Toast & Roast

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We talk about popular and not-so-popular events and attractions in Sydney, including the elusive Pancakes on the Rocks, Vivid Sydney, and climbing “the coathanger” (you know, Sydney Harbour Bridge), as well as some outdoor recreational activities that two introverts are actually OK with.

• Experience Hong Kong
• Entertainment Quarter
• Pancakes on the Rocks
• Sizzler (Australia)
• Festival of Steam (Thirlmere, NSW)
• Ticket to Ride (board game)
• Catan (board game)
• Vivid Sydney
• Rottnest Island
• Hamilton Island
• Bridgeclimb Sydney

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Sharing friends’ thoughts on Toast & Roast serve as thinly veiled self-indulgence, people assuming you’ve seen what they’ve posted online, rigged web awards, and to come full circle: being salty about not making it onto any “30 under 30” lists, despite having a shit-talking podcast with a measly 1000 downloads. No really, though—we appreciate you. Thank you for helping us get to this little milestone! ♥️

• Tiger Sugar Milk Tea
• Toast & Roast episode 49 (the one about libraries and books)
• Cats & Dogs movie
• Crushed rear-ended Model 3 (which Geoff said Model Y in the episode)
• Duck Duck Go (don’t be tracked online!)
• Ecosia (search engine—plant trees with each search)
• The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
• Forbes 30 under 30
• Great Place to Work Australia
• Atlassian (software tech company)
• Shitlassian

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We go cross eyed to bring you this episode about visual illusions, before going on a tangent about social media (again) and whether our podcast is cool or warm toned.

• “A bird in the the bush” triangle illusion
• Word illusion in paragraph with jumbled letters in the words: So it turns out that there was no research done by Cambridge University according to this article, but the phenomenon is called Typoglycemia (part of the “Transposed letter effect” article on Wikipedia)
• “Bad eyes” optical illusion 
• The Frankfurter Illusion (“sausage between your fingers”)
• What is a trichologist? (hair loss specialist)
• So... TikTok sucks (Video by Hank Green)
• Agents of Secret Stuff (Wikipedia)
• Agents of Secret Stuff film on YouTube
• Geoff’s most reblogged Tumblr post (“Japan’s flag is a pie chart of how much Japan is Japan”)
• Why do period product commercials use blue liquid (Bustle article)

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We attempt to walk through our podcasting process before we drift off into dreamland and through to tech talk.

In short, our podcasts are recorded remotely, and we talk and screenshare over Zoom (previously Discord). We publish with Simplecast. Geoff records on a microphone, Georgie records on her iPhone using Voice Memos. Geoff puts the audio clips together in Audacity (the audacity!), and we use Otter to transcribe our episodes, which are later refined by Georgie. Simplecast also helps us create audio clip snippets to share on social media.

Things we discussed:

• Zoom (we’d be surprised if you don’t know of this already!)
• Discord
• Samson Q2U (Geoff's mic)
• Anchor fm by Spotify
• Simplecast (what we use to publish our pod, which costs a small fee per year)
• Otter.ai (what we use for transcripts, which Georgie later edits—we choose to pay a small price for features)
• Apple Fitness+ (plus)
• Apple keynote transitions (video)
• What does it mean to dream

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Going deep into the technologies that Sci-Fi movies like Back To The Future Part II predicted for 2015 to give our take on their real success and how we feel about them.

• Hello World programming example
• Hello World Saddle Club
• Airinum masks
• The Martian
• Panasonic Laptop, The Martian
• Back to the Future prediction accuracy
• Boosted Mini board
• “Hover”
• Nike self tying shoes on MKBHD’s YouTube channel
• Google Glasses legal issues
• Facebook losing 1% profit article
• Tech Monopolies episode on Last Week Tonight
• Duck Duck Go search engine

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Stolen songs for TV ad jingles really grinds our gears while painting pottery and shaking our fists at the damn TikTok algorithms.

• Grapevine, Marvin Gaye on YouTube
• Sultanas advertisement on YouTube
• Down Down, prices are down (Coles supermarket advertisement) on YouTube
• Down Down, Status Quo on YouTube
• Aeroplane Jelly advertisement on YouTube
• As It Was, Harry Styles
• Perth, WA (that’s Western Australia, not Washington)
• Pottery Painting
• One Piece wallpaper
• Macbook Air M2 on the Apple site
• MKBHD review of the Macbook Air M2 in the Midnight colour
• Addictive TikTok-like algorithms (article)
• Stinky Corpse Flower
• Vileplume Pokemon
• Fish Butchery

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A trip through doughnut lane with a short stop at Portland, and a quick gander through playing games like GeoGuesser and Wikipedia racing with coworkers.

• Grumpy Donuts
• Donut Papi XL D*cknuts (may not be safe for work, this is a doughnut in the shape of a phallus)
• Krispy Kreme Strawberry Jam
• Krispy Kreme original glaze
• Simpsons Donut
• Short Stop
• Dough Doughnuts New York
• Voodoo Doughnut
• Portland Slogan
• Portland, Maine (Google Maps link)
• Spotify Tribes model
• Doughnut vs Donut (explained on Wikipedia)
• Listorama game
• Wikipedia: Getting to Philosophy

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We try and guess where Georgie’s been that she hasn’t been to in 13 years, and Geoff tries to find the opening time of an eatery that doesn’t have their own website. We also find out what “bulk billing” actually means...

• Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
• Hyperfocus by Chris Bailet
• NameCheap domain registrar
• G.O.A.T. definition on UrbanDictionary
• Love Mi
• Bulk billing (Services Australia)

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Witnessing accidental nudity which led us back back to the toilet talk discussing the magic of gender nuetral toilets and water pressure.

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We swear we aren't sponsored by vacuum cleaners as we discuss the art of vacumming and pain of two storey vacumming, quickly swinging into memes about misheard lyrics.

Hi there, listener reading the show notes! If you recall OG YouTube then you know of the “Tuts ma barreh” gem that graced the internet thirteen years ago and inspired the name of this episode.

• Terrace houses in Australia (Wikipedia entry)
• Dyson v11
• Miele Blizzard
• Bing Lee (Wikipedia entry)
• Ken Lee meme
• Mondegreen
• “Starbucks lovers”
• Tweet referencing “inner-bitches” mondegreen

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