Pody Fri night

The hosts of the podcast talk about their week and receiving good news about their early entry into university. They discuss the ATAR scores needed for their desired courses and their plans for the future. They then talk about their preferences for coffee, with one of them mentioning an expensive and unethical coffee called Kopi Luwak. They also discuss the unpleasant processes involved in making certain foods, such as hot dogs and sausages. They end by talking about trying kangaroo sausages and a gross juice concentrate they found at the supermarket. G'day guys I'm Jus and I'm Ross and welcome back to the Friday potty yeah here we go again another another Friday yes it's Friday evening now it is we're a bit late with this one but anyway it's still out on a Friday yeah that's out and you guys can listen to this one over the weekend as you're enjoying your weekend doing whatever you're doing yeah pretty pretty big week it's been a massive week it's coming to the end of our schooling as well what have we got 13 days yeah it's that's crazy 13 days saying it out loud that was down weird Wow 13 days we um we got greeted with some good news this morning didn't we Russell in our email oh we did yeah we did too yeah you're just some of your gateway admissions yeah well our early entry stuff got got announced today and Jussie and I both both got in which is pretty awesome so now we just need to reach our ATARs so what's what is yours for me I'll be doing environmental management if I go ahead with it yeah I need a 65 ATAR which is doable yeah so I'm yeah really gonna strive towards reaching that one now what was it before do you know what it was before the they dropped it down I think it was in the 80s I have a feeling yeah it's like 87, 86 or like that yeah okay it's dropped down to 65 yeah that's pretty good I'll take that for sure yeah and mine was the business and computer science and originally it was either 97 or 98 that wasn't gonna happen which is insane like that is actually crazy yeah that's cracked it's dropped down to 81 and I think I think from my research I'm gonna give them a call on Monday but from my research I think that it's actually 76 because I get five bonus points for rural yeah I think that's without adjustment oh it's 81 with adjustments like say if I get 76 and then I get my five points on top I get in I think yeah did they call you today yeah they tried to but I didn't get a chance they called me and they asked me if I had any questions for him at the time I couldn't think of any I was like nah but now I do yeah I want to ask me if I'm able to defer it if I do get in yeah I still want to do my year off next year and travel and whatnot and then I'd like to do it the following year if possible yeah well we can still give them a call and yeah well they said just call us back and let us know what you think so yeah that's good yeah that's good we're getting old aren't we Russ mate we're aging we're aging fast. Prices at the pump are rising, inflation's on the down. What else is happening? No what isn't happening? Yeah that's the question we should be asking. We'll kick this one off with a little prayer I'll say this one and we'll get straight into it. Dear Lord I thank you for letting us get together on a Friday evening Lord I thank you for the week thank you for blessing us all with good lives Lord I pray that no matter where we are in our week whether we're in the down or the high Lord I pray that we can glorify you and find times to just sing your praises Lord I pray for anyone that's sick especially Russ as he's dying and hopefully he doesn't die. Hopefully. Just yeah pray for the rest of the weekend coming up and that it's all good. Amen. Amen yeah thanks for that buddy. I'd appreciate that. I thought I'd shout that one out. I thought I'd die hey. I've got to get to you. I'd have to find another partner for the potty. What would you do? I'd just get an AI chat bot or something. You'd have to rename the potty and everything. It'd just be the just potty. Just potty. Just no Russ. Just no Russ potty. Just no longer Russ. Well anyway topic for today is coffee. Coffee. So like I'm a coffee drink. Okay well people don't call me a coffee drinker because I only drink theirs. That's the only coffee I'll have. Yeah I don't know if you'd call yourself that. And I have like some of those like the Nespresso like the sachets. Oh yeah yeah yeah the sachets. Is that coffee or but I don't drink I wouldn't I wouldn't drink coffee like hot coffee from a machine. Is what I drink just coffee flavored things? No no the sachets is actual coffee. Yeah. I reckon well dare I don't know dares is like a coffee milk thing I suppose. I don't know is it coffee? It is coffee isn't it? Yeah well there you go. I suppose it's cold coffee. Yeah. And then the sachet stuff that's coffee. I get picked on. I feel like machines are just overrated like bougie coffees. I wouldn't have it. Like the coffee that I make is just a kettle. Yeah. I just put my get my coffee grinds and put it in a cup and call it a day. Yeah that's coffee. What I don't know how people can drink flat whites and stuff like that. Just straight coffee with hot water. No. That's gross. Like I don't mind coffee like the rough taste of it. Actually to be honest I've had a few flat whites. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. I don't love it but I don't hate it. I couldn't do it. It's too like concentrated. I'm more of a cappuccino kind of guy. Yeah a bit of milk. Love the milk. Yeah. So this is kind of getting over to what I wanted to talk about. There's actually this coffee that I discovered the other day. A co-worker of mine brought it up with me. Is it expensive? And it's actually yeah one of the most expensive coffees in the world and one of the most like the most bougie coffees. And it's I'm gonna quickly get this one up because I forgot what it's called again. It's called Kopi Luwak. Luwak. Kopi Luwak. So this coffee is actually a like a special bean that's grown harvested. Yeah. They feed it to a cat and they wait for the cat to poop it out. I'm sorry what? And then they use it. What? They feed it to cats. They poop it out and they collect the feces and use that. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding and it's one of the most expensive bougie coffees. That's the most disgusting coffee I've ever had. Because the idea of it is that it's meant to ferment in their stomach. Like they ferment it a certain way. And my big question is who discovered that? Who first discovered it? I don't want to know. Some crazy cat lady. Someone with a sweatshop for cats. Well funny you say sweatshop because it's actually quite an unethical thing. That's the problem with it. They have all these cats in cages and they just feed them coffee beans and stuff which is pretty cruel. That's terrible. Where is it? It's mostly in like Bali and all that sort of stuff. It's a very like above Australia area. I don't know what that's called. Yeah sure. But um yeah I found that pretty interesting. Yeah. Who would drink that? Look I feel like it's one of those things that you wouldn't tell someone until after they've tried it. I'm not going to touch cat crap coffee. I'm going to bring some coffee next time. Cat crap coffee that's what I'm calling it. I'm going to make you some coffee next time. I don't know. I don't know if you can afford that coffee. Yeah well it is pretty expensive. What's it say in the market? I don't know. What's the market say about the coffee? Let me have a quick squeeze. First thing that's on the thing. Starts at $160 per pound and you reach up to $600. This is an industry. You've got dealers on the street. Yeah push in. Yeah I've got my own cat eating coffee beans right now. I'm like here you go buddy come on come on. I would have had a cat but the dogs ate it so. Yeah well that's a story for another time. But kind of extending off that. I think that the processes of making stuff is so gross. Like there's some foods out there that are No kidding. So gross. Like Devon for example and hot dogs. Have you seen like the tubes they come out? It's like this pink paste which is chunks. Like they mince it so much that it's a paste. I've seen when I don't know. I just feel like when they mince meat in general and they put it through the grinder and they're just cranking the grinder and you just see it all coming out. Except with hot dogs and stuff like that it's just a sludge. A pink sludge that kind of just minces it out. Disgusting. And it's just all the byproducts. Yeah I was just about to say you know like sausages. Most sausages in like frankfurts and stuff. It's all just like the crap cuts. The crap cuts yeah. They just mince down to like. And everything else. It's just a squishy meat. Yeah. And when I say it out loud it sounds so gross. It sounds so bad. But it's so good. Speaking of sausages though. We both tried a kangaroo sausage the other day. Yeah. Was that your first time? No I've had it before actually. Have you? Yeah. That was my first time. From memory that was my first time having a kangaroo sausage. I don't mind a roo sausage. They weren't bad. They weren't bad. But I don't know. I'd probably always stick with beef. I was going to say. I think I preferred the beef but I did have a beef one right before I had the kangaroo. Yeah okay. But I reckon I could still stick with the beef but it wasn't bad. It was funny because I was looking at them and they were like green the kangaroo sausages. Green. I was like eww. I'm sure it's the grass. But it's like a chewier beef. I don't know. It's different. Look I wouldn't go out of my way to hunt a kangaroo. I wouldn't. If I'm driving home one day and I hit a kangaroo I might make some sausages. I mean I know people that have got dogs and so what they do is if they're driving home and they see a pretty fresh dead kangaroo on the side of the road they take it home. Really? Skin it and they cook up parts of the meat for the dogs. Oh actually that makes sense for the dogs. That works. Yeah. Keeps them off the streets. Keeps them off the streets. Yeah but that's pretty good. And another thing that's processed really gross is there's a thing at Woolworth and it's a juice concentrate. Juice concentrate. So what it is it's meant to be like orange juice. It's kind of like a cordial. An orange juice cordial. So it's concentrated orange juice apparently. It's like a flavoured orange juice and the key word is flavoured. Like flavoured water? Well kind of. So the idea of it is you pour a bit in and then you pour water with it and it makes orange juice. Oh okay. Right. But there's like 1% orange in it. And I did some further research into it because I was like how bad could this be for us? Because it's like a dollar and it makes 2, 3, 4 litres. I don't know. A decent amount. Yeah right. And really cheap. And I was like oh there's got to be a catch to it. And what they do is actually I found a little documentary on it actually. Yeah right. They pay like perfume people to make like a smell and a flavour for it. Like a chemical. It's basically a chemical cocktail. That's what it is. So there's no real orange in it and this liquid that they have can sit in vats for years. And then they just add this chemical into it that makes it smell like an orange juice and it tricks your head. That's actually the point of it. So it's like this psychological thing where you smell it and you go oh this smells like orange juice. Like it's a scent thing that these perfume companies have designed. That sounds like a sketchy lab somewhere in someone's backyard. It does. That can't be really legal. It must be if they're selling it. I mean like you look at McDonalds and what they do. Was it a documentary or like a current affair episode? A current affair yeah. Some guy in his basement got caught cooking this up. He sweatshopped with cats. Walter White. Walter White. But yeah nah. There's some things out there that are just weird. Weird. And another thing. I'm just like unloading all these thoughts. You've done some thinking about this haven't you? Yeah I've been hanging out for this. I find this so funny about Australians. And I saw a video on it the other day which further just made me laugh. Australians never say what you want to hear. Like if you say how are you they say not bad. They don't say I'm good. They say what they're not. Yeah yeah yeah like how much is it? Not much. That's really helpful. What's some other ones? Oh yeah nah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. There's like a thing like yeah nah means no and nah yeah means yes. Yeah nah yeah means well maybe. Australians are so bizarre. The other day I caught up with a guy that I kind of know. He's just this guy that I've met and I catch up with him time to time. And I was like oh hey mate how are you? What have you been up to? And he said oh yeah not much just divorced my wife. Just casually. Not much? Yeah righto. Fair enough. Happens like every day. And then like I went over to him and I'm like oh it doesn't sound like much. And he's like oh yeah we were together for about 20 years. And I'm like what even happened dude? Like it must have like happened a while ago. He seemed pretty chill about it. He's like happened yesterday. Oh my god. I'm like flipping chips mate. He's masking it well. Not much is happening. And then he was telling me about his loo. His loo? Yeah he's staying with his brother now. And the loo wasn't working and he was going out to the bush. Oh my gosh. And he said he got sick of the bush and he said it's starting to waft in his house. So he had to come out and fix the toilet. Oh dear. So that's not much apparently. What's a lot? I'd hate to know what a lot is. For him yeah. Probably never know. But I mean I don't know. I know of a guy anyway who left his wife and kids for real no reason. He just doesn't have much problem with it. Now he's got a new family but doesn't care much about the old ones. People are very different and I suppose some of them find it much easier to move on than others. Yeah and for different reasons. I find that a lot of people do break up. I don't know if it's more of a common thing now but I just notice a lot of split families. Yeah. And like my parents kind of said that there's a lot more than when there was. There's just a lot more. I don't know. I don't know what that's the source of but it's just something I've observed. But I suppose marriage isn't easy. No it's one of those things. It's a very big commitment to another individual. It is. It's a big thing because it's something that you can commit and go oh I could easily. I love this person but 20, 30 years down the track that's a long time to spend with someone. Imagine if I saw you for 30 years every day. No thanks. That'd be a bit much for me. I don't reckon. I don't reckon. Yeah it'd be a long gone. I don't think I could do that. But it's a big thing hey. It is a massive thing. I mean I think in general if you look at statistics there's actually a lot less marriages happening nowadays in general. Yeah there's a lot of just dating culture or getting like they're partners with someone but they don't put a label on it. Yeah that's a common thing now. Yeah it is interesting and I don't know. But you see similar trends also with Christianity you know. Like you look now and you see that over the last however many years Christianity has been like decreasing a lot. Yeah it has. But I had a talk to Chappie our school chaplain about this and he said that doesn't necessarily mean that Christianity is dying. It just means that people aren't just calling themselves Christians anymore. But really you've got like I suppose quality over quantity if you like for lack of a better term. You've got people who are truly committed to their faith you know standing by that and not just saying it for the sake of saying it. Yeah. Yeah that is good. We actually had a chat with someone a couple days ago about like Christians and stuff and it was funny because he brought up this cool term he said you don't call them non-believers you call them not yet Christians. Not yet Christians yeah that's right. I thought that was funny. Because like that's like I suppose showing that you have faith in that sort of a thing. Yeah. Speaking of that actually I was in town today I did some shopping and I bumped into an old friend of mine. Actually you remember Jasmine Banback? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway I bumped into her and I got chatting with her had a pretty good talk with her and it turns out that just recently she's become a devoted Christian herself. Oh nice. Yeah. So she was kind of on the fence about it back when she was at school. Yeah. And she's been out she's doing uni for three years now and just recently something or other has happened and she's been on the fence up until now and this is one of those deciding things that made a switch and she's now. Yeah. Yeah. So. Got her faith and it's just so so sick. Yeah. Made my day. Yeah I've had a couple people that have come up to me that it just makes me so happy like. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a nice feeling. It is. It's so good. Like. Oh. Yeah. There's no word that can explain it really. It's so on fire. For God's. Yeah. It's like absolutely set on fire. Yeah. It was good. Yeah. Another thing that's been happening as well. The Chasen Media rebrand. Oh. That's. A lot's been happening with that. Goodness gracious. New logo. We've seen that painted around and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. New like posts and stuff. It's quite a lot that's happened with it. Yeah. Well you've taken the charge with that. So. Yeah. So that's. That's good about it. That's something that is now a service offering to you guys as well as listeners and anyone. It's a social media management business forecasting stuff like that. So I actually am offering that service now. So I've got a few local businesses that I've talked to and where we're looking at maybe pulling a couple of things around and stuff. So. Yeah. It's pretty good and it's shaping up really well. Then there's the branch off of Chasen Success which is business motivation and stuff like that. Just to generate more leads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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