So the four Greeks are on to add how I mean including how how I'm gonna I'm gonna take a break. I'm gonna increase your volume Ross in post. That sounds very professional Well, it was too loud last episode anyway. Well, I'll allow you a lot more than you do So we got to let you can see we're a book shit really we talk shit.
I went and had a lesson which one Not the first one now I listen to the cars in Greece That's how correspondent Ross The least the least Greek is giving all the giving all the data from Greece Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. You're all listening to the all talk car podcast hosted by Peter Oh, it's joining us tonight is a little stuff up again.
How's we say hello? Hello, did the ad yes we can and yeah And the other voices mr. Roscoe. Let us welcome today Tonight we have a guest Delaney Metacross the founder of Galmatic and also one of the educators from a unique company and we're glad she's on good Hello, thank you so much for inviting me onto your podcast.
So basically Gelmatic if you break it up there's clues in the name Gal is in if I'm right girls Yeah, or just reminiscent of that movie most of us watch this kids where this cars not hydromatic. It's not systematic Talk about American graffiti I was gonna say the Italian job Do you prefer to original Italian job with a remake from a Where we're doing with Benny who had the big computer desk to put into the traffic lights I like that. I like the I like the remake. It was a bit a tech and you know the boats and yeah Well, then should we do you prefer the original the remake of God in 60 seconds?
No the remake I like the remakes. I like the remakes stuff my daughter the other watching it TV shows I think we can watch this why she goes to spend two thousand nine teens a bit old isn't it? She's got this thing so you know like the new stuff The original I was really going 60 minutes by the time they broke in and Can I ask but we're gonna go start completely side-track is someone asked me this question that I didn't know the answer Yeah, I mean I know the answer gone in 60 seconds Eleanor was she made for the movie and that's where it was born or is Eleanor actually is that a type of Mustang or was a Built for was a built for the Nicolas Cage movie No, she's a type of Mac Mustang and for that movie I think they made five they went through five or six of them and there's one in Australia original Yeah, one from the movie you see in Australia and the way I know that was the way Galmatics started we started with a handbook for girls Photograph that Mustang for the washing your car days fire section of the handbook The girls like a girls really into cars or you don't force them to get into it. Okay, so we teach about a hundred thousand teenagers Yes, if everyone listening What we do Come maintenance workshops to high school students and when you go to a high school It's called incursions, so we go to schools and we teach between the ages of 16 and 18 So you change to you 12 students how to do basic car maintenance and what that means is really basic So the questions they ask is how do we put fuel in the car?
But what we teach them is how to check the coolant the oil the battery the hoses we pop the bonnet show them what they can In-con touch we crack all the dipstick jokes. They have a great time change time Yes, and then we go to tires and we check tires we talk about tire tread and it's so exciting because You forget that just because they're in a car and they watch you drive up to the service station of what fuel in they don't necessarily know How to take the cap off because they don't come out of the car. That's true one of the amazing things when we say let's change a tire A lot of them think that you take the tire off and leave the wheel on because it's changing a tire Yeah, so but to answer your question. So that's what we do but to answer your question Ross We take about a hundred thousand teenagers a year about 60% would be girls and about 40% would be boys and the students So teenagers don't have an opinion on whether boys or girls or like cars or should be working on cars It's actually the teachers and the parents still putting our ideas onto them So when we're teaching boys they don't think it's weird that all the teachers talking about cars are girls And when they're in a co-ed class They don't think it's we'd if a girl knows more or they don't and girls don't think it's weird at all So the generation coming through has no issue with whether it's boys or girls But over 98% of them tell us that they've never seen their mum check the coolant check the oil or check tire pressure So they're not getting shown that they're not seeing it and we always say you learn to drive for 16 years before you get Els and you're watching what your parents do and predominantly Most kids are in a car more often with mum than they are with that, you know like over 16 years And they just don't see mum doing it.
So we teach ladies only classes as well But the team I just coming through say I've never seen my mom check anything on the car Oh, wow, do you think it's because it's like the mel- this generation of children They're waiting for a dashboard or a warning light or something to show them or do you think they've got an ID? Oh, well They're not seeing it and say on 50 so I grew up where you had a family car and you looked after the family car Eighties came along, you know, either to drive on a RV or Commodore which at some schools They think that makes me mega cool and at other schools. They think that makes me very ducky So they're not getting brought up in a family car Medratively they're getting brought up in families that have two to three cars and a lot of them on leases So the car doesn't have that same level of you know It's the special respectful family car And also when you look at a lot of modern movies, there's not that same Stuff doesn't happen in a car. So we have this joke in class where we say okay Who does backseat kissing or who's kissed in a car and they just look at you like you we eat because they think why would you do anything in a car?
Miss and you because they're allowed to go out As well as this Tic Tocs and putting on Snapchat, they're all like sitting in cars and you know like all the amazing conversations come up And the density jokes you imagine and when we're at boys schools and you know miss all the nuts for you You know like all those It's really good what we do we get in and we crack all the jokes and we say that you have to you have to come up with one We've never heard before so that you can see them thinking for the whole 90 minutes I've got to find a really clever joke to make so you call it sequel an icebreaker not sexual harassment Yes, no, no, we're very respectful What's interesting what has changed you'll find is really fascinating. So we've been teaching 14 years the main thing that's changed was 14 years ago The teachers would introduce us and they make sure you have some interesting questions So some of the girls would say things like oh miss what's it like working, you know in a male dominated industry Because you know we assume cars were male dominated now Which it 14 years later and it changed around maybe seven or eight years ago the main question they say is miss because I call you miss We're doing at school. Yes. What's what what are the main things?
I need to learn to run my own business So the shift has been really and we're talking when you're teaching over a million kids We can generalize because we've taught so many and there's this big shift towards oh wow I don't want to work 95 I want to do something fun and creative and that's where they and no one now asks us What's it like working with cars because you're women other than the teachers and parents? But the kids don't find that appointed all yeah I think once you show the practical side of things I think they'll probably be in awe of like the changing the tire where the fuel is and the tips Do a lot of cars don't have that where the male female especially high school students I think that's put up to one side Probably that they're wowed by with the quality of what they're learning and it's interesting stuff Not so they're learning algebra. These are practical skills Yeah, how did you find the niche like you started that's what thirty years ago your background? We were mechanical how did you get into this so my background some acting and training But my very I led to drive on my dad's be your com at all and don't know which I still had that now But the first car I bought was a 1958 FC Holden.
Wow, so she was built $500 Like it's all my all my pizza heart money. I'll work you know So you know 18 by my $500 car which was so much money and when I own an old 50s car You put the bonnet and there's really not a lot in there Some space and that's why you never saw your mom looking under the bonnet of an old car No, I said that's why women in our mother's never done with the bottom of an old car Exprised the agent One of the jokes we crack is that you know You need to make sure you're oil in the car and one of the jokes always in a class I'm will say oh miss doesn't need to be only good quality virgin Back to what we're talking about with the boys and the girls and whatever I wasn't the modified car scene early 20s and we had a guest on a few weeks ago Justin who you know has known me for a long time But I noticed when you know I still love my modified cars But once I got to the age of 30 so what 14 years ago mid 30s There was if it was if it was you know when I was 20 it was a hundred guys in the car club It was 50 50 and the girls were more progressive, you know the girls knew more about their cars They were more pedantic with keeping them clean. They were like, you know I saw the shift in the modified scene where girls were really and some of these girls are building some pre-kicks cars too More so than the guys and they were building them themselves. They weren't they weren't they weren't dropping them off at a workshop Yeah, yes, I noticed that I noticed that it's pretty 52% of learner's licenses women And they say I think cars guy was saying at the statistic that 82% of new car purchases are determined by what the female of the family wants So we have a big influence on the vehicles and something we talk about in class all the time is one of the first questions We ask is where did women get the right to drive and you know everyone comes up with all these weird numbers I'll say all the 1950s nears the 1960s and we say women have been driving since they don't in Western countries I know in the Middle East it was a little different but in Australia everywhere the minute there were cars women were driving So we've never had to fight for the right to drive and I wonder whether that's played a part in us not having as much interest in it Because it's something that's just been sort of commonplace or quite some time I think the first car ever driven was by a woman.
I think when Carl Benz invented his car his wife took it for a spin Try this contraption. I just made him the car out She took the case of a shopping house. There was that market at 885 as you took the car How you did together one of these incursions? I think wait You know After listening to the after listening to the intro and what I really does it's always like she's a special Let's eat a little bit more gas Is that when you're 16 really excited, you know like one of the things and it's you know one of the things we let them do is when Everyone's had a tie change They beat the horn to say yeah everything say so we beat the horn to make sure no one's around and then it's safe Because we've just changed a time everyone's like desperate to beat the horn If you haven't learned to drive yet and you haven't been in a car How often have you beat the horn?
Yeah, what do I get in the car and just gets the horn for the hell of it? They should bring that in F1 because it's full-second Do you find that kids now are still keen to get their license or is the Yeah, they're I love it So really it's that it's still seen as that liberation and that freedom and that that that point of where you're not a child anymore And you can be on your own and oh yeah, this has been quite a crazy year for them because they've been 16 and they can't do They're learning to know the country I think they're out to February now if you book yeah, so yeah, it's been it's been difficult and the first COVID run that we had you weren't even allowed to be on the road on your own you weren't allowed to do Yeah, it was you know what it was for that first You know last year it was if you had COVID and you had an accident and then the other I'm an exact comment at all of that sort of I saw my driver's license is the ultimate like freedom for unlimited slurpies at the 7-11 You're licensed for so go to the server and get unlimited slurpies. Yes I'm going after this for a celebrity. Oh, I got my piece.
I was remembered this we did it the exit No, no, no, no, no, basically I didn't have a pink guitar It was black but but anyway back there the licenses were given being paid before Yeah, and I said to my mom. I'm taking the car. I'm going to school and she's like no, you're not okay What I'm gonna do with it. I'm gonna frame it and I don't know the day in order to get that car out I was telling the story the other day how we were making fake licenses when the photo licenses came out So I had to become a team to yeah, it's 989 and one of the rich kids that lived in curability had a color laser printer in 1989 so he used to scan our L's licenses and change the date to make us 18 Legally, that's a lot time ago and then basically we needed to get them laminated and my brother was a library model He was getting paid like five bucks.
So I'm an eight That's who bought the pig for Tara. This is a lot of money This was and there's no holograms. No, I check they We're nothing all you need to do when you had the fake paper license was memorized whoever's it was Star sign so that's how they should test you when you go to a club, you know, mine would say, you know Jan's Very much looks like a Greek person Star sign you got on the tour lien He's like really so much That's the transition to Digital licenses and there was There was a rush because there was a lot of a lot of fellow classmates that weren't very great So I spent the next week waiting school and going to different hour and this is to get So did we get digital licenses if you use it? Changing the guidelines on it That's what we can't get you between line and three Hello is our special friend It was this guy was sitting on a pastel he wasn't feeling well He had a beer and he was sitting on a vaster outside the back end to a nightclub Yeah, he's guys walked up and hang mate.
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So your background is in acting. How do we get to the creation of Galmatic? Yeah, so I'm always owning old cars training So I got in acting and teaching and training and there was just this niche that every time I turned up to the petrol station in my old I had an FC and then I had an FV as well But the FV had you know a HR front end and a red motor and stuff in it So you will see where's the FC my goodness? It was still gray motor and you know three on the tree and all that stuff So if you want to drive on that you can drive anything with the old drum banks But everyone kept saying oh my goodness.
You're so cool I wish I knew something about cars and you're just coming up again and again again I thought I'm just gonna write a book So Galmatic started off just as a handbook for girls and he just had six chapters and it was like how to change a tire and tire care How to wash your car properly? So you know don't use the same sponge to wash the inside of the wheels and then go do the glass and just basic tips and it's sold out So we sold thousands of hours, but the main feedback was oh we bought it as a gift It's really cool, but I still don't understand how to do it And so we turned it from that into ladies only classes We teach them out of Bob Jane T. Mark car parts So we met Bob Jane and he was great and he said you know Yeah, absolutely come along use our car parks and then from there We noticed that the main people coming to class were bombs with their teenagers learning to drive and so we became very Clusive and said that we can have teenage boys so we opened it up to Young man up until the age of 20 and then we became even more inclusive So anyone that identifies as female or anyone that feels uncomfortable or anyone that's a teenager So we opened up even more and then we're just getting more and more and more teenagers and a lot of parents They that they you know really wanted their kids to do it So we started approaching schools and that's when it really took off because the schools and part of the school program now is something called the life Skills program and you need to teach to ask you all that school They need to do 25 hours of that and we approach schools and every school that we've ever taught out has kept us Because we're engaging and the kids love it the parents love it It's inexpensive and at the end of the day even if they don't remember everything the main thing they remember is it's an important thing that I Take care of my road safety that I take in my own hands and I can touch things It's not this big scary car that if I touch it, I'm gonna break it You know, I can touch it So that's the important thing and just great and not a problem of the business side of things But you get gum at funding like We've tried to get it to be a compulsory activity because but yeah, no, it's it's not so we do all that so we're also funded So we run as a business we do well We obviously have had a really difficult many months because we haven't been allowed in schools because We also sell our program as an online program and so that does okay, but really people want to get their hands crazy Yeah, so I'm using it to be like is there a group of you that go out or is four of us full time and then our extra trainers We call them loan cars sometimes we have extra people that jump in during the really busy busy Schools we have a thousand kids. We're teaching in a day So there's lots of us and then some schools will just teach 20 kids some schools will teach a hundred kids It just depends on the size of the school and what we love is the school Invites into teach one class and as the years go by we're doing the whole form We're doing all of the forms and there's been a few schools that have invited us in only to teach boys But then the next year we're doing everybody so Do you guys use cars that regularly break down like say Range Rover sports or do you well?
That's any joke that's any joke that we don't quite jeep jokes or anything like that We take into a the Corollas and master's race because The main first cars kids buy so we teach so that way they're seeing something that they're going to We've got a couple of old comadols that come out to certain schools that you know we've got some boys schools They just love it. You know they just want something so we have an SS that we take out sometimes and we try and Take it they work on show you the cars you take the other ones I work on. Yeah, that's cool They don't have their own cars. So the car we take and we're doing really basic stuff So you've been really good Teachers I'll step it up.
What's really interesting. No is for our Go to be surprised most kids love their teachers What's really interesting is how many teachers come to watch the class and also I have no idea Drink GSR The whole thing The courses The VK she can show what to do and you can show what not to do and yeah But it's just wonderful because we're there and within the one class you just see their eyes line up because For the first time they're in control of something that the whole time So give me my for 16 years I've been said they've been told don't talk don't you get out the window don't do this sit there don't use the radio Most of their life has been as a passenger and now they've been told getting the driver seat get your hands on the wheel pop the bonnet And most kids don't even know where the latch is to pop the bonnet So it's really exciting for them that that way when they do go for their elves They're gonna know something and they don't feel as right and to get into the car That's true in the states. I mean I'm you watch some of these TV shows but in the States isn't a part of their curriculum Yes, yeah, I'd like to leave it like I'd shop this afternoon. I would put a motor out of a camera Okay, that's yeah, there are a few schools introducing it into their curriculum as well We're known to girls have a whole project where every year they bring in a new car and the it's a voluntary class It's not compulsory and they they build an old car I think the last one they did was an old VDob and they build it and they take out the rust and they learn more about it Yeah, so there are some schools doing some great stuff and what was interesting last year?
We went viral so we got 66,000 shares worldwide and we were on I think it was 60v programs and we're on all the radio stations and what was really interesting was reading with the comments and how many people were saying I'll be showing your dad teach you this stuff and then I'll be arguing are you for real does your dad know any of this stuff? No, it's that image we have of the Australian chesty bond in the driveway with an FJ hold it It's just that doesn't exist anymore. Did it exist? Did it exist?
Did it exist? No, I didn't. So it's once we start teaching next class as you realize oh, you know, it's just so much fun watching them go Oh, me so I had no idea and how much feedback we get from parents will say oh the kids broke down and they changed the time They didn't even ring us or kids they go back and teach them on We have a lot of mums that are like single mums They divorced and they say I've never touched the car was always my husband's job and they come to class and they go So really this simple and so we don't have to be in the can you just have to not be ignorant You can't because a lot of them will say we hear this all the time in our ladies only classes Oh, but don't they check the tire pressure when they service the car? So we say yes, when did you last get your car serviced?
Oh two years ago. Oh, so you think the air that they checked to you? Going to last two years and for every 10 cars that we get in our ladies only workshop two to three of them will be on bare or Like running on it. So do you in some of the the shops with all the adults today?
Do you get to show that the work through their own cars to cover me? They're okay, and what we do it goes for two hours and we start off on our car and we demonstrate everything that everyone has to go to their car locate the dipstick locate the cool and see what color the cool and ears check their hoses make sure there's no cracks see They've got a maintenance free or a battery they have to maintain Then we go into the boot and we look for the spare tire doesn't have air in it doesn't have to read do they have one did have a jack Does the jack have the attachment to that hubcaps or they don't have hubcaps? And then we get them to locate the manual just to double check that where the jack points are and then they have to find their jack points Then they have to use the rubbish jack and realize what is the the jack is rubbish? Using Alan Keith like get the one from Ikea I'm gonna spin it forever try to spin this thing just the weeks the car Most of the time we encourage them to go buy a better jack and most do because they're not that expensive Some people have the original jack that's never been used in 15 years and you just think do you really want to use that one?
Late at night when you start on the side of the road So it's just about empowering them to not be ignorant and what we found is women tend to fear mechanics as much as they do dentists Because they don't know what the bill will be So if they're gonna go get their head done They know that you know a foil is $18 a foil and I need ten foils $180 so they have an idea and then they can make their choice Whether they can afford it or want to justify that money But the mechanic is in that panic attack like the dentist I'm gonna turn up they're gonna find something wrong $3,000 so it's about getting them to understand that ignoring the problem and staying away from the mechanic is by No means gonna make that bill less I'm gonna make it higher Try to teach them that what happens a lot we've noticed with women that buy in your car is because it's got cap service I've got no interest in it until the cap service runs out and then they start panicking So it's about getting them to build a relationship from the beginning so you go for your cap service and say what do I get for that and what Parts of anything and just starting that conversation so that when the cap service runs out You don't then think it's a $6,000 bill that's gonna come because you know nothing and we never say mechanics rip you off We don't like that term in our classes We say us being ignorant is what rips us off So we need to start you canning ourselves because they get the headdress is ripping them off and they don't say that Well, this is all maybe they say this is The mechanic we've got to get rid of that all mechanics rip you off I can start saying what questions do I need to ask but the women go that the headdresser twice a week not They don't go to man mechanics twice a week. It's pretty one. I need to draw that I need to make sure that Also, just little things like it's not a mechanic that puts the you can put windscreen white before it in yourself You know a lot of people don't know that they assume the mechanic has to and you go Well, don't you clean your windows every time you drive and one of the analogies? We use it's great to use with kids is if your windscreen's dirty your lights are just as dirty So they're gonna be dimmer because they're having to shine through dirt It's just having those things in their heads so that they remember I can't see maybe I should just hose the car down and we go if you don't wash the car when you're putting your fuel Just use the little anything for the windows and clean the lights So just getting them used to not being ignorant and just getting little habits in so we call it the 10 minutes So I check that's what we call when we teach it and they all get a little phone download That's the remember of the 10 minute servo check and that way it gets that habit into them That I just check the oil the coolant tire pressure really basic with the schools I was gonna ask you just to sit near on yourself while I was basically you know you nationwide now We just teaching you South Wales we used to teach in Queensland and Victoria prior to COVID and Since COVID we just start to our little pod just to see how things flesh out of the next couple of years the schools get closed like that At the moment so yeah, so we're all based in Sydney and We do go all over but yeah at the moment just in your South Wales, but we love doing the country tools hilarious What have you got that I mean they're not getting government any government support but there's the other I mean you might want to Is that state or federal?
Well see we schools get funding to run certain programs So we've never had a school say oh we don't want to pay you or it's not important So it gets channeled from the government in that way even sort of like grand boys even look at the local council You know cherry because we teach it all we teach it all of the councils in Sydney How to change the oil The councils get funding to spend on community projects and stuff like that So we take all the councils and we do in women's women's only classes with youth classes for them So they've been great. Yeah, they're very and they're so popular we get so many people coming to those classes And then as soon as they meet they don't get an NRO membership I give you surprise how much that stuff has declined people getting in our own because yeah if we go to a school and you say The kids right who we gonna call it the tigers and they say I'll call NRO mate and you say what's that? I don't know someone mum says It's like a private business The thing now is that the new cars come with road sign a six right and then you get used to it and then when it runs out You think okay, we're gonna do you don't want it in our maze like eighty nine bucks a year And if you win even a certain distance don't come out as much as you want I've I've even I can change the wheel of time whatever but I've had it where I got up You know my wife doesn't let you go that day So, you know what I'm at the car at home and call down our mates and go flat-ties I thought you got three membership when you got the Pfizer wasn't it? Still think how's gonna be the what not to do example I want to take how around to the schools and say this is not You probably wouldn't have thought of that, but when you say oh in our name the kids go Yeah, I'm gonna call it on a but they don't know what in our maze and they don't realize Actually, I think we all can come to some of those schools.
He's not allowed I grew up with an uncle that was an NRO ma petroleum and Yeah, I grew up he would come up and he was hilarious and he would come over and And he would tell you come over for a coffee and you know, I've got a call Let's go out and go as a kid I'd go out and calls with him and he's Yeah, it was exciting as a kid, you know, we're at the Maroon I'm wearing a kujian's you know as a lady with a flat battery you go there towards his Talk to you's he's retired now, but for many years, you know, he did it from his 20s So he's he was probably one of the oldest but wrong when he retired He said it was quite amazing that when he started he was actually working on cars or someone had a problem that would get in there What he goes towards the end of it. They literally had a book that went right. Um, no just tell it It's like I can't I can't boost the battery with not breaking to them anymore Sit there and breaking the cars with this little special toolkit that he had Those were the days and changed ties, but yeah Another thing that I was thinking about during the day when I knew you were gonna come on if you Design new courses with EVs and hybrids and I mean EVs are like no kid boxes and engines. Yes, so we definitely discussed that in our Know your color shops and our public workshops with the kids Not so much because most of them even from private schools are buying secondhand cars Yeah, that's not a fool And they still have that really basic level of where is the bonnet latch?
And one of the big questions I ask is what are all the different numbers for the fuel So they're sitting in the agency and they look out and there's numbers, but no one's explained it to them Numbers 98 95 Ethanol No, no the diesel Yeah, so the other questions I ask ask a lot is um, can we put straight water in a radiator? And can we make sure coolant so we're popping the bonnet So they come out with some really good questions the other question that we get a lot is what should I keep in the car? You know, they don't know things like they'll keep sunscreen for when they go out, you know, we're very um, we need to be you know promoting sunscreen And at schools, you know, they had no play. No, I had no play, but sunscreen goes off in the car So, you know, just telling them basic stuff like that.
I'll keep a sunscreen in the glove box for a year and then put it on Um, because no one's told them I didn't know that I'm not going to untill it. I'm not going to untill it. I'm not going to untill it. I'm not going to do that.
Well, a vehicle gets too much of a good looking water in the car than it does outside on a hot day when it's locked so the sunscreen goes off. And someone water bottles keep notting. Yeah, I know not to leave babies in the car. I use all the chemicals in it.
Did you just say that? You did it now. Especially when we go back. Just my children were the medical students to throw the bag away once they're done.
Yeah, my wife was at Centennial Park and she looked at like just I don't know how she did it, but the keys were inside the car, the car shopping which we put out door in the car and the key was in the car, the car locked and shared my car and I didn't want them to smash the window, but they did. So because they're not used too far away here, they smashed the window, opened the car up. Have you ever tried to smash the window? Yeah, it does.
We're teaching class and the new cars, you take their head rest out and it's got the things so they can smash if they get. Mike, can you talk me about the other night? Actually, a couple of weeks ago, I'm like, yeah, I heard that. In fact, you take the head rest off, take the head rest off and smash the wings.
Yeah, so that's just all those. I'll think the good thing is, um, this generation doesn't even think of not wearing a seatbelt, which is great. Yeah, they were. Yeah.
And we were talking about mobile phones a lot of episodes ago, but I think the generation and the few generations below us will be not using their phone because it'll be like the seatbelt, I think. It'll be connected. It'll be connected. Yeah.
Their phones will be connected to their cars with all the infotainment systems. Like we've got Apple CarPlay where we can touch the screen where they'll have the devices connected, the object, they'll get in and the nav will take you to the next. Switch to something. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, with it. When they got their free membership.
Yeah. I've learnt a lot tonight. I've learnt a lot. I've learnt a lot to keep sunscreen in the car.
Yeah. I've learnt that all the time. You carry your head rest in your bag so you can break your window. Carry your chair in my head with somebody.
Yeah, it's exciting. I think the main thing to remember is that children learn to drive for 16 years. So we need to model what we want them to do. And for everyone that's listening is take the kids out and show them what you're doing.
So when you're changing, putting fuel in the car, show them what a fuel cap is and how it locks and that little bit on, you know, we can hang the little... Yeah, come here. That's good. I don't know why I should have done that.
I had to show that. Yeah. You want to be able to fuel gauge where the arrow is? The fuel gauge?
Yeah, the arrow and the fuel gauge. Yeah. I was used to that. Can I just go back to what you were saying?
I was thinking about this. Sometimes I can get a bit excited when I drive. And I sort of, you know, I can weave in our traffic and I sort of think I'm 16, 17. Yes.
You're saying my children are watching me and they're learning that? Yes. 100%. Especially when their iPads run out of batteries for us.
They do look up. You know what's really interesting is this generation have been told to watch a moving on the back seat or sit on your iPad. Don't talk, entertain yourself. Then at 16 we put them in the driver's seat.
Oh no, don't entertain yourself anymore. Now you've got to focus on the contract. That's a big mind shift to have one mind shift for 16 years and then like that, have to now pay attention. Oh, kids, listen, I mean, especially how you're reacting traffic around you if you're a hothead and you swear and things like that.
I'm sure over the 15 years of being in the back seat, I'm sure that they get to see a different parent in us. Thank you very much for joining. It was an interesting, we're more than welcome to come again and maybe we can plus COVID and we're a lot of free. Maybe we can come out to one of the those shows.
That's correct. That's correct. I'll sit through the car. We'll just take a picture of it.
We'll just take a picture of it. We'll just take a picture of it in a proof school that I was allowed to go. Yeah. On the way.
What about the adult classes I think? Yeah, we'll just take a picture of it. I'll plug away. I mean, how do people find you and if there's schools out there that are interested, how are they getting contact with you?
Our name is Gail Maddie and we're on all social platforms. So if you Google Gail Maddie, you'll find us and we've got everything on our website. We're on Instagram, we're on YouTube, we're on Facebook. But yeah, if you just look up Gail Maddie and you'll see us everywhere.
We've been on a lot of media. So we've been on a lot of TV commercials. We're actually filming for their homes and gardens tomorrow, which is exciting. So that'll be on in a couple of weeks.
Did you get a days of time at all? Yeah. How did it drive on the guard a bit? Well, it's really good because they're introducing a whole motor section to the show.
So it's with James Tobin, who I know because I've done a lot of work with Holly Davidson. So I know James and it's really good because it's that whole house has a garage and the garage is made for a car and the car needs to be maintained. So it's good that they're bringing it into the whole home. We're eagerly awaiting the episode.
That's awesome. Thank you for joining us and apologies to whoever gets this end of the podcast. Last podcast, someone's computer, shut itself. How did you fix the computer?
Someone's computer waiting to link mode. And we ended the episode really suddenly last time. So apologies for those who waited to hear me say, download us, review us, email us at hortalkout.com.au. And if there's anything else you want to hear or even some feedback, we'll take it on board.
We'll take it on a great assault and not worry about it. But they could even focus on positive. So there you go. So that was why last week's episode finished abruptly.
It was my fault. For three years of doing this, we've had no technical hiccups. So we've done all right. So yeah, thank you for joining us.
And we'll keep you in contact and maybe go outside and view us. We'll do a live podcast. We'll drive it off the road and we'll get a little drive over the nails and we can all change the time. Time.
And Jazzy. Jazzy. We'll get those police strips. And I'm going to write the F1 that they should beat their horn before they take off.
Let's make it. Usually they'll give you a wall before you leave the pits. Bit lane safer. So thank you very much and bye for now.
Oh, thank you. Good to play. Thanks so much. Yes, I'll see you in the end.