Toast & Roast

Toast & Roast

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  • 36: Just two normies on a podcast

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    Geoff talks a bit about his parents’ annual visit and some rules his dad used to have about travelling and social media, Georgie is going to lose her silver frequent flyer status, and we touch on some advice for freelancing as a web dev.

    • Document Object Model

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    33 min
  • 35: Can't clean for shit

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    Geoff wonders whom he would trust to move his television (if anyone), and Georgie shares her recent experience moving and contemplating saying goodbye to the building cleaner.

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    33 min
  • 34: Shooting your taxes in the foot

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    We hit a trifecta with topics from using a trackpad or mouse, shifting gears to overtly violent movie series and how a particular part of tax works. If a variety show is what you wanted, well we got it.

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    40 min
  • 33: Your idol doesn’t owe you shit

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    Why voyeurism of celebs/people is natural, but attacking them is bad... Followed by our repeating segment on how social media is rotten and how we switch off at the end of the day.

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    32 min
  • 32: Weightlifting stolen PS5s

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    Battling through Sydney's terrible weather to go visit a maritime museum along with tangents on shady removalists and learning how world records work.

    Note: Georgie is mistaken, Rory can clean jerk ~42kg, but deadlift 80kg.

    • Maritime Museum Sydney/muSEAum
    • Heaviest weight lifted by turkish get-up in 1 hour
    • Rory van Ulft Instagram profile

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    36 min
  • 31: Glorified camping, or dated carpet, take your pick

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    Where do poorly made artificial islands and one-hit wonders go to die? We also talk about travel and accommodation options, and maybe get an update on Georgie’s midriff tan, and find out that Geoff has been to a concert he totally forgot about.

    • The World islands in Dubai
    • Lane Cove glamping
    • Japanese bathhouse in Blue Mountains
    • Ryokan in Balmain
    • VenusFort, Odaiba Tokyo
    • The Venetian in Las Vegas
    • ICEHOUSE – Electric Blue (music video)
    • Eskimo Joe
    • RSL interior (image)
    • ACDC / Acca Dacca

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    51 min
  • 30: CBD: Central Beach District

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    The most un-Australian thing about us: we are not beach people (but we do protect our eyes with sunglasses). We ditch the sand for melting modelling clay, trying to remember grade seven mathematics, and go downtown instead.

    • Cremorne, Sydney
    • La Perouse, Sydney
    • Plasticine
    • Wordle game
    • Nerdle (mathematical spin-off of Wordle)
    • BODMAS (order of operations)

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    44 min
  • 29: Broken conspiracies and weird social media

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    The story of the lost warranty repair, and a very non-scientific discussion about the conspiracy behind planned obsolescences. Not to mention we tangent into how social networks are weird, but work related social networks are even weirder.

    • Memoji on Apple support site
    • Deep fakes (Wikipedia article)
    • Atlassian
    • Zoom filters (Zoom blog post)
    • Georgie’s blog post, “Healing from toxic hackathon culture”
    • Polywork

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    54 min
  • 28: The next big scam party

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    Get out your second monitor cause the list of references is numerous in this episode! Everything from an impossible music festival, to a theme-park-island based on crypto currencies that may not exist, all the way to the quiet lives of retired famous musicians and watching cheese age. Certainly a variety episode with many twists and turns!

    • Fyre Festival
    • Fyre (2019) documentary
    • Cryptoland
    • When We Were Young Festival
    • Live Nation/Travis Scott lawsuit article
    • Bastille – Pompeii (music video)
    • Paris Hilton cooking show (YouTube video)
    • This is Pop TV – Hail Britpop! television show episode
    • Blur – Song 2 (music video)
    • Alex James (musician)
    • Watching cheese age (YouTube video)
    • Graham Stephan (YouTube video)
    • WhatsApp scam (tweet on Twitter) – people pretending to be mothers’ kids
    • Hey Geronimo Longest Shortest Tour (2016) article
    • Hey Geronimo Longest Shortest Tour teaser video (requires signing into YouTube for proof of age)
    • Georgie’s blog post on The Longest Shortest Tour
    • Red Eye Records store
    • Velociraptor (Brisbane band) – Velociraptor self-titled album
    • Kinetic art (YouTube video)

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    50 min
  • 27: Tanning by the fireworks

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    We talk about strange tan lines and overrated fireworks experiences, decide to never be stuck on a boat even with people we know, before cringing at moments of forced socialising and bad marriage proposals.

    • Mosman/Balmoral Beach
    • New Year, New You (video by communitychannel)
    • Fiumelatte
    • Georgie & Nick’s proposal picture

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    58 min

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Join Geoff and Georgie as they rant through life’s greatest First World Problems, every Monday! We aim to entertain by being brutally honest and unfiltered, but at the same time being genuine and…