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Look at this crazy. What are you doing? Hey, hey, you're
stealing my space? George. Wait, you don't know who this guy Isn't
people kill for a parking space in this city? No? No, no,
he's not getting away with George. What are you doing? I think
I'm parking my car. You can't do that. You can't just sneak in
from the backlank that. I'm not sneaking. I didn't even know you were
parking. You were just sitting there three spaces up. What if you didn't
think I was parking? Why did you put it in head first? Well,
that's the way I park anyway. You didn't start backing until I pulled
it. I was in the middle of a conversation. Hey buddy, what
can I tell you? The point is I was hit first. I was
closer to this space than you were. But I'm backing in. You can't
put it in head first. I can't if I a Welcome to Talking Sci
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This week, we are here to review the episode for Partner Space.
I am Dando. I am guy and Oh my gosh, can I relate
to this episode in multiple ways, not just when it comes to car parks,
but when it comes to just about anything. Dando, would you like
to hear an anecdote? Oh, I would love to hear your anecdote,
mister Davis. As many of my anecdotes do. This one starts with the
lovely Luise. They all begin an end with the lovely Luise. But listeners
to the show, maybe we're maybe I haven't disclosed she was studying to become
a counselor therapist and as actually qualified to do that. Now she's rented a
room in Geelong. So if you've got no mental discontents or emotional discontent of
anyway, go see Luise. She'll sort you right out. Can you book
me in for four pm today? Please? This is our therapy is Yeah,
how we binge and purge so to speak. But before the actual business
of getting clients through the door, to decorate the room, got to make
it a safe space, so to speak. You know, we've got a
couple of very nice comfortable chairs off Geelong market Place on Facebook. Lovely sort
of orange thin cord. They're really nice and lou had her eye on this
other chair out of day funer store in North Geelong, being me being the
supportive boyfriend, and I'm like, well, let's go check it out.
And you know I've got good taste. Maybe I can you offer a bit
of advice on it. So we go out, we look at the chair.
I'm like, the chair's not bad. We get these kind of cushions
and a compidence this way bladd eyre I sound like, I like to think
I know what I'm talking about. Everyone's looking at me like what kind of
shoot is he talking? But while we're looking at this chair and it's floor
stock, the one, the only one left, okay, you know,
we're taking seats on it, like oh it's comfortable, Yeah, this will
work. Oh, this cushion works with it. One of the women who
works there comes over, picks up the chair, says, I just sold
it to these people. No you didn't, you didn't, like it's what
the fuck? So what happened? So no, no, you can't do
that. You actually can't. No, you're sitting on it, actually sitting
on on that stage. But you know, we were it was clear that
we were circling and trying to make up our mind about it. And then
there's other couple who had clearly seen us two very attractive, stylish people looking
at this chair. Gum, I want a bit of that guy and low
action, so to speak, swept into that chair, I would be robable.
So what happened? Did you love? Luise would have taken this surely,
I think, because she was in two minds about it. Okay,
we viewed this as kind of like the universe sending us a message because she
so she didn't really like it you did. So what she did was she
told this other couple, Hey, my partner wants this. I don't really
want it. I feel I don't want to tell him that it's bad,
though, So how about you buy it? I'll give you the money to
buy it. In the end, in the well, the chairs, the
chairs been taken by the by these people, we also saw that they were
buying some other thing that looked like a real piece of shit, Like,
well, clearly these people have got terrible taste, so maybe this chair is
not that good after it? Yeah, well you have to send me a
photo of this. Did you have a photo of this chair? I'll have
to see it at some point, I think I did take one or two
pictures. They can. I'll find it on there. I'll find it on
the I'll let you know once he has gone up, and you can post
it up in the in the Patreon group so we can know what I'm talking
about it. But you did get chairs in the end, though, We've
got a better idea of the chair that we wanted. The same style but
a different color. Is it like like a long one of those long couch
chairs or is that just a no, no, no, it's a it's
a comfortable sort of arm chair deal chair. Okay, cool? But you
know, I mean thinking about the parking space. Think about this episode of
Seinfeld, and you know, when two people want the same thing and you
know, both people think they've got you know, DIBs on it or whatever,
it can lead to frustration, can lead to tension. And I tend
to get very possessive about parking spaces, much like much like George does in
this episode. I had a similar thing. I've got another anecdote when it
comes to parking. But recently, Nicol she never spends money on herself,
right, She always a She just says she doesn't have the confidence to go
try and close. She doesn't. She has no confidence when it comes to
that thing. But she's a terrible shopper when it comes to buying things for
herself because she just doesn't. She can't justify spending any money on herself.
So she goes through all these things and she buys. She'd try and ten
dresses and buy one. I'm like, you liked four of them, I
only need one. I'm like, you liked four, You've got the money
for four by four anyway. So in Maya here in Geelong and Nicola's size,
she got through these dresses on the clearance right and only have a certain
amount of sizes on the clearance thing, and Nicholas sort of going through looking
for a size, and then this woman sort of swoops in and just sort
of grabs one off and that was the one size that fit Nikol on this
dress that she We've been shopping for like an hour. She finally found something
she liked. This woman just sort of took it off. Right. I'm
thinking, in my head, this is not going to fit you. And
she's looking at it, and she's looking in the mirror, and I'm thinking,
I'm thinking, my head, money have to fucking settle some pitches here.
But thankfully she came to her and Dan, they're gonna have to joke
someone, and I sort of said, I said, not loud, but
I sort of went as if that dress is going to fit her because she
was bigger, and she choked at me. She gave me a dirty look
and she threw the dress down the cash and walked off. And I was
like, hey, at least my wife got the dress that she wanted now,
but no, you got to play dirty. This is the thing.
I'm like, you might be buying that dress to maybe one day fit into
it, but you ain't fucking getting that. You ain't fitting into that dress
today. Honey, my wife's been shopping for an hour and she wanted that
dress and she didn't have anything. She didn't want to tell this woman that
she wanted that dress. I'm getting you that dress because I want to go
home. But when it comes to but when it comes to parking spaces,
right, I may have told this on another podcast, but one time at
the Gelong Waterfront, right, it's one lane each way. Oh my god,
parking at the Gelong Waterfront, yeah, one lane each way angle parking,
right, and it's as guys just said it's very busy. Not New
York level busy, but it's it's hard to get a park on the actual
waterfront and the angle parking. Right. So we've got two kids and they
want to play on the grass area, you know, the grassy area near
the waterfront there. So I'm thinking, all right, the closer we can
get to there, the better because I don't have to walk too far of
the kids because they always get too tired, blah blah blah, and they
don't want to get into pram and all this other shit. Right, So
we're driving down this park is just available, and I was like, holy
shit, this is awesome. It's meant to be. I go to pull
in. This woman starts walking out of the park, up out of the
park and puts her hand up and I went, what are you doing?
She's putting she's she's going on this waving her Hand's gone no no, no,
no, no no no, it's my park, my park, no
no, no, no no. And I'm trying and I'm in the left
lane, right, So I'm in the left lane turning left into an angle
park. She's standing in the car park. There's no cars in front of
me right, So I'm holding up traffic, going move, fucking move,
this isn't you've got no car move. She points to the other side of
the road, two cars deep. Her husband is down on the other side
of the road in traffic. So there's a red light on the other on
the other way right, So he's idol. He's he's stationary in traffic on
the opposite side of the road, facing the other direction, waiting for the
green lights. He can move forward in traffic. Enter and he's got he's
got his wife to get out of the car and stand in the fucking car
park on the other side of the road, blocking anyone from getting in.
And I'm going move and I'll start moving the car forward, and she sort
of she's not moving. And I said to Nicola, am I gonna have
to hit her legs? Nicolas going, Brandon, just just go find I
said Nicola, No, she cannot fucking do this. So I start turning
into the park. He starts honking, he's on waving, he's out out
the window. I moved a little bit more forward. She isn't moving.
She is not going anywhere further. And she had that look at the face
while she was about to bang on my car. So I thought the kids
in the car, I left. But I'll tell you what, if my
kids were not in that car, she was getting run down, absolutely,
and you cannot be justified. No, you cannot do that. He was
down in traffic, like two cards deep. Further down in traffic. Stationary
sent his wife to walk across the street to stand at a car park.
Mate. No, no, there's an exclusion zone, you might say,
when it comes to that guy. He wasn't even on the side of the
road. Yeah. Look if he was on the other side of the road
but right next to you, yeah, had his indicators on still. And
also if he's also if he's significant other, they hadn't been so much of
a you know what I mean, she's Muslim's right there. We're just trying
to get this part. You'd probably go, oh, look, yeah,
it's the Gelong Waterfront. It's a nightmare at the best of time. Okay,
I'll do the right thing this time. But this combination of elements and
her just go no, no, no, no not. I was so
angry, justifiably so. I mean, it's but it's amazing how worked up
we get over car park and that's and that's what I was going to say.
And at the end of the day, it was only because I had
to. It was over a car park, and I'm thinking, you look
back down, I think, why are you so angry? But it was
more like the principle of the thing. I was like, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, you just you cannot
do that. And I was so disappointed at the time. But at the
end of the day, a part like a hundred minutes down the road,
it was fine, why do we let the parking spaces get to us?
But it's like a sense of pride, It's a it's a sense of ownership.
It's like, this is my park. You will not take it.
I found it first, you cannot have it. It also feels like they're
at such a premium. Yeah, especially now in john because Geelong used to
be what they call sleepy hollow where we live here in Geelong and now it's
just gone kablamo and it just seems like the population is triple. That's what
it feels like. Anywhere you go to the city. What used to take
you two minutes to get through it takes you like twenty now. Indeed,
everybody's coming to getown, and not just because it's the home of Dandlin guy.
No, not at all. No, but I think you know,
a situation like this and the emotions of the delicits clearly very heated ones,
certainly in our case and I imagine for many other people as well. It
speaks to the genius of Seinfeld that they're able to recognize that, pluck it
out and spin it into gold, as they have with this episode the parking
spot for the parking space. I've just got here a great way to take
something that happens every day, not just in New York, because sometimes you
can get very New york Ish. The things that happened in Seinfeld, this
is universal, as you were saying, and to be able to drag it
out for twenty two minutes and keep it so entertaining when nothing was really happening.
It was just, you know, two guys fighting over a parking space
for essentially the entire time. And Stucky said that the beauty of Seinfeld is
the genius is the genius of the writing. And they recognized as well that
this is not just an issue that only triggers certain people. Everyone will have
an opinion on this you see it when when George and Mike moffatter, you
know, just refusing to give give an inch either way, and this crowd
of people on the on the sidework, on the sidewalk, on the footpath.
There just no, you've got to do with this. No, no,
there's rules and regulations kind of thing. We live in a society.
So yeah, I was very happy with the way they did that and very
happy with this episode overall. And they never do Settler because even the cops
are debating at the end of the episode, there's never a clear indication.
But Larry David said in the inside Look documentary on the DVD that, you
know he agrees with George. You know, you can't. You can't pull
in front first into a park, especially someone's already there about to reverse.
But what I love about to this episode is the fact that things like stars
are sent to a line for Seinfeld. So this was filmed outside right,
not like an actual outdoor, and actually had an audience there of about one
hundred, one hundred and fifty people coming in going throughout the day, right,
because it apparently took four to five hours to film this scene with the
parking space, right, But the way that it gets darker and darker.
That's because it took so long to film that it became nighttime. But that
really emphasized how long they'd been Therefore, that wasn't planned. That just happened
because it took so long to film. Oh, now, serendipitous. That's
good. That's good stuff love when something like that happens. Yes, but
did you know this was actually written or co written by one Greg Daniels.
I did notice that. That's actually my first note in my notes, Greg
Daniels. A little show called King of the Hill that a couple of guys
from JEELNG just happened to be talking about on podcasts. Yeah, Speaking of
the Hill. If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure you do
so, need to subscribe button. Would appreciate the support there. But he
also need worked on the Simpsons four figure discount would do that. What didn't
you work on, Greg Daniels? He just seemed to be all of animation
in the nineties, didn't he He did. He's got his fingers in many
many parts. Yes, and the men knows what he's talking about. Apparently,
this whole story was based on something that happened with his father. So
yeah, So I imagine everyone's got a parking story. You just had one.
Yeah, everyone would have a at least a traffic related story, wouldn't
they. So I guess this is the point where we have to come clean
and disclose. When it comes to parallel parking, are you reversing in or
you're going in head first? If you're able to go in it forward,
I do. If I'm able to right, it just makes it easier.
But you should go in reverse. I mean, if there was there wasn't
that much. I don't think there's enough room to really go in forward there,
like the amount of space there, Like that's a reverse in. Like
I think you should always be reversing in parallel parking personally. But if I
but me, I break the rules. If I'm able to just go forward
in because I can't parallel park, well that's the thing. If there's a
big enough spot, you know, and you can drive in head first,
then yeah, by all means do so. But it's often the case that
you'll you'll go in and you'll be on like a weird angling You're gonna have
to reverse out again, and you're doing a lot of wheel spinning in situation
like that, you know, eight times out of ten. So I might
just be saying this because look, I don't boast about a lot of stuff.
I don't have a lot of stuff to boast about, Dando, but
I can parallel park like a fucking wizard. Said. Yeah, I immediately
thought of you when George was like bragging about his parallel parking. This is
a totally fucking guy on his first date of Louise. It's like, check,
there's that baby. You're about to see some magic. You're about to
see as good as guy gets. Yeah. Yeah, but you feel like
this episode felt like one of those real time episodes, kind of like the
Chinese restaurant things like that, even though it wasn't, it just it felt
that way. I thought it had that kind of immediacy and that kind of
sort of tension that refused to, you know, sort of let up.
Really, I mean not not like white knuckle tension, more like you're getting
more and more frustrated and angry by the situation. It's just slowly building all
the time. Because the food line of the boxing match, true, yeah,
that adds that adds a good element to it. I'm going to say,
yeah, it did it felt real time? As you said, though,
I mean even though it's not, but yeah, I just had that
feeling of, oh, when's this going to let up? You know,
when's the tension going to break on this? And then never really does.
It's kind of the genius of the episode. Well, I thought that whole
boxing match element was very nostalgic for me because this was nineteen ninety When does
add nineteen ninety two? I want to say, wasn't it ninety two?
Right back in a time when when there's a live paper view on a big
boxing match or sporting event or a concert whatever, you couldn't just stream it
whenever you felt like it. Later on, when it was live, it
was live and you had to watch it. Then if you won't taping,
you had to then watch it. So the fact that with why that moment
who grew up in the nineties or lived through the nineties where something was about
to come on TV and then something goes wrong You're like, fuck, I'm
going to miss this one thing. I mean looking forward to this entire time,
I'm gonna miss it. And then for me it was the South Park
from I've told you that the carts Mom's a Dirty Slut when they had the
season finale or whatever it was, and the family were all the beach and
I'm like, We've got to get home and watch Cartmann's a Dirty Slut,
you know. Like, so I had to see that that finalewise, You're
you're never going to see it again. There was always that sense of,
well, if I don't see it now, will I ever see it?
Back in the nineties, And that's what that's what this is sort of building
off of. You had to be very proficient with programming of VCR or something
like that. Yeah it does. You be on standby to push those two
buttons down at the same time or whatever, or you know, I just
hope for a hope for a repeat or a rerun or something like that.
But no, I mean, it certainly did have that feeling of miss it
now gone forever because pay per views were like now they're they're not dead,
but they're dying. They're like, there's occasional wrestling pay per view or a
boxing event, is it Triller whatever it is that Jake Paul boxing events that
the celebrity showdown basically things a UFC farts or MMA you see. Yeah,
yeah, so that is so you have seen is kind of like the modern
day boxing now, isn't it Like they're they're they're the ones that people seem
to be looking forward to the most. You have your boxing pay per views,
But they're not. They're not UFC level anymore. It really has sort
of taken the place of heavyweight boxing and championship boxing and stuff like that.
Or yeah, definitely, if not raced right ahead of it, it's certainly
got maybe ahead or two ahead of it at this stage. Yeah, I
mean I was listening to a lot of podcasts about because Creed three isn't cinemas
now. Guy's review coming soon, trust me, but a lot of them.
One in particular, I was talking about how, yeah, boxing just
doesn't have the cachet that it used to have. It doesn't have the mass
appeal that it used to have, and yeah, MMA seems to have kind
of stepped up, and wrestling also to some degree in terms of like big
physical male sport that well, and and female as well, sorry but primarily
male. Yeah, um, yeah, it seems like those things are taking
precedence over say boxing, But I just like that aspect to it, just
the way that sort of Cramer and Joy were excited for it at the start,
you know, the little playboxing, it's coming, the events life like
that that countdown like it's only five minutes, Like I love that throw when
I was a kid being a big wrestling fan, skipping skipping school and watching
the wwfpapvs back in the back in the day on the Monday morning here in
Australia. But I also liked here in this episode they brought up the flea
market. Now, we recently toyed with the idea from our man. I
believe it may have been Pat Wright who wrote into us, one of our
first ever patrons. He wrote in with an idea for the flea market story,
and I thought that would actually be a nice sequel to this one where
they actually do invite Kramer to the flea market this time. But overall,
yeah, this was a really fun episode that starring obviously Lee Arenberg, who
is one of those guys who's been a lot of things, but he's never
really been the star of what he's been in, is has he? Well
no, no, I mean I must admit, when he first showed up,
I'm like's this guy? I know this guy? I mean a middly
I thought it was like David Cross from Mister Show and Arrest of Development and
all that kind of stuff, but you know, a bulkier, angrier version.
If you can't have an angrier version of David Cross. I was like,
I know this guy, and all the way through I'm sort of racking
my brain. And then the end credits come up and say, oh,
Lee, aaronber who I primarily know as one of the guys from one of
the Henchmen from Parts of the Carabean a performance that I really liked as well.
He fit really, he seemed to have that sign field energy and a
really good antagonist or opponent for George. They seem like two sides of the
same coin, or even the same side of the same coin. Really,
my note says George with testosterone George on the t Yeah, So basically he's
just George, if George, because you get a sense that Mike would be
the kind of guy that would throw some punches, right, oh George,
George, wo never throw a punch. You'd try and find a way to
talk himself out of throwing a punch, you know. So George is the
guy. They both probably hate the same things. They probably have more more
similar with each other than what they actually realize. These two characters, but
Mike and George, and when it comes to resolving something to take two different
approaches. George is there, how can I wheezeer my way out? And
Mike's like, motherfucker, let's throw down. I don't think Mike would be
all that good at fighting, but he'd be enthusiastic it throws some punts,
he goes swinging. Yeah, also to that at the end, we also
so not quite the end, but when Jerry tells him I know what you've
been talking about and he tries to talk his way out of it. Yes,
he comes across, such as when he yells at Cramer and says,
why did you telling him? I'm like, it's a scary dude, he
thought. A little ball of energy. He just comes across. I think
the word to describe Mike would be unpredictable. Yes, volatile. You've got
to watch out for guys like that who they may not seem like trouble,
but it's it's the Gimli effect. We also get the first appearance here of
Matthew and his mother, who made their next appearance in The Non Fat Yogurt
when they when Jerry ruins his father's business by spoiling the old non fat askment,
I think the non fat yogurt will be up there with like top five
most iconic episodes, right, he got super Nazi the non fat yogurt,
But else would be up there either the bet, the contest. Sorry,
there'd be another one. Yeah, but there's certainly the best ones still all
to come. But also did you know so he mentions here, Kramer says
that you know, I think you're pregnant. Congratulations, But Julia was actually
pregnant when they when they filmed this. He actually pregnant during this time.
Watch she's wearing a lot of baggy clothes because she's actually pregnant with their kid.
Congratulations, JLD. Yeah. Getting back to um earlier on when we're
discussing how they filmed it outside, So basically they had the set outside.
They had a little stage like a like a tiered seating with one hundred one
hundred people people coming and going, they said, though Tom Shona said it
didn't really work though because it wasn't on the sound stage. The actors couldn't
hear the response from the audience, and the audience could barely hear them because
it wasn't miked up properly, So the cameras were picking it up, but
the crowd couldn't couldn't get They could sort of hear Mike yelling occasionally, but
it didn't have the same effect. It's kind of like, Oh, we're
going to watch seinfold, but it doesn't feel like we're watching a proper Seinfeld
sitcom set up, you know what I mean? Yeah, that makes a
lot of sense, and I imagine it would sort of possibly throw your timing
or your interaction off. Yeah, but to the show's credit, it doesn't
really seem that way. It's saying it still has that quintessential Seinfeld zip.
That is. What were your favorite moments from the episode. I was very
taken with the whole talk of hats and yep, you know, disappointing people
if you or yeah, a hat being like sort of false, false pretense.
I'm gonna ask you, is this is this somewhat true to an extent
in my case? No? Not really. I mean anytime I tend to
wear caps and hats hats a lot because you know, first of all,
yes, I'm bald, ads, and secondly, I'm very pale. I
mean, I tend to burn very easily, so it's like I could wear
so I'll generally put sunscreen and a hat on, just a double up.
It's like we're in two condoms. But no, I mean, I'm not
necessarily thinking I'm not going to go on a first date wearing a hat,
thinking I'm not going to take this off. Just you know, I'm not
gonna give anyone in any extra ammunition against me or anything like that. I
can see why people would do that, but I just thought it was very,
very funny that the George would be like, oh, I wish I
was around in the thirties and forties, you know, Heaven for bald men.
But I thought that whole riff was was pretty hilarious. Actually, I
was a big fan of that. And I also like the analogy of parking
and prostitution. If you can get a free park, then you take it,
you know, paying for parking, I don't know, it feels kind
of sorted. Well, I've got I've got an anecdote from that same shopping
day. And when it comes to paying for parking as well, oh my
god, we'll get to that. When we get to that moment but yes,
I was another moment where I was none too impressed. Well, what
were your favorite moments from this episode. I enjoyed when Kramer says, well,
I usually parking in front first. Fun first, That's how you park
when you're pulling a bank job. I also loved the scene where Julia walks
in Elaine bursts in. She's like or disheveled, she's got she's gone full
story. You know, these kids were chasing us, but the Hennigans and
she tips it into sick with Joey's not looking and look on Jerry's face like
the fuck you drank? All that I just thought acted so well without any
words being used. It was just very, very very good. Also,
the bit that tickled me the most was we come back from commercial and they
have selected two different drivers to park their carts for them because I don't trust
themselves. I'm like, that is awesome. These guys like are so ridiculous.
But the fact that they're also everyone's gathered around their stand and they're waiting
for their cars get part because I don't trust each other and I was like,
this is just so Si Fell. But I just love it, and
the fact that it got darker over the commercial break. They've been there for
a while. Yeah, it's just so awesome. Could you spell that?
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Hit me well before we get with that. I think I'm going to walk
around for the rest of the day. And I say this with all due
respect to the rest of our new patrons, but I'm going to walk around
saying for them and Chen it's a great name. That's just that's great fun
to say. My first question to you, mister Dando. Jerry parked his
car at the corner of what and what? That was My first question actually
where it was eighty fourth and Columbus. Fourth and Columbus. My first one
was where was the toll booth? That's Helene said that they got harassed at?
Was it that Henry Hudson. Henry Hudson, Henry Husson? Ye,
what's Homer Hudson? Was that ice cream? I don't know. That's Google.
Let's have a quick look Homer Hudson. Anything he named something brand wise
Homer after The Simpsons was release, is just asking for a lawsuit? That
is true. Yeah, Homer Hudson chocolate ice cream? When was it established
here? Homer Hudson was a brand. It must have been before some discmeut.
Let's have a look Homer Hudson's in Australia as well. It's a brand
of ice cream. Is it still available. Homer Hudson is a super premium
ice cream packed full of unapologetic chunks of everything a mouth could hope for.
You've got three hundred and sixteen followers on Instagram. When did they last post?
The last posted four hundred and five weeks ago, So I would say
to a show that they're probably if it's just anymore. I think Ben and
Jerry got together and they kicked the shit out of Homer Huts. Yeah.
Yeah, they went to town and then Hargan Das came in and just administered
the kudo gras. But I remember those occasions when I was a starving freelancer
and like, oh, I've made a say I'll tend to treat myself,
and you know, I'd got in the supermarket and get yourself a little tub
of Homer Hudson and was like, oh, what's the premium ice cream?
Chock full of good stuff? But I've forgotten all about it until just that
very moment. Yeah, I am funny with ice cream. If I'm going
to go full iceings, I usually it's got the light ice cream because I'm
just funny like that. But if I'm going to go full blunt ice you,
it's got to be. Do you have chunks of shit in it?
You know it's good like cookies and cream with chunks of cookie And don't just
give me like strawberry full fat ice cream. I want chunks. It's gonna
be chunky ice cream. I don't know what about you. Are you a
chunky ice cream kind of guy? On occasion? Yes, I mean I
like a like say a Rocky Road style ice creams, like oh yeah,
there's a bit of a nice chunk of marshmallow or a nut or a bit
of chocolate something like that, but they're occasionally like an smooth one as well.
I saw a machine recently. It came up and I actually was Target
where it was like you know where you got your cold rock ice cream here
in Australia where they mix all different You p pay like twenty bucks extra,
just what you can do at home basically, but it's a machine that you
tip Eminem's and Smarties and lollies or whatever into it and you sort of pull
the lever and it makes like a cold rock ascream, like mixes it all
through the ice cream, and I'm like, this is a genius idea,
as like forty bucks I'm like, I could buy this, but I didn't
buy it. But I'm like, if someone out there has got one of
these machines, let me never works. So I want to get it because
just pulling all these sweets into it, and it's pulling the lever and having
this chocolate ice cream full of sweets, it'll be the best. Okay,
Willy Wonka, Yeah it does sound nice. Am I asking you a question?
Yeah? Youre asking your next one? Yeah? Okay? Where is
the fleamak get located? Ah? Fuck? I should know? This?
Was it west Chester or whatever it's called? West was? Just? Yes?
Okay? My final question because you stole my first one. Was someone's
yelling out driving a truck, an ice cream truck. They tell them to
move because they've got a whole truck full of ice cream here. Who did
he work for? You can see the top of the sign on the door.
Oh give your clue. Specter James Bond, No, Phil Spector Phills?
What was called shows? Where my head's at? All? Right?
I have one more question here if you're interested. H Jerry in his final
stand up, is talking about a game of musical chairs that everyone took.
Everyone sat down in what year was nineteen sixty four. And the reason I
know this is because I remember when I watched it, I was like,
oh, that's the year the Beatles played in Melin. It's amazing how our
brains work. Yeah, it really is. By the way. Fun fact,
the guy who was yelling out the truck driver, his name is Michael
Costanza and or college friend of Jerry Seinfeld's who inspired the name George Costanza.
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The Parking Space was April twenty second, nineteen ninety two. It was directed
by Tom Sharonez and written by Larry David and Gregor Daniels. The episode kicks
off with some stand up discussing compact car parks. You do see this occasionally
and you're just like, okay, I'm not offended it. I'm just like,
motherfucker, just why can't I park there? I get it's usually because
if you park there, you're going to cause the person almost like adjacent to
it not be able to back out. But I'm like, hey, that's
their problem, not mine. Right. Yeah. I've been in a few
occasions where it's like, you're very close, I could make this, I
reckon yeah, And then once you're in, it's like, yeah, you're
right in somebody else's problem. I got mine. And as a Seymour Skinner,
as I'm in the lines, you don't like it, go tell your
mamma exactly right. That wasn't skinner there, that was this is ka.
I think that was missus k because yes, of course, yes, missus
Skinner is going to hear about this, believe me. Yes, I've got
some bad news for your buddy. I think your car got stolen again.
Why do you talk? And I'm bad? Or you parked it on eighty
fourth in Columbus, right, yeah, well I just walked by there and
that car is gone. Oh yeah, I know whoa Well where is it?
Well, there's no difference, you know. I'm just curious. I
always have to know everything that's going on. Don't you what happened to the
car? If I don't tell you, it will kill you, won't it.
Yeah? Yeah, it'll kill me. You have to know. You
must know. I must know. Well I'm not telling you. Oh come
on, Nope, I don't think so. But please not today. Bo
Okay, I beg you, now see, just saying beg doesn't make it
a real beg. You gotta put some beg into it. Okay, please
space down, all right, I'll tell you, but your beggar needs a
lot of work. Okay, okay, what is it? Come? I
loaned the car to George George Charley, but what four? George and Elaine
went to a flea market in Westchester. Okay, all right, I mean
why did you want to go there for? Would you stop it? Alrighty?
You know, why didn't they ask me to go? I don't know
how much wasn't know, but they don't like me. I don't like you.
Why didn't they ask me to go? Oh? Yeah? Did you
think that was a kramer esque to be annoyed that he wasn't invited to the
flea marker Flip Kramer has been very blase. For him to hold such a
strong grudge felt a little bit off for Cramer in my opinion. Well,
he's so unpredictable, isn't he? He is unpredictable? Yeah? I mean
sometimes do you think he's, you know, just go with the flow and
does whatever he pleases. But sometimes you think he really wants to be part
of the group. Yeah, I don't know. Do you think he was
more upset that he wasn't he wasn't hanging out with George and Lane, or
that he dipped down on potential bargains at the flea market? Yeah? Potentially.
Wait, I love the idea of going to like those fleet We don't
call the flea markets here, we just call him just markets whatever. But
they've got to be the meal markets here and Geelong where it's just very your
stalls, and I'm like, you know, I'm like, if I go
there, I know I'm going to find something old that I don't need,
but I want. Yeah. Do you know how many times I've been to
places like the Mill Market and pulled out leather jackets and think, maybe,
do you meanly go bad to the whole? Three times? Exactly three times
I've done it, you know, And it's usually like some long black you
know, Keanu s Keano in the Matrix style, the long trescat one.
Okay, yeah, I mean I'd tend to be fairly picky about that kind
of things, but like, oh, this is a this is a pretty
good one, and it's a bit of money, but it's a lot less
money. They'll be back if I got a new But at the same time,
I'm the kind of guy I can pull off a you know, I
don't think i'd look like Neo. I think I'd look like Joe Panteliano when
the Matrix instead eating the State's ignorant. That's the every time Lou and I
would go out to park for a steak, my cipher coat. This is
juicy. Look at this douchebag. But imagine walking out of the meal markets
wearing that coat though, with the final song playing in your head for the
Matrix, just flying into the sky. He just got like an you know,
your MP three player or something in your pocket or or your phone.
Yes, let's bring us up to the modern moment um. Yeah, you've
got Rage of the Machine on Spotify. What the song was that wasn't killing
the name of was it? What song were they playing? No, no,
I can. I'm gonna look it up because it's because they had at
the end of the Matrix Resurrections the latest one, but it was someone else
song end of Matrix. Let's have a look song end of Matrix. It's
wake Up, yes, wake Up? Yeah? Yeah, that new Matrix
not great. Yeah, I watched it going this is fine, but that
I've actually said it's numerous times you find it with number four in a film
franchise. It's never usually like terrible, but you're watching it going was it
necessary? No? Yeah, I think that this one's sort of running on
fumes. Yeah, yeah, it's get We're getting there. It's a little
bit too matter, a little bit too matter. For my liking very very
much too matter. Yeah, and there were people who are really into that
kind of thing, and yeah, more power to him, but it felt
like a Saturday not life skid at times compared to an actual Matrix movie a
little bit. Yeah, and God bless Uiano. We all love him,
but I think he's well, he's pushing sixty, isn't he actually is sixties?
He doesn't look it, no, although he's starting to look starting to
essionally shaves the mustache off in fucking Bill and Tere I was like, whoa,
yes, but you see pictures. I mean john Wick four is coming
up fairly soon. Yeah, I can't wait for it, really looking forward
to it. But you see the behind the scenes stuff where ye know,
he's sort of talking about, oh, here's the making, when here were
all these great action stizes. It was like, dude, you're looking a
bit kind of drawn and tired. And I hope, I hope John Wick
four is great. I'm sure it will be, but I hope it might
be the last one. I hope you wrap it up nicely and then you
know, Keiana can just have a nice late part of his career doing you
know, romantic comedies. Or stuff where he gets the obsid at a desk,
Lean Neesson walks up to him and he goes, it'll happen to you.
Lean Neeson's realized now, like I can't do big action movies. Be
just sort of the occasion you can. You can throw the occasional punch.
Now he's always like an older, tired FBI agent or whatever. But you
know, get back to Seinfeld. So we get George here. You're very
happy with his hat. As you're discussing earlier, there was a ball paradise
in the twenties and thirties. They didn't but they didn't know it. You
know, that's the thing. You look back on photos from the twenties and
thirties and the fucking style of the people back then compared to now, Like,
yeah, look at guys and you guys would wear a suit to go
buy a pack of smoke from the milk bar. Now people wear fucking moccasins
and trackies and sometimes no shirt. Blue and I were watching Married at First
Sight last night because I'm a good boyfriend and I'll watch Married at First Sight
with my girlfriend. And you know, they had one couple sitting down for
the you know, at the end of the end of week debriefing or whatever
it was. She looked like she was dressed to go to the oscars.
He looked like he was dressed to go to pick up fish and chips.
And I mean, I'm I tend to get a bit sensitive about that kind
of thing because you'll see on you know, social media or something like women
are always you know, dolling themselves up for their for their men, and
men just aren't, you know, putting in the effort. And I'm like,
oh no, sometimes we put in the effort, but you see things
like like, oh no, We're really not, aren't we. This is
the thing I was starting off. I started exercising a bit. Next I'm
just like, all my nice clothes they fit, but they don't quite fit.
And I'm like, I just said, it's a little bit of weight
because now I can be wearing my nice shit again. Because I'm just I'll
just go on like Dad boddas last twelve months, it's just been fucking hard
being dad and just know Holly's not sleeping and all these extra shit. So
I'm just like, now at the time I'm going to exercise, I'm going
to fit into my nice, cool shirts and feel nice again. Oh yeah,
Now this is the primary reason men, I aim to lose weight,
and maybe I'm probably women too, you know. I mean you can say
no, I want to be around longer for my kids, or I want
to have a bit more. I want my clothes to fucking fit. Yeah,
that's something. I've blown so much money on clothes. And yeah,
I'm like you, Dan, I mean, I've got shirts that it's like,
m Yeah, if I wear this out, I'm looking a bit like
a sausage. This is a bit of a Christmas hands so precisely so,
I'm like, no, I'm very much with you on like I mean,
as soon as we finished recording this podcast, maybe not as immediately. Maybe
I'll take a few minutes just to take a breath. But then no,
I'm going for a run around the block and I'm going to keep running around.
Should get like a trabmilla or a bike or something. Just fucking watch
movies and exercise at the same time. I killed two birds at once,
don't I know. But I actually like getting out and getting fresh. It's
good for you. It's good for the head as well as the as well
as the heart and body. Yeah, but so yeah, Daniel and guy
bringing you the beef keg bucket George's um. He explains how he's worried about
that first moment he took the hat off. That's why you know he can't
wear a hat around ladies, because he's just like he's worried. What if
they think I'm not bored? What was the point in your life where you
just went, I don't care that I'm bored, because like, being bored
doesn't mean anything to me. I can give a fuck whether you're ball or
not. But as someone who is who who? As someone who you know
you've said you've lived through it, right, what was the point where you
just went, I don't care if anyone knows that I'm bored. I'm just
I'm bored and that's who I am. Well, do you think you live
via casually through like the Bruce Willis ear away? He was like, it's
cool to be bored. Oh yeah, to an extent a bit. Yeah.
I mean certainly when I first noticed it that it was really thinning,
like this is a bit of a drag. I mean the initial part,
I'm like, I've got a bit of recession there. That's not too bad,
you know, But I've got enough left uptop that I can, you
know, swirl it and cover it all up. But it'll be fine.
It'll be fine. But anyone who's suffered male pattern ball, yeah, there's
just some dreadful in between stage where you know it's all going, but it
hasn't all gone yet, and there's not much you can do with it,
you know. I mean, that's the and that's easily the point where guys
starts shaving it or just trimming it right down with the number one number one
kind because I think it was to be trying to justify keeping the little bit
sometimes you see that the guys had a little bit of fluff, like an
island in the middle of the head. It's like, just get rid of
it. Yeah, why, yeah, that's that's not fooling anybody. Yeah,
I don't think I ever had any real moments of like denial or anything
like that. I Mean, Lou asked the other night if I'd ever thought
about you here, replacement techniques or anything like that. I'm like, no,
never did. Just see mainly because when I was losing my hair was
in the stage where those things just looked really obvious. Yeah, And I
didn't want that. I know, I was just handsome and dashing enough with
hero or without it. You need a demoxinol from the Simpsons demoxinol whatever it
was called. Anyway, So Elaine moves the moves the mirror so you can
see a glasses courses. George says, is what caused him to him or
over the pothole. But really maybe I was not a great driver. But
Cramer then comes up with the Kramer and he's furious. He says, well,
I don't like you. You've got problems. Problems. Jerry mentions that
the fight starts in thirty five minutes. They sort of pretend their fight,
as will say, and they're all amped up. They're really excited. I
think just little things like that create the sense that it's a big deal of
this fight, which is why Jerry doesn't want to miss in things like they
clearly excited for it. Kramer says he's invited over Mike Moffatt. Oh hey,
you know I invited Mike Morfatt. You don't mind, do you?
No? I like Mike, Yeah, yeah, I just got off the
phone with him. You know, we had a great conversation. Oh yeah,
what're you talking? About Well, actually he's talked about you. Yeah,
he had some pretty interesting things to say. Oh yeah, what say?
You have to know everything? Don't come on, cram Why is that?
Why do you have to know everything? Crammer, Just tell me what
the guy said. Bag me, Ladies, don't make me. I want
you to bag me, and I don't want you to say it. I
just want you to put some bagon. Cramer, please tell me what the
guy No, No, I really don't think that's a bag. Oh it's
close, but Cramer, Look, I can't say anything. You know,
the guy told me the stuff in confidence. I'd be betraying a friend.
Well, you can't just mention it and then not tell me. All right,
I'll tell you, but you can't say anything to him. I'm not
saying anything. I'm putting it in the vault. I'm locking the vault.
That's a vault. I think you're a phony. I told you he thinks
you're a phony. A phony. He called me a phony, a big
phony. Why don't you tell me that? If I can't say anything,
you bag Kramer should use his judgment here. If someone says to you one
of your friends, you know, it's just say Tony, your friend Tony,
Right, Anthony, Tony says to you one of your other friends,
I think he's a pretentious that guy. You wouldn't then tell that friend,
right, or do you think it's your duty as a friend to tell them?
I think you just don't say anything. No, I don't think you're
saying anything. I mean, yeah, you have to use your judgment in
that regard. I mean, if someone really unloads on someone that you know,
you got to stop them, and yeah, then you've got us all.
Yeah. And also if you know that person is then being kind of
false faced to that persons, Hey, how are you doing? And all
that kind stuff, like I think this person might be full of shit.
Yeah, but you know if it's just like a bit of a phony,
you know. I mean, I don't know, maybe there's having a bad
day, or maybe they had a bad running, just one bad running and
they kind of colored their opinion in that way. But no, I kind
of keep that to myself. But Krammer here, he sort of falls behind
the fact of well you begged me. It's like, yeah, but you
shouldn't have the first place I've said, Oh, well, he's had some
interesting things about you. It's like as soon as you say that, you
have to tell them. Now you do, don't you. Yeah, that's
poor form. Yeah, makes some Jerry promise that you won't tell Mike,
which obviously he doesn't. Later on we get GEORGEI and he's blaming a lane.
He threw off his equilibrium when she moved moved the mirror, and she
questions he's driving, and he does not take this well at all. And
when he's sort of saying how he can do this and he can do that,
I'm sure you could. But men do get very defensive about their driving.
Absolutely, yes, yeah, I mean, do you think you're a
good driver. I'm a good driver, not a good parker. This is
the thing. Nicola, not a great driver, good parker? Right?
I sorry? Your dream team, Yeah, we're a dream team. The
problem is that I call Nikola a zipper. She's very zippy with their parking
over their driving. She's you know, she's one of those people who when
I approached what I can see, there's a red light ahead, right,
I roll to the red light slowly. He's on the brake and just pull
up right. She has the drive drive drive drive drive break. I'm like
you saw it was red like she's very often he's sort of like jerking in
the car of Nickeola because she doesn't. She likes. She likes to be
on the move. She doesn't like to be slowing down. She's very zippy,
zippy zippi driver in and out of lane's parking. She's fine. She's
one of those pompous people that has to fucking reverse into a park no matter
where you are, She's going to reverse him. I'm like, Nicola,
just point it's easy to pull out. I'm like, yeah, hold,
it was traffic. There's like three parks. Yeah, you could have just
driven him. Jesus Christs all the time. But um but yeah. But
me, I'm a much better I feel like I'm a better judgment of reading
the play, I say, and then when you read the plates on,
all right, I can see that car three cards heads, got the right
indicator on. I'm going to get in the left lane now, so I
get stuck behind them while they're waiting for uncoming things like that. Nicola doesn't,
she's not good at reading the traffic like that. I too, I'm
very much like that. Well, I like to think that I am.
I'll tell you a quick story. Uh, I was going out with this
woman I was we were up in Melbourne where she lived, and I was
driving her to work one morning, and I was also doing stuff for the
radio at this time. I was doing movie reviews for the radio station down
here Geelong, so I had to do it over the phone, and I
didn't have hands free so I was so I basically had the phone in one
hand. I'm driving her to work through this out of Melbourne suburb that's kind
of busy and it's not it's not quite rush out, but there's you know,
there's a traffic on the road and I'm sort of I'm driving with one
hand, I got the phone in the other. I'm zipping in and out
between cars and you know that I'm gonna stop and all that it comes to,
you know, I've done my five ten minute review or whatever to hang
up. One looked him and said, don't ever do that again. She
was terrified. I mean, I feel bad if you ever drive me anywhere
and you pulled that phone out. But mate, put that phone down.
So yeah, I really enjoyed. Agent Cody Banks to assignment or I'm just
trying to ye, I've got my radio voice on and shit, she looked,
don't ever do and he was dating a woman, correct, I dropped
riving. Now I never saw her again. I think we should only see
other people. But yeah, so anyway, so George, George's um.
He's angry that lane's questioned he's parking. He says he's got a system.
He looks for the dreaming spot. He won't park in the parking garage.
He's gonna find the dreaming spot where he drives around and around you like,
around the block, and then works his way out, basically like the Australian
thing, the Australian thing. We do the block, you do the blocky
yep, it's like you know, you dropped on one. I was like,
if I can find a parking fine, but I'm gonna otherwise. I'll
do a block here, I'll do it. I'll go around the block.
Yeah. And he explains here that nobody in his family can pay for parking.
It's like a sickness. He mentions his brother here. The last time
we ever hear about George's brother. I was thinking about that because I mean,
I've watched my share of Seinfeld, but I mean I wouldn't call myself,
you know, an absolute encyclopedia, like you, Dana, not thinking
did Brad Garrett show up as like his brother or something? Thing? You
know, I mean, I know Brad Garrett is Raymond's brother, but yeah,
did his brother? Was his brother happened? Yeah? No, it
doesn't exist. This last week gets mentioned, he got mentioned in the suicide,
and he gets mentioned in this episode here. But yes, my parking
story, right, So I was out for shopping with Nichola that day and
it was the day it was our anniversary day. Actually, we sort of
went out shopping in sort of the day to ourselves, no kids, blah
blah, took the day off work and at it's called Westfield here shopping plaza.
We can park here, right, and it's like one dollar for the
first hour, you know, three dollars for the first two, five dollars
for the next four or whatever. And then we're like all right, cool,
well you know it was it was it was five dollars for four hours,
and be like no, eight dollars whatever for like six or whatever.
We'll just got like three dollars brackets. That's sort of seemed No, once
you go over four or five hours, it goes to seventeen dollars. Oh
my god. I was furious. Nicholas was like, don't worry about I'm
like, no, it's the fucking principle, and she and I'm like.
I was like, I was so angry for like five minutes. Nickola was
like, just calmed down, don't ruin the day. We have such a
good dawn, right, But why the fuck? Why is it five dollars
but we go an extra three minutes and now it's seventeen Fuck you. First
of all, first thing, I really want to set up a chalkboard or
a little scoreboard every time he's like, it's the principle. It's a principle.
I think you've just got so many principles that you do, that you
follow in life or that you think people should follow in love. But secondly,
that really sucks. I mean, yeah, just that. Oh how
do they justify that over five hours to over? I don't know how they
justify I think this was my theory at the time. A casual shift has
to be I think it's five hours or four hours, right, so I
think it wanted to go over four hours. It was like seventeen dollars,
right, whatever it was, it was the minimum casual shift is like four
hours here in Australia, right, So I think it's preventing workers from parking
there and taking up space from customers. They want workers to go park elsewhere
and then customers can park in the shopping plaza because if if a casual worker
is working more than four hours, they won't then parking next we're gonna pay
seventeen dollars, but they're less than four hours, they're only going to pay
five. So I think it's a way of weaning out the workers. Well
thought out down, that's a good way of thinking about it. I mean,
have you parked in Melbourne recently in the CBD, I always park a
crack casino. Yeah, it's the way to go in all honesty. I
mean I went, I parked at a city car park a couple of weeks
ago, and you know, got up there nights and early. I'll take
it vant to the early bird discounts and like, oh, it's twenty five
bucks for this amount of time. Fine, good, I got that.
And I've misread it of course, because I mean I got back a little
um, I got back and I put the ticket in. It's like that'll
be seventy eight dollars please, seventy eight Holy shit, seventy eight dollars.
Yeah, because they charge an extortion amount per hour if you get in a
certain time. And then then I realized, oh, it's if you if
you leave after a certain time as opposed to before a certain time. It's
the early bird rate. Okay. So I'm like, yeah, because I
went, I saw a pull my ticket and who works out it's playing this
to me? And this guy said, yeah, you read it wrong.
Don't worry. Everybody reads it wrong. Come back in fifteen minutes. You'll
be fine. We'll cotch you twenty five buck. Oh okay, I'm going
to go. I'm going to go have a cocktail. Apologies for that black
eye, sir, excuse you, pardon me for spitting. And I was
about to challenge into a duel, slap him across the lace, rubbing glove.
But yo, parking, parking, and see Seinfeld knows what time it
is. People just get worked up over it. Yeah, but I just
love the excitement of George when they Elaine finds the park. See see,
I told you I was right. You know, he's a jovial The thing
is, he's so you know, arrogant about his parking that he holds up.
He wastes enough time talking about himself that gives Mike enough time to catch
up and trying to steal the park. So it's George's fault in the effort
for blubbing about himself for too long. Indeed, pride, pride comes before
the fall. By the way, what did you think of the hat and
the Sunnis? Who was wearing the hat and the sunnies? Well, George,
George bought a hat and sunnis. What do I think of him?
What do you think of him? I thought George suited the hat for sure.
I know Joey makes fun of him and says high Indiana, But um,
I thought that had suit on him. I just didn't didn't fit quite
right. I mean he might have to sort of adjust that a bit more.
Hated the Sunnis. Hated the sun is, yeah, I mean sunny
is for me, they either look great or they look just obnoxious to me.
Sunnis. Sometimes you see some people with glasses and the big chunky ones
just basically covering their face. I'm like, what are you doing? Nicholas?
One of those people that has to be wearing sunny we're going in the
backyard. Oh, where's my son is? Where's my Sunny's? Or we'll
get it to the car. I forgot my son is. I'm like Nicola,
we're driving to maccas Oh it's too bright. I'm like, Nicola,
you're not wearing your You'll be fine. People will see your eyes. You'll
be okay, stress less. I'm team Nicola. I've got it. I
can't leave the house. My sunnies go to them. But Sunny's, I'm
like, I'm like, what's his name? Marlon Brown on the island with
Doctor Moreau. I've just got to have like the zinc cream all over whenever
I leave the house, and big shades. But George, she says,
you know, I wish you could make a living from parallel parking. I'm
like, I'm pretty sure a few episodes ago you had the chance to do
that, and you sucked it up, Budd and you ruined Woody Allen's movie.
Good point, man, Mike, you told George this is where Mike
Paul's in head first, And as I've forgot my notes here, I'm completely
with George here. Mike's doing the wrong thing. Plus Mike's just a douchebag.
I'm like, naw, they established earlier, they established earlier. It
Mike's not a nice person. He's been talking about Joey behind his back.
So as an audience member, you're like, well, I'm already teamed George,
regardless or whether he's right or wrong. He talks behind your back,
and he tries to pull in from the front. Yeah, and Elaine there,
she just needs to go to the toilet. So she goes to tell
Jerry what happened. She has to come up with an idea, tells me
I think of something, and just to end the scene here, just both
start honking their horns at each other. I I'm a horn honker occasionally.
I did it to an old guy yesterday who was just I don't like honking
old people, right, but when you're holding up traffic because yeah, they
don't know what you're doing, or you forget where you are, I'm not
sure. But we're in the car park and you're the car park at Woolworths.
I'm paco. Terrible car park, very busy, very small right there.
Yeah, it is the probably the second worst besides Supermarket car park and
Geelong. So this old girl the worst this old guy pulls out, so
like pulls out of the park. Everyone's waiting for him, and he just
stops. He starts adjusting his mirrors, and I'm like, go, motherfucker
go. Here's where I get very angry because if you get into your car,
if you yeah, your car is parked, you get into your car
to pull out, it's on you to adjust your ship very quickly. Person
won't do it before you even turn your engine on, you know, it's
like, oh, I'd better adjust my side mirrors or something like that,
Better make sure the seats right, all this kind of stuff. That's when
you turn it off. Because the minute you hit your indicators, say I'm
leaving, that's when you leave. Do not sit there with your indicator on
and then take maybe don't even take thirty seconds. You just get out of
there as quickly as possible to make that. All the people that sort of
they turn their car on in the parking space and then so they take it
out a park, put their foot on the brakes and the brake lights come
on. So you're sitting there waiting for him to come out, and they
fucking they come out. It's like, are you moving? Are you getting
out what the fuck you're doing. And then you start to go, and
then they start reversing out and you're like, oh, now you're going.
You've got to be careful how you use the you honk the horn. I
mean, I I don't think I've ever sort of gone to anyone, and
maybe I think I could count on two hands the occasions that I've done that
in all the time I've been driving a while. M Yeah, get a
little right at the at the lights, for instance, you know, you
at the green arrow. They haven't noticed the green arrow. Come on,
If it's less than two seconds, that's that's the come on, buddy,
It's okay. I'm not not angry. More than two seconds, that's like
let's throw down. Yeah, it's but a little. It's like a tap
on the shoulders, like excuse me, We're good to go. Yeah,
excuse me, fucking idiot, And but one more grip to get out.
It's people when you're waiting for someone, a grippy episode waiting for someone at
the petrol station, the gas station that we call in America. You're win
your turn and they get back to their car and then start fucking going through
their wallet and start doing this, start doing that, and it's like,
go to the park and do that. Go park over there and do your
fucking wallet, and shit, don't do it now or even even worth than
that. Say, there are two bowsers, right, and yeah, they're
both being used. The first person pulls out in the second one is there,
and it's like, can I still a sneak around and get into that
first one? But often you can't. You just didn't have having to wait
for this person forever. Yeah, why don't we even use gust? Okay,
now, listen, we were at the toll booth at the Henry Hudson
Parkway, okay, and there were these like this pack of extremely wild teenagers
in a convertible behind us, okay, and for some reason, I don't
know, they just started to taunt us and so and so then we pay
the toll and then and then we went through, and then they started to
follow us. All right, So George tries to lose him and and and
but but they were in this really like a souped up car, you know.
And so he turned off the road really suddenly and the car was on
two wheels, and I was just sorry, George, this is such a
fiver yeah, he is fantastic. And then they fired a gun right up
in the air. I think it was a gun. And then and then
they followed us all the way into the city and then they just stopped and
they turned around and I went home. Are you okay? Yeah, yeah,
I'm already. Oh, by the way, the car hit aparthole and
now it's making a clanking noise. Oh well, I mean, as long
as you're okay, that's the important thing. Exactly. She's so great at
this, isn't she Julia at just She told it once before, but it
wasn't It wasn't a bullshit story. It was her talking about something crazy on
the highway. It was at the airport or something. It was the episode
where they get the stranded at the party, wasn't it or something? There
was some there was some episode where she tells a story about being like stranded
or like a highway or something. But she's just the madness of the traffic.
She's so good at just George, I mean, Jason Alexander's great added
as well, but they're do it in two different ways. She's almost like
exhausted, where he's just like agitated when they tell the stories that's a great
way of putting it, that she's just a sort of so worn out by
oh my god, all this happen. I can't believe this. You won't
believe what happened, you know, But just her emphasis on the words.
And George is such a George driver. Yeah, George gets yeah, George
gets more worked up the more he tells the story. You can feel Elaine
powering down and everyone well just you know, but you know, you know,
and then you know, George hit a pothole. Now you can't making
the clanking sound, but you know whatever, just sort of at the end
of the story. But I loved it. And he had a gun.
He had a gun. I think it was a gun. It's always like
the Elaine character whether one step too far and she was like, actually,
I don't know where I'm going with this. I think it was a gun.
Look it turned this back down a little bit. Just her face at
the end was just great. And I like the way they played it up
like Jerry believed it. He didn't. He was playing them the entire time.
So he goes to see George first of all, when he was at
the window. Crazy kids, Huh, what's thought it was so funny.
And then Elaine realized, oh fuck, got to cover up for this,
and then Kramer he enters. He's not happy with Elane, but so Cramer
and Joe that they go to help. Lane's gonna come down. After she's
finished in the toilet. Mike says to George here, you know, I'm
going to sleep in my car. George, I'll die out here. There's
no way either of these guys are gonna lose. Like George is going to
go to the ends of the year to make sure he wins this debate and
the bystanders or debating as well. And Larry David has said that whilst he
agrees that reversing in as the way to go, like George was right here,
he wanted to make sure it was balanced out. So he wanted to
make sure that the people who decide that driving in forward is the right thing
they get their fair share as well, which is why he had everyone sort
of debating, the police and the bystanders and things like that. Jerry here,
you know, acknowledging, you know, says to George Indiana that to
me was just like it was just friends being friends, just a bit of
bad yeah, And he can see that the relationship between Jerry and George is
so much more pleasant than the relationship with Mike and Kramer. I just I
just feel like Mike is just not a good person to have around. This
isn't we kept saying unpredictable. He's not the kind of person you want at
a party. Because one person says the wrong thing, he parties ruined.
Yeah, I mean, Newman's not a pleasant person, but he's sort of
on the same wavelength as Crameer to some degree. All there, he is
who he is. He doesn't hide who he is. His unpleasantness synchronizes with
Kramer's laid backness. But he also he doesn't He doesn't pretend to like somebody.
If he doesn't like it, he'll tell you that he isn't like you.
Yeah, you're looking tremendous. What do you want some kind of regiment?
Yeah, twenty five percent brand pleagus. The forty percent was too much,
so I father STI makes it up special for me. They're taking down
another fifteen percent. Definite. Hey, your friend, he has some real
problems me. You see what he did here, You see how he tried
to sneak into my space. He just because I went in front, person,
doesn't mean I'm sneaking stroll me backing up and getting up room the parrel
up. I only wait in front first because I could make it in front
first. Out of your pot I'll show you. Oh got a prayer.
I go in front first all the time. Frun first. That's how your
park when you're pulling a bank job. Did you did you talk to him?
Yeah, it's all taken care of. I told him, what did
you say? I did a number on him. It was a thing of
beauty. You really had to have been there on a christiate And what did
you say? I told him? A pack of teenagers in a convertible or
terrorizing huts and they followed us into the city a pack. By the time
I get to the end of the store, he was so relieved that we
were alive. He couldn't care once about the car us. It's as simple
as that. What can I say? You know it's a gift. I
don't know. Wish I could teach you, but you know it's inborn and
cramer than as it confronts them, why didn't you invite me? And then
it goes on. That's what that's what you're annoyed about. But she noticed
here Mike made fun of them for going to the flea market as well.
You went to a flea mark, like, fuck you dude, is this
guy? But they said they forgot George has a guy, Jerry Jery.
I don't know. I was supposed to say it wasn't suposed to say anything.
And George is just like you didn't exercise your judgment, Jerry. He
didn't do anything wrong in my opinion, I don't think so. Ay,
why would he think Kramer will be annoyed? Yeah, we'll established that there
four friends who obviously have lunch together and things like that, but they have
lives outside of each other as well. That's the thing. Yeah, they're
not existing in each other's pockets. No, yeah, yeah, it's a
massive overreaction from Cramer, and he doesn't accept. George is so so sorry.
At the ice cream and Driver, which was Jerry's college buddy, Hey,
this car, I gotta get you, worry the man. I guess
you'd better be moving your car and like you're not just gonna back it in
if I do that, Well, somebody vadible something soon. I gotta drop
all ice cream here we get back from commercial and they've got the two non
passion drivers to move the cars because they didn't trust themselves. And then Jerry
questions the story, and George's going along with that. Lane's going along with
as well, why did you do to my car? When Jerry goes for
Jerry, sci fi is just there's no one like it really is an it's
it's so much fun to hear and so much fun to actually do to do
it. Yeah, it's so much fun. Ton as I my boys.
You know, I never said a good driver said I was a good park
and I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
rewind the tape. You said you're a good driver, buddy. And it's
where Sid rocks up from the alternate side. Old Sid. He's like,
whatever you pod car? Something goes on, Hey, somebody better move these
cards. You're making a commotion. They said, who are you? Never
mind? Why? I am? I know? Why? I am know?
Why is it every time you parker card is block everything gets instructed and
joined if said, it's completely his fault, right, why did you start
taking a bush? It's now starting to get dark and Jerry Eline say they
went to leave, but George doesn't want them to this old guy arguing with
Matthew the kid. I'm like, it was my kid. I'm like,
oh man, what are you doing? Go away, leave my child alone.
I must have been it's a it's a come way. You didn't really
expect to say no. No. But then we see Jerry, you know,
he tells his father's business is closing down. Kramer congratulates his mother for
being pregnant. Have you ever witnessed a moment like this? I once,
when I worked in the Dahi, had a worker compliment a customer on being
pregnant. When they went pregnant. I died inside for them. You would,
wouldn't you know. I mean I've I think I learned from a young
age. It's like, never never assume that no, Never never assume that
no. Yeah. They could be in the delivery room and he was like
getting your appendix out because there was this sense of no. It was a
pack dally and just this like everyone just like, oh, I'm going to
turn on the slice of buddy, you can go and put your head.
I was like, oh shit. It was one of those moments I will
never forget. I remember thinking thinks, oh god, that was not me.
Here's the thing though, righte I died inside picking up Alott from daycare
on Monday. It was a Friday. That was Friday. Right. So
there is a little person right whose child goes to Aliott's daycare and she picks
him up every day blah blah blah when we usually at the same time as
me. Alliott walks up to this woman right in her face and says,
why are you so small? And I was like, no, no,
but but that's my bully. She just went because everyone's just super different,
buddy, and she know. She took it like a champion. I was
like, oh yeah, well and made me realize I shouldn't have been embarrassed
by that. A he's four. He's not doing it from a malicious point
of view. He's just asking questions because he's fucking four years old. And
the way she handed it is how we should always handle it. We're all
different, doesn't make anyone worse or better. We're just different. I was
like, I fucking learned something today. But at that moment, for that
brief two three seconds, I froze. I didn't know what to do.
I was like, oh oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh
shit. But She was just like, no, we're all super different,
buddy. And I was like I'm sorry, and she's like, no,
it's fine, and she just kept walking. I was like, shout out
to that little l was like, yeah, why why did I panic?
I literally panicked for a moment, But yeah, learned something. Yeah,
we're all different. That's all that matters. Tell you. Kids are all
different and nobody's better than anybody else. Of course, Kramer has to double
down though. He's like, are you sure you're the hole is deep enough?
Mate? Yeah? Most people just take the l Are you sure?
It's now nighttime? And Jerry tolls e Lane. You know, Mike said
this about me, and she says, you know, you've got to open
your vault. You've I can't. I promise Kramer, You've got to open
the vault. Then we get newm in here, and you know he agrees
front first. You know, if you're going front first, you're reducing everyone
to jungle law before we're doing it. Before we get into that part though,
just a little shout out to that lovely little word play where they're talking
about the vault. Joe's asking this guy for he was talking me out.
He's right, never Oh yeah, what if he got to ten carlinks?
Should the pull all the way up to the front car? But I'm supposed
to be got ten carlinks? Ten car ls? What about Sundays and holidays?
I got here? The guy played Michael was his name again? Um
Lee? He nearly flubs his line here, but they left it in obviously,
So he's yelling and carrying on, and it's when he's about to say
what if there's a ten what if there's ten car lengths? Right? But
he says what if he got ten car lengths? He's nearly he nearly goes
to say carlinks before he says what if you've got ten car links? But
they left it in. He just goes, what if you got ten car
lengths? It comes across like a guy who's just flustered, but clearly he
flubbed his line. You gotta take you gotta take advantage of happy accidents like
yeah, adds a bit of realism of the scene. Then being wow,
went stea Newman, then changes his tuner. He sold Newman, maybe you
are right, mate, maybe are or maybe going in front first? Is
it does work? You know? Well, if there's ten carlts, then
we get a beautiful woman. She compliments George on his hat and Newman just
out of nowhere? Can I try it on? I'm like, fuck off
Newman, Dick moved, Dick moved by the Dick Master knew, but I
did love Wayne Knight's reaction when George forces the hat on his head. I
was defending your party, all crying and all upset. Then the fight has
started, but everyone's like, Oh, I want to go, but no
one's going. If he's going in, I'm not going. If there going,
everyone's got a beef of somebody in this scene, Well he's going,
I'm not going. I still don't have to go. Why why won't you
go? If I go? Why, I'll tell you why? No?
Don't cherry like you didn't call me up? Party fight? Real car?
Right? Jerry? First of all, I think you completely misunderstood what I
said. I meant it in a complimentary way. I mean, you know,
when people say he's bad, it really means he's that sort of thing,
you know, a slam us, a set man. Now, Michael
John is soul phony. Have you ever been in a moment where you've said
something about somebody and they've found out about it? And you've tried to talk
your way around it rather than just gone you're right mate, you got me.
I said that you are you a person who will try and justify what
you said? Or will you just go sorry? Mate? I wasn't thinking
shop. I would probably be the latter. A probably, I'm sorry,
man. It's always better to just go sorry, mate. I don't know
why I said. That's fucking shoot thing for me to say my bad.
I can't. I can't deny. I can't deny it. I did it.
I think if you do it that way, most guys will go all
right, whatever, let's go get to be I've done that. But if
you try and justify your lie just makes another person even angrier. Yeah,
I mean Mike doing the whole. It's like when you know you say something's
bad, but it's really good. Man. That Michael Jordan, what a
photo, man, Na, Michael Jordan is so phony putting on the exit.
But the cops that arrived they have a debate about the parking situation as
well. And Jerry, he's just arrived home. He's about to watch the
fight and the fight is over eight nine ten thing ding. Larry David was
the voiceover the boxing guy. Yes, so I read boxing announcer, I
should say so. The episode finishes with some stand up talking about people killing
each other for a park in New York. As you're saying, it's like
a musical chairs gaining us that we've everyone sat down in nineteen sixty four.
It's true though they're making more and more cars, but they're not making more
and more parking spaces. That's what it feels like in Gelong. You're adding
jobs into the city, but Yank given us place as the fucking park.
In fact, you're taking away pass I mean very Geelong reference. But that's
what we do here at the four, being a discain network, we're bringing
Geelong to the world. You know, we should actually be sponsored by the
City Groad Geelong because we doing more, doing more for tourism than just about
anybody except Joel Selwod. We should have to pay our rates, that's for
damn sure. That is one D and I we're talking about rates, but
when we came on air really grabs my gears. Damn rates. I'm already
paying for my house. You want me to pay for a little jomp my
hair? What? There's a there's a street in Gelong called Jerry Heavens Street
used to have parks, you know, Yeah, the parks that you would
just drive into, they'd be angular parks. Now they're coming from a good
place. They're coming from a place of good intentions, like, oh,
we're gonna put some bike lanes and we want to start you know, you
want people to ride more rather than drive. You know, it's good,
good for the environment, for the planet. It's bad for Jerringham Streets,
say because cut by mute, because you had good intentions. But now there's
all these parallel parks. It's like a third or a quarter of the parks
that used to be there. And this was a place where a lot of
people used to park. It's ridiculous. I remember the first time because what
they did people listening at home. Used to be a four lane street and
they got rid of we're going on the direction that goes into the city.
They got rid of the left lane and just ended it and just created um
parking right. Well, I remember the first time I was driving up I
went I didn't realize that the parking at end because it's not really like signed
off. It's just sort of like a little brick thing across behind the cars
without the park and I'm waiting for these cars to go. I'm like,
go go, munk my horn, and I realized these cars are parked.
I'm like, what's happened here? What's going on here? So yeah,
that is for the for a bike lane, for a bike lane. Yeah,
I'm like, I said, good intentions, but they're not really thought
through. It's funny as at Louis the other don't she said? If you're
seen this, um, it was on this thing on YouTube about ten minutes.
It was a film mate. It was like a tourist thing about Geelong.
Yeah. I saw the song posting that around. Yeah. Yeah.
First of all, it had like the Trey Parker voices the Welcome to July
exactly, it's a city on the ground looking at out these new cars coming
out of part and now we got you out. It's a comming out natural
gas. But Luno looking at it, going shit, look at all that
space. Remember when we had a space. Look at her. Every family
has a car and every car has parking. Everyone has their own park.
I was like in Lost, like we gotta go back. I saw I
saw the first minute of it and I was like, I can't watch.
It's gonna make me too sad. Yeah, that's that's precisely. It's a
bet. Now we watch the whole thing, but and bet halfway loose,
you're gonna keep doing that? Voice said, you don't know, you bet?
I am. What's my bringing it into the bad? Drop that right,
buddy. Anyway, for those of you what we're doing for love anyone
who wasn't aware, this is what we do on our South Park podcast from
start to finish. So yeah, become a listen to Going down to South
Park, available every second Monday on your feed, So check out that one
if you're a South Park fan. But anyway, this has been The Parking
Space a good episode of Event, really, isn't it. It really has
been. I think we yeah, we lewis lost to the two therapy cloth.
It's likely because we've worked out all our anger rights episodes like festivals,
just airing our grievances. Indeed, indeed, but no Parking Space, very
good episode and no one. I think this was a very good episode of
Talking Song. Yes, the next one we're gonna be reviewing is the season
finale, one of the big episodes of sign Fair that leads into a big
story arc after season four. It is the key, so listener for that
one here on talking Signold. The keys coming out for you in a couple
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