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limiter
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V8
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Fiesta
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VK Commodore
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Ford Mustang
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Oh, is everyone in a hurry?
No, when are you going to eat?
Oh, you're OK.
I've eaten, but I don't know.
Well, we could have eaten first and recorded later.
I've got pies in there from the pie.
Because Ross is stuck in meetings.
Forget about Ross.
Ross is stuck in meetings.
He said he's texting me, so I told him.
I said we'd review it at 6 o'clock.
Ross, if you can hear me, there's a shout out to you.
Listen, with your contacts at Qantas,
can you get me some more blankets?
No, blankets, yeah.
A double blanket, but can you get me some more strider points?
You always choose what's nice.
My seat was better.
He liked the length.
I liked the width.
So we both won.
When you're sitting in the weather,
you didn't have anyone in front of you?
No, next to me.
Next week.
Sorry, Ross, more status points.
I want status points.
So he was sitting, the other seat has the length.
So yeah.
My chair is better.
Because you like the length.
I like the width.
What the fuck's the difference with the width?
I've got shoulders like an athlete.
I need the width.
Hang on, wait, can I just...
Yeah.
Okay, picture it.
You're sitting here, chair, chair, chair.
The chair ain't wider than my chair.
Yeah, but if I sat in your chair...
You still got the arms.
Forget the length.
But my shoulder hangs out because I'm an athlete.
And I get bashed by the trolley
and the lady and whoever walks past me.
They hit my foot.
Didn't even apologize.
They hit my foot too.
But so you like the length.
You like the stretch out.
Because when I was getting up,
I didn't want to turn on your feet.
I'm extra long.
Where I've got width.
Yeah, see, we haven't got the length.
We've got the width.
The width.
People like the width too.
I've got the length.
Yeah, but I've got the width.
Sometimes the width is better than the length.
Oh, I don't know.
I'm just telling you,
on a plane with a missing seat,
the width is good.
I wasn't getting bashed by anyone.
I was perfect.
You know me, I can sleep anywhere, anytime.
He's going to shut up now about this as well.
In any position.
Okay, yeah, because, okay.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
You look sitting in your book, dog.
Gavs, that'd be cool.
Yeah, okay.
So, hosted by Peter Ronas,
joining us is Tom the Ravie reporter.
Fresh from his trip.
We've got security on one side
and we've got the live audience on the other side.
Back to the sleeping part?
Did you fart?
No, I didn't fart.
Hey, anyway, so, he could sleep anywhere.
I could sleep anywhere.
At any time.
We caught him at SEMA.
Bullshit.
In the trolley.
In the trolley.
A sleeper.
Right?
And what was in front of him was a concrete wall,
so we wasn't going anywhere.
And I looked around.
That was stopped.
Yeah, we know that.
Yeah, it wasn't driving or sleeping.
And he's, and I go, what the fuck?
I look again.
He's fucking sleeping.
He was asleep.
People were cut, mate.
We went to Adelaide and we just sat in there on a plane.
We didn't even move yet.
And he started his snoring.
No, this time.
No, no, I've got the strips now.
No snoring.
This time he had a pretty thing sitting next to him.
Shout out to Rachel.
Hi, Rachel.
Right, a nice pretty thing.
He's like, he always gets the pretty things.
Last time we had Adelaide.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm sitting there saying, fuck, mate.
He can talk.
He can fucking talk.
She was a happy passenger as well.
He falls asleep usually like that.
And now he's, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's got to be thinking, fuck, I wish she's
bastard shut up.
You reckon?
I don't know.
She curled up next to me too with her blanket.
She had her own blanket with a clip.
So she wouldn't lose her blanket.
Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Yeah.
I was out of it.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, were you just nodding like, yeah,
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
It was fucking.
Yeah, so she had a blanket.
It was like a cape.
She was nice.
And had a clip.
Yeah, she was here for working.
And then she's going to go to cans with her.
The other one's going to go to snow.
We were going to try to like, mate,
he was talking with a chicken and, mate, stop one second.
Shitting stop.
I was going to offer, what's the name?
Rachel.
I was going to offer a reception job.
Before he cut me down short.
No.
What?
Me?
Yeah.
I'll grass cut you.
Yeah.
No, you're just going to say.
Oh, you asked, you asked Jamie and Tristan.
I was talking to her and then you grass cut me.
You fucking slam me shut straight away.
Wait, I didn't do that.
Yes, you, I'm a team player.
And I go, no.
And I go to Jamie fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking.
I was doing that because she's a grass cut.
And yeah.
So when did you talk to her?
All right, something happened and I'm talking to her.
Then I just came in over the top.
No.
Oh, you just shut me off.
Lean back and shut me off and start talking to her.
Who the fuck are you?
Okay, he's fucking grass cut.
And then I'll tell you, Jamie, you're like a row and a half
behind with your length.
Oh, man.
You cut me off hard, fast, real fast.
Okay, it sounds as if he's going to, and then I started
thinking to myself, maybe high club, what's that club called?
My high club.
My high club and.
Oh, you want me to go to my high club?
I didn't know.
Where am I going to go to my high club?
You know what happens to me?
I can't fit in the toilet by myself.
I'm going to bring an extra person with me.
One of those doors jammed a bit, right?
You know what happened?
Happened to be Jamie on the other side trying to go to the toilet.
He got stuck in there.
Oh, fuck, got stuck in there.
I'm trying to get the door up.
I've got a half way and he's laughing.
He said, oh, and with one push, the door strings open up.
I hit him.
Was this when you were going there or coming back?
He's coming back.
Who?
Okay, I think what is a bit confused.
Just after the beginning.
Yeah, we just got back from LA and Vegas.
We had a, it sounds like a great time.
We did.
We had a good time.
Someone's complaining that I decided to cut grass on a plane.
But anyway, so we left.
Never knew grass grew on planes.
I do now.
Toilet doors got stuck on planes either.
But we left with Qantas.
Yes.
Same flight as last year.
Qantas, Qantas, nothing wrong with Qantas?
And last year we were four hours delayed.
Security was there.
I need more status points and blankets.
But we left two hours late this time.
They had, again, I reckon they lost the keys.
I don't know what happened.
But it was a two hours delay.
Did you see that nut roll across the tarmac?
There's a nut roll.
Yeah, I can't put it.
Tumbleweeds make us not want to leave you.
There's two bikes chasing it.
So going there, the plane's empty.
Everyone had a whole row to themselves.
Like we realized when we left, the plane's empty going there.
It's the best.
We landed in LA.
YouTube said the new Car Park Tower was open.
But it's not.
We looked at the clip here.
Yeah, it's not open.
So we still go the old bus, go to, we tried Alamo Enterprise.
I used to get cars from them.
I'm sick of dollar and Hertz, where they give us
fucking run-arounds.
We got there.
The lady's like, yeah, sure, come out.
Yeah, you went long.
She took me outside and got me to pick whichever car I wanted.
And it was a nice car.
You done very well.
Well, Chevy just gets it.
Chevy Suburban.
Fuck, a beautiful one.
You wanted but a new one?
A new one?
No, well, yeah, it wasn't you.
But I had 23,000 K's on it.
Miles.
Miles.
But it was, mate, no rattles.
White.
We didn't get under cover.
We had to have a limiter on it, too.
What was that?
Did you reach the limiter on it?
Yeah, we did.
It came in 112 miles an hour.
Yeah, so a limited edition white, purred like a V8.
It was a good car.
You didn't get a black one this time?
No, no, but the black Fiesta, we didn't do any celebrity
pickups.
But this is a white, because every Suburban in Vegas,
America's black.
This one's white, stood out a little bit.
Nice.
Looked like a mirror.
Drive very nice.
Beautiful.
So we went, so first, there was no mistake.
Checked in.
Who was sitting in the front?
You.
Yeah, Tom.
Yeah, the kids were in the back.
So my nephew came.
We had all young generation strip.
No wives.
So my nephew, I said, oh, there's
a guy coming that works with Tom.
He's the same age.
You should get on as we walk it out,
because my nephew was an hour before us, because.
An LA airport.
It's going to say hi to me.
Oh, shoot.
That's Jamie.
They knew each other from the work.
They work out.
So they do fighting together, apparently.
Not a good part of America, though.
Well, one reckons he's quicker than the other one,
but the other one's stronger than the other one.
And then I was trying to work out, so if you just
have a fight, who's going to win?
It sounds like it's going to become a draw.
Do you just want to have a fight, or do you just want to draw?
I reckon they both start crying.
Oh, yeah, sort of why, because they're fucking mummy boys.
Yeah, they're looking to get a haircut.
Oh, no.
For fuck's sake, seriously.
I told them, I go, if I slap you, it's going to hurt.
They've got earrings, they're looking for haircuts.
Oh, earrings.
They're like, oh, you know, can I just a quick one?
Yeah.
My son, why were we over there?
I've worked and deal out with him.
He can get an earring, but no tattoos for life.
And he wanted to get it, too.
So he got it.
But he took us to a dodgy place.
No.
I opened up to him, and I was like, fuck this.
But they're causing one of that.
But anyway, you know what happened at school tonight?
They pulled him out, take it out, or get kicked out.
Oh, did he leave it on?
Yeah.
He was meant to put a bandaid.
He did just tonight, and tonight they sent him here.
Leave it.
Yeah, we told him.
Like, either take it out or get kicked out of school.
Are you telling me that you're not allowed to have
an earring at school?
No.
But the girls are allowed to wear these earrings.
Our girls are allowed to have earrings, but they're girls.
They're not allowed, they're only allowed to have a lock of stuff.
Different schools have different rules.
Yeah.
Because of the school.
I can't even have a haircut.
Last time I had to go and get in to go and get a proper haircut.
The school I went to said they had been a skirt to the knees.
No makeup, no jewelry, unless it's religious reasons.
No fancy coloured hair.
No nails done, nails painted.
None of that.
Maybe because you had to go to Trump.
Well, you let go after school, didn't you?
Well, the school I went to, they didn't give a shit.
The school I went to, we all had the same green uniform
with hats, boaters.
We looked like Elton John.
I first from Newtown every morning when I got to work in the...
mate, all you see is just...
Shorts skirts.
Shorts like the word.
Oh, they come to make some girls, you don't see.
Shorts skirts.
As you could tell, I got sick from the Qantas play,
being so cold, they must have...
Well, even going there, it was bloody cold.
Going there, it's the only time we use the blanket.
No, coming back.
Coming back was worse.
So, we got there all right, got into LA, did the one night in LA,
and then we had an interview lined up in Friday morning.
We never love it, Mr. LA in a minute.
Good day.
Top bloke, shout out.
You probably would have heard the episode.
I've uploaded that one before this episode, so...
Every time I get in LA, I'm going to join his Pilati class next door.
Not only that.
Are we going to talk about the boys next door?
I...
Yeah!
The boys next door?
No, no, no, wait, wait, we cannot say it.
Okay, so we rock up to the laneway.
We set to the boys, I got an interview at 10.30 in the morning.
It was a half an hour drive in the valley, Burbank,
if those of you know LA, north of LA,
and went to his studio, and next door is...
We told the boys, it would probably be an hour.
They didn't want to hang out with us, and the room was small.
I didn't want them hanging out with us.
We worked out good.
And what was next door?
Massage parlor.
I thought it was a message shop, it was a massage shop.
I misread it.
And they...
Straight away, they said they wanted to go for a massage.
So yeah, go.
So they were booked an hour.
It was interesting hearing them on the way back, but...
Can't be ending?
Well, no, they said no.
None of them?
None of them.
Because I kept on hitting up Tristan.
Did he get fondled or anything?
Yeah, because he's like 15.
He said no.
Yeah.
He's only 15.
I thought they would have given me the...
Make a lobby?
21 more in Vegas.
Well, that happened.
So, mate, shout out to Evan, mate.
We only had half an hour with him.
Became 45 minutes, became, I better wind it up.
Mate, we didn't stop for over an hour,
and still talked afterwards.
So we really got on, and he's hoping
the couple of Australia in January,
we'll get him back on.
Mate, the reason why I tried to keep it going,
because he did say...
The Pilates was changing.
He opened the blinds for you,
so you can look at the Pilates changing.
So, mate, Evan was awesome,
and we got great comments and reviews
from post of the photo with him.
And then the nav took me a different way.
So traditionally, we leave through LA
where the mountains, and then sort of the outskirts of LA
would go up the mountains, like we did last year.
This year took us around the top of the mountains.
So we went north along towards San Francisco
and then hang on right.
Maybe there was no traffic.
Was there traffic again?
Yeah, it was 25 minutes more traffic.
It was 20 miles longer this way, but less traffic.
We'd go through the Mojave Desert,
and guess what we saw?
And I've always wanted to go past
the graveyard with all the aeroplanes.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, there was like 40 fucking aeroplanes, air buses.
We went out the graveyard with all the tanks
and all the jeeps and everything.
Yeah, we saw that again.
Yeah, army supplies.
But this was the aeroplanes where they land them,
and then they sort of spare parts in the desert.
That's right, because I said,
I don't see any Quinas one.
That's nice.
There was a Quinas one.
Yeah.
Man, it was fucking awesome.
Yeah, I think, I don't know if you can do tours or not.
So like that, man, it was miles away and it stood out.
It was like whales in the desert, like with their fins up.
It looked unreal.
And then we passed also California City,
which is like a real estate scam.
People live there, but they sell you shares
and properly they go to the next big city.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, but we didn't go there.
It was 10 miles off the freeway.
We didn't want to go.
We'll run it.
Next time, man, we'll go back around that way again.
They put roads there and sewer.
Yeah, we'll do it next time.
Now that we've learnt that new road.
But what made them pick that to make a city there?
I don't know.
We're still standing with Las Vegas.
Why they picked Las Vegas?
I don't know.
Yeah, I want to find out the history of Vegas.
Why, how about, it must have been there.
It must have been like a saloon.
Yeah, just a stop.
And they played cards, a brothel, and then they just expanded.
So we went around that way and then ended up
meeting up the main freeway.
We had stopped at Peggy Seuss and then we saw the...
That's the best place there.
The Trump merchandise stand.
You know how we last saw them go to Tuts?
As we were leaving Peggy Seuss, there was a stand there.
Everything, shirts, hats.
So we stopped on the way back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom made mates.
Yeah, yeah, made his day.
Yeah, he did.
He's the most money he's made in weeks.
Yeah, so we get to Vegas.
So the first weekend was buffet buffet,
back-to-back buffets.
The first one was the Caesar's one.
Never been before.
Give it a shot.
It was all right.
It was all right.
If you've never been to any other buffet.
It's dark.
You know what?
And the buffet sort of angles and you...
But it's the darkness that changes it, mate.
Wings, buffet, because it's bright.
It's more inviting.
It's more friendly.
It's not...
You know what I mean?
And I also found that the dishes at the Caesar's Palace one,
they're already pre-cut.
So it's on little plates,
where it winds you cut, make your own and do it.
And the lighting was...
And the last day, we found buffet breakfast.
Because someone told us it doesn't exist.
I said, you said it doesn't exist.
I said, how about you go for a walk and explore?
Every effing day was in the car.
Every day.
These little punks didn't want to walk anywhere.
They come home.
In and out.
In and out, burger fucking 10 times.
And then they come home at five in the morning,
six in the morning.
They'd sleep all day.
And they wonder where the day went
when they wake up at three.
What do you mean?
You know they come home hungry once and we brought food.
Went to the Mexican store.
We brought food.
He was fucking eating.
Raw sausages.
I know.
And everyone's just done that face, even the audience.
Raw, slew.
Everyone's done that face.
Jamie.
He doesn't mean they were right.
Yeah, they were right.
Yeah, he was drunk and hungry at six in the morning.
So, yeah, well, we had an apartment this time round
compared to hotel rooms.
And so we went shopping at the Mexican supermarket
where no one speaks English.
And this time, it was different to last time.
I think we went too early.
So you enjoyed it this time?
Yeah.
You weren't scared.
This one was nice.
I wasn't scared.
But I told you to get the pre-packaged hams.
The little shits ate that.
I got the pre-packaged.
They ate raw.
They ate raw and left the empty packet in the fridge.
Little fuckers.
We bought Tristan a cake for his birthday.
Bought him two candles, 21.
21.
So he turned 16, but 21.
And that caused the problem because...
Spira.
Spira organized a book day...
A table at a bar, Parasolop.
Yeah, the bar we always used to be.
The nice one we did.
In the middle.
And so we had dinner on his birthday
and we told Spira he turned 21
and she was telling him to sit up.
And he got a bit of a baby face.
I go, yeah, they're young, these kids.
And then the next night, she's booked the booth.
We're all together.
And then staff came up to Tristan and said,
oh, I do.
And Spira gets up.
Show him your passport.
Show him your passport.
Oh, shit.
And then Tristan got marched out.
And I go to Spira.
Spira, he's only 16.
You guys told me he was 21.
He should have showed his...
He's the only one who came away from Vegas with money.
And he won.
And my brother.
Yeah.
He did all right.
He done?
Which brother?
George.
Did he go to?
No.
So...
About the envelope.
Okay, so the envelope.
So my brother and Tom bought a lottery ticket
and it paid 1,300 bucks.
And in New South Wales, for those that are listening,
you can't, a news agent will pay your lottery ticket,
but if it's over a thousand,
you have to go to the lottery's office to claim it.
So my brother went two days before we left,
claimed it, put the money in an envelope,
put Tom's name on it, and with instructions inside.
So the first note at the casino,
we opened, we did a reveal.
We opened the envelope and there was a post-it note.
Dun, dun, dun.
The post-it note had just one word on it.
Red.
Red.
So all of it, one red?
So we changed 1,300 into US, was 795.
We put the extra five, 800 bucks.
Changed it.
Tom's job was to pick the table
and I would put the money down.
And dug well?
Put the 800 down, turned my back,
I didn't want to see it.
Ding, ding, ding.
Yeah, slap's on the back, 1,600 bucks.
US.
So you just doubled it?
Yeah.
But the table's there, maximum was 1,000 bucks.
So we were told to go again, but you can only do 1,000.
We ended up with $1,000 that night.
We put the six.
Yeah, we did the six, we lost it.
We ended up with 1,000.
We went back the next night,
I texted my brother, further instructions,
he goes, red again.
Went the next night, 1,000 became 2,000, we stopped.
So we had these $2,000 chips all week
and we got further instructions, go again.
So we go, but we only played the 1,000s the last night.
Again, I had my back turned, I'm looking at Tom
and Tom scrunches his face like we've lost.
Cause I hit the ding, ding, ding,
and then it went all quiet
and he did the scrunched face.
And then I turned around.
That was because it was doing that around everything.
I've never seen it before.
When I turned around, the ball was spinning
on a black number.
It was just spinning.
Not in the hole, not in the hole.
On the number.
But like doing circles.
Half a lap.
And then it popped in the red.
And you won again.
Then we won, but I saw it.
And so we got three grand.
I said, hey.
American.
We brought it back.
But Tristan.
Did you leave it in American?
Yeah.
Put in an envelope, three grand.
You see, George?
I had a birthday.
Tristan had his birthday going $500 Australian.
No.
No, it was $400.
No, American.
No, $500.
US.
Yeah, $500 US.
And he went to,
and he had a coach to help him gamble.
And the first table, he won.
So he had eight.
$800.
He lost once or twice.
Even the last night.
The last night when we were at...
Winds.
No.
At a cosmopolitan.
I loved that place.
Right?
He was good because he could stand away.
Told him to go there for the first night.
Keep us all in this for red, that for black.
Mate, up to $800 of a hundred dollars.
But then at the end, I go, what do you want to do?
Shopping.
I go, I'll give it to Pete to gamble.
You know what I mean?
So let's go home.
I gave it to Pete the next morning.
Okay, Pete had this thing when he was coming to the room.
If he spat at his fingers,
and he started biting the money,
this Tristan was waiting for him to spit,
but there was no spit that came through.
So he lost it.
But the last morning,
so the last night I did an all nighter,
we had a bit of a break one night.
And you had to drive home?
It's all right.
It was four in the morning.
I had $900, this machine ate it
and got me back to $550.
I said, just take it.
It's not going to pay.
It's four o'clock.
And everyone was all week,
we were saying buffalo,
played buffalo.
And there was a buffalo sitting there by itself.
Do you remember that one from last year?
And the bonus light was up to the S.
I don't understand that.
The bonus was going to go off.
So I put in the $550 voucher.
I thought, I'll just play $2.
Bang, bang, three hits.
I go, how can 500 go to 400?
I was betting $20 a hit.
It was a 10 cent machine.
I didn't know.
I thought, oh, fuck, what are we doing now?
Fuck it, the smallest you could play was $7.50 today.
I didn't use today's money, just play it.
Got feature within three hits.
And it gave us the buffaloes,
times three, times three, which is times nine,
two and a half, 2200 bucks.
Then anything over $1,200, you get a manual pay.
And because we're Aussies, not Americans, 30% tax.
So that's 600 bucks.
I don't understand, why does that fucking machine seize?
Because it's paid over 1200 bucks, it knows.
Why can't you just play it?
Like you want to keep it?
It doesn't.
See, that's bullshit.
Because in America, no, no, but if you win lotteries
or in a gambling in America, you pay tax on your winnings.
So that's just how it works.
Hang on.
So I lost 600 bucks, US.
Your friend last year, they won $10,000.
Well, they won $40,000.
He lost in March.
He lost to, oh yeah, Andrew, yeah, he won $10,000.
He got taxed, 30%.
So hang on, when you win the $10,000,
you go there to get the money,
they don't give you $10,000?
No, no, the machine, if you win more than $1,200 on a game,
like a feature or five of a kind,
you get tax, the machine freezes, it knows automatically.
Where if you're playing roulette on a table,
it doesn't count, the chips don't count.
If you bet $5,000 in roulette, you win five, you keep it.
So that's what I mean.
But if you win a jackpot or you play the pokies
and you win $1,200 in one go, you get taxed.
I just realized, so if you win at the roulette,
you don't get taxed.
No, that's fucking cool.
Because a game would stop every minute.
Mate, that's fucking bullshit.
So if you win $10,000 on the poker machine,
it's not gonna give you $10,000.
No, they're gonna give you $7,000.
Yeah, it's gonna give you a ticket with $7,000.
No, they give you cash.
They're gonna give you a ticket.
The man comes, switches the machine off,
fills in your details because you're Australian,
takes the 30% out.
If you're an American, you're right,
you're taxed.
Why don't you get a chicken next door until I give you the money?
Mate, that's what they warned us against.
No way, because if the chicken put her name down,
she'll say it's my fucking money.
Then you get taxed 100%.
Yeah, give us the money.
No fucking way.
And I had SEMA.
So we're there for SEMA, really.
Shout out to the everyday driver balls, boys, boys,
boys, they got balls, boys.
See balls all right.
To Paul and then Todd.
So again, Tom, you missed out because you just slipped in.
No, my phone, for one hour.
Actually, you were there to make the balls.
I was there by myself, I was there.
You were, he's phoned, shout it out for an hour.
For an hour?
I couldn't get a single.
I couldn't get nothing.
And he didn't know where I was.
And there were still circles,
but there was these three balls, let me tell you.
I didn't mind doing so.
See, did I belong, it's not circles.
Yeah, that was, I did.
Did you find the glasses, please?
The glasses, guys, or they weren't?
No, no, because we weren't sure where they were.
He said it's on the back wall of one hall.
There's five fucking halls.
Yeah, no.
Because I rang him up again, do you remember?
And Andrew organized scooters, I had scooters again.
The battery would die halfway through.
Your one?
Yeah, it died in the ass.
And you went to last?
Well, you got to get the cheap ones.
Andrew organized it, so yeah.
And the next day, Bloody Tristan and Jamie went and got scooters.
Yeah, the best thing.
One of theirs went flat too.
Anyway, so we're at Seymour.
Seymour this year was a bit flat.
Do you think it's too spread out and there's a lot of gaps?
What do you, how do you feel?
You know why it seems that, because of the construction there?
Yeah.
Right?
They didn't have the burner, did you go and see where the
burnout events were and all that?
Down the, yeah, as you walked down that,
yeah, convention drive from the, it's there.
Where last year it was all in that corridor.
That's why it seemed different.
So you're saying it was too quiet?
But Hoonigan was doing burnouts at the top.
There was a VK Commodore there.
What was that?
Yeah, at the top.
I didn't see it.
Where the mags were, you know, where we met at the doorway.
They were doing burnouts there, Hoonigan.
There was a few Australia companies selling, given the computers.
Yeah, yeah, there was a few.
They used it and everything.
The caravan guys, I didn't get many interviews done.
It was more just a glade.
Any nice new things that you voted?
No, they didn't like it.
No, she was a bit different.
They're doing different.
They didn't do, there was a panel rather than the media judge.
So the media didn't vote this year.
And the next year I'm on the panel.
Are you going to go next year?
Are you on next year?
Yeah, probably.
We're already planning it.
Steer we booked.
The lobsters.
Oh, that was a good thing.
Did you, did you do the tomahawk?
Yeah, we all had the tomahawk.
So you're all gone?
You're all gone and one lobster each.
So before there was eight lobsters,
and we would mean you were stuck with the tomahawk.
So this year we had two lobsters.
We ordered just right, but we had two bottles of wine this time.
Yeah, the wine.
We got the, you took a picture.
So the girls remember you guys?
No, they don't remember anything.
But it was good.
It was not bad.
We did all right.
We shopped.
Everything went well.
One thing, the buffet breakfast,
where we stayed was better for us
because you could all hang out.
Yeah, we're all together.
Right?
It's needle.
You know what I mean?
When the ice machine was right outside our front door.
You want that room?
You got to ask for that room.
It works out with these undies, with just a glass
to go to the ice machine.
No, the first day I went and got the bucket,
I put the plastic on there, went over there,
filled it up, came back, I got some,
but we ran out of Southern comfort that.
Yeah, but this time I told you to buy three bottles.
You were too skinned.
I was duty free.
I don't want to check shit.
I don't want to check anything.
Anyway, like you said, I'd walk out.
They're free.
They're on the radio today.
He said that the American air is free
and out for tourists from Australia now.
Do you know how it gets so paranoid about the customs?
You'd be there.
Customs.
They don't want you there.
Like a robot.
Hello, my name.
Yes, yes, yes.
I have never laughed at customs.
I have never been or laughed at customs.
It's all serious.
They don't want you there.
On our honeymoon, we nearly got kicked out.
So we get through the customs.
They don't want you in the country.
I remember on our honeymoon,
I think I've said this story a thousand times.
Yeah, you just get the fuck out of this.
I'm with my wife.
It's just the first time she's in America.
And the guy goes, what's the purpose of your trip?
And my wife, we're here to have fun.
And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Wrong answer.
We're here on our honeymoon, you know?
And we had no accommodation booked.
We had a Mustang convertibles driving to Texas.
And then the guy goes, where are you staying tonight?
We don't know.
Wherever the car takes us.
I'm like, no, office, no, we're going to Texas.
We'll stop on the way there.
We haven't booked anything.
OK.
So it's always been like that.
And nice.
Did you find something?
We're on that trip.
Yeah, he's pulled over.
Back then, I had no money.
We made to LA.
Whatever's on the side of the road.
So you did find a combination.
Yeah, but we drove for a couple of hours.
I wasn't lucky in LA.
There was no Intercontinental's 25 years ago.
That's a nice hotel.
I know.
Now it's nice because we got the money before that.
It was like, oh, look at that.
You remember the V8 fit us.
So we split up.
It was you stay with Tristan.
So Tom stayed with his son.
I was with Jamie.
So when they called us next, we go to the guy
and he's got a Greek name on his chest.
I go, mate.
Chest and went around a bit.
He's back again.
Yeah, I said to him, mate, you need two shirts.
No, no.
He looked at my name, Ronas.
And he goes, are you Greek?
I go, yeah.
I go, look at it.
Look at it.
You're wearing two shirts to fit your name.
Ha, ha, ha.
That's why there's not many Greek.
Come here.
And then he goes, what are you here for, Seema?
We're starting to laugh.
And Tom's looking at us like, what the fuck is going on here?
And I go, we're here.
I go, we're working together.
My boss is over there with his son.
Oh, which one is he?
They just bring him over.
So I'm doing, so instead of the guard, I'm going to Tom come.
And all of this is like, hesitation.
Like, what the fuck?
Yes.
And we're laughing.
And there's a big line there.
There's a lot of people there, all serious.
And all the other guards are all serious.
And we're like having a little mini party.
I felt bad laughing in an area where you shouldn't be doing
anything like that.
But it was a bit of a change.
It felt weird.
So that was our introduction into the state.
So it was a good start.
It was a good trip.
The car was really good, very comfortable.
You just go for hot dogs either night at LA?
No, we went snark.
But we found, we went.
The food trucks were different.
Mexican, like taco style.
But he repeated the book, the restaurant.
We went there.
We found it.
It's rude.
How are we going to find this?
I opened and shut.
All the lights were on and I was home.
And no, there was two people.
And I go, mate, he's open, mate.
Couldn't understand them.
Just arrogant, just like they shoved us off.
Hey.
So I went to that bar.
And that was fucking nice.
Yeah, I know.
It's a bar.
It's got a menu.
And then it becomes like a bit of a club bar afterwards.
Bad food.
Top food.
Yeah, I've been there before.
Nice people, nice waitress, talk nice.
Everything was nice.
Really friendly.
Yeah, really, you want to leave a tip.
Wasn't over the top.
It was really good.
So no, it was a good trip.
So Seema was a bit flat.
I found there's a lot of gaps.
I don't know if everyone was there.
I heard that Japan had a show on at the same time.
So there's no Liberty Walk.
All the Japanese guys, I noticed, they weren't around.
No, but when we went to China, they were in Chinatown.
They were all fucking around.
OK.
Oh, this year we did try.
Because Pete's always showing us.
Because I've only been there like 28 times.
Yeah, Pete's always shows us everything.
I want to do something different.
So we're to Chinatown.
We're to Chinatown for dinner.
Off the strip, on the other side of Vegas.
Good.
Mate, I looked up.
There were two restaurants that we picked.
We picked one.
And it was just wall-to-wall Chinese.
When Chinese are eating in a Chinese restaurant,
you know you're in a good place.
And the food was all right.
It's just arrogant people.
The kitchen got it all mixed up.
It was a busy night.
The food came out before the rice.
And you know in Australia.
And I kept on getting told to shut up,
stop stirring the bucket.
Because I'm harassing everyone for Pete.
Because Pete was tired.
And when Pete's tired.
They don't take your joke sometimes.
No, they crank in the air-con.
It was cold in there.
We sat wall-to-wall with the fucking music.
Yeah, air-con was hitting us in the head.
But we had like 11 dishes, like 50 bucks each.
Yeah, that was cheap.
It was back to normal prices.
Yeah, I know.
Steers was fucking 300 bucks each.
But that's on the strip.
When you eat on the strip, like I said, it's like...
Like tourists there, right?
Do you go to the opera house every morning for a coffee?
I can't.
No, you don't.
But wait, okay.
Buffet breakfast at Cosmo was 55 bucks.
But that's the one that you found?
Then you're the last day, and I've got to say.
Because that...
And you can go there even if you're not staying at the hotel?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a buffet.
Hotel World.
Now, I'm telling you, staying at...
Where do we stay?
At Vidara.
Vidara.
Lovely hotel.
Lovely, lovely...
There's no casino underneath it.
But you're like a one-minute walk to Bellagio.
You can still at the casino.
But yeah, as you said, it's good because it's all a big apartment
and you're still there, you know?
But it was great because the Cosmopolitan casino,
I reckon, is better than Wings.
Wings is just brighter, I think.
But Wings is for...
Cosmopolitan is a gung-o.
It's money, it's expensive, it's rich, right?
With a Cosmopolitan, it's a party hotel.
Yeah, it's fucking...
And it was full of...
It's pumping music, the bars are pumping.
Marquis there, there's Chandelier by the two-story mass.
That's where we said last year, there was nothing.
No girls, no nothing.
No, the first two nights there was.
Yeah, because of the...
They're dying.
But this Cosmopolitan...
It's pumping.
It's fucking beautiful.
There's two hidden bars.
Yeah.
There's one upstairs.
There's a barbershop with a bar behind it.
Yeah, and that center thing where they're drinking.
There's Chandelier bar.
No, no, the other part, further.
As you walk down, it had curtains.
Oh yeah, it was like a club.
That was not a nice fan.
Did you go to your Italian place?
Yes.
Twice.
He had lunch at the end of the same day.
Do you know what happened?
When we got there, what do you think happened to me?
You fell on the stairs again.
Fuck, you fell on the stairs again.
Mate, I'm telling you, we ate there twice.
It was, I don't know.
And you could walk there from where we're staying.
Yeah, you had lunch at the end of the same day.
You know, at the city, at the markets, at his markets, whatever it's called, they made
the same thing like that.
Yeah, it's similar.
Yeah, I've heard about that.
Very expensive, but...
We also went to Eminem World and made our own...
Did you make another one again?
Yeah, what we done is, my son got his face on Eminem's and gave his mother a love heart
box.
Oh, is that what he did?
And his sister a love heart box with his face on it.
So let's talk about it.
Did that pay for it?
No, no, no.
Don't go on now.
Let's talk about your son.
So your son...
A devil in disguise.
Cheap of the old block, wanted to eat.
So I took him dinner now five times.
And on one time, I said to him, he's only 16, he's a good kid.
I said, decisions have consequences.
We went there once and he didn't want to get out.
He didn't want to eat.
I said, decision.
Are you sure you don't want to get out of the car?
He goes, no, no, no.
So I think, Tom, you want to eat the Dutchman.
And as we're coming back, he goes, I want to go now.
I said, mate, sorry.
Oh.
And I started the car and we left.
I felt bad, but I'm going, mate, your decision has consequences.
But he knew the secret menus.
Flying Dutchman is two patties with cheese.
And then you got lettuce on the side.
Then I started working it all out.
Hey, I tell you, remember that burger place you went to?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You, you know, I just thought it's simple burgers and simple burgers.
No, like this and everything is hanging out.
No.
But you got some quad burger.
Yeah, quads.
You can get four patties, five patties.
The secret menu.
And we don't want the bread, just the patties.
So you're flying Dutchman, but on the side have lettuce.
And in the packet comes two lettuce.
So use the lettuce as the buns.
And it is fucking beautiful.
What about it?
They've got that at the brew house.
They've got it like a lettuce burger.
Yeah.
They do.
It's like a vegan burger.
Do you remember at.
But can I tell you about Tristan?
He got his ear done.
Yes.
So we heard about the deal with the devil, right?
He got his ear done and the little shifty, your wife and his mom didn't know that he
got his ear done.
She went up to FaceTime that day and he was in panic mode.
He did the oil.
I'm in the toilet routine.
And then he came out and he put an ear pod that covered the earring.
But no one told him about it.
And he did it himself.
I'm thinking, what a little shifty.
He spoke to his mom and doing the whole flash the left ear.
And then Tom took photos of everyone and said it's a vowel.
And then that's when Val noticed the earring.
She laughed.
In the photos.
What did she do?
She made it.
She got the shits?
No, he really did.
He's doing these ones with the earring.
Look, I made a deal with him.
Get an earring, but no tattoos for life.
Look, he looked up to the other boys.
They had ear rings, you know.
And the boys, they were going out.
They went hard the first two nights.
And what did we tell them?
No, it's not a sprint.
We're here for a week.
It's a marathon.
The last two nights, three nights, they went nowhere.
They were finished.
They wanted to leave.
They were finished.
They were broke.
They were done.
I mean, they had a good time.
They gave me a run.
It wasn't like they were over the place.
No.
But they were just buckled.
They were worn out.
And you know what?
I was just comfortable still.
I could have stayed there as long as...
We got in our stride.
Yeah.
And like last time, just as we get to, you know, we could stay there.
They were finished.
And if anything, she would think about what job we need to get to stay there.
I mean, Tristan straight away wants to open up in an outburger franchise.
But we're trying to figure out...
Food works down there.
No.
No.
But we're trying to think if we want...
Because Tristan would live there if he could get a job.
Yeah.
Right?
So I'd have to live there too.
I don't mind.
But what job could we do there?
You know what I mean?
At OH2, it's going to be hard.
Yeah, but...
Can we come up to women and say, oh, you're looking for a good time?
You know, they used to come up to us.
You never know.
Yeah.
Can you open businesses over there if you're a foreigner?
Of course you can open businesses over there.
They're all from America.
Become an American citizen.
Yeah.
Got a green card.
Become an American citizen.
That'd be one way you could say that.
But the place, the outer skirts, the way I look at it,
the outer skirts, like the outer, what do you call it, Vegas,
is enlarging, is getting bigger.
It's a big place.
Because you could see new roads like where that in and out is.
It's all new.
Yeah, they're working on the roads.
They're building new factories.
The outer skirts, when we went out the back way,
and there's a lot of money out there.
There's a lot of industry out there.
It's not just gambling.
What do you want to see next year?
Next time?
What's the first thing you want to see?
We're going to do the local clubs.
No, but what else?
What do you mean, what else?
What else?
Hard rock.
Oh, they're building the new hard rock.
Right.
On the main strip, a guitar hotel.
It's a guitar hotel.
We saw the basement.
We figured it out.
So that's getting built.
That and do the old RSLs.
But we're going to go.
There's like casinos in the suburbs for locals.
We want to go.
I'm going to go to one.
We're going to go next year.
We'll drive to one.
Next year, we'll go.
Because I won't.
I bet it's like $2 black jacks and probably $10 stakes.
We'll see what it's like.
We'll go for dinner there.
Yeah.
Trisha's got a Nixie too.
No, he's not.
No, he's not.
Hey.
The audience is coming next year.
He's terrific.
He's good.
Don't get me wrong.
He's great.
But the age thing.
If you're under 21, America is not a place for you.
I didn't care having him.
I loved it.
But like, I'd come home with money.
Yeah, you couldn't even blow it.
Yeah.
And I blew it at the end on stupid shit.
Yeah, because you had money.
Yeah, like with mugga hats.
Yeah, I know.
Hey, I was just like, take it.
Take it.
Take it.
Take it.
That's all right.
Yeah, I'll take five shirts.
That's all right.
It's memories.
So that was our US trip.
It was good.
And, you know, the dinner.
That's my prison.
Remember, Peter, look alike?
I gave it away.
I had one.
I gave it to the guy there.
I got you a nice shirt, but I gave it to the other guy.
Which other guy?
Who was doing the quotes for us while I was away.
Because he's at 4XL.
He's a larger man, too.
But hey, at that restaurant, remember the Peter lookalike?
He was still there.
Did you find him?
Did you go again?
Were you coming there to go to the toilet as well?
Where?
Which restaurant?
Halfway up the thing going back to Wings.
No, no, I wasn't.
It was me and Jamie and Tristan.
We were too busy at tobacco shops looking.
Yeah, for smokes.
For smokes.
Who was on smoke?
I know I didn't smoke, but someone wanted a special smoke.
Ah, okay.
And we couldn't find it.
He's in a league with it?
No, it was a smoke.
Not that kind of special smoke?
Not that special smoke.
She wanted, like, colourful smokes.
Yeah, isn't everyone allowed to be in a league with it?
Yeah, we got stoned a couple of times just for a fucking smoke.
Yeah, just standing next to people.
What do you mean?
With being traffic and you can fucking smell it.
Smell it?
Yeah, I remember us.
I just hate it.
There's traffic lights.
How about LA?
How about LA?
It made everybody busy.
We were having the hot dog and they were selling the drugs.
No, it was...
My LA restaurant was fucking nice.
I got to meet...
Hey, that was nice.
Yeah, it was a good bar.
I liked it.
It was beautiful.
Let's go.
That's it.
So, um, that was it.
That was it.
That was it.
That's it.
Straight away.
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Review us.
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Oh, no, we heard the ad rumor.
Oh, yeah.
The disclosure.
The disclosure at the end of the ads.
They cranked at the first one.
Did you just go to any shows?
At the end of the...
Oh, Jay Leno.
Jay Leno.
No singing.
No singing.
No, no.
I was asleep a little bit.
He's alright.
He's alright.
He's a bit old, man.
I went to a tour.
I went to a bus from the street.
They had the big sign with the girls.
No, the boys went to the strip club.
300...
300 good-looking girls and three ugly ones.
Two ugly ones.
The boys went to a strip club.
I didn't get to go.
Did they go?
Tristan too.
That was in a strip club.
Tristan.
No, Tristan got crashed.
Oh, they went to strip club.
Oh, did they go?
Yeah.
Did they like...
No, that's right.
They had to leave to find another place.
Yeah.
I would have loved to have gone, but...
If Tristan can't...
Man.
I could have stayed home with him.
No, man.
I went there.
I enjoyed spending time with him because I know it's hard.
I bought him a present and I got told off.
But you bought him?
I bought him a pink basketball, mini basketball.
Oh, fuck!
You don't buy someone a basketball?
Yeah, but he's just...
Hey, what do you think he'll do with it?
I wanted it.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, yeah.
At least...
At least you bought him back in one piece.
You didn't get injured.
No, he was missing a bit of an ear.
Yeah, a bit of an ear missing.
He's got a hole in his ear now.
Yeah, well, that's not a...
And he knows what oils are also useful, not just cooking.
Yeah.
So...
We've changed your brain.
Let us review us.
Send us your questions on our talk at outlook.com.au.
Can we sleep at night, man?
We had a safe time.
We've come back alive.
Barely.
We're already booking for next year.
We booked Golden Steers.
We've Golden Steers booked.
I'm going to book the accommodation when it lets you fly over for next year.
So...
Yeah, we had a good time, safe time,
and I'm glad we were happy to talk about it and explain it to you.
That's it.
Bye.
Bye for now.
You're fucking hungry.
You're fucking hungry, aren't you?
No, I've eaten.
I'm all right, but I'm going to have some pasta.
What do you mean you're feeding?
I have pies.
I've got a whole thing of pies.
What pies are in there?
From the...
Pie Father.
Pie Father.
Not the Godfather.
Why don't we eat the pies then?
Yeah, do we have to go?
What pies is it?
Yeah, I don't care.
Look.
Hey.
About this episode
The hosts return from SEMA 2025, sharing humorous anecdotes from their trip to LA and Vegas. They discuss travel experiences, including flight delays, car rentals, and the unique quirks of American culture. Highlights include a visit to a massage parlor, winning big at the casino, and the challenges of traveling with younger family members. The episode is filled with lively banter and personal stories, making it a fun recap of their adventures and insights from the automotive event.
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Peter and Tom are joined by Security and the Live Audience and talk about their time in the USA. Peter and Tom return from SEMA - they talk about the SEMA, the stands and the displays, the food and the gambling. They rate the Chevrolet Suburban and are already planning 2026.
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