster date.
Now, don't do this, because I knew if I brought a dating story to the show, you would try and dress it up like it was my dates.
All right, what's Julie duck?
All right, disaster.
Dates and get look, get involved. You'll know why this date was a disaster in just a minute. But thirteen twenty four ten if the date went horribly wrong. Okay, this friend of mine went on a date on Saturday night. Now the thing is, she's gone, she's already had dates with this person.
In fact, she's dated this person before, and she likes him.
Yeah, yeah, they look at they speaks.
The seagullt's coming to the studio.
It's because you've got me on high. I might I feel too much.
I'm super highly vigilant. This is me being vigilant, worried about what I might to say. So my friend goes on this date. She's been she's gone out with this person in the past, and.
He's like, oh, do you want to go out? Do you want to go and have some dinner?
Mafia?
What is he?
A few bowl?
Says he?
He's like, we should get some dinner. But I know what my friends like.
She she wants to go for dinner, but she's not going to let him book. So she decides where they're going, right, so that happened to be in Brisbane. So she's like, well, I'll book because she wants to make she's the foodie. She wants to make sure that they're going to go and have something. Anyway, so it's booked. Speaking of Red Rooster, No, you're not going to believe this. I had a warm chicken roll.
From Red Browster.
Can we just stick to the story. Please, don't worry about the hot chicken roll.
Okay, but how good are they? Not enough mayonnaise? I have to say?
Okay anyway, Okay, so she's booked the restaurant. He is going to drive. Now the fact that you need to know that they've been out on before. You need to know that because the conversation in the car on the way there is a conversation between two people who know each other quite well. So the whole way that his car's a bit stinky at the moment, like it must be letting off like a like a few mey smell back into the car through the aircut. So they know each other so well, so the whole way on the date, every time there's this whiff of the smell, he says to her, did you just far like that's the kind of level.
Of such a comfortable, aren't they Jeah, I label it banter.
And it's brilliant because it's it's almost like you like that you know each other that well well.
My friend liked that.
She that they knew each other so well, but is also shocked that he would say the word hard when they're meant to be doing like the date thing. Anyway, they have dinner, lovely, he's doing this cute thing where he goes.
And opens the door for her and all that.
Like, they're very conscious that it's kind of awkward because they're going back over old ground.
So they go and have this amazing dinner, beautiful dinner, right, and then they go they and then they go.
Back to the car right anyway they go, They get in the car and they start driving, and.
He does the joke again. He does the joke of Google.
And now this story is maybe not great, but maybe I'm not retelling it the way that she.
Told it to be.
Going yourself.
She's he does the old oh did you hard or whatever. She's like, you're doing the league and then she goes.
And she's seriously at that point things that maybe she did.
She didn't know, maybe she did.
Maybe she's at that point of the date she was just feeling so happy and relaxed that maybe she did. She knows she didn't. She doesn't do that stuff. She never has anyway. And then she could smell the distinct smell of dog, right, and then then she has that tiny because she's a thinker like that. She so she goes from the did I fart to the oh my god, his breath is rank. So there's like because maybe she's thinking the dog, because sometimes breath can smell like dog.
Can I date? You want to point at me.
I'm just doing the show. I'm doing like the magic fingers.
The winkles because I'm nervous and I'm actually quite sweaty in boiler suit.
And anyway, she has she because it's dark. They've been on this date at night.
She has walked, he didn't do the car, that he didn't open the door for her to get in the car. She has in the time that they've been at the restaurant, someone has.
Walk their dog past the car.
Let the dog crap on the lawn outside her door. So she's on this date, they're trying to have this wonderful time. She treads in the biggest, stinky, hottest, freshest, steaming piece of dog boo in her chanel sandals.
Oh my god, you do not need that. She's got identical ones to make a fake gels are from Cabramatta Market.
And she and because he is such a wimpy thing, he's like, you know.
Those people who don't smell check. So they're pulling over.
He's saying to her, God, I wish you'd just been letting Fluffy off the chain rather than treading in dog in my car. So they've called up one hundred meters down the road. She's trying to scrape like with the with the with the.
Chip, the wood chip from the garden, from the car dealership.
She's trying to get the dog, the dog off the bottom of your lovely sandals.
Then he makes her put those sandals.
He's standing at the back of the car with the boot open and whether you put that spare time.
There just the it's not the boots put them in there. She's like, they're not going in there because that was the disaster date and everything was something else stink dates stunk.
Will it survive?
What the shoes?
She's not worried about that. She's not worried about the relationship. It's not a relationship. It was just catching up after a long time, very.
Into each other.
Well they are.
You know what, if you can get through someone fluffing in the car on the way to the date and then dogko at the end of it, you're meant to be not.
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