144: Gilligan's Plastic Island

That's better. Because you're fucking loud. That's all I see, guys. Don't be scared.

It's been a repeat, Rusty. It's been a couple weeks. We need the security agents. We need to be around.

We need to be around. That's a bit awesome. Yeah. Security is a bit awesome.

Good morning, good afternoon, evening, listening to the old talk car podcast. We're back after a couple of weeks break. No one's got staff. No one.

No, no, no. We got staff. Okay. Hosted by Peter.

This is it. Rusty, we are. Who is the other guy? It's Tom, the roving reporter.

So just ask today for your show. But mate, no one's got staff. I got staff. On the first of January, I had two phone calls within an hour after six months of no phone calls at all.

And you both have got the job? No, one didn't turn up. You're not? Okay.

I put in. We were looking for someone in our work. Someone? Someone?

No. We gave the job to one girl. She turned. I got an email at 12.30am Sunday morning Monday morning.

She was coming in at night. Sorry, we were off. I think it was something to do with you, Pete. No.

Nothing to do with me. Because the other girl, if we did hire her, my brother and I would have been divorced. So we got. I'm taking that one.

No, no, no, no. That was too scary. I can't come on the show. He's forever doing it for people's jobs.

I use a, you know, it's on the left of couch now. I use a billboard. I could have a billboard with all different things behind there that I put up from the workshop. Like a sandwich board?

Yeah, yeah. You walk around. It's not quite hard. You want to make it?

You walk around? No, no, no. And you've got all the positions that you're looking for. No, when we first started using that, we'd get people walking off the street.

This last six months, nothing at all. It doesn't get no traction. Nothing. The sandwich board?

Yeah, nothing. But you found people. We found someone through an old ad. We flew to him and he seems to be right.

And then he rang me up. The other guy heard from someone else. He never turned up. But the other guy did.

And he's employed by us. Do you have experience? Or you'd have that desperate? I would have been desperate.

But he had six years experience on the workshop. And you'd have liked? And what's the week round of week? No, no.

He's reasonable. He's an up-and-so. But I did mention to him that I'll buy him a house if he works out. Why do we have time at all that?

Did you just say where the house was? He could buy the house. I'll just, I'll pay it up and pay his mortgage. So, it starts being a problem.

But the gates are opening. We'd still wait. You make two grand a week. And you make a fruit in Australia?

Yeah, and the government's great as well. On top? Yeah. And that's how desperate we are for staff.

And we worked out before the unemployed, filmed in those jobs, we have zero unemployment. Yeah, but they don't let people come in to get, especially in my industry. There's all these rules and all that. And let's talk about the power of building industry, whether body sharp in America.

Like, do you have to be qualified? Like, if I turned up now, so I need a job, can I get a job? No, because you know why? Okay, everyone says, you know, you've got to get the young, you've got to get the people and train them, and train them up.

But, the margins and, like, that you're making this industry, you know? You need someone to experience it. You can't really do jobs because I fucked it up. You can't.

But if I was to turn up, you know, as a young 40-year-old, 50. What do you know? With no experience? With no experience.

Could I start and learn? Okay. Do I have to go to TAFE? Do I need a qualification?

I'd also like to walk in here a couple of months ago, he works next door, right? You know nothing about what we're going to get him to do. But the difference was he had what he called it. Handy?

Yeah, he'll see. He'll pick up things real quick, and he ended up turning out all right. But then it goes back to, there's no one really there to show him. So he's making mistakes.

Yeah. But he wouldn't have made them a mistake if he was pointed out in the first place. But that's two people doing one person's job, not supervising stuff. Yeah, you know what I mean?

You just can't find them. What if I'm to pick up and deliver cards? Do you need someone to do that? Yeah, we could do that.

That was Johnny's job before. I thought you did that so he would stay in the office. I do, yeah, I do, yeah. I'll try and get out of the office as much as possible.

But no, it's not. Because Pete, it's not going to be sitting here. It's, yeah, yeah. It's, I don't know, it's, it's hard out there.

We put an ad in. So you just have anyone else? Maybe our truck driver's applying for property management jobs. Come on, mate.

Yeah, because I think the money's in real estate. Oh, yeah, the money's in real estate. Can I apply for that job? No, you can't.

Cool. I'll give you a few. Yeah. What would you like me to wear?

Short, short or just door pan? Actually, you can't get a job there. Why? What is it?

Oh, yeah, that's right. You can fly with the staff. Oh, yeah. There'll be an argument of mine.

There'll be two of you who have the same houses. But I don't benefit her because she's got their license still, so she's going to lift into work. She'll always be there on time. Anyway, that's another story for another punch.

We sold all the cars. And a young tender age of anyway. So basically, Tom and I had a job this morning. Yeah.

I had a way to rephrase that. Who had the job? Me or you? I was like the manager.

I had the whole camera off of the owner. And Google. And Google. I had the whole camera.

So basically we had to recover three flood damaged cars. A good friend of ours basically went overseas and parked his cars back in his house. Say in a safe spot. Yeah, but I've done all the right shit.

But the same night he left, the same the trouble started. Couple nights later and basically, imagine being on your long awaited honeymoon overseas trip because of COVID and you'll see in there look at your security cameras and you'll watch the water rising up and see your cars again. And you get a picture of three o'clock from your neighbour. Shulling car on the window.

Yeah, after the windows. And like, yeah, so three of your cars. And when I got the text, like go down and check it out, I just went straight away. Not the, no, no, I moved the portches and it's the Merc.

So they are the dailies. But they're the hardscars of buying them. You're going to get a dailie. They're sure it's paid you out.

So basically we had to get the car. So basically we had to recover two e-classes at a C-class. And fuck those cars. All the electricals are wet.

We can't open the boot in one of them. So this is the E-class was the front seat was lowered flat. The electricals went y-y. And the passenger seat, the headrest went up to the top.

So the seats went schizo. And we got the boot open. Because they were neatly parked under his carport, you had to go through the boot. Not to get wet.

Tom got a floating turtle. What was that like a pull toy? He was a pull toy. He was a pull toy.

He was a pull toy. He was deflated. He was laid it to slide through. He still got wet.

He still got wet. So we had to take all the stuff out of the car. He was coming to collect the cars. And then we got a newy seat.

We ran your C-class two years old. It was the last of the... Two thousand twenty-six. Yeah.

And you can't open the boot. So the boot was found. The boot opened. So that electronic haywire.

Yeah, yeah. When the water was rising. The boot opened. And the petrol flap opened up on them.

But we closed them because we didn't think. And then the next night when the water came up again, it might probably be to the same level as the boot. Yeah. The other one opened up.

Oh, okay. Lucky on the panel there. You can put parts in. You've never been exposed to the right side.

No, no, no. What do we get told? We got told if you open the boot, you can put the back seats down. Then get into the boot.

But if you open the boot, you don't need to get the back seats to get into the boot. But then it... So we got open the boot. There's no key for.

We opened the back doors. But there's no release. You know, normal hatchbacks. You pull the seat down.

And they're all down. So we were told by Kibucha George to basically rip the middle console out. Like a skateboard. So we ripped the plastic out with a lot of force.

And then there's metal behind it. You don't go in. So we emptied all their items and the kayaks set for the boot. The boot.

The boot. And that's the female's car. And everything is soaking wet. And the boot.

You know, if it's the other one, you're like, what do I say? Why do I have to take your head back? The boot is just full. The logbooks are in the car.

Every time I grab the logbooks out of the car. The car. The car. You know, the log brick.

Swirl it up that much and the weight of it. Because we didn't let it down. The boot, the C300, that water went to... We had to go just onto the glove box.

A bit of the petrol line. A bit of the relights. Yeah. And the E400 went a little bit less.

The E350. We're going to get to the 350. Yeah. That's like...

So the top of the windows. Top of the windows. Yeah. That was...

That car was fine. Yeah. That's finished. And that was the dirtiest.

The closer to the back of the yard, the dirtier they were. And the C-class. You can see the clock where it's stopped. The thing is they had power for a bit longer because if you look at the video, right, it's like, because the boot opened up and all that.

So... Well, it doesn't. Why did the batteries go flat? It's like a full of water.

I know. I'd like to think of that one. The E-class had the battery in the boot. We can't wait to have the C-class.

No, the battery... Oh, no, the Dudes tried to start up. That was just a little one. That was just a jump point.

That's a jump point. So the boot must be the boot. The C-class. So what we thought is if we can charge it up, so Tom got the booster pack, we opened the bonnet, put the charger points on, and basically we didn't start the car.

We just want to get power to open the boot. The headlights were on. And the horn. And the horn went off once.

And the second time it started like an alarm. Yeah. And we couldn't wake up the neighbors. It was Sunday morning.

So we kind of made good luck. We're not a very good recovery crew, are we? Oh, we got the main things out. We got the phones.

We got the prescription glasses. We got those glass tags. The toll passes. Wait, wait, wait.

What's the good of the remotes? Because as we put... You're sitting on the water dripping, aren't you? No, but the plastic fifty-dollar nose.

We threw them out. They did. They got it. They got it.

So just so the items of the car wouldn't be able to get rid of the money. No. Well, I did say to you, maybe, you know, should we really look in these cars because you never know what could be hidden in them. You've had that.

We've had that. Yes. So when a car comes in and gets repaired. You're an honest bloke.

You sort of put it back in the Australian. Yeah, you're hoping that they'll say that he's a hundred. Oh, thank you for firing. You think they found it?

Yeah. We have one guy ring you. He thought he left money. He...

In the past, he's had money. Stashed in the car and told me about it. And I've actually gotten it out and given it to their sips and stuff to wait for him. But the very last time he rang me up and he'd lost a bag of money.

Not a huge bag of a bag of money. Yeah. And he knows we're pretty honest. No, we didn't find it.

And all that. Months later. Did you question your staff? Like, did you guys find anything?

Or were you... I'd say he'd failed it. Okay. The same week my chains will see him at the villager and he'll be a drinker and all that.

But he'd put it in his garage in the dust extractor. And so... He finds it from his wife. Why don't you fucking remember his name?

I'd say he's not. She's stricter than the ATAs. Must be. She takes more than people to sit.

Yeah. But if I could remember his name I would say it. I mean, yeah, people, stuff that people put in their cars like, like I said earlier, my wife, the boot is just full. It's full.

I don't know man. It's like other handbags. And when you say what's that? Oh, I haven't had time to take it to the recycle close.

Oh, well, yeah. Oh, well, I've got this thing with plastic water bottles, right? Even if it's not open, if it's been in the car. No, I don't.

It tastes like a shit. It tastes like a shit. Have you had water that's been in the car? Yeah, I drink them.

Oh, no. Is that the wrong? Are you fucking nuts? I have it wrong with all of you.

It's still no. No, no, no. You're in storage. They heat up.

You put that plastic man. It's like that he's in storage. You put that plastic man. You put that in storage.

Don't they bottle that a week before you drink it. I'll say that it's already full of shit because it's been sitting in the back of the truck. The chemicals from the plastic. It's sitting in the back of the plastic.

Have you heard about that island in the middle of the ocean? Before the plastic bottles? Somehow I don't think the plastic bottles are great. Why?

No, I haven't seen it on apparently where the carrots meet the Indian Pacific or whatever. What is there? I fucking bleeped there. Is there a island there or plastic?

You fucking see where they all meet up? They all meet up. I wish someone could Google it. So there's an island in the fucking place where all the oceans just meet like an intersection.

Is this the start of the Pacific left in the area? No, no, no. See, he doesn't know the better. You haven't heard about it.

You know everything in the middle of the ocean. No, because my other stuff that I've got to Google it, the stuff that I don't know. It's not a type of intersection in the middle of the ocean. Plastic.

Plastic island in the ocean. No fucking way. Thank you very much. No, that's Blading Trash Band in the Caribbean.

But how does a map? It's the Carries. There is. In the Pacific Ocean, there's East Garbage Path or North Pacific South Tropical High and there's a Western garbage patch.

Are you going to leave? Fucking real? Yep. But, hey, look at this one.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Shit, look at the pictures. So basically, it's just a fucking... If you were marooned on an island, wouldn't you want a couple of empty plastic bottles to pull up?

Like, floating to the thing? Haven't you ever watched, uh, what was that guy's name? Tom Hanks in the Castaway? No.

Plastic, Wilson, plastic stuff, like Wilson Wilson. No, that was the suck on the volleyball. Volleyball. But the plastic containers, he knows all the plastic containers to get the water.

Okay. For precipitation, whatever you call it, you know, when you're sticking underneath and overnight it drips. Oh, I watched the water. Oh, you'd be going to the island.

They had a hot basketball team there. The Holland, they drank the bout at the next day. Just like, watch something like that. And they could build huts, they could build shells, they could fucking fix the huts.

They couldn't fix the fucking huts. It's just me, that's what it was called. They could fucking pass the ball, call the huddle, call the huddle, and try to fix the fucking huddle. In that rich, like, the house.

The house. If you looked in his cabana lab, you'll order this. She had a wooden case. If they just took the timber off that and fixed the hole in the bow, they could leave the fucking huddle.

But hey, they did actually leave it once, they just don't leave. And then they went back to like, main life. And then they had a reunion on the boat. And they ended up getting shitwrecked on the same fucking huddle.

That sounds like a lost. They got stuck on the same oil in the game. That was true. No, not the most.

I don't reckon it was doing its fault. That was a movie star. You're going to be the movie star. I'm chipping a barber in a boat cruise.

By summer, chase all the sexy girls are driving the boat with cabana. What do you think happened on Gilligan's island? What was the movie star? Ginger.

No, I don't. It was a ginger. What was the young girl's name? Mary Henry.

Mary Henry Henry. Mary Henry. Mary Henry. I don't think it was like another theory.

Just had the whole get in the boat. Oh, no, no. It must have crashed near the island. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought it was a rock. Yeah, because it was a storm. Yeah. On a three-hour tour.

Yeah, three-hour tour. I wonder how long the other tour was when they got stuck on their gift. And did they end up using the same clothes and the same stuff that they left on the island? But they had a fucking like, guys, didn't they?

The last of like four seasons? You were the only person that had the same thing was the Skipper in Gilligan. I went to Hamilton Island once for a holiday and let's think of what they had. I think it was fucking amazing.

Oh man. Where the fuck were you? We got there because of the plastic island that you didn't believe in. Yeah, I know.

Gilligan's there. It's up in the lane every day. We got some questions. I've got some good news.

But let's do some questions. The professor at the radio, a question I don't find it. So basically, I went up with a professor. You know, if you highlight at the beginning, you would have been thinking.

Yeah, I know. I thought I saved it. What was the question you notified? It was about colours and types of cars.

Oh, God, unless I... What event colours? So with particular colours, I linked with particular cars. Yeah, everything's got a formula.

Every car's got a paint code. Yeah, okay. And I wanted to ask you because you know paint codes and that. But this question wasn't from a professor.

It wasn't from a paint specialist like you. So what happened was my iPad refused to boot up and I lost two months worth of work because I didn't back it up and it was saved on the other iPad. So I'm going to have to find... And I said last time that I answered the professor's letter and we didn't fucking do it, did we?

Sorry. I know. So sorry for the professor. So basically, though, what the professor was asking is specific colours and specific cars.

So there's a bit of a hint for another. You might get the same paint code on six cars, but the shades might be slightly different. Like a particular make. Yeah, on the same make or whatever.

But when you get the paint system in, they give you like spray cards that you match it up with and you also got a spectra machine which you actually put on the paint and will give you the closest match to it. And then it's modified by I. But is the professor asking... No, he did.

The psychology was saying like, for ours red. Yeah, he was basically saying, would you pick a mark by its colour? For ours? If you think for our red.

It's fast, it's right. Because it's fast. I thought stripes make it faster. No, that's an extra hundred grey.

So the stripes make it faster. The red makes it faster than any other Ferrari, except for white testosterone if you didn't mind your voice. Yeah, well that's a fast. That's fast.

And then you've got red Ferraris. Yep. That's a fast. And you reckon with an extra hundred grey.

No, I don't know exactly how much it is. It's fast. That's the red. Striping Ferraris.

It's a fast Ferrari. It's an extra fast. Okay, so let's go Aston Martin. What?

Great. Great. Great. Great.

Red soft top. Red trim. Red soft top. It's sexy.

It's not what it was. It's not what it was. It's not what you're going to afford. Because I love its food under there.

Love the hair. No, very nice car. Very nice. I didn't mind it.

All right. Mercedes, what colour would you think of the CDs? Silver, white. German rainbow.

Yeah. So the German rainbow. White, silver, grey, black. Yeah, well that's all the colours.

Yellow. Yellow. I've seen a few yellows. You know what they look good in the A45.

That's a good one. If you want to put police pull me over. That's that colour. Red.

There's not too many of them. The last thing I read is I think of Beverly Hills Cop 560SL. That's the red. Yeah, the something that you see on the bottom of the gun.

Yeah, yeah. That's like your quintessential red Mercedes. Land base. Ooh.

That's a hot one. Yeah, so they've got the mint green. They've got a lot of 70s sort of palette like the orange. Yeah.

McLaren I think, Orange. Yeah. Yellow. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. McLaren. McLaren.

When you go to those ones, you're stuck on weird. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, so Coney Seck.

Like even though black and whatever you wanted to order. Like I've seen an orange one. You know what I mean? The whole body carbon fiber.

Yeah. So for this one, I was going to say hold it. Hold it. What would you say hold it?

What color would hold it be? Yeah. Silver black. You reckon?

I want to sit over there. What is it like? Blue. Yeah, yeah.

I have blue. Okay. Four. I want to pop your Ford colors.

I hate the white stripes. Some blue and white stripes. Blue and white stripes. That's a good guy for my ex-be.

Is it whatever they were? Mustangs. Well, hang on. I'm not saying silver red stripes.

Silver the red stripes. Yes. But yeah, certain cars, you can think of colors. Corals, white or silver.

You know what I mean? Yeah. We'll put it aside. Back in the day, A model Ford's.

You know when they're first off. Or black. Or black. Any color you wanted because it was black.

But that was a trick and head before being a tie-dye. I reckon that no one had any color. No one wore black then anyway. Because it was black and white TV.

Yeah. Black and white TV. They used paper or black and white. That's right.

Everything was black and white. What color should we paint them? Black. And it became black.

I wonder what was the first car he painted not black. You know what color was it? Did someone request it? Did someone.

You can't just be silver. What are you? He's one for you. The Godzilla out there.

I should have showed you. That year. This is the story. Oh yeah, yeah.

You did tell me. That year. So you've got an Arthur II. Let's just tell anyone else knows what's going on.

There's an Arthur I II. The back of the Raving Report is workshop. And that year, apparently, they only painted them in that. It's a black chuck over teller.

Like a mat or shiny. So that year of Arthur II II was black over. Yeah, apparently. But they weren't silly.

So the factory actually started painting them. Over the black. Over the black. But not everywhere.

Everywhere by the engine bay. Okay. So they're not going to. They're not going to.

They're not going to. What's that? It's a fast and furious car. So this thing went to.

This thing's immaculate by the way. Went to auction. And everyone was scared of it. I would have brought it because of the story.

Yeah. See? And I know I know I bought it so it came to me to be painted back to the original. So you're painting it over the white?

Or can you strip the white back to the black? No, it's probably down painting it over the white. To make it back to the black original. But the factory, the story was the factory couldn't sell them.

No, they weren't selling. And they were the fucking me. Yeah, but no one knows. That's the problem.

We just told it right now. Yeah, I know. That's why people got it. It's just like a HSB for instance.

It was in the factory came out white. And then the factory turned around and painted them silver. Yeah. It's just like a GT.

Okay. Just go further back. A GT that was silver. And the guy wanted a white.

Everyone would be after that car. Because there was something in the factory that went wrong. Oh, okay. You know what I mean?

And there's a story behind it. And it's happened from the factory. That happened when I went to, I think I've seen the story before. I went to Queen B.

A for the Italian car. Show, get together. Straight delivered. It was painted that green, like the, see that mid-green.

Yeah. But the guys wanted it changed to blue, the Australian delivery. So they literally, he's got the original papers where they, in a pen, struck out the green and wrote blue. And I was the other way around.

Well, there was two where I was. They hand wrote blue, re-sprayed over the green blue. So this car has got the original green paint with blue on the top. And when they restored it, they sprayed it the same way.

So they peeled it back. That's it. And they did the green first and the blue on top. Like how it came out of the factory.

See how things happened. It's just like in the day, uh, uh, Taranas and when they came out that plump car, well, GT's coming out plump. No one wanted them. But now they're the most sort of off the plump of water in my, if you get one of them, you know what I mean?

But like, actually once, for instance, there was the ones that were made for Baffes. I can't, I'm like, figures I can't remember. There was 100 and something made of Baffes once. And there's a few of them that actually on the paperwork had the wrong engine numbers in them.

You know what I mean? And I had one of them mates and had like that problem. He tracked it down and all that. But it was true from factory.

They'd written down the wrong engine numbers in different cars. And they turned it to the race cars? No, no, no, no, there was black Baffes. One's What They Sold To The Public.

And it was actually the wrong engine numbers. So if I'm $4 the wrong motors, but it wasn't from factory they just. J-R-E-R was there from the start. And they're like, see, there's weird things that make them car stories.

But you've got to be really the know to know that. Yeah, but that's like kinky stuff. Like a minute ago, but then when you met 100, you want to go that next little one. Yeah, you want to get to the thing that's with all these cars, a bit of race history or something.

A bit of a story makes a big difference. Yeah. You know, if you can get the other road to spend 200 grand to get a GT, right? But then you got the other, oh, mate, that race wants a Baffes.

So they're making a 50 grand. It's true. So I'm going to interview Damon and Shannon's a couple of episodes ago. He said that they look for the story.