Million Dollar Days

Celebrating One Year of Consistency: Lessons from 52 Weeks

• Robby Choucair and George Passas • Season 1 • Episode 52

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In this milestone episode, Robby and George take a moment to reflect on their journey of consistent podcasting for an entire year. Through 52 episodes, they've shared insights, advice, and personal stories that have resonated with listeners. They highlight the power of showing up week after week and how this dedication has helped them grow, both personally and professionally.

Relive the nostalgia of the iPod era while uncovering Apple's innovative branding strategies that transformed how we experience music and technology. Inspired by Stephen Bartlett's "A Diary of a CEO," we examine how Apple redefines customer experience through the endowment effect and seamless store interactions. This episode also casts a spotlight on the intricate balance of free speech and societal unity, debating the implications of censorship on social media and the divisive nature of "Welcome to Country" ceremonies in the AFL.

Whether you're a business owner, content creator, or someone looking to develop a new habit, this episode offers valuable insights. Robby and George’s experiences serve as a blueprint for anyone wanting to understand the importance of showing up regularly and putting in the work, no matter how tough it gets.

Robby:

How quick does a year go? A year goes by well. It's usually about 52 weeks, is it Usually? Or maybe 52 episodes? Do you have your laptop? Can you fact check that? Please, yeah, we'll do that it's 52, huh, last time I checked, yeah.

George:

But seriously though. Well, look, first of all, 24 is done. Like we are home stretch. There's a month left. Yeah, we're going to blink. And it's Christmas, it's holidays, it's summer, it's gone, it's gone 24 is gone. I feel that episode one or two or whenever it was, when we spoke about setting goals and what we wanted to achieve and what we're going to do and all the things that we we plan to accomplish in that 12 months, and it's done, it's done, the year's done.

Robby:

Well, first of all. Well done, seriously. Like what a year, dude how you, how good guys.

George:

What if you haven't picked up what, what we're putting down? That is 52 weeks. We are one year in to this podcast, one whole year. We haven't missed a week. Actually, I missed a week. You missed a week Last week, but for a very good reason, very good reason.

Robby:

The show goes on.

George:

The show went on. I'd actually planned to be there, except my meeting got changed and as a result of that, we signed a $4.5 million project by me not being here. So, as much as I wanted to, you weigh that up. In business, you've got to make calls, sometimes 100%. You know what I mean. You've got to sacrifice something to get something else. You've got to make that business call and hey, maybe it didn't work out, who knows, but in this instance it did. So I missed. I've missed one episode, you're one up on me, but still 52 weeks of million dollar days. What a great achievement, very proud.

Robby:

What's what? What calls for a celebration?

George:

It does. There we go, just fucked up, hopping Just as a hopper oh shit, that almost went into my water you doing yours. Get another one, mate you broke it.

Robby:

Oh shit, I broke mine too. Then I have Jesus Guys. Thanks for tuning in for all 12 months. We've got some Tim Tams here to celebrate. If you're watching, you can probably see them on the camera. It might be a bit early for a Tim Tam, but A little bit early We'll always do it.

George:

I went to the gym today, so you can have it.

Robby:

I went to the gym too, did you go?

George:

Yeah, one more popper, because I'm that pumped, probably Iggy's getting a couple. Well done guys. Uh, thanks for for being part of the journey. Guys as well, loved having you here for all our regular listeners and for all our new listeners. Welcome, um, what, what, what have you learned doing this podcast over the last 52 weeks? Bet you finish your tim tam first. Maybe I'll talk a little bit.

George:

No, no, let me talk with a Tim Tam no other way to talk and if you're listening, do an ASMR. What I don't even know what that is. Do I need to ASMR?

Robby:

You don't know what ASMR is.

George:

I probably will when you say it, you know like those videos where they do this.

Robby:

Yeah, no, we will. When you say it.

George:

You know, like those videos where they do this.

Robby:

Yeah, no what is that? What's the acronym?

George:

that was not me what's the acronym for that? Um, I don't know. So, just asmr, you don't even know what it is I don't know.

Robby:

What does asmr stand for?

George:

he's gonna. He's gonna google it now um no, it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3:

It says autonomous sensory and meridian response. I don't think it's the right thing.

George:

Interesting. Anyway, back to the question, back to the thing.

Robby:

So what did we learn? What have we learned over the last?

George:

12 months, yeah, like this whole process of doing a podcast or this whole process of everything we've set out to do. What have you learned or what have you gotten out of it? Might be another question, might be a better question.

Robby:

It's a great question. I think there's a lot. I think I'll tell you what one of my favorite things about this is and tell me if you feel the same way. But I feel like sometimes this allows us to process thoughts you know, what I mean, Even though you're doing it publicly. I think it allows you to refine your thinking process.

Speaker 3:

Yeah absolutely.

Robby:

Because, all of a sudden, if you're going to say something out loud now, you're like well, this is going to go on record. Do I really believe this?

George:

Well, how good was it. The other day you messaged me. You're like oi, do you ever listen to the podcast and think and listen to yourself talk?

Robby:

you go fuck, yeah, that's amazing advice. Like, did I actually say that that day? Was that me or was it? I saw a clip. I was scrolling on instagram and I saw a clip, yeah, and I watched it and I said something and I'm like fucking go me. Yeah, that was sick.

George:

I was like I can't believe.

Robby:

I said that. I'm going to write that down, yeah.

George:

Requote it later. Yeah.

Robby:

And I was like, yeah, then I'd answer on a message and I was like, do you ever just see a clip and think I can't believe? I said that that's a good response and just kind of because half the stuff we say on here.

George:

It's conversational. Yeah Well, my dad said that to me. My dad said shout out to my old man, thanks for watching. He always watches it on YouTube. He's our number one subscriber on YouTube and he's like oh, I watch it, he goes, I watch every episode he goes, I love it, he goes, but because you don't get very many views, it's building, it's building. It's got half a dozen orders today. We got 50 000 the other day. So, uh, yeah, he watches it. But he was telling me the other day, he goes, he goes.

George:

The stuff you're talking about is fantastic, like he goes. You're giving some solid advice and my old man's been in business for many years but he goes. You're giving some really solid, good advice and and conversation about business, about life, the, the topics you're covering, the political things that you talk about. He goes. It's really solid and great stuff. I think he goes.

George:

He's surprised that we don't have 200,000 followers across that page. It just takes time. Yeah, exactly, but that is exactly right. It's consistency, it's perseverance, it's all of those things he says well, what's the payoff for this? He's waiting to see. When do you get money for doing this? I'm like, look, I don't know the date, but does it mean sponsors come on board eventually? Probably they will. You will probably hear us plug a sponsor in the near future because they're going to say, hey, we love what you're about, we love what you're talking about, we love what you're doing. Let's give you some money and grow the platform across multiple areas, because that'll help other business people. That'll help other people doing sick shit in their lives. I'll show you this.

Robby:

I actually woke up to this this morning. I'm just trying to find it. It was a comment on the YouTube video. Oh, was it? Yeah, and it was very related to I don't know where it is my phone. So I've just changed my phone and everything's like your new one. Yeah, is that the 16? Can I touch it? Don't touch it too much Far out.

George:

I thought they got rid of one of the cameras.

Speaker 3:

That's the normal version. Oh, is it? So you've got the normal one and the pro one, so I've got the Max.

George:

Seriously.

Robby:

Yeah.

George:

That's a 14,. That's a 16.

Robby:

Yeah, so I went from the 15 to the 16.

George:

I reckon they do the exact same thing too.

Robby:

I reckon they do the exact same thing, yeah.

George:

Why did you buy one? Sorry, out of curiosity. I didn't.

Robby:

So I've got a We'll get one. I've got a plan with Telstra, oh, so it's just updated for that $99. It's a new phone, just a new phone, $99. We'll send you the latest one, send us the old one. Yeah, I like cool.

George:

Because there's people out there that they have that strong of a connection with the brand that as soon as something drops, they're like, oh, I've got to have it, it's new.

Robby:

No, it's up there every second or third year, generally every second year, yeah, but yeah, when they introduced, I think I think for the last two years now, I've had a lot of this. One Makes sense, which is good, but nothing's new about it. The only thing that's annoying about it is well, actually, you know what? First things. First. I'm like shout out to apple what a fucking brand, dude.

Robby:

You want to talk about playing the long game? Yeah, like people didn't know apple as much as, like apple blew up in the early 2000s. Yeah, apple's been around since the 80s. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yes, they had some level of traction, but they were nowhere near the size of the company that they are. It wasn't until the iPhone really came out, yeah, and that's when they skyrocketed, right. But the transfer process seamless yeah, it was so good. It even told me how long it was going to take for the phone to transfer from one phone to the other phone. Yeah, I was counting, counting down, and I just looked at it and I'm like there would be a lot of work to go into this experience this even the unboxing experience too.

George:

Have you ever unboxed an apple product like you just bought a new laptop, like how nice was the box that it came in like everything the boxes yeah exactly.

George:

Yeah, I believe you I've got. I've actually got half a dozen boxes in my cupboard as well, just from all the ipads and phones and all that sort of shit Phenomenal. And then I actually bought a Surface Pro the other day and I found that they're following suit. It was a nice box. It felt rigid, it was nice to touch, nice to feel, it was black, it was elegant. They're following suit with that as well.

George:

And something I saw on Apple when they released their, their phone. It's every time they do their um, what's it called? Their event where they talk about their new products. They always say this is our best iphone ever yet, right? They always say that every single time. It's like this is our best and most powerful iphone yet, and it's because they always compare themselves to themselves. They don't compare it to other brands, to other when did you see this? I saw it online. I saw it in a post. I didn't I don't think I did. I feel like I've seen the same thing you probably have. You probably have seen it, but I like that.

George:

There was a guy that did it as a joke, where he just kept playing like the last 15 years, like this is our most powerful iPhone, yet this is our most powerful iPhone yet, and he just keeps saying it every single year. But the thing on that is they're comparing themselves to themselves. Yeah, we are better than what we were last year. We are more powerful than what we were last year. We are a better product than what we were last year. They don't say this is a much more powerful phone than Samsung, than the Google. They don't compare that. No, no, we are in our own league. They are in their own league. Yeah, I believe so. I believe so. Apple's in their own league. It's like people either have an iPhone or how's that? So how do you say it?

Robby:

There's people who have Samsungs.

George:

Yeah, and there's no, and it's all yeah um, but it's like I heard another thing, that someone said something along the lines of you know, people who have saying samsung's just haven't made it in life yet. That's all it is. Yeah, they'll get there eventually grow up.

Robby:

Yeah, come on, be an adult like stop it.

Speaker 3:

So I got some fun facts about apple. Uh, so it was founded in 1978. Yeah, right, and it almost went bankrupt in the 80, 85, somewhere around there, when Steve Jobs wasn't in the company anymore. Yeah, and he came back in. I think it was in 1997 or somewhere around that time. And in 2001, apple actually blew up. So that is the year where apple became big with the ipod. Yeah, so the ipod was. I remember it in high school. That was going crazy.

George:

before the, I was sick dude, yeah, I remember my, my mate had one and he was just like it was the one with the big bulky one. It was like almost it was thick and it was massive, like that. He was showing me. He goes, it's got. It's got like 400 songs and I'm like what 400 songs that you've had to download and load onto?

Robby:

your. I could never afford that one. I always had the one with no screen.

George:

Oh, yeah, yeah the shuffle, the shuffle one. Yeah, I never really had one. Actually never had an ipod, no, never.

Speaker 3:

I love my ipod man also another fun fact about apple. So they do never, they never use any normal wordings like ai, artificial intelligence. They don't call it like that, they call it apple intelligence. Even for ar and vr they use every single time they use a different term yeah, and that is something that resonates with the brand. So that's right, it's a branding thing, they're having that differentiation perhaps comparatively to everyone else Touching on Apple.

Robby:

I recently read a book called A Diary of a CEO. You know Stephen Bartlett. Yes, yes, great fucking book, by the way, really Good, good, good, fucking phenomenal book.

George:

Oh awesome. I was going to buy it the other night at the airport and I didn't. I bought something else, but I'll get it.

Robby:

Great book great book, easy to read. Uh, I I really like that guy dude. I think he's he's for a guy who's 30 years old. He's that young, he's 30. Good on him, he's phenomenal. I think he's an unbelievable human being. I think he's level did you know that?

Robby:

The level of research they do when they get a podcast guest in, they go and research what sense they like, what music they like, and they have the music playing in the background when the guest walks in the room just to put them in the best possible mood, like they do. The level, the detail they break things down to is phenomenal. And he talks about Apple and he talks about how Apple's experience, the way they sell. They don't sell. Their thing is we don't want to. No one wants to be sold to. No one wants to feel like they're pushing me across the line here or they're trying to cause. Then that's when people pull back. Yeah, you push on something, you get pushed back.

Robby:

Their whole thing around selling is that the business is so well thought out that they sell through their experience. Do you know what I mean? You know you can go into an apple store and play with an ipad for eight hours and no one will tell you to leave. Yeah, I believe it. They will not tell you to leave. They'll make sure you're having the best time of your life. They sell you through what they call the endowment effect, which is let them experience it like it's theirs. Do you know what I mean? Because then the product, our product, is so good that we don't have salespeople. You come in, you play with the product. You want to buy it.

George:

And have you ever walked into an Apple store? Dude I love Apple's, my favorite brand. They have 400 people working. Do you know what I?

Robby:

mean and everyone's happy, and everyone knows.

George:

Everyone knows everything. Hey, how do I do this? You do it like this and we never did that. And they do live presentations as well. They do like live presentations on how to use the iPad or phone or whatever it is the watch, so they'll do that like once a day.

Robby:

I think it's phenomenal, dude. I think the fact that they have a business where the selling model is through experience, not through sales team and scripts. Do you know what I mean? It's like these guys are playing the game how do you beat that?

George:

Yeah, people try to imitate it.

Robby:

Yeah, but when you imitate someone, you can't pass them. Yeah, which is good. If you're far behind, you'll close the gap, but eventually, yeah, you've got to do something else to innovate. But yeah, I found that really interesting. But going back to your question, what have I learned over the last 12 months doing this podcast? Every single week, I think I've learned that. Um, I think this has been a great experience, dude. Yeah, I think this has been from like it's been. I've loved it.

George:

It's been easier than I thought. I thought it would be harder, from a perspective of time to do this.

Robby:

Yeah, also, I think we've scheduled for it, like we've allowed for it. Yeah, cause if we didn't, even I talked to people and they're like 52. Like yeah, and they're like consecutively.

George:

Yeah, it's not like I haven't missed a fucking week. It hasn't been like a fortnight where we missed.

Robby:

No, we have not missed a single week, or we've never had to pull back on an old episode to say, hey guys, you know throwback this week because we missed out on one.

Robby:

Nothing like that. We've always had a new episode every week and I'm sure there will come a time where we will throw back to an old episode that did really well for the new listeners, et cetera, but like most podcasts do. But, yeah, I think the power of consistency I think it's allowed us to understand the YouTube platform a little bit better, which we hadn't really dabbled in heavily before. I think it shows that if you want to prioritize something, you need to schedule it, because otherwise, if we didn't schedule this dude, the fact is we wouldn't have kept that level of consistency. And I think when you do something that you genuinely enjoy, like this is fucking fun, like we sit here, we have a chat, jadwin, and we're talking about topics that we both care about yeah, exactly, and I think to do that as well as have some cool guests on, yeah, I think it's shown that when you do something that you enjoy, that it's not taxing at all. If anything, it's kind of rejuvenating.

George:

Yeah, and you can take a lot of lessons out of that, even in your business as well. So that first year of business is often a grind. That first year of business you're going to go well. Am I going to keep doing this? Am I going to fail? Am I going to double down? Am I going to kill it? That first year is always vitally important and understanding that there's a greater goal at play, because it's not likely that you're going to get into business in the first year and then retire after 52 weeks. Do you know what I mean? Just make so much money, get so much fulfillment out of what you're doing. That's enough. Better stop now.

Robby:

I think yeah.

George:

So that perseverance and persistence is so important. And you've got it. Yeah, I like being aggressively patient. You still got to make moves. What do you mean? Don't be patient? Oh look, it'll come. I'll get a new office in 10 years. Dude, make moves Like you can still be patient, you can still work for it. No, no, how do you do it in five? How do you do it in one? How do you do it in three, like patiently aggressive? Know that there is a process to happen.

Robby:

I think that's a balance. Yeah, because it is like I also know people who I think there is a level of, okay, we just need to do this same thing for longer.

George:

Yeah, I felt that, I felt that in my business, yeah, I've always said it drops, yeah, um, like I called you up the other night on the way home and I said that I felt I think I'm in a drop moment as in shit's just popping. Yeah, the opportunities are coming up and it's like we're going from win to win, to win, to win, and it's great and I've always said it, I've always said it to like everyone, to my old man, to my missus, everyone I said, guys, like you don't understand, it's going to turn one day where we're going to sign up for $10 million of work and you're all going to go.

Robby:

Oh, it must be nice. Yeah, but you didn't see the four years or five years, the four Next year is my 10th year in business.

George:

Like my, company will be open for 10 years next year.

George:

Nice Scott, yeah, fuck, hey, right 10 years, yeah, yeah, and it's like now it's popping, yeah, like now it's going to take off. Next year, guys, like mark my words, next year you're going to see me everywhere, like you're going to see our projects everywhere and big jobs too. We're not like not fucking small things like here, like we're talking big, significant projects are going to be landing. I've got another two massive ones that I'm trying to sign up before Christmas and, for context, we're 10 weeks out now when we're recording this date AFL Parade, grand Final. It's a public holiday today, guys, see Grinding on a public holiday.

Robby:

Yeah, so this will air in October. Yeah, mid-october.

George:

Yeah, so that's the intent, intent to sign up another couple of really big jobs. And then it's like cool, well then, what's next year? So if I'm going to be maxed out, well, how do we max out the max out, how do we keep going to that next level, how do we keep pushing and what do we need to do? And I felt that it's honestly taken those nine years prior to get to this exact point. All the experience, all the other jobs I've had previously, the 25 years I've been in construction, just to get to this moment right now, but so many people don't have that consistency, that discipline, that belief, that patience to go. Yep, it's going to work. There's so many stories like that. What's the guy? The Colonel Sanders of KFC? He didn't become a billionaire until his 60s or something like that. Gc.

Robby:

Did he become a billionaire?

George:

I don't know. I think so, maybe, but he didn't make the big time. He didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars until he was late 60s. Grant Cardone no one knew who he was 10 years ago. No one knew who he was. And now he's fucking killing it. He's a billionaire, he's got choppers, he's got airplanes, he flies all around the world, he's got billions of dollars worth of real estate. No one knew who he was 10 years ago and now he's in his mid 60s or something like that early 60s. Yeah, I think it's like 65. Yeah, all right.

George:

So, but so many people get into ventures like the podcast and go like my dad said oh, it's a surprise you don't have more followers. We will surprise you don't have more listeners, we will. I don't know when it'll be, but we will. Every episode you do, we're going to get more every day in business. You're going to get better every single day, and you've got to have that belief. You've got to have that persistence and discipline to go. Yep, this is what's going to happen, and they're the ones that end up crushing it yeah, and I think you need to set things up in a way like this.

Robby:

This is pretty seamless. There's this podcast, yeah, like it happens, now we've got it so well systemized that, yeah, we come in we set up yeah, we know how this works I don't even know how to set it up now. You know, I never used to yeah, we know how to like the whole editing process. We've kind of filtered all that out. The clips go out. Oh, we figured out yesterday, last during the week we worked out how much what each episode cost us.

George:

Yeah, yeah, so it costs this much money per episode. So we know throughout the year we need this much money for this thing to float yeah, well, like cool, 52 episodes a year.

Robby:

This is what it costs us per episode. This is how much the vodcast costs to stay alive. Yeah, this is how much we need to make.

George:

We should go a little bit further with that. We should go what are the subscriptions we need? So the software subscriptions, yeah, whatever it is I know there. Spotify does two. Oh, is there? Yeah, there's two subscriptions. It's about $100 a month?

Robby:

Oh, is it so? It's fuckable. A month A month.

George:

Yeah, okay, so it's still added up. It'll still add up to the overall cost. But, yeah, you can go. Okay.

George:

Well, we know we need $12,000 a year, more Say a year to do this podcast, so many people would look at that and go, no, no chance. The other day you signed up one of the guests you've signed up as a client. There you go. I know there's been people that have come to see us talk at events, that listened to this podcast and came and paid money to be at our events because of this podcast, and then they can turn into clients as well. It's the indirect thing that it's going to help you get in the short term, the indirect businesses you're going to get. It's also the credibility oh dude, I think this is huge credibility. It's brand. Brand building is just, it's always a long-term thing. But brand is about influence. At the end of the day, it is about influencing your audience in a way good, bad ugly, whatever it is. It's about influencing them to think and feel in a certain way and then, more often than not.

Speaker 3:

if you're in business, it's to buy or it could just be to educate.

George:

Look, that's what the end. A lot of what the content we put out doesn't go. We have a 30-second clip and then it turns around and says okay, so you can just click the link below and buy that. Yeah, it doesn't happen. We talk content, we talk about a We've actually never asked for anything.

George:

I mean, we ask there's a couple episodes I can't remember which one it is where we look to the camera and then we say, in the top right-hand corner, you press a red button and you subscribe to the channel. Not this episode, Not this episode. I don't think we've ever. I don't think we'll say it in this one. No, I mean, don't do it now. No, we won't do it now. But I'm saying in previous episodes there's been times where you would go hey guys, just so you know, it exists on your phone, on your new iPhone 16, if you've just purchased one Pro, I think I'm a peasant, I think this is a game On your new iPhone Pro 16 plus max forward slash million dollar days podcast. Yeah, it's in the top right-hand corner. You press that button, you subscribe. Yeah, I think that's the only time we've ever asked for something Is that really asking for something.

George:

No, I mean that's gifting.

Speaker 3:

We're giving you a gift. No, no.

Robby:

It's a sense of like we've never sat there and said hey guys, like you know, we're doing this thing here, or oh. Hey, subscribe. We've actually never asked for anything apart from like tuning in at this point.

George:

Yeah, and I think I don't necessarily see me doing that, asking for anything. Yeah, like what am I going?

Robby:

to ask for no. I think this is where I see this going. At some point, I think we'll have some sponsors.

George:

Yeah, I think so too.

Robby:

I think sooner rather than later as well, yeah, and I think, that, uh, we will eventually be looking for people who want to reach the audience that listen to this, to say cool, like do you want to sponsor the show, etc. That'll be one part of it, so it'll be. There'll be partnerships. We have um to cover the cost of it. Right yeah, because that's what I think people don't like. This is a business.

Robby:

Yeah, ultimately, and it's exactly what we're talking about and covering- and then that's the only thing I think we'll ever ask of people like if you want to use this product, and it'll be obviously only oh, this is how I feel about it. We've never spoken about this, but I think it will only be a product or services that you and I both are in line with.

George:

I had the other day someone call me up saying oh, we want to really be part of your events and trainings and we'll sponsor you. I'm like, well, dude, step up First I've got to see whether your product's any good. Oh, you don't know them. No, I've never dealt with them before. And he goes oh, no, we'll come in, we'll give you, like he threw money at me. He goes oh, I want to, we'll sponsor you next event, we'll give you this much. I said no, no, no, no, chill, I go first of all, I don't know if your product's any good and if it's not congruent with what I'm doing, if it's not helping a product that I don't genuinely believe in and I never like. My reputation is very important to me in that space. I don't want to put a guy in front of everyone and go hey guys, listen to this person, I'll buy his product because I'll get a 20% cut.

Robby:

Yeah, I think that's a big problem that people make. I had someone come up to me and do the same thing and they're like, hey, can you reach out to your audience about we've got this upcoming program, can you pitch it to them? And if anyone buys in, we'll pay you x? Yeah, and I was like, no, yeah, because I've never even done your program. Yeah, like how can I go and tell people to go and do it, to go and say, hey, you should go sign up to this and I've never done it, like that would be so hypocritical yeah, and, and I just think people are too influenced by that monetary gain.

George:

Some people not all people, but a lot of people are influenced by that. I've had companies approach me as a brand ambassador. I had some company I can't remember what they were called, I probably wouldn't shout them out anyway, but they were a shoe company like Work Boots. They're like oh, we'll give you free boots, we'll give you and your whole team free boots. Can you just say you know you're an ambassador, you wear the boots, take some photos wearing the boots and then, if anyone buys it, use your code you know, boots 20 and we'll give you, we'll give them 20 discount and you 20 cut, whatever it was yeah I was just like look do you know it's?

George:

no, you know it was a. It was an up-and-coming brand. I don't even know if they're still around, uh, but it was nothing bad about the brand. I didn't think it was a bad product. I didn't think anything like that. It was more just. I didn't want it to be like I was using the platform to sell a product, someone else's product. I was using social media at the time and still am to educate, uh, entertain a little bit, but predominantly to educate and to be in line with what I'm doing in business, both from the construction point of view, but also the consulting too, and just general business as well.

Robby:

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that we don't hold back on this thing.

George:

No, I think we've covered some topics as well that people will be like I can't believe you spoke about that. I said, but why wouldn't you? Okay? So I reckon one of our best episodes, or one that I got a lot of call back on, was when we spoke about equal opportunities, men and women. Men and women yeah, like in the workforce. But a lot of people don't touch that because it's taboo, you know. Oh, of course, women should get paid the same as a bricklayer, women bricklayers and men bricklayers. They should be paid the same, not that they should be paid different, but there should be more women. Yeah, that's right, you should employ 50% bricklayers that are women. Oh, there should be more women. Yeah, that's right, you should employ 50% bricklayers that are women. Oh, and that there's a divide there, that men get preference, that men do this, that men get the advantage, like it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist in any profession.

Robby:

Yeah, I think it goes both ways.

George:

Yeah, it does go both ways. I heard this the other day. It's like, okay, let's say you and me and Iggy, we now start a childcare nursery, let's do it. No, no, but you and me are there changing diapers, 100%, yeah, changing diapers, looking after the kids, fucking feeding them with bottles. You're doing that now. Anyway, iggy, at your house he's got a youngster. But that would be fucking weird, would I? Wouldn't leave my kid, my toddler, okay, my three-year-old, my four-year-old, my five-year-old at a male operated nursery you're sexist.

Robby:

Good yeah, Nah fuck those guys.

George:

But do you know what I mean? Would you? You don't know? Yeah.

Robby:

I don't know.

George:

Sitting on the fence. I know you would. I don't even need to ask you.

Robby:

Me, I'd flip, I'd have to fight him.

George:

What do you mean? Yeah, but do you know what? I promise you so many people would think that too. Yeah, it would be odd.

Robby:

You know what it is. I'm not talking like-. It's not that people don't think that it's that people fear voicing what they really think. Yes, that's what it is, because you will get shut down, shut down. But when you truly believe something like truly believe, you're like, hey, I will get into an argument, or something like this.

George:

It's the power of free speech. At the end of the day, that's what our society is built on, and someone was saying this. I was listening to a podcast on uh diary of ceo. Actually, funny enough, I can't remember who the guest, what his name was, but he was effectively saying he goes. The point of free speech is to question authority. It doesn't matter who's in power, whether it's Trump or whether it's Biden or whoever it is, it doesn't matter. The point of free speech is to be able to question that authority, because if you can't and if you don't, it's a dictatorship. Yeah, well then it's not free speech. That's right, it's not free speech. And that's the whole thing with. Elon was saying you know, twitter was censored, you couldn't say certain things. It's still censored, yeah, but from a degree of…. Everything is censored, yeah, but I'm saying a lot less than what it was. No, it's higher, you reckon? Nah, not higher.

Speaker 3:

Not higher. Yeah, you can look at the statistics, it's actually higher.

Robby:

Statistics of what.

Speaker 3:

Of the numbers of how many posts are censored.

Robby:

No way, dude, yes, dude people are dropping the N-word, everything Like there is way more getting through than-.

George:

Look, and free speech isn't just-.

Robby:

There is some stuff that gets censored, though. Look it up.

George:

But free speech doesn't mean you can be a dick On Twitter. It does, yeah, but I'm saying that's just being an asshole. Do you know what I mean? That's just being a fucking dickhead. Yeah, you can be hateful. There is levels of hate, I suppose, in it when you talk about free speech. There are people there that genuinely hate you because of the colour of your skin or your ethnicity. There will be people out there like that, for sure, okay, but I guess that is their right to voice that opinion yeah, that's a whole um.

Robby:

Yeah, we talked about it, yeah, we spoke about that we've spoken about.

George:

Oh well, a few episodes back we spoke about the welcome to country. Actually, funny enough, ever since we spoke about that, I think we obviously started the trend. I've seen so many more articles come out about it and how much everyone's because we're in the final series at the moment with the AFL and everyone's talking about it's one of the hot topics about the welcome to country, and we spoke about that a few weeks about. It's one of the hot topics about the welcome to country and we spoke about that a few weeks ago. It is one of the hot topics, yeah, yeah, because I just heard it.

George:

I was just told they were interviewing the who's, the AFL CEO. Now, I don't remember I know his name if you say it, but anyway, they were interviewing him and they're saying oh, what do you think about the welcome? People at the moment are not congruent with it, they're not liking it, blah, blah, blah. And he was just giving the most politically correct answer each and every time, I know, and he just he was the whole time. He was just literally saying it served us so well. So I think it's great because it's it's about unity and this and this, because and then the the interviewer was saying yes, but you're creating divide. It is 100, it creates division, dude you're creating divide.

Robby:

It is 100. It creates division. Dude, you're creating divide. Oh yeah, yeah. So don't forget we're different. That's the reminder. That's right, like if we're all one. Why do we need to constantly say it?

George:

Yeah, it's like the arguments everyone's saying they don't feel welcomed, like they feel like they're not being, they don't need to be welcomed to their own country, but but also everything that follows that too.

Robby:

This is a perfect segue. Who do you think is going to win the American election? Trump, trump. Really. I hope so. No, I didn't say who do you want to win.

George:

I don't know, I don't follow it enough. You follow it quite a bit From what I heard. I think I heard something the other day. You don't, we do, I do, yeah, yeah. I think I heard someone saying that Kamala Harris is in the lead.

Robby:

Well, yeah the vote hasn't started, but Like as in if it was a preferred they reckon that she's winning a lot of people over. Yeah, If you are someone who doesn't really follow it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Robby:

And then you see the media and the media says, oh, you know, most people are voting for Kamala Harris, mo Fida. And then you start to think, oh, like there must be something positive about this. Oh yeah, leaning to what everyone else is doing. Yeah, people are ridiculously influenced, oh yeah, by what everyone else does.

Robby:

You can do something stupid. You know, if you get everyone to do the same thing and it's like a stupid thing, like they can be walking in the middle of nowhere and they're getting to jump over a certain thing and there's nothing there Like if you get 30 people to do it and they're all actors, one person who's not the actor will probably jump over it too, even though there's nothing you can physically see. We are very influenced by how other people do what they do. If we see a bunch of people running in a direction, we'll run. Yeah, we don't even know what we're running from, but like everyone's running this way, it must be the right thing to do right now.

George:

Imagine that That'd be a great experiment. We should do that, what we should just get like 40 people run down Bay Street Right and just running.

Robby:

Just like ah, yeah, just like in a fit. Yeah.

George:

And then just see how many more people, yeah, see how many poor people. Just no run, no, just screaming, just ha, ha ha.

Robby:

And then just running, yeah, and you'll see people like, oh, there must be something dangerous, and they'll start to you know what I mean? Yeah, and then people will move with that. So if the media controls, it's propaganda. If the media controls, it's propaganda. Oh, without a doubt, it is 100% propaganda. And if they control what everyone thinks, and all of a sudden all these people think, oh well, maybe she is better, half the reason, yeah, dei, like, she used to be a prosecutor, she's a woman, first woman president. She's black as well. She's black, half black. You know what I mean, the black. She's winning that side over. She did the immigration, blah, blah, blah, like. And then people think that she, this is the right thing for the country and all of a sudden they win all these votes. I think people don't understand how this is going to sound very pessimistic. But I think people don't understand how close World War III is. I think everyone thinks everything's okay, especially here. Especially here, dude, like World War III is literally. We're on the cusp of it.

Robby:

People don't understand that, yeah, and there's wars. Understand that, yeah, and there's wars happening everywhere.

George:

I don't. Yeah, I don't. Just to give you some context too. I haven't thought about it once this week.

Robby:

That's what I'm saying, because we sit here and we think everything is normal.

George:

And it's not, and it is, to a degree, for us in our day-to-day.

Robby:

If you live in your bubble. If you live in your bubble, which we do in Australia, we do. That's what I mean.

George:

Yeah, we are in our bubble.

Robby:

We are in our like, it's literally we're our own island, right. But if shit hits the fan, australia is united with the US, yeah. So if all of a sudden all this goes down, you know, have you seen like Israel, lebanon, yeah.

George:

Have you seen all that shit? Yes and no, huh, yes and no, huh, yes and no Dude. Well, I've heard the other day they were saying for no one to travel to Lebanon at the moment.

Robby:

Yeah, they're cutting off commercial flights. Yeah, they're firing rockets into Lebanon. Who is Israel? Yeah, they-.

George:

Have you got family over?

Robby:

there Me? No, yeah, no one. Okay, no one. But I do supposedly have an auntie who's on her way there.

Robby:

Oh right, yeah, which is not smart, but yeah, anywho, did you hear the thing they did with the pages? No, with which Pages? No, so they went, and I don't know the details of the story, but something along these lines. They went and got apparently the terrorist group in Lebanon went and got thousands of pages or something, and then Israel have found a way to tap into it the delivery plant, little bombs in the pages and then, once the pages got delivered, blew up and killed people, which is terrorizing. Is it not Like? Imagine you bought a whole series of iPhones for everyone and then they planted bombs in the iPhones and you were sitting there with your iPhone, like this, and this blew up. Now we all died. Do you know what I mean? That's what they did. Do you know what I mean? That's what they did, and it's like it only takes one Russia, china. Like you think, if Kamala Harris wins, china's not going to invade Taiwan. Do you know what I mean? Like we are on the cusp of this and I think the only thing that will stop it, in my opinion, is Trump winning, because he will. He'll be a difficult person to deal with. Yeah, he won't just let them run through. I think he'll actually. I think he'll actually find a way to stop the Israel power sign being.

Robby:

It's been going for a year. October last year it started. Yeah, yeah, wow, it's been going for a year. That's what I started. Yeah, yeah, wow, it's been going for a year. That's what I mean. Again, you don't so okay, that's been going for a year. How long was Ukraine going for before that? Yeah, that's still going.

George:

You don't hear about that anymore either.

Robby:

No Propaganda, they control over here. Do you know what I mean? It was a hot topic for a moment.

George:

It was also the hot topic after COVID, if you remember that it's like everyone forgot about COVID and started talking about the war.

Speaker 3:

And no one talks about either. The world's a funny place, but yeah, I think we are way closer to a world war than we think Facts. So every time a war happens, it is mostly because there is a power shift.

Robby:

Yeah, which is what's going to happen now. The US is sinking.

George:

That's right. They're no longer the power of the world.

Robby:

You know, I think someone was saying I think it was Patrick Baird David saying it the other day he's like well, can you look up the definition of a world war? He said by definition, we are in a world war right now, Like, by definition we're in, World War III has begun. Yeah, by definition.

George:

Technically, that's like three or four countries, yeah, I think there's like more than three countries at war that's determined to world war, or something like that which there is right now. You know they say still. You know you're saying America's sinking, right, yeah, there's still a powerhouse.

Robby:

America.

George:

Yeah, do you know what I'm saying? Like you, fuck around and find out? Do you know what I mean? You're talking? It's not like they're weak in the sense of from a military point of view, no, but I mean, they'll still fuck people up.

Robby:

Yeah, who though?

George:

Whoever, the worst thing is going to be is if those guys just go nuclear. That's what the that's what the fuck thing is going to be. It's if someone drops a bomb on someone.

Robby:

Right, I think there's three superpowers Russia, China and the US. I think everyone else is not big enough to take on any of those. Everyone else is just going to pick a side. Yeah, Russia and China are in agreement. Yeah, right, so now? And they both want Kamala Harris to win. Yeah, why, Get out of the way, little girl. Do you know what I mean? That's what it's going to be like, dude. This is where people forget. No, we need a female president. It's like if this shit hits the fan, is this who you want to make those decisions? Do you know what I mean? Like they forget. I've been reading a book about Genghis Khan. You're sexist, by the way Me.

George:

Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there. How dare you say that?

Robby:

I try to be Wake up in the morning.

George:

Oh, I have no impression of you today, hopefully, nah, that's a joke.

Robby:

yeah, Hopefully. Nah, that's a joke, guys. I just think you need to call things what they are. The same way you wouldn't want a man looking after your child.

George:

Yeah, it's a very similar thing. It's almost an identical example.

Robby:

Is there? Because this is the next question that will come up in most people's heads. Are you saying every man can do it better than every woman? No, I'm saying most could Do. You know what I mean by human nature? Like, your natural abilities tend to make you good at better things. And if we go off generalizing, it's a general term or a general statement. Yeah, I think Trump needs to win. Yeah, For the sake of the world. That's the truth.

George:

I hope he does. I hope he does. Are you still going to go vote for him? Absolutely, you are 100%. If I was there, I'd vote for him. If I was an American citizen, I'd vote for him. Trump, get you on the cast. We'll have a chat.

Robby:

Dude, you know, dude, what's your favorite podcast apart from this?

George:

one, of course, a good question. I have been listening. We're listening to hall moses a little bit lately. Yeah, I like diary of ceo. I like chris williamson bradley. I haven't listened to his stuff for a little while but I used to quite like his stuff.

Speaker 3:

He used to have some good guests.

George:

Maybe, yeah, I think a little bit. His guests, I think, have dropped off like the quality of them a little bit. The last good one he had was Dan Pena. That was a good episode. Yeah, they're the main ones. They're the main ones I listen to at the moment. There's another Aussie guy which I haven't listened to, his podcast in ages Money Mentor, graham Home. I just love the content he gives and speaks about. I think really helps a lot of people, can help a lot of people. He just gives a bit more financial literacy to the everyday Australian and I listened to probably the first 10 or 15 episodes that he did and now he's in the top 100 podcast in Australia. So are we Absolutely?

Robby:

Did you know that? No, yeah, of course we're in the top 100.

George:

Shut your fucking mouth.

Robby:

You don't recommend the top 100 in a category.

George:

Show me Right now I'm going to get more poppers.

Robby:

Stop it, stop it, iggy how come you haven't told me this shit I've got to sign into all my accounts.

George:

Can you find it on my phone? Find my iPhone. No, can you find it on mine? What do you?

Robby:

need. I'm all over everything. I got an email yesterday. Oh, I'm going to throw up. That's the spirit. Did you find out that definition? Iggy, Open the Google Ads app on the iPhone.

George:

Yeah, open up Google. Have you got Google on your iPhone?

Speaker 3:

Sorry, you asked me the definition of war. Of world war, of world war.

Robby:

Yeah, this is a problem because it's asking me to prompt thing on my old phone, the mark.

Speaker 3:

That's okay. So the definition of world war. It says a war involving many large nations and all different parts of the world. The name is commonly given to the war of 19. I think it's just the World War I and II. I think the definition for war is better A state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. That's war. And the world war is. Yeah, it's weird, yeah, okay, but and the world's?

George:

world is weird. Yeah, okay, but oh, pete, I don't mind, I like summer patrick at david's uh podcast as well. Oh, he goes very much into a few like.

Robby:

He goes into political stuff too, which you probably like more than I would a very, very political guy yeah, very much so, very patriotic yeah, for a guy that wasn't born in the US, yeah, you were going to say something Iggy.

Speaker 3:

Yes, so there is a different definition for world war A state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflicts between states or nations.

Robby:

That's what's happening right now, by definition. So you know, we've shared that exercise before about doing the weak ping. You know, doing the. You're going to live till this long. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, write this down, that'll do it. Yeah, so I've gone. I've taken that one level further and I think it's messing With my head. Yeah, is it? Let me tell you why, please, because then shit like this happens and all I think about now Is and I've been reading For the last few months. I've been reading a lot About history. I'm reading a book right now About Genghis Khan. Yep, okay, and Do I mate? Yeah, he is mate. I, you're probably right. Is you know who? James carney, yeah, yeah, yeah, um, that's why I said he's my, he's, he's, he's dad, it's dad's, dad's, dad's, dad's, dad's dad. Probably. He is probably a descendant, 100 percent. He is some level. That's why I like, that's why I liked you when I first saw you. Anyway, and I just keep thinking about death.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Robby:

And how? Because, like, something will happen, something will happen in business, and then I'll think about how this is not going to matter. Yeah, like we're literally going to disappear. Dude, it's like you said the other day, like everyone in 100 years on the planet is going going to matter. Yeah, like we're literally going to disappear.

George:

Dude, it's like you said the other day like everyone in 100 years on the planet is going to be dead.

Robby:

Yeah, there'll be all new people in 100 years, yeah, but okay, here's another thing. You know, everyone's like I'm doing this for legacy, I'm doing this for this, I'm doing this for that. Tell me some people who name some iconic people from the 1700s. Can you name?

Speaker 3:

some iconic people from the 1700s 17. That's quite hard Is Leonardo da Vinci from the 70s.

George:

Yeah, I mean, I'll know that I know him, but I don't know if he's from the 70s.

Speaker 3:

Or Newton Nah.

George:

Anyway. No, we don't. That's what I'm saying. You know what I mean.

Robby:

Or even okay, 1800s, yeah again, 1800s is only 150 years ago.

George:

Yeah.

Robby:

Do you know what I mean? And it's like all this shit that we worry about Every single day now. I write down my weeks so I'm currently at 2936. And then I write down my days, because the day drops every single day, and then I write down my hours. So I list the three every single day. I've got the sticky note of just the weeks, but every day, on top of my tasks, I write down the weeks, I write down the days and I write down the hours. So how?

George:

do you write the hours or the Say exactly?

Robby:

So here two, nine, three, six weeks, yeah, which is 20,549 days, which is 493,176 hours. How many? Yeah, Sorry. How many left?

George:

Yeah, oh okay, sorry, I'll get you now. Oh, how many? Yeah, sorry, how many left? Yeah, oh, okay, sorry, I'll get you now. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, so you're saying there's 293 days left until you're 90. There's 20,549 days and there's 493,176 hours until you kick the bucket.

Robby:

So every single day that drops by 24, the other one drops by one, and then the week drops once a week.

George:

Yeah, See the other thing with that is two right and touch wood.

Robby:

That's not guaranteed.

George:

Exactly, yeah, that could be three.

Robby:

Yeah, it could be, seven minutes.

George:

Yeah, touch wood again. But you know what I mean, yeah it's, isn't, it, isn't it, it's, it's, it is. I get what you're saying and that's why you know, don't fuck around. I, I, that's sick, sick, this is sick. Um, good segue. Uh, so how are you with difficult conversations Me? Yeah, having them, I think you just need to. I'm asking you like how you're with them.

Robby:

Yeah, my approach is as in having them.

George:

Do I like them? Well, I don't think many people like them. You're like yes, let's go Like something difficult. Say it was a sibling, a friend.

Robby:

Yeah, I think you just need to bring it up. Yeah, you just need to, because then, once it's surfaced, you can then talk through it and you never regret that conversation after, or you almost never. Sometimes yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You almost will never say you need to dude. The thing between what you want and what you've got is usually a tough conversation yeah, it's the action you got to take.

George:

Yeah, and too many people like don't they look at that number, like it's never ending. You know what I mean? They don't have those conversations, they don't do those things, they don't take those risks. That's what the point of what you're talking about is. It's the reminder. It's not that you go fuck, I'm running out of time, or fuck that, it's the mortality reminder. Dude, the mortality reminder is massive. It's like I had that coin. I found it in my gym bag the other day. Memento Mori.

Robby:

How funny. I looked at that photo yesterday, oh really. Yeah, there you go. Where did you see that when I was trending over my new iPhone? I was on it last night and I was deleting a whole bunch of old photos before I upload, because I usually upload all my photos but before I do I'll clean it out.

George:

It was in there. Yeah, there you go. So memento mori for those of you that it's Mexican something, whatever it is, but it's Latin, lebanese, it's absolutely.

Robby:

Lebanese Haram. Yeah, haram, guys, what's?

George:

it saying oh, so memento mori is you're going. It's a coin. There's a two-sided coin. It says memento mori and memento vivaria, something like that. On the other side and it's a one side it says you're going to die. Like the coin that says you're going to die. And then on the other side it also says you're going to live. And that's just a reminder in itself that, like, stop fucking around, take the risks, have the conversations, do the things that you want to do, enjoy life. It's it's short, like there's that statistic out there that we're one in four billion chance of just being alive, do you?

George:

know, what I mean. More is it's like 400 trillion. Is it that much? Yeah, I thought it was more, less, but anyway you're talking about the, the thing that gary veal.

George:

Yeah, yeah, yeah he mentions that, but I heard it somewhere else in a bit more like, in a bit more context. It's like that exact the you are you because of your parents having sex at that exact moment in time, 30 seconds later or 30 seconds earlier and you wouldn't be on this planet. You know what I mean. You wouldn't be in existence at all and we all walk around like, fucking, we're going to live forever. 400 trillion. 400 trillion to one is the chances of you being alive. But people still don't comprehend that. Like, oh yeah, that's cool, that's a cool statistic. Do you know what I mean and that's what I love about that exercise? I started to feel because I've turned 40 recently and I started to think like that as well, from that perspective that just the mortality aspect of it Fuck, I'm 40. Am I halfway? Am I a third of the way? Like, where am I? A lot of people live a lot less than that too. Yeah, and also, like you think.

George:

I'm probably over.

Robby:

I could be over halfway you think about how quick the last 12 months this podcast yeah, that's what I'm saying if you've been listening to this podcast one day, you've been listening to this for a year now for a year.

George:

What's changed in your life in the last year that you Conquered this year, gert? That's what I'm talking about. Yes, everything. I've blinked and it's overdue and it's like such huge aspirations. I'd written down my goals for the last 12 months and I looked at them this week. Funny enough, I was like, okay, there's a few on there that I haven't ticked off.

Speaker 3:

There's a few on there that I have.

George:

There was actually one there that I just didn't think I was going to tick off that I did. There was one on there that I was 100% like it's happening and it didn't happen. And, yeah, it was just interesting to look at that and go, well, how amazing life is and what an opportunity we have and I get to go and do this again next year or the next day or the next moment, and that's what I'm excited about.

Speaker 3:

This question was actually quite good. Yeah, Do you know anybody from the 1700s? The 1700s was boring this guy. The most famous people that you get is US presidents. Is it George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin? All boring, yeah, all boring. Next one that is well known. You see, this is where people get it wrong.

Robby:

It wasn all boring, yeah, and next one, like that is all known. You see, this is, this is where people get it wrong. It wasn't boring. There was other people living. What people don't understand is people forget. You only know what's recorded in history. Yeah, yeah, people forget. There was people doing sick shit. I'm telling you.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so other than presidents it's musicians, composers, we have.

George:

Beethoven and Mozart. Mozart, yeah, mozart, yeah. So like iconic people in that space and at the time, like they were doing phenomenal things.

Robby:

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, and then it's like now, now they're not, people don't even know who they are.

George:

Exactly, they don't go to a Beethoven. When was the last time you went to a Beethoven concert? Sydney, my Music Bowl. Did you miss that? Did you miss it? But one of the greatest composers in history, yeah. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da. You're going to hear that in movies. That's where people probably recognize that tone from or learn about it at school in music class. So it just makes you think dude oh, as I said when I've recently turned 40, I question my mortality a lot, especially because my kids are growing up now and becoming.

Robby:

I've got a 10 year old and a 7 year old and it's like my babies are gone I feel like you've had a 10 year old and a 7 year old for three years, because we speak about it so much in the podcast.

George:

Yeah, like you know, and there it's, it's. I look at that and I'll say, like I say, I would have another kid because I missed. And there it's, I look at that and I'll say, like I say, I would have another kid because I miss that. Like it's those little footsteps, the laughing, the giggling, and they're still there, like they're still my kids. But you know, next year it's 11 and 8. The year after that it's 12 and 9. You know what I mean? 13 and 10.

Robby:

16. And then it's like, yeah me drive dad, let me drive yeah like you're driving exactly what the fuck? 21, yeah, and 18, that's a decade away.

George:

That's right, it's not that far, not that far, and that whole concept has had a positive effect on my life. A lot of people look at it and go fuck, I'm 40, midlife crisis, let's go buy a jet ski, let's go buy a motorbike, let's go fucking….

Robby:

You know what dude? Hey, speaking of midlife crisis, I heard this thing the other day and they're like what the fuck? Why are we labeled at this thing Like people say. Oh, everyone had a middle. You understand that motherfucker had to work for 20 years before he could afford the ferrari. Yeah, like yeah, exactly what I mean.

Robby:

Yeah, I think it's what you should do when you're 20 yeah, I think, but if you buy it when you're over 40. All of a sudden, you're in a crisis and it's like why I've always wanted this car well, do you know what it might be?

George:

as well. It's, they're doing stuff that they did when they were younger, that's do you know what I mean? That they probably don't do now anymore. Uh, that's an example.

Robby:

I don't think it is.

George:

I think, I don't think I'm saying from the perspective of a push bike and sitting there like it's you know what I mean?

Robby:

yeah, it's like they're doing something that they've always wanted to do. Yeah, and we label it as a midlife crisis, crisis, a midlife crisis, and it's like, well, do you ever factor in that maybe he couldn't do this earlier? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Or she or she, they couldn't do this earlier in their life. Do you know what I mean? They weren't in a position to do this thing.

Robby:

Maybe it's a matter of some people look at it and regret some of the decisions they've brainwashed us to think that, dude, when I was younger, we but my parents decided to renovate the house, yeah, okay. And my uncle came over yeah, and won't be the uncle that watches this, by the way, because he'll look at me on um. One of my uncles came over and he looked at me and like we were painting and buying new furniture and doing all this stuff to the house I would have been like 15 or something, yeah, and he looked at like old man's having a midlife crisis, huh, yeah. And I was like why, yeah, and he's like all this shit. And I thought, oh, yeah, he must be. Huh, but that's how fucking brainwashed. Why? Because he renovated the house Got him. Yeah, exactly, do you, someone of a certain age, does things that are out of the norm? Out of the norm midlife crisis? Oh, you bought a new car struggling. Huh, can't wait to get, can't wait to get the yacht, the yacht crisis.

George:

Hey, I'm just going to remind people, put your sunscreen on, put your sunscreen on. Make sure you put your sunscreen on when you're on your super yacht. Dude, I can't wait.

Robby:

I can't wait. I might stand, yeah, on the edge of the yard just sunscreen people as they walk up, just wait, just yeah, the pub action.

George:

Uh, dude, can't wait. I fucking love that birthday present you got me sick.

Robby:

It's fucking. It's a fucking, it's a reminder every day, I see it every fucking day where it is, I'll look at it.

George:

Yeah, let's go. So, yeah, I I had that note that period there where I was thinking, you know, questioning my mortality, and going down that path, I'm like, okay, cool, I've got. I've also half like say, I'm halfway there. I've still got halfway to go. There's still a lot of time and even though it'll go, it'll be over in a blink.

George:

I want to make every fucking moment count and I said I didn't achieve some goals on my, what I put down, but I have achieved other things that weren't even on the list. And I look at that. I'm like that's fucking sick, that is fucking cool and it's what. It's what you make it at the end of the day you know what I mean you with, with all of your goals, with all of the things that you're trying to achieve with your life. It's what you make it, the things you put in place, the action you take, your mindset behind it. It's going to be positive if you make it positive. I heard someone say this the other day and I loved it as well. It's like every negative or every bad thing that you have that happens in your life, if you can look at it and go, how can I benefit from this scenario right now. How can I benefit from this?

Robby:

it just changes everything 100, everything you mean like making machines.

George:

Yeah, think about the worst thing that could happen. Your that's what's what. Your partner dies, your child dies that's, and look such would. I don't know how I would cope with that. You know what I mean. I don't think I would at all.

Robby:

There is. There's a great guy who actually had that happen, yeah, who has written a book called his name is Mo Mo Godat or something like that G-A-W-D-A-T. He used to be an executive at Google X and he had that happen and he read a whole book around and it's a full on, like it's a great. I haven't read the whole book, yeah, but I've watched a lot of his content and it's a great way to watch someone do what you're saying right now yeah, but see what's happened.

George:

He's taken that tragedy and turned it into something phenomenal where he's been able to help other people. It's like I remember back in high school there was parents that would come to the school and talk about drink driving and go we this is a photo of my son and everyone would look at him and standing oh yeah, blah, blah, he's dead. He got in the car with one of his friends.

Robby:

He wasn't even drink driving, he was just, but he got in the car, or sometimes it's like they were walking home and it was a drink and it could have been, man, it could have been.

George:

I've been in the car before with a friend, a guy that was in my, that was in school. At school he was 18 years old and he was doing in a vn commodore probably 140, 150 on the monash, just zooming in between cars, and I was in the backseat and everyone's like laughing and carrying on and I'm like dude, like I was actually shitting myself because he was racing some other fuckhead in a van. Yeah, I was trying to be a legend, you know, look how good I am. And he's like literally zooming in between cars. It was late so there wasn't heaps of cars on the road, but he's in a piece of shit vn commodore thrashing this fail, anything, it's not, it's not gives away exactly, it's not a bloody high performance vehicle. And he was doing that and I'm like john, like I, I said it now, john, slow the fuck down, I go seriously fucking pull it.

George:

I actually cracked it. I said, pull the fuck over, I'm done. Like, get out, I'll fucking walk home, right, and then he slowed down. Everyone's like, oh, you're fucking shooting yourself. Yeah, go fucking out. I actually got shitty and got shitty and that's. I thought that was quite. Looking back, thinking about peer pressure. Young, impressionable, you don't want to be a loser in front of you.

George:

Oh, you're scared. Yeah, fucking oath I am go kill yourself. You're fucking idiot. Right, you can kill yourself. You can all kill each other. Do whatever the fuck you want. Do it without me. Yeah, and he did slow down. Yeah, at the end of the day he did. Well, we've got. We've got our destination. I'm still here to tell the story, yeah, but that could have fucking very easily gone a different way.

Robby:

Oh, and it does too. It does, man, for many, many people. Yeah, it does. I look back at how I used to fucking. I used to be a bad driver. Yeah, like I've lost my license. Did you Five or how'd you get it back? I just I've lost it. Being caught driving without, like I was just all right, yeah, just was silly, yeah, yeah, growing up, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I look back and I think some of the stuff I used to do, dude, I think I got off easy, though, like just that's it. I just lost my license, yeah, that's fine.

George:

That's an easy dollars in fines. That'll still owe way more than that.

Robby:

But but that's easy road. Yeah, I mean, there's people who went down the same route who didn't. Yeah, yeah, I mean they had an accident. They, you know, lost a limb, turned paraplegic. Yeah, got injured, that's it.

George:

You've imagined that imagine how bad that would be disappeared off the face of the earth. Sometimes it could be worse than death too. Man, all right, you, you go. Imagine you're young, fit, strong, 18 year old, 20 year old, whatever it is, and you're in a car with a mate hits a tree, and you know you make it, but you cannot move from the neck down. I had one rule if I was speeding.

Robby:

I used to speed everywhere. Yeah, if I was speeding and someone in the car told me to slow down, I'd slow down. Yeah, because I didn't want. I would like. How could I live with myself if something went wrong here, because I was aware something can go wrong? Yeah, how would I live myself if something went wrong here and they asked me to slow down and I didn't? Do? You know what I mean? But if you're egging me on, well, we're in this together.

George:

Yeah, do you know it's. It's also that whole concept. It's like people wish they had a million, ten million dollars, twenty million dollars, right, and you go out and you're like, cool, I'm gonna win 20 million dollars tonight in the powerball or whatever it is. You go and do that celebrate, go out, buy a Ferrari, that Ferrari. You wrap it around a tree the next day and you kill yourself. Do you really wish for $20 million? Do you know what I mean? If you didn't have that $20 million, you never would have bought that Ferrari. It's all relative. It's all relative when it comes to stuff like that. I'd hate money if it happened to you, but do you know what I mean? It can still happen without it, yeah.

Robby:

I know, but like or I'd blame money in that situation, yeah it's, but it's just comes.

George:

It's just the devil, yeah, yeah, towards a potentially. Potentially. You could you think money's the the savior. Well, mate, it can also be. I don't think it's a good. No, I think it's, for it comes down to fulfillment. I believe that's what I'm looking at these days, like what make, what fills your cup, what makes you happy, what makes you go. Yeah, I'm just it's coming out to happiness, mate, like what I'm just gonna turn you. Yeah, read this thing.

Robby:

When you've got a shit day, everything's good or watch this video, I should say, and it said you're not stressed because of what's happening, you're stressed because you're not doing enough of what fills up your cup. Yeah, and I was like it's a good point yeah, without a doubt, and without a doubt, life goes by very, very, very fast.

George:

Yeah, okay, we're 52 weeks in. We'll hit 100 episodes next year.

Robby:

Yeah, have you heard the concept of why they? Well, I don't know if this is true. I can't remember who shared this, but it was something along the lines of why life feels like it's quicker as you get older. Because it does. Yeah, how quick did this year go, and then next year will probably feel quicker and quicker and so forth. Right, and it's like life goes by fast as you get older. But the reason why they think that is, or a possible reason, is because a year so when you've been living for 10 years, one year, so when you're a 10-year-old, one year is 10% of your life. Does that make sense? Because now, one year is 10% of your life, so 10% is large in proportion to the scale of everything. So that's why it feels like a longer period of time. When you've been living for 50 years, one year is 2% of your life. So all of a sudden now, in comparison to everything else, that time period now feels less.

George:

That makes total sense, doesn't it? Isn't that bizarre.

Robby:

Yeah, because it just means the more you live, the more you're going to feel like time goes quicker, which most people do, but no one ever explains that concept.

George:

Yeah, you know what I mean. I was listening to a pastor on like a priest on Instagram.

Robby:

Not a meal?

George:

No, I wasn't. I was in some pasta over the meal I tried. The pasta was terrible. And he was saying exactly that, something along those lines, effectively, that he goes.

George:

I've been to many people on their deathbed. There's many, many people on their deathbed. He goes. I see you all the time I read them their final passage, their rites, whatever it is, and he goes. I see you all the time I read in their final passage their rights, whatever it is, and he goes.

George:

Every single person that I've ever helped transition they've never wanted, they've never sat in their bed of like, hey, can you bring me that trophy? Hey, can you go get my ferrari keys? I just want to hold them. Can you go? And, um, I just want to send a couple more emails before I go. Do you know what I mean?

George:

It's always been about man, you'll die the next day. You're going to get your inbox full, all those emails that you're fucking stressing about, that you get to work on Monday, that are there. They will be there the next day after you die. And he pretty much said he goes. What people want when they're in their final moments are their loved ones, the people and the things that meant the most to them. That's who they want around. They want the people they'll hold the photos, the memory, whatever it is. That's who they want around, and that just goes to show a level of fulfillment. If that's what you want, if that's what every single person desires in their final moments of life, why are we always fighting for the one thing that's it's right in front of us every single day?

Speaker 3:

but we're all striving for all these other things, isn't it just human nature? It's like a stuffy nose, really it is. You're only misbreathing when you have stuffy nose.

George:

Yeah we are inherently the law of familiarity. Yeah but we inherently take things for granted. That's human nature taking everything for man. Did you walk up the stairs today and go? How good was it walking up these stairs today?

Robby:

You know what I mean?

George:

You never thought that you didn't think when you walked yeah, but you didn't stop and think and shed a tear and go fucking hell. I'm so happy I could walk up the stairs but break both your legs or cut them off and then You'd do anything to be able to walk up the stairs.

Robby:

You'd do anything to walk up the stairs. It's like the story you shared when the car started.

George:

Yeah, 100%, every time. Yeah, it's like what are you saying? Look at all these stories, how sick is that.

Robby:

Here's one I'll share. Um, and this is something that I remember at the time, as it happened, I remember I thought I'd never take this for granted, ever again. And it wasn't me or some. I watched something happen to someone, yeah, uh, my a relative a couple years ago got got sick with cancer and passed away, and I remember sitting there and looking at him and he couldn't breathe, probably Like he couldn't go. Yeah, he couldn't take that deep breath, yeah. And I remember thinking to myself he couldn't sit up properly, he was not in a good way.

George:

Yeah.

Robby:

And I remember looking at him and watching him and he was facing the TV and I was sitting on his right-hand side, so I was just looking at him and he was looking at the TV and I was watching him and he was like, yeah, like breathing really short breaths, yeah, and I thought to myself in that moment, like what would he give right now to be able to go and just take a deep, deep breath, like that would be the greatest thing in the world to him. Yep, and now, every single day, sometimes it's great, just grateful I can breathe, we can breathe fresh air. Like that in itself, like that is life, man, do you know what I mean? And it's like how many times are you grateful you can breathe? Do you know what's?

George:

really random. This is really random what I did last night, Because I'm home alone at the moment. Kids are away. Fuck, I hate the house at the moment.

Robby:

Why.

George:

Empty, there's no noise, it's quiet, oh man.

Robby:

Is it not even nice enough just for a short period?

George:

Dude oh yeah, no. Do you know how much I miss it? Yeah, it feels miserable. Do you know how like I can't stay? I haven't been home.

Robby:

I've been home. This is dead.

George:

Oh no, no, I'm talking just the noise of my kids.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

George:

I'm not talking people, I'm talking the kids. Like if it was me and Nicole and the kids had moved out, I'd probably be like where are my kids? I need kids. Go get them. Yeah, let's go start a nursery. Let's go start a nursery. Just male childcare, yeah, male childcare. That's it. So random though, I was sitting there.

George:

I don't know why this happened, I don't know why I made dinner, sat down to eat it and I thanked. I was grateful that I was eating, I was grateful for my dinner. I actually said like thank you for this meal, like I'm glad I'm eating this. I just practiced a second of gratitude. I'm grateful I can eat this. I'm grateful I've got my, I've got a house. I'm grateful I've got the car. I'm grateful I can pay for my family to go on a holiday. Life is good. Then I fucking ate, said it to my dog. No one else was around to hear it, but I practiced that second of gratitude and that's like something I don't do. I haven't done probably once this year, haven't thought about it, but I did it that night.

Robby:

I think that's super, super, super powerful man.

George:

It was dude, it was bad, it was so good.

Robby:

It was so fucking good Because, had you had those things like, how good would a meal be if you couldn't eat, yeah, generally, like you fucking do anything for a warm meal, yeah, yeah. Or a hot shower. How good's a hot shower? Yeah, like, seriously, a fucking hot shower, I think, is one of the most underrated things.

George:

Or aircon on a hot day. Yeah, food's massive. I love food, food. I was talking. I was out with Simon the other day at Glenders. I was talking to him I said, hey, how good's fucking food. Like honestly, it's like sick Get to eat every single day.

Robby:

Yeah, how lucky. And you probably haven't stressed too much about your next meal. I, I haven't, we haven't, I haven't. I've turned to the listeners. This guy, oh.

George:

But I haven't either. Yeah, as a matter of fact, I'm actually getting angry now.

Robby:

This is for George when he listens to this later.

George:

It's early, it's early, it's early and I'm hungry. Have a breakfast, have a dim, dim.

Robby:

I think the overall message but is a year goes by fucking around, time is fleeting. Understand. Yeah, exactly, your time's limited and the things you're worried about today, I promise you, in 2200, no one's going to remember you. Yep, as sad as it is to say, it's also Very true. It's not only true. I think it's refreshing because that's what makes it beautiful.

George:

The shit you're fucking worried about? Yeah, exactly, the mortality of it is what makes it.

Speaker 3:

You know, nobody's gonna remember what p did, he did, uh, I think some people might.

George:

Uh, why do we have to fucking end it on that seriously?

Robby:

that's keep fucking up the show at the end of the year wasn't it a couple episodes back, you dropped the c-bomb, jesus that was um. Yeah, I think that's it.

George:

Is it. And then I had to fucking end it like that too.

Speaker 3:

See you next time, next time.

Robby:

See you next Tuesday. See you next Tuesday, but yeah, don't worry about next Tuesday.

George:

Hey, can we get a petition happening? So Iggy's going back to Mongolia. When are you going?

Speaker 3:

2025 May, may. Yeah, so it's not long, not long.

George:

Let's get petitions happening to keep him here in the country. Yeah, if you want to still see Iggy, see all the sick videos. Hey, dude, I need to congratulate you publicly. You, both of you. The legacy media videos that are popping at the moment are fucking sick. Yeah, sick, seriously.

Robby:

There's so much more I want to buy.

George:

there's so much more I want to buy whatever you're selling. I just I want to fill out a form. They're that fucking good, they're very entertaining and, guys, if you are not, if you're a business and you're not fucking creating content, content, just get in touch with Robbie. Seriously, go onto Legacy Media's page, go find some of the ads. It there's a plug, there's a plug for you. But honestly, just killing it, that's sick.

Robby:

How weird is it going to be in 200 years when you can look up YouTube and there's going to be people that were dead 200 years ago and you can see what they did?

George:

Yeah, yeah, imagine you could we've had this conversation. Imagine you could do it now with your great-grandfather in Lebanon fucking cooking kebabs. Do you know what I mean? He can can tell you. Hey, this is the best way to do it. Have you ever?

Robby:

asked are your grandparents alive?

George:

One. I've got one grandparent alive. My grandmother and my wife's grandmother are still alive as well. Have you ever asked your dad about his grandpa? Briefly yeah, not for a long time.

Robby:

Ignatius his name was. What's fucking funny about that, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, iggy, it's short for Iggy, it's short for you always make a joke with my name.

Robby:

Ignatius means saint, huh Means saint.

George:

Is your-. Oh no, I was going to say he's Ignatius. It's Icklelt Itkult, Itkult.

Speaker 3:

Is that right, itkult? No, it's not right.

George:

Yes, ah, fuck. Yeah, you're right, you got it wrong, nah.

Robby:

I said it like a Mongolian. You said it like a white person.

George:

Anyway, sign the petition. Keep Iggy in Australia. We'll pressure him. We'll put really, really bad pressure on him and his family to stay here. That he has no other option. Blackmail, that's it. That's the word I was looking for. We'll blackmail him to stay. If we come to Mongolia, can you take us around? Definitely.

Speaker 3:

Awesome, you're going to come back. I'll be staying in the countryside, so it's even better, is it Sick?

George:

Yeah, that'd be sick. Yeah, fucking hell, how else are we going?

Speaker 3:

to. You can ride a horse or even a cow Shut the fuck up. No, a cow, that's something different.

George:

I can ride a cow or even a deer. Can you ride the cow and eat it later? How does it work? You do not ride cows.

Speaker 3:

Nah, yeah Come on.

George:

You say How's that he's going to go? Oh George, everyone rides cows.

Robby:

Yeah, I'm going to look at me and throw shit at me. There's this white guy. There's this white guy from Australia riding cows.

Speaker 3:

Fuck Sick, sick Are you going to come back, maybe? What are you fucking around for? Just come back.

Robby:

Yeah, you only get four weeks on your leave. That's too good. Too good, too much? All right, well, look, the reality is we're still celebrating. It's been 52 weeks and if you've watched 52 episodes or listened to 52 episodes and for some reason you've had 52 opportunities, but you have not yet subscribed, Now's your opportunity.

George:

This is the time's fleeting guys. Yeah, we've been talking about taking action. Yeah, we've been talking about taking action. Yeah, talking about things and like, honestly, what's it going to do to you? It's going to improve your life at the very least, the very worst.

Robby:

You'll never listen to another episode you'll have an extra subscription that you haven't exactly, but exactly. I think the odds of that happening are pretty slim. You're not being keen on this, but look, the dog's about to spill the coffee. She'll be right. I'll just clean it up again, are you sure?

George:

I've already spilled two drinks today.

Robby:

Well, you have, I was just too excited.

George:

I was so excited for episode 52.

Robby:

One year, one year down share this with, share this with your friends, share it with your mother and happy one year, happy one year, bro.

George:

See you next time guys. Thanks guys, we'll see you next week peace out, bye.

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