So I get to sound levels right. Who me? Oh, hello. Yeah, hello.
Yeah, you can hear this crunch. Ah, it's not a red line. But they're in hell of a talk. They're like, oh, look at all the speakers.
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You're listening to the All Talk Car Podcast. Most of the five people around us joining tonight are a little more stuff up. Hello. And Ross is on the way to the ski pools, doing another road trip, weekend away.
So we've got a guest way back in the early days. He's come through, quarantine, survive. We've got Singapore, Steve. Hang around, yeah, I'm back.
Hang on. It's good to talk to someone. Talk about that. We're calling Singapore, Steve.
We moved on. I've gone there for the last couple of years. I've gone there a long way. So I used to go here on the street.
Oh, I've been three or four years when I was in Singapore. Yeah, but now you're in Hong Kong. And you've come back. When I get blue, call me, chef.
I mean, it's good that you're on. Because one, you've been living in Hong Kong slash China. So you're probably the only ones that can tell us what's going on there. Yeah, so three years ago when I moved, within a month of being there, they had the worst typhoon in 50 years.
Then when that was done, the protest started and lasted for a year. And then when they finished, the right of my very... Yeah, it's pretty good. It's all good.
It's all good. Yeah, if they do an investigation, the origins of Hong Kong problems. No, don't worry about Moonheart. What are you doing?
It's at 60s left Singapore. Singapore's GDP's gone up. They're supposed to be happier. We've been around the guy again.
What's his name? Dyson has moved there. He's a couple of years. He was going to talk to Dyson.
He was going to do electric cars. He was going to do electric cars. We have about two billion. He set up the whole thing.
He said not to. He's living there. He's a resident. He bought two houses of apartments with 20 or 50 million dollars.
He's got the residency. He's a street-compared city process. So you're here for a couple of weeks. You come back, what's the matter?
What's the matter? I went up. I didn't go back to 22 weeks quarantine. Yeah.
And then I'll go back. Two weeks in... Can you hear about this? You want to hear about this?
Yeah. So you've got to play? Yeah, I'll go through the whole process. See?
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to take out. You're going to take out.
We're going to take out. We're going to take out. We went and hit me as a part. Yeah, yeah.
One and a half. Happens your best. It's not T. It's radio.
They're on. You want dead off in your school? You're on. You're on with your old radio.
I got that glance 20 for a few more days under radio. Yeah. So basically, two weeks in quarantine it's in front of a plane. Was there a phone call here?
Yeah. It's literally a ghost town. You get to your gate and there were probably about 25 people at the gate flying to Sydney. So people that told me book business class because then you don't get bumped.
So you're almost guaranteed a seat because you spend so much money. So I booked business class, about 25 people at the gate, and it seemed like all 25 people were in business class. I don't know what was in the back of the plane. But what did you give me?
It must be one person in the whole section. Anyway, so we flew down, flight was OK, and then you land. There's basically someone in a hospital suit. You took away a flight from us all the time?
Yeah. And it must have been the first time that hosties and the hostesses had seen each other, because they literally did not stop talking. That was catching up on everything they hadn't seen or heard. Anyway, so we land.
I agree to set the gate in one of those hospital suits. So, is that the plane now? Off the plane. Did you walk through the normal corridors?
Or through the normal corridors? Yeah. Instead of putting your passport into those machines. Yeah, you wanted to show things.
Take you to the right. Nurses ask you a whole bunch of questions about how you feel, all that sort of stuff. Then from there, they take you into the immigration. So through the passport trial?
Through the passport trial. And then from there, you go collect your bags. Yeah. Search your bags, or if they choose you, Channel 7 wasn't recording at that time.
Yeah, but what if I'm trying to control it? We're here with us. And what if I choose to use these? Sign up on my food.
This is Singapore cheese, go out the pulley. Drink out guys, I'll jump in. There was a dunk in the corner just online. Doing nothing.
So, you pick up your bags and then they take you to this holding room. Are you free? Merging free. All shut.
I don't know if it's cos we landed at 7am. It was close when we turned up. Anyway, so you know, holding room, waiting for the bus, the charter bus to take you to the hotel. So you walk out through the nothing to declare?
There's another maze that they take you through. There must have been like six police officers, Air Force, Navy and Army. It was a cool day. The beach bring them all in.
No, no, no, no. And then no. So you know what you should have done? It was a bad time.
I was like, what the fuck is that? Where's the bike? The construction of the crew knows this. I'm probably going to go back to the bus.
No, the bike was not the case. It was stuck in the bike. What's wrong with this app? So then they take you out of the holding room, put you in the bus.
And then basically the police escort front and back into the city. It's like hotel gingo. You don't know where you're going. You're going to get there.
That sounds like what I want to assemble for an Anzac date in 25th night. Basically, so they said to us, because we booked with the tour with the fanatics, they do all the tours to the office. So we booked with them and they blah blah blah blah. They said, when you, we booked a hotel, that we could stay at when we got there.
Because we wanted to do a couple days of everything. It was just the other way from where their hostel type environment was. They said, when you come back, we will take you to a hotel. And where's the hotel?
Oh, we don't know yet. So basically these bus on the way back. Which is like down in Naurra from Sydney. That was on the bus.
So we're back. So we're like, so I'll be here. So we're going to get back next. Where are we going?
Right. But we're going to go to the bus where they had room. That's all you need. That's all you need.
The best thing was, that was six years ago. The best thing was we got into this room. And the blinds are closed. So you get, we need to.
Right. And my brother, like I said, he goes, don't forget to set your alarm clock for tomorrow morning. Because that was my last day there. The next day with my last day.
So I wanted to get up early. Because I had a late flight. Yeah. Make the most sense.
So they're over blinds. And so I'm looking around. And there's a two-wash set. I said, I don't have a problem.
Give me nothing. You'll be up for my bike bike. You guys, what do you mean? No.
What is that? He goes up. One's the alarm. One's the news.
There's all these strikes. What does that right now? Like it was that. Like the train for like, just like the window.
So you're on a bus to go in. So we ended up in Central. The hotel in the, we call it Central Park. Yeah.
The all-brewy there. Yeah, yeah. Again, three or four cops. Air Force.
Navy. Army. It's like, what's that? What's that?
Welcome in. Welcome in community. Anyway, so they take the bags off, put it down, walk you through, show your ID, and then they take you straight to the roof. I was like, no, no, no, no.
They don't even reserve your credit card. I was like, what did you get out of the ramp to random room? No, they see. I think they know.
So people with us are on the couple? Yeah, because you have the register. They put you together. When you booked the ticket.
From the company, you come to see me. Yeah. You take the spot in the quota. Yeah.
So then they know who's coming in. So then after a couple of months. Yeah. So you can't.
Yeah, because when we're going into that holding room, they said, see, see a poor Steve. Yeah, they said, so yeah, we turn up, they take you to the room and basically the door shuts. And that's it's gone. Yeah.
So you can't get out of the door? No, you can open the door. No, no, no. There's a guard and CCTV.
Which I'll get to later. There's a story there as well. So you've checked in? Checked in?
No flowers, no chocolate. No tips that have no heart shape on the bed. No, nothing. Nothing.
So 14 days? Basically, close the door, get comfortable. And then, you know, like clockwork, breakfast, lunch dinner. Like prison, you met.
Yeah, basically. Yeah. It was a food sheet for the room service. Food sheet.
No, no, no, no, it's definitely not. So you can use the UberEats and all those food apps, which is good. So what were they? They delivered to the bottom.
At least, concierge or reception. And they decide what you get about it. And they, the police, inspect it or whoever you use down, they inspect it. And then they send it up.
So they put it on the door, knock on the door and walk away. Because it's kind of somewhat snug and drumming. Yeah, probably. Yeah.
So what are you doing with that? Yeah. They're also doing RSA. So some people that are in there with me, not in the room.
They're watching the room. Yeah. And they got a couple of bottles of wine. And they only got one delivered to the room.
Yeah. And they said, I ordered two or three. And they said, we'll give you the rest tomorrow. You can only have one bottle of wine a day.
No spirits. And if you're a smoker, you're not allowed to smoke. No smoke. Is that a balcony?
No. No. Yeah. So it's probably detox.
If you needed patches or if you want something from 711, could you order that? Yeah. Yeah. So you can get on the app and order stuff from...
What does it happen? Yeah. I don't know. Oh, like a normal delivery.
Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. There's a business idea.
Yeah. But then some people, as a city, before some people were ordering fitness equipment from the Jews. So people came up. What the hell?
Like a full white set delivered? Yeah. Yeah. So like one barbell for a day.
No, no. Well, the guy that was next to me sounded like a full gym set. Because two times a day, he'd like... He'd drop the weights on the floor.
Yeah. There's none of that rubber stuff on the Jews to cushion it. He was just dropping it up and conquering. So I'd be sitting there working and I'd just use...
I'd be like, what is that? Yeah. Yeah. But it's all monitored.
And I know this because... You get trouble. Yeah. So basically being back after a year, first thing you do, order KFC.
So I was watching the footy, so I got excited, I thought. Yeah. KFC? Because it was on the billboards.
Oh, it was on the outside. At the time it worked. At the time it worked. At the time it worked.
No plans, no plans. And then they delivered it. And I was excited. So I ran, opened the door, got the KFC, went back, started eating it.
Five minutes later I get a phone call. This is Detective Sergeant, whatever, whatever. We saw that you opened the door without a mascot. That's technically a bridge.
But, you know, giving you just got here. We'll just give you a warning. But next time, every time you open the door, it's a mascot. And you have to wait.
For the door lock. You can have them 30 seconds after you hear the knock to open the door. Wow. So all these talk about people getting through and like all these sort of loopholes.
I don't know how they do it. Yeah, this is like. This is so, it's all sort of. Yeah, it's true.
Yeah. It's not out to listen. So you didn't have to have sex with them to get some involved. Sorry.
Yeah. That's fine. You want to be back. You got to talk to Jack.
So how do you do? Do you have a book? No, I was working. So I'm going to write an APM.
I have a book. No, I was working. So Monday Friday, 8am, 8am. I was working.
Yeah. Definitely. If I didn't have work, I probably wouldn't have done it because I reckon you got a mat. Yeah.
And two weeks is manageable. Other parts of the world is three weeks quarantine. Yeah. So you had like four, obviously, like Fox still obviously.
Oh yeah, I'm up to all the movies and everything. And I'm not sure. No, there was no other channel. You look for it?
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. The Wi-Fi was shit.
That's a good job. Oh, mate. Was everyone watching? I was on the phone with work and I was talking about us and I was like, oh, PowerPoint shit today.
It's so slow. He's like, because you shouldn't open two brows. I'm downloading at the same time. Because I haven't read it at all.
What was the stone views from some of the rooms? I did it by late. Was that a big one? So because it's a central part, obviously there's 12 corners to the next building.
So the couple of the guys that were in there that I knew, we organized Zoom drinks given what halfway through. So we're catching up. And one of them said that he got up at 6am, made himself a coffee, and he's walking around getting his daily exercise in the hotel room. Then he looks out the window and the lady across was basically walking around her apartment.
So that's like true. It happens. It happened. It happened three times.
Did Queen communicate? I see like, I know. He used the shots and just stood there. So we're all joking saying, you know, you should do the same.
You should hold up some notes or give it our number. Are you kidding me? They start? I told him he should do one postcard a day.
He would be like, day jump. They'd still have out. But he's still on out. So he was saying that that happened three or four times.
What were you all? You were here. Oh, needless to say, all of us then said, where is she? Look at how did you try and you're like, where did she?
No, I'm sorry. It's still be combined. And then we were saying, okay, next Zoom call is happening at 6am. I'm carrying the laptop to the window.
I'm just saying. Yeah. Was it? Did they come in and like, did they try to shoot?
No. So you had essentially two weeks. After seven days? After seven days.
One of the knocks, you opened the door and then there's fresh sheets and towels. So you take them in from the hallway? Yeah. You do yours.
You just take them off and put them off. I'll see what you say. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.
And then they do day seven, day 12, they do the swap test. Okay. So they basically, you stand at the door and they shove the thing right down your mouth. Right.
You stand at the door and they don't like it. You're not even going to get the prices right. No spurs. No.
Yeah. The end. No. No.
No. No. That's... That's what the...
...MAKErels. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No.
No. No. Yeah. It's really interesting.
No. Oh. No. No.
You remember the issue that the airport was, if you did strip and stuff like make a truck out of the box. Now you cut back the cock on the table. Put back the table to the goal case. So you thought, give me a funny fuck, don't you?
But that, right. Security came straight over. Get off. That's a chat.
Seriously. Take the temperature, right? Everything. When I fly.
No, you guys, something went the wrong way. You were trying to make a joke. I never set up a live drive. When we drove the Brisbane pickup, the CLS, they were detective plane clients, detectives with their badger at their neck, checking out translicers to see if we were from Melbourne.
At the border. At the exit gate. Yeah, right. So, yeah.
So you got it up. Yeah, well, so the other thing. The other story was, this happened on the last day, the guy that we were sort of in there with, or he was part of that zoom call. He also got it up on the door from the police.
He didn't do anything wrong, but the police were investigating because someone obviously didn't like the food. So when they left it on the door, they opened it up and they just threw it down the hallway. What's the food? The worst of the word.
It's like hospital food. It's a mix between hospital food and airplane food. Okay, so it's not the shitty stuff in hospital. It's just like, bathing food.
So, for example, breakfast was like a plastic on lit with fake mushrooms and sausage. What do you mean, ha? I just looked like plastic. I didn't even bother tasting that.
So, what do I like the restaurant called? A Rooset. No, no, no. So, I've already brought in a little cart and chopped in the microwave.
Correct. Yeah, and so that exact meal that I'm like with mushrooms and sausage was all gone. It's too late, it was all fine. Yeah, I had a lot of KC.
Oh, yeah. So, yeah, if you don't want to do that, you just order Uber Eats every day for three meals, but sometimes it was heated. Sometimes it was good. Most of the time it was bad.
Yeah. Should we ever bring you things? No. No, what's I said?
I said, by the time they bring it in, by the time you get searched by the police and brought up, because they don't individually take it up for you, they wait till enough people... Oh, so just simply just sit at the door? Yeah, we are. So, by the time I got the KFC, all the reporters...
It's all cold. It's all cold. Yeah. So, I said to my family, no point, ringing in.
I'd rather eat it at home. I'd rather eat it at home. I'd rather eat it at home. I'd rather eat it at home.
Yeah, I'd rather eat it at home. Yeah, I'd rather eat it at home. You could have just eaten that from half a day. Or maybe you'd have to eat it at home.
Or maybe you'd have to eat it at home. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say. The other thing, the other thing, the other thing, the other thing is, because you're there for 14 days, not necessarily interacting with anyone, every day, and they're 38, and Nurse would call up to check how you feel.
And one of those? Oh, the sun's the two of them. I don't know. Yeah, the end of the day.
It's like the stand-up. What's the time? It's fun, man. What do you got?
And they were all Irish. I don't know why. Must have been like those low-pot ladies in the rest. They're just like them.
They're just like them. They're just like them. They're just like them. They're supposed to speak to them.
Yeah, so they're just like, what's the lyrics? What do you ask them, how does it hurt? When you're saying no? What?
They're just like this. Right. That's right. Morning, check-in to see if you're feeling okay.
Yeah. And yeah, it's a little bit point. You're not supposed to speak to them, but I didn't start. I'm okay.
You know, things are going to happen. How do you guys lie? The house seems downstairs. They're like, sir, we're not supposed to talk to you.
Really? We can't many more calls to do. We just want to check if you've got any symptoms. No.
Okay. Thank you. I want to be quarantined. I just like, fuck, for the 20 days.
You're like a good young girl. You don't have to. You do the 14 days. Yeah.
And then if you test positive in any of those 14 days. That's it. You stay for another 10. So you could be in there for 24 days.
Yeah. Wow. And then you ask for credit cards. Where are you paying your bills?
No. You know, the funny thing was, the Sunday they just went past. We got in the morning for the kids, I got the cards and coffee. Can't pay.
The wife took the kids to us. So we came home. And I said, I'll tell you what I got to see. I said, I said, I don't want to get a bunch of junk.
I said, I don't want to get a bunch of junk. I said, I don't want to get a bunch of junk. So if I had not done my job, I would do the weekends. And then, it was like, I don't know what happened but then we just got taught down.
And then we looked at the times like, oh I'm not making a session, and don't bother about what, if we'd go up and go on. Oh fuck. I would've calculated it for two weeks. And he'd pick you right now.
Eisoxylight. Yeah but you'd get, I don't need you to get. If I were meant greater than two weeks, you could've just picked up the house. Random.
arts. I'm in a silly serious point. The most recent outbreaks, not being assigned, especially in the tutorial. I said it's a base of a virus, right?
And it spreads at a rapid rate. So I didn't see me, I passed from close contacts. These got pretty much the usual stuff for a sick person with the funding to the shop. They said it was a lot of people.
They said it was a lot of people. I said, six cafes. And I went to a family room. I went to a family room.
I went to a family room. I went to a family room. I said, you blew up. So I did that.
So in Victoria, we had the same thing. And then apparently, the highly contagious strain. Again, it didn't run frame then. Now if we look at what happened last year, the biggest problem Australia had was, when everyone got off the boat, and then let them out, but the transmission, the biggest problem was the aged care facilities.
Right? Because what happened, especially in Victoria, was people don't work at one facility. They were two days in, one day in, two days in, two days in. Right?
They get rotated around. And then they do it after it. Right. But everyone knows, especially when there's a full, normally influenza seasonal, whatever, if it has an outbreak in a aged care facility, or hospitals, or schools, or free schools, it runs rampant.
And if you don't, in any given year, if you have a bad flu outbreak, right? The aged care facilities always restricted access. That's right. And stuff, well, have to get their flu shots in, right?
And let's try it. They always do that. What's the mortality rate any higher than what it would have been if these people had got a bad dose in the flu? That's so.
Now, 18 months down the track, it's been 18 months. Yeah. Well, not naturally, 18 months. Right.
18 months down the track, we're getting positive outbreaks that are pretty much only getting one or two close contacts. And it's been cut. So really, get the fuck back to work. Go back to work.
Do what you have to do. You know what? If you see a snake, fuck it, right? Yeah, that's it.
Yeah. Before we get to the reason why you're here, what happens when you go back? What's the genre system? Four in days.
No. No. So if you go back, come in. You're a kungal race?
No, actually, really strict. So when they lock down the city, it wasn't police at home, please wear a mask. They wielded the door shut. Your house.
Yeah. You can only open it enough to get groceries. Three forties. Yeah.
So you can go back there. No, because Australia is a locase country. No, because I'm fully vaccinated. Yeah, you get to be able to.
I have to be in seven days. You know, hotel. You know, hotel. Wow.
That I choose. So you've got a list of... And then you pay for that and they pay for it. But the price is there.
And you pay what the price is. So it's your whole... See, you can't have a six-room hostel, six-room hostel. No.
That's what our health is doing. That's what our health is doing. That called the outbreak. But in Hong Kong, you can pick whatever you want, pay for whatever you want and stay there for...
That's okay. So there's a good thing that comes out, Australia that we're at low risk, top-top. Yeah, correct. And if you've got, so if I didn't have both shots, I would have to be 14.
I've got a new call for vaccination. Over there. Yeah, what's good? Yeah, I was going to say, but that's your question before.
I just got an email from the government with a bill for the hotel. Oh, yeah, so any panel 3 in red? It's just like paying a lantax. I just said you would invoice and say, I know you.
I feel like I paid it. Correct? Yeah. They say, pay it.
He's the B-Pain, he's the online credit cover, whatever. Or if you can't pay that much, he calls this number. Have they ever met the B bar charges as well? It was said.
He's your adult. You seem to be too clunky. I said, go, stop. Cut six.
Please pay this bill. It was said to be a guy. It's what Rick said. It's what Rick said.
Not God. I said, God. Don't worry about Border Patrol. We're sending a name to me.
We know he's more than he's. But there's a real reason why he and it's not just to see family. Ah, yeah. It's a little bit shocking today.
Well, we went to look. We went to the shop today. How? Yeah.
What did you look at? Well, asking, doing due diligence on the GT3. That's a Porsche, not a little bit. GT3.
You're even exploring it? How do you go to sing like that? You're living out. No, I'm forgetting.
The new GT3. The new one. I've seen the photos. I've just done that.
I've got to say it in the flesh. The back books a bit too. I'll say it. I'll say it.
You mean the wing or the actual body? The wing and the body. Yeah. Just a bit too.
I don't know. We've always said it when we've driven cars that as much as I'm a Greg fan of technology and going for and stuff. There's just a degree of tradition that I like with purists car. Yeah.
And it's like, I don't know. I'm starting to think that like the. They're not. It's like a 991 to.
991.2. Yeah. I think that could be the money. Like that's it.
It could end up like the forefather. That's what we're doing. It's setting simple, simple, simple links of the number ones and. Yeah.
It's setting the newer. Yeah. It's just I just. Look, it's kind of.
There's no doubt. It's only a fantastic car. But I think it could go the way of. Like if you look at the Ferraris, you'll have more for it.
You'll have more for it. Right. Right. You just can't.